In high school, she was known as the "smart, sassy Hannah Graham." "Hannah was always able to steal the show," her father, John Graham, told the Associated Press at a Nov. 15 celebration of life memorial at her alma mater, West Potomac High School, in Alexandria, Virginia. Nearly 1,000 of Graham's family, teachers, professors and friends from high school and the University of Virginia packed into Wphs's auditorium to commemorate the 18-year-old's short but accomplished and well-lived life. Graham, a sophomore at the University of Virginia, vanished in the early hours of Sept. 13 in Charlottesville, Virginia, after she was seen on surveillance...
- 11/17/2014
- by K.C. Baker, @kcbaker77777C
- PEOPLE.com
An autopsy will be conducted on Monday (April 9) on the body of artist and self-proclaimed "Painter of Light" Thomas Kinkade, who died unexpectedly on Friday at his home in Los Gatos, Calif., at the age of 54.
A statement from Kinkade's family claims the artist died of natural causes, but the Santa Clara County coroner is holding off on declaring an official cause of death until an autopsy can be conducted on his body.
"Thom provided a wonderful life for his family," his wife Nanette says of the artist in a statement to the San Jose Mercury News. "We are shocked and saddened by his death."
"He was kind of a bigger-than-life character," says Los Gatos Mayor Steve Rice. "The community and the art world have lost quite an individual."
In recent years, the artist had been locked in legal battles with several former Thomas Kinkade Signature Gallery owners. The empire...
A statement from Kinkade's family claims the artist died of natural causes, but the Santa Clara County coroner is holding off on declaring an official cause of death until an autopsy can be conducted on his body.
"Thom provided a wonderful life for his family," his wife Nanette says of the artist in a statement to the San Jose Mercury News. "We are shocked and saddened by his death."
"He was kind of a bigger-than-life character," says Los Gatos Mayor Steve Rice. "The community and the art world have lost quite an individual."
In recent years, the artist had been locked in legal battles with several former Thomas Kinkade Signature Gallery owners. The empire...
- 4/8/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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