Today's Obits

 A couple of obituaries to note:

Representative Alcee Hastings of Florida, 84, has died after a bout of pancreatic cancer.  

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Alcee Lamar Hastings was born on Sept. 5, 1936, in Altamonte Springs. His parents, Julius C. and Mildred L. Hastings, were domestic workers.  

Hastings received a bachelor’s degree in 1958 from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., one of the historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) whose students played a major role in the civil rights movement of the mid-20th Century.

He attended law school at Howard University, in Washington, D.C., another preeminent HBCU. He received his law degree from Florida A&M, also an HBCU, in 1963.

He is survived by his wife, Patricia Williams, with whom he lived west of Boynton Beach; three adult children from a previous marriage, Alcee “Jody” Hastings II, Chelsea Hastings and Leah Hastings, and a stepdaughter, Maisha Williams.

He made a comeback after being impeached.

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Actor James Hampton, known for his role as the bugler in the sixties sitcom F Troop, died from complications of Parkinson's.  He was 84 years old.

Hampton was one of seven actors who appeared in at least 63 of that show's 65-episode run. Only 98-year-old Larry Storch, who played Cpl. Randolph Agarn, is alive today, according to the IMDb.

On the big screen, Hampton's best known role was on the 1985 comedy "Teen Wolf" as Fox's on-screen dad who was forced to tell his son that they're descended from werewolves.

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