"Hail and farewell": A tribute to those we lost in 2025

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It felt similar those we mislaid this twelvemonth were arsenic galore arsenic raindrops. Luminaries similar Robert Redford, who challenged Hollywood to bash better, to deliberation harder, to instrumentality risks.

He was of Hollywood, but helium preferred to unrecorded distant from it. His Sundance Film Institute and Festival gave autarkic filmmakers a spot of prima astatine Sundance, promoting what helium told "Sunday Morning" successful 2018 were "the smaller stories. The much offbeat stories. The much controversial."

Robert Redford: An appreciation ("Sunday Morning")
From the archives: Three interviews with Robert Redford ("Sunday Morning")
Gallery: Robert Redford 1936-2025

Redford lived agelong capable to spot chap Oscar-winner Gene Hackman walk away. Hackman shone conscionable arsenic brightly. He could beryllium gentle, arsenic successful "Hoosiers," and powerful, arsenic successful "The French Connection."

Remembering two-time Oscar-winner Gene Hackman ("Sunday Morning")
From 2000: Gene Hackman, actor, novelist ("Sunday Morning")

The real-life heroes from the civilian rights question are sadly getting much scarce each day. Sam Moore's opus "Soul Man" was meant to amusement pridefulness and resilience.

From 2014: Sam Moore, of Sam & Dave ("Sunday Morning")

And determination was 1 idiosyncratic who lived those values for 111 years: Viola Fletcher, the oldest witnesser to the Tulsa Race Massacre. Then determination was Charles Person, the youngest among the archetypal famed "Freedom Riders" protestation successful 1961. Joseph McNeil took a basal … by sitting, astatine a Whites-only Woolworth's luncheon counter. Jo Ann Allen, 1 of the "Clinton 12," was among the archetypal to endure the desegregation of schools each crossed the South. Bobby Cain was, too. He became the archetypal Black pupil to postgraduate nether those conditions.

A decennary later, courageousness similar that inspired the likes of Jesse Colin Young and the Youngbloods to grounds a opus with a connection of belonging, "Get Together."

"Come connected radical now,
Smile connected your brother,
Everybody get together,
Try to emotion 1 different close now"

The opus permeated the Summer of Love. The precocious Sly Stone, of Sly and the Family Stone, got connected committee the inclusion train, too, with his opus "Everyday People." He surely had an receptor for the times.

Remembering Sly Stone ("Sunday Morning")
From 2023: The reclusive Sly Stone returns, connected the page ("Sunday Morning")

Dick Cheney, who had an receptor for politics, started his vocation the aforesaid twelvemonth that opus came out. He went connected to go the astir influential Vice President successful history, particularly successful the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 panic attacks.

Asked by "Sunday Morning" successful 2015 if helium was changed by the events of that day, Cheney replied, "Well, it's been alleged by immoderate of my friends that 9/11 did alteration Cheney, that erstwhile helium was a Secretary of Defense successful the archetypal Bush administration, helium was a warm, pleasant, lovable fellow, and helium became much of a hard stone afterwards. And I deliberation that's astir apt true."

He remained a staunch blimpish – until, that is, 2024, erstwhile helium voted for Democrat Kamala Harris.

From 2009: The Cheney Exit Interview ("Face the Nation")

That's akin to Supreme Court Justice David Souter. Nominated by President George H.W. Bush, helium leaned much to the near successful his aboriginal years. He near america astatine 85.

Passage: Remembering Justice David Souter ("Sunday Morning")

Right successful the mediate was Senator Alan Simpson, who balanced his blimpish views with much mean stands -- a plain-spoken cowboy from the plains of Wyoming who got his wings astatine 93.

Alan Simpson and Norman Mineta: A relationship calved successful 1 of America's darkest hours ("Sunday Morning")

Peter Yarrow, of Peter Paul and Mary, got his wings this year, too. The tenor who helped span the spread betwixt people and popular was 86.

From 2004: Peter Yarrow and John Kerry's agelong unusual trip

Jimmy Cliff ("I Can See Clearly Now") bridged different gap: helping marque reggae mainstream. The erstwhile choir lad from Jamaica recovered immoderate of his inspiration successful the traditions of gospel music, specified arsenic "Many Rivers to Cross."

Pope Francis crossed that last stream this twelvemonth – a time aft helium blessed the faithful successful St. Peter's Square connected Easter Sunday.

The "People's Pope": The aboriginal of Pope Francis' legacy ("Sunday Morning")
From 2017: St. Francis + Pope Francis ("Sunday Morning")

Whether you judge successful Heaven arsenic a destination oregon not, there's nary uncertainty the heavens are unending. Astronaut James Lovell ne'er landed connected the moon, but saw it person than most. He took to the skies for the past clip astatine property 97.

Remembering pioneering astronaut Jim Lovell ("CBS Saturday Morning")
From 2018: How Apollo 8 sent a timeless vacation greeting from the heavens ("Sunday Morning")

Back connected Earth, astrophysicist Fred Espenak was chasing our postulation with a telescope. He witnessed the satellite blot retired the prima 52 times – a sci-fi acquisition successful existent life.

Preparing for the Great American Eclipse of 2017 ("Sunday Morning")

We mislaid others who imagined beingness beyond the stars – successful movie posters. Drew Struzan was the creator down the theatre posters for the "Star Wars" films and the "Back to the Future" trilogy. Renato Casaro gave beingness to blockbusters similar "Rambo" and "Terminator 2."

From 2022: An 86-year-old movie poster artist's improbable 3rd act ("CBS Mornings")

And past determination was Joe Caroff, the creator who created the James Bond logo.

We besides mislaid immoderate who appeared successful those classical Bond films – pugnacious guys similar Bruce Glover, the assassin successful "Diamonds Are Forever"; and Joe Don Baker, the arms trader successful "The Living Daylights."

And truthful many, galore more: Graham Greene ("Dances With Wolves"); Enzo Staiola ("Bicycle Thieves"); Pat Crowley ("Forever Female"); Patrick Adiarte ("The King and I"); Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa ("Mortal Kombat"); Michael Madsen ("Reservoir Dogs"); and Sally Kirkland ("Anna").

We mislaid Rebekah Del Rio, that unforgettable vocalist successful "Mulholland Drive," the aforesaid twelvemonth that we mislaid manager David Lynch who enactment her successful that film.

In 2016 Lynch told "Sunday Morning" that radical should not confuse the characters successful his movies with his authorities of mind: "Stories are stories," helium said. "And similar I say, the creator doesn't person to endure to amusement suffering."

Remembering visionary filmmaker David Lynch

Oscar-nominee Diane Ladd offered plentifulness of suffering successful Lynch's "Wild astatine Heart." Her daughter, Laura Dern, and the remainder of her fans mourned her nonaccomplishment astatine 89.

From 2023: Diane Ladd and Laura Dern: A parent and girl with overmuch to say ("Sunday Morning")

Sharing a spot connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame with Ladd, acold from the beach, was the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson. Wilson was called the writer laureate of surf culture.

Remembering Brian Wilson ("Sunday Morning")
From 2015: Brian Wilson's summertime of milestones ("Sunday Morning")
From 2012: The Beach Boys: Back catching different wave ("Sunday Morning")

But erstwhile it came to the poesy of baseball, determination were fewer amended than Bob Uecker. He was a ballplayer who became "Mr. Baseball," a pioneer for his wit and self-deprecating humor. Asked by "Sunday Morning" successful 2024 his favourite Bob Uecker line, helium replied, "Just a spot outside. That's wherever my woman enactment maine a batch of times!"

Nina Kuscsik was near extracurricular of the men successful marathons – until, that is, she became the archetypal pistillate to participate the New York City Marathon, and the archetypal authoritative pistillate victor of the Boston Marathon.

From 2022: The Six Who Sat bespeak connected the 1972 New York City Marathon that made history ("CBS Saturday Morning")

In fig skating, Dick Button was the archetypal to onshore a treble axel, and the archetypal American to bring location golden successful Olympic fig skating – twice.

Button was elegant and fierce, overmuch the mode George Foreman was successful the boxing ring. He got a heavyweight satellite rubric successful his 20s – and past unbelievably again successful his 40s. And adjacent if you ne'er saw him box, you astir apt saw him cook. He described his George Foreman Grill arsenic a existent "knockout."

From 2005: Boxer and grill pitchman George Foreman ("Sunday Morning")

Another ringmaster – and maestro marketer - was Hulk Hogan, the look of nonrecreational wrestling for decades. He was the eventual showman, who died of cardiac apprehension astatine property 71.

There were, this year, truthful galore unnatural deaths, especially, it seems, connected assemblage campuses, from Brown University conscionable earlier Christmas, to Utah Valley University, wherever governmental activistic Charlie Kirk was murdered. He was determination organizing young voters astir Christian blimpish values. The students who saw what happened volition ne'er beryllium the same.

Anne Marie Hochhalter survived the wide shooting astatine Columbine High School successful 1999, but 26 years aboriginal it caught up with her. She died from injuries related to the shooting that near her paralyzed. She was lone 43.

It's hard to fathom conscionable however overmuch beingness does travel aft a tragedy. John Cleary was changeable connected the field of Kent State University, a infinitesimal captured successful a Life Magazine photo. But helium ended up finishing his grade successful architecture. He lived different 55 years.

We mislaid others successful architecture, too. David Childs designed the Freedom Tower successful the aftermath of 9/11.

From 2011: David Childs and the presumption from 1 WTC ("Sunday Morning")

We mislaid Frank Gehry, possibly the astir recognizable American designer since Frank Lloyd Wright.

Passage: Remembering designer Frank Gehry ("Sunday Morning")
From the archives: Architect Frank Gehry ("Sunday Morning")

And past determination was Giorgio Armani, an designer of fashion, who turned reddish carpet events into property conference. Who was wearing him got a batch of coverage.

Passage: Remembering manner decorator Giorgio Armani ("Sunday Morning")
From 2006: Designer Giorgio Armani ("Sunday Morning")

So galore of those who asked the questions trying to get answers astir each kinds of things near america this year, similar our workfellow Mark Knoller. With his booming voice, and a treasure trove of statesmanlike trivia, helium gave CBS' White House sum a existent spark. Morris Banks, a cameraman who was arsenic intimidating successful stature, travelled the satellite for CBS to brings america stories of radical and events. The aforesaid was existent of "Sunday Morning"'s Jim McLaughlin.

And indeed, truthful many, galore more: CBS cameraman Dave Dorsett; William Galbraith, main editor, CBS News, Washington; CBS News producer, exertion and writer Jerry Mazza; Chuck Milton, of CBS Sports; CBS News analogous Ed Rabel; CBS News exertion Seth Fox; Belva Davis, anchor, CBS News successful San Francisco; Peter Arnett of CNN; and NPR's Susan Stamberg. Asked by "Sunday Morning" successful 2021 astir the aboriginal of radio, Stamberg replied, "People volition ever perceive and privation to perceive stories told by quality voices."

Human voices, sometimes shouting successful the wilderness, tin bash remarkably bully things, adjacent if those voices are voicing pain. Virginia Giuffre was the archetypal of Jeffrey Epstein's victims to spell public. Soon, different survivors joined her. They began speaking with 1 dependable – shining lights successful the dark. In 2020 she told "CBS This Morning," "The subordinate stops erstwhile each azygous monster gets held accountable and our children are safe. And we request everyone's help."

Giuffre was conscionable 41.

Jeffrey Epstein subsister Virginia Giuffre, successful her ain words ("Sunday Morning")

Conservationist Jane Goodall raised her dependable from the jungles of East Africa, wherever her enactment with chimpanzees made america look astatine ourselves – and our narration with the carnal kingdom – successful a antithetic and peculiar way. In 1990 she said, "We're not rather arsenic antithetic from the remainder of the carnal kingdom arsenic we utilized to think."

Passage: Remembering Jane Goodall ("Sunday Morning")
From 2021: Jane Goodall connected her anticipation for the future ("Sunday Morning")

In fact, animals tin look each spot arsenic quality arsenic we are. June Lockhart played Lassie's "mom," among a batch of different roles. She was ever conscionable arsenic intuitive arsenic Lassie herself.

That Golden Era of TV started the vocation of Rob Reiner, too, and portion helium was a bully actor, it was directing wherever helium truly made his mark. Name immoderate of your favourite movies and chances are Reiner directed them. From drama ("This Is Spinal Tap," "When Harry Met Sally," "The Princess Bride"), to play ("Misery," "A Few Good Men"), helium had his digit connected our pulse the mode fewer radical did.

Rob Reiner, and his woman Michele, near america acold excessively soon.

Remembering the treasured films of Rob Reiner ("Sunday Morning")
From the archives: Three with Rob Reiner ("Sunday Morning")

Another acquainted look was George Wendt. As Norm connected "Cheers," there's nary wonderment everybody knew his name. Wendt was 76.

Patrons of real-life Cheers mourn George Wendt's death, "drink a brew for Norm"

We besides mislaid David Ketchum from "Get Smart"; and Malcolm Jamal Warner, from "The Cosby Show." It's hard to deliberation of immoderate of them getting immoderate older. Take TV's Dennis the Menace: Child histrion Jay North couldn't enactment young forever. He was 73 erstwhile helium died astatine his location successful Florida.

And past determination was histrion Richard Chamberlain, who played the young intern Dr. Kildare. He went connected to prima successful blockbuster TV miniseries similar "Shogun" and "The Thorn Birds."

Both those novels deed the bestseller database – and truthful did the "Confessions of a Shopaholic" series, authored by Madeleine Wickham, who wrote nether the pen-name Sophie Kinsella.

In 2014 she told "CBS This Morning," "You're hoping that radical volition bask your book, but you don't know, and disconnected it goes. But past you conscionable idiosyncratic who says 'Well you cognize what, I ,,read your publication successful the mediate of the nighttime portion I was recovering from operation, and it got maine through.' I mean, however could you bash thing amended successful beingness than that?"

The British writer died of encephalon crab astatine conscionable 55.

Few British playwrights person been compared to Shakespeare, but Tom Stoppard was. In 1999 he told "Sunday Morning," "It seemed to maine that having a play connected astatine the National Theatre, for example, was immoderate benignant of Everest which lone a chosen fewer could ever adjacent anticipation to aspire to. It turns retired to beryllium thing that tin hap to radical similar me."

He was 88 erstwhile helium slipped this mortal coil.

For each the originative writers and performers that we did suffer this year, we were truly struck by the sheer fig of TV personalities who passed away: Polly Holliday ("Alice"); Loni Anderson ("WKRP successful Cincinnati"); Lulu Roman ("Hee-Haw"); Ruth Buzzi ("Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"); Prunella Scales ("Fawlty Towers"); Danielle Spencer ("What's Happening!!"); Lynne Marie Stewart ( "Pee-Wee's Playhouse"); and Loretta Swit ("M*A*S*H").

Portrayals of those successful our nation's azygous seldom get amended than "M*A*S*H" or, later, "Top Gun." Few could apical Tom Cruise arsenic a cocky Naval aviator, but Val Kilmer did. He played truthful galore different roles, from Jim Morrison of The Doors, to Doc Holliday successful "Tombstone." "I similar characters," Kilmer told "Sunday Morning" successful 2013. "I deliberation that's what radical person enjoyed astir successful my acting."

But it was "Iceman" that stuck with each of america close till the precise end. Val Kilmer was 65.

Airmen who saw real combat successful World War II are fewer and acold betwixt these days, similar John "Lucky" Luckadoo. They called him that due to the fact that helium survived truthful much, and helium continued to, making it to 103.

Joe Harris lived to 108 – 1 of the oldest WWII paratroopers.

From 2024: World War II seasoned celebrates 108th day successful Compton

George Hardy earned his wings astatine conscionable 19, making him 1 of the youngest Tuskegee Airmen. Jessie Mahaffey survived the onslaught connected Pearl Harbor – and the sinking of different vessel conscionable a twelvemonth later. helium was 102. Donald McPherson distinguished himself arsenic an "ace" successful the skies supra Okinawa. Julia Parsons, 1 of the past Enigma codification breakers, near us, too, this, year.

Some, however, ne'er came home, but Vietnam POW Lt Col. Robert Stirm yet did. The Pulitzer Prize-winning representation said it each – his household seeing his face for the archetypal clip successful astir six years.

Words ne'er matched those feelings, but lyricist Alan Bergman's words got beauteous close. He and his wife, co-writer Marilyn Bergman, are possibly champion known for the classical "The Way We Were."

So galore couples we retrieve the mode they were, similar Dorothy Vogel and her precocious hubby Herb. On humble means, upstairs successful their rent-controlled apartment, they amassed an creation postulation worthy millions. True to their modesty, earlier their deaths, they gave astir of it away.

What Rick Davies gave distant was his artistry down the Wurlitzer electrical piano. It gave the supergroup Supertramp its signature chart-topping sound. He was 81.

We mislaid "Space Ace" – Ace Frehley – of the dense metallic radical Kiss this year, too. He made fans judge his playing truly did marque his guitar fume (and possibly it did!).

And past determination was Ozzy Osbourne, the pb vocalist of Black Sabbath and self-described Prince of Darkness. His wife, Sharon Osbourne, stayed with him done heavy and thin. Asked by "Sunday Morning" successful 2012 what their concealed was, Ozzy replied, "I don't know. You know, I'm successful the stone and roll. Because you stone and you roll. You know, you conscionable get connected with it."

Looking backmost connected Ozzy Osbourne's beingness and legacy

Those musicians who person conscionable "gone with it," similar D'Angelo and Connie Francis, inactive near america their talents that marque us, arsenic trumpeter Chuck Mangione did, consciousness "so good" ... like Bobby Sherman ("Julie, Do Ya Love Me"); John Lodge of The Moody Blues ("Nights successful White Satin"); and Marianne Faithfull ("As Tears Go By");

From 2009: Marianne Faithfull connected the hard roadworthy to becoming a legend ("Sunday Morning")

There was besides vocalist and guitarist Wayne Osmond of The Osmonds ("Crazy Horses"), and Mark Volman of The Turtles ("Happy Together").

"Happy together" conscionable mightiness picture what astir radical were feeling erstwhile they were successful the institution of the legendary Diane Keaton. Some called her quirky, adjacent kooky. But everyone agreed she was talented beyond measure. She could bash searing dramas and romanticist comedies, ever holding her ain with the champion of them. "I deliberation that 1 of the reasons I've been capable to beryllium astir for arsenic agelong arsenic I have, is due to the fact that I person been successful comic movies," she told "Sunday Morning" successful 2010.

She near her people not lone arsenic an actor, but with her manner sense, too.

From 2010: Diane Keaton connected Woody Allen, "Annie Hall," and marriage ("Sunday Morning")

Keaton was surely unique, arsenic astir of those we retrieve are. There are acold excessively galore to name. But for their talents, their passions, their emotion and attraction and influence, we are everlastingly grateful.

To each of them we bid a precise fond "Hail, and Farewell."

Story produced by Young Kim. Editor: Steve Tyler. Digital producer: David Morgan.

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