Whipped Cream Difficulties

This one goes out to Lawrence:

She was known as the “Red Headed Ball of Fire,” a title given her for her stature — she was a diminutive 5-foot-1 — and her fiery hair. She found the moniker, which was often shortened to “Ball of Fire,” corny. But Betty Rowland was a burlesque queen nonetheless. A headliner in the racy variety shows’ glory years in the 1930s and ’40s, she worked well into the ’50s.

Betty Rowland was 106 when she passed on April 3rd. Her death was not widely reported until recently.

John Visentin, the CEO of Xerox. He was 59, and passed due to “complications from an ongoing illness” according to a company statement.

Sonny Barger, founder of the Hells Angels. Cancer got him at 83.

In 1972, he and three others were acquitted of murdering a Texas drug dealer and setting a home on fire.

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Barger was sentenced to 10 years to life behind bars in 1973 after he was convicted of possession of narcotics and a weapon by a convicted felon.
He was paroled in November 1977 after serving four-and-a-half years of his sentence, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported.

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In 1979, he was among 33 people indicted on charges of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act…Barger was acquitted in 1980 after a split verdict.

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In 1987, Barger was arrested on charges relating to narcotics, weapons and explosives as FBI agents and state law enforcement carried out a series of raids.

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Barger was convicted of conspiracy in October 1988 and was sentenced to four years in jail.
He was released from FCI Phoenix in November 1992 after serving three-and-a-half years behind bars.

Edited to add: NYT obit, which was not up when I originally posted.