KOBE BRYANT
On Jan. 26, a helicopter crash in the foggy hills near LA took the life of the NBA star, 41, and eight others, including his daughter Gianna, 13. “They were funny, happy, silly, and they loved life,” Vanessa Bryant told 20,000 fans at the memorial at LA’s Staples Center. “God knew they couldn’t be on this Earth without each other. He had to bring them to heaven together.”
REGIS PHILBIN
“There will never be another like him, ever,” Kathie Lee Gifford said of her friend, who died on July 24 at 88.
KELLY PRESTON
John Travolta’s wife, 57, died on July 12 following a private two-year battle with breast cancer.
EDDIE VAN HALEN
The iconic rocker “lost his long and arduous battle with cancer” on Oct. 6, his…
