Well, Shit! 
I was hoping for a Top 100 finish.
Do we have an official first death of the year yet?
Eva Schloss, Anne Frank’s stepsister, died aged 96.
When her mother, Elfriede, married Anne Frank’s father, Otto, in 1953, Schloss became Anne Frank’s stepsister.
I guess that makes her posthumous stepsister.
Looks like Diane Krump died on New Year’s Day, but I don’t know that anyone had her.
I am just looking at the first-listed on our Death Pool.
Did someone have her on their list? That is all I am concerned with-whether a name on someone’s list has died yet.
Ah, okay. I misunderstood what you were asking for. I don’t think anyone’s won the Kickoff award yet.
[quote=“Pardel-Lux, post:404, topic:1025318, full:true”] When her mother, Elfriede, married Anne Frank’s father, Otto, in 1953, Schloss became Anne Frank’s stepsister.
I guess that makes her posthumous stepsister.
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Yes, it does, and in her book Eva’s Story: A Survivor’s Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank, Schloss calls her “my posthumous step-sister Anne”.
They did know each other as fellow refugees from Germany and neighbors of the same age. They had friends in common and played together but weren’t close.
Eva saw Otto Frank in Auschwitz, where he recognized her from Amsterdam, and asked her if she’d seen Anne and Margot.
Ahn Sung-ki, Korean actor, has died at only 74 years of age.
Two people who lived interesting lives have died:
Congressman Doug LaMalfa at 65 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/us/politics/doug-lamalfa-dead.html
That’s nice.
Lower your hoagie to half staff.
The 31-year veteran of the CIA is believed to have compromised more than 100 intelligence operations and sent a number of Soviet agents to their deaths or prison, as he traded information for large sums of money that funded his lavish lifestyle
Michael Reagan, Ronald’s son, has died.
Bob Pulford
Michael Reagan…I seem to recall that when he graduated from high school or college, Reagan (then Governor of California) spoke at the convocation. Afterwards, he did a meet and greet with the new grads, and asked one of them, “What is your name?”
“Michael Reagan. I’m your adopted son.”
What is the longest time the Kickoff Award has gone unclaimed?
January 21. 2010.