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Dick Harmon: With passing of BYU's LaVell Edwards, the list of iconic departures of 2016 swells with memories

In 2016 this world lost many iconic figures, faces that will live in our memories forever, the latest being LaVell Edwards, whose mourning will definitely continue into 2017.

In talking to former BYU football players whose lives were impacted in so many ways by the lovable Edwards, feelings were tender, emotions were raw and tears flowed freely from grown men who’d put their college careers behind them decades ago.

Edwards died Thursday morning, the day after actress Debbie Reynolds, who died while making funeral plans for her daughter Carrie Fisher, the princess of "Star Wars.