† Remembering - OCT 13: **1968 – Bea Benaderet, American actress and singer (b. 1906) Beatrice “Bea” Benaderet (April 4, 1906 – October 13, 1968)[1] was an American actress born in New York City and reared in San Francisco, California. She appeared in a wide variety of television work, which included a starring role in the 1960s television series Petticoat Junction and Green Acres as Shady Rest Hotel owner Kate Bradley, supporting roles as Blanche Morton in The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and as the original voice of Betty Rubble during the first four seasons of The Flintstones, and in The Beverly Hillbillies as Pearl Bodine. She did a great deal of voice work in Warner Bros. animated cartoons of the 1940s/1950s, most famously as Granny. Benaderet was diagnosed with cancer in 1967, which led to her departure from Petticoat Junction in what was hoped would be a temporary absence. On October 13, 1968, Benaderet died in Los Angeles, California, aged 62 at the Good Samaritan Hospital from lung cancer and pneumonia. Her second husband Eugene Twombly died of a heart attack on the day of her funeral (four days after her death), and was interred beside her. Twombly had been a sound-effects artist for a number of radio and television shows................ O:) youtube/watch?v=Fq0erCUWLeg **1974 – Ed Sullivan, American television host (b. 1901) Edward Vincent Ed Sullivan (September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was a entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of the television variety program The Toast of the Town, now usually remembered under its second name, The Ed Sullivan Show. Broadcast for 23 years from 1948 to 1971, it set a record for longest-running variety show in US broadcast history. In early September 1974, X-rays revealed that Sullivan had advanced esophageal cancer. Only his family was told, however, and as the doctors gave Sullivan very little time, the family chose to keep the diagnosis from him. Sullivan, still believing his ailment to be yet another complication from a long-standing battle with ulcers, died five weeks later, on October 13, 1974............ O:) **2001 – Peter Doyle, Australian singer-songwriter (The New Seekers) (b. 1949) Peter John Doyle (28 July 1949 – 13 October 2001) was an Australian pop singer who had success with a number of Top 40 hits in Australia in the 1960s, then success internationally as a member of the New Seekers in the early 1970s, before resuming a solo career in 1973. He died in Castlemaine, Victoria, of throat cancer, on 13 October 2001.......... O:) **2009 – Al Martino, American singer and actor (b. 1927) Al Martino (born Jasper Cini, October 7, 1927 – October 13, 2009) was an American singer and actor. He had his greatest success as a singer between the early 1950s and mid-1970s, being described as one of the great Italian American pop crooners, and also became well known as an actor, particularly for his role as singer Johnny Fontane in The Godfather. Martino died on October 13, 2009 at his childhood home in Springfield, Pennsylvania, six days after his 82nd birthday. ............ O:) **2012 – Gary Collins, American actor (b. 1938) Gary Ennis Collins (April 30, 1938 – October 13, 2012) was an American film and television actor and award-winning talk show host. Collins died around 1 a.m. on October 13, 2012 reportedly of natural causes... O:)
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