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Category Archives: Obituaries
December 25, 1947: The Times Christmas Poem
December 25, 1947: The Los Angeles Times publishes a front-page poem for Christmas by James Warnack, who called himself “a theoretical Christian but a practical pagan.” Continue reading
Posted in 1947, Books and Authors, Obituaries, Religion
Tagged #Christmas, 1947, Easter, film, hollywood, John Warnack, poetry, religion
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December 20, 1947: Pulp Author Rob Eden Dies | Author of ‘Short Skirts: A Story of Modern Youth’
December 20, 1947: Pulp writer Robert F. Burkhardt dies at the age of 55. Writing as Rob Eden, Burkhardt and his wife, Eve, produced dozens of novels and countless short stories. Continue reading
Posted in 1947, Books and Authors, Obituaries
Tagged 1947, Books and Authors, obituaries, pulp novels, Rob Eden
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Voices — Bettie Page, 1923 – 2008
December 11, 2008: Bettie Page dies at the age of 85. An interview from 2006. Continue reading
Posted in art and artists, books, Obituaries
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November 19, 1941: Hollywood Model Dies of Botched Abortion
November 19, 1941: Angelka Rose Gogich was 18 when she died at Glendale Emergency Hospital after undergoing an abortion. She had be working as a model, hat check girl and dancer under the name Rose Ann Rae. Continue reading
Posted in 1941, Abortion, Art & Artists, Black Dahlia, Columnists, Comics, Film, Hollywood, Homicide, LAPD, Medicine, Obituaries
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November 17, 1941: Women Reporters
November 17, 1941: Reporter Mary Shaw Leader is posthumously honored for covering Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Leader walked 15 miles to cover Lincoln’s speech. Continue reading
Posted in 1863, 1941, Art & Artists, Columnists, Comics, Film, Hollywood, Immigration, Obituaries, World War II
Tagged #Gettysburg Address, #Lincoln
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November 16, 1947: Alvira Earp, Widow of Frontier Lawman Virgil Earp
November 16, 1947: Alvira Earp, widow of Virgil Earp and sister-in-law of U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 98. Continue reading
Posted in 1947, Obituaries
Tagged 1947, Clanton gang, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, obituaries, Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp
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November 12, 1958: Teenage hitchhiker killed
November 12, 1958: Daryle Kelch, 17, was kidnapped and killed while hitchhiking. His murder was never solved. Continue reading
Posted in Front Pages, Homicide, LAPD, Obituaries
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November 3, 1941: Wingy Manone Puts the Swing in Swing Shift
November 3, 1941: Tom Treanor goes to a dance at the Glendale Civic Auditorium for swing shift workers, about 5,000 of them, from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning. Most of the couples are married, he says, and the wives are 18 or 19. Continue reading
Posted in 1941, Art & Artists, Columnists, Comics, Crime and Courts, Dance, Film, Hollywood, Music, Obituaries, Tom Treanor, World War II
Tagged #Lockheed, #Swing Shift, #Wingy Manone, Tom Treanor
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October 23, 1947: Hollywood Fashion Designer, Partner Die Within Hours; Family Sues Over Estate of Men With ‘Strange Attachment’
October 23, 1947: Robert and Joseph were close — even in death. They shared a home filled with antiques, their bank accounts and were beneficiaries of each other’s wills. In fact, the families sued over their estates, charging that they were too close and had a “strange attachment.” Continue reading
Posted in 1947, Fashion, Film, Hollywood, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Obituaries
Tagged 1947, fashion, film, hollywood, LGBTQ, obituaries, taboos
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October 21, 1947: Firefighter Sits Through Movie With Dead Friend to Avoid Audience Panic
October 21, 1947: Walter Saul and his wife had just settled in for a movie with his friend Aloysius Bollin when he felt Bollin’s head on his shoulder. Saul, a firefighter, realized that Bollin had no pulse. He was dead. But rather than created a disturbance, he waited until the double feature was over. Then told Bollin’s son Joseph to go get his mother because his father was sick. Continue reading
Col. John Bryson, 1819 – 1907 | Ex-Mayor Was Millionaire L.A. Developer
October 11, 1907: John Bryson, self-made millionaire and developer of the Bryson Block, dies. He had separated from his wife and was almost constantly in the company of his longtime nurse, Gladys Lamberton. He was hurriedly buried in a secret ceremony at Rosedale Cemetery. Continue reading
Posted in 1819, 1907, City Hall, Obituaries
Tagged 1819, 1907, Architecture, Bryson Block, obituaries
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October 7, 1909: Jurors Convict Man, Take Up a Collection for Him
October 7, 1909: Pedro Vasquez was arrested by Detective Talamantes for stealing two pairs of trousers. After the jurors convicted Vasquez, they took up a collection so he could buy a shirt since he didn’t have one. Continue reading
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October 5, 1909: Dies on Gold in a Filthy Cot
October 4, 1909: Richard Johnson Proctor, 79, was known to everyone in Santa Ana as a penniless old man. When he died in city’s dingiest tenement house, a search of his room turned up more than $3,500. Continue reading
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October 2, 1947: On Skid Row, Homeless Children Mourn Their Beloved Sister Ollie
October 2, 1947: Sister Ollie (though she was famous under another name) died happy, according to her mother, Sister Sibbie, the superintendent at Sunshine Mission, 558 S. Wall St., a shelter for homeless women and children on skid row. Continue reading
Posted in 1947, Film, Hollywood, Obituaries
Tagged #Silent Films, film, hollywood, homelessness, obituaries, Olive Borden
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September 28, 1947: City Librarian Althea Warren Announces Retirement
September 28, 1947: City librarian Althea Warren is retiring after 14 years. She entered the profession despite the comment from an uncle who said: “A librarian leads a terrible life. She has to wear plain dresses and flat heels and the salary is ridiculous.” Continue reading
Posted in 1947, Books and Authors, Obituaries
Tagged #Los Angeles Public Library, 1947, Althea Warren, Libraries
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September 13, 1942: Retired Police Lt. George H. Williams, Badge 1, Dies at 84
September 13, 1942: Retired Lt. George H. Williams,who held LAPD retirement Badge 1, dies at the age of 84. He retired in 1912 after serving with the department for 23 years and was in charge of the detail that brought bodies out of the Times Building after the 1910 bombing. Continue reading
Posted in 1942, Art & Artists, Comics, Crime and Courts, Film, Hollywood, LAPD, Obituaries, World War II
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Black L.A. 1947: Heavyweight Fighter George Godfrey, ‘The Black Shadow of Leiperville,’ Dies at 50
August 21, 1947: George Godfrey, a fighter known as the Black Shadow of Leiperville, dies in poverty in Los Angeles at the age of 50. Continue reading
Posted in 1947, Film, Hollywood, Obituaries, Sports
Tagged 1947, boxing, Budd Schulberg, film, George Godfrey, hollywood, Olympic Auditorium, Primo Carnera, sports, Wrigley Field
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August 18, 1947: John Steven McGroarty, California Poet Laureate, Honored in Memorial Tribute
August 18, 1947: John Steven McGroarty, California’s poet laureate, is remembered with poems and stories. Continue reading
Posted in 1947, Books and Authors, Obituaries
Tagged 1947, Books and Authors, Harrison Gray Otis, John Steven McGroarty, poetry
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August 9, 1979: Walter O’Malley Dies
August 9, 1979: Walter O’Malley dies at the age of 75. Continue reading
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