Posted on 06/12/2004 12:09:41 PM PDT by Libertarian Jim
Does anyone know who the elderly woman was at Reagan's service in California? The one that had to be helped up to the casket and appeared to be blind? I've heard speculation it was Jane Wyman or Delores Hope, but I doubt those. Anyone?
I've been wondering too.
If it was Jane surely Mike would have accompied her. Mike has some children did Maureen, does, Patti or Ronald have any or is this the only Reagan grandchildren.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I remember reading or watching something like the History Channel and Jane Wyman was the one that divorced Reagan in late 40s or early 50s. Reagan had to learn about the divorce in the newspaper, which hurt him. Maybe that's why his love for Nancy was so strong. She rebuilt trust back in him. Apparently, Wyman flew east to do a movie and announced it to the press without speaking to him. Reagan's acting career wasn't that good but hers was blossoming. What I found interesting was that her career was dead until Reagan won the presidency. Then she surfaced and had her own tv series which stayed on until he left the presidency. Then her tv series went off the air thus ending a tv career that was never any good in the first place. Never watched it myself but read about it in the tv guide. Always wondered if H'weirdo and the press were trying something to discredit him in some way.
Bo Derek was there.
I'm not well versed on their families. Mike is the only one I'm aware of with children, but the others may. I believe I heard that they don't have any, but I may be wrong, so don't take my word as the last say on it.
Michael has two children - Cameron and Ashley Marie. I believe Maureen had one daughter named Rita. Neither Ron Jr. nor Patti have any children.
Inaugural Family Photo (standing from left to right) Geoffrey Davis, Dennis Revell, Michael Reagan, Cameron Reagan, President Reagan, Neil Reagan, Dr. Richard David, Ron Junior. (sitting from left to right) Anne Davis, Maureen Reagan, Colleen Reagan, Mrs. Reagan, Bess Reagan, Patricia Davis, Patti Davis, Doria Reagan
1985 Inaugural Family Photo: (from left to right) Bess Reagan, Maureen Reagan, Dennis Revell, Neil Reagan, Michael Reagan, Ashley Marie Reagan, Colleen Reagan, President Reagan, Cameron Reagan, Patti Davis, Mrs. Reagan, Ron Reagan, Doria Reagan, Geoffrey Davis, Anne Davis, Dr. Richard Davis, Patricia Davis
Yesterday, the President signed into law S. 560, which allows Rita Mirembe Revell permanent residency in the United States. Ms. Revell is a 16 year-old student from Uganda. Dennis Revell and Ms. Maureen Reagan, daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, are guardians of Rita Revell. This Private bill will allow Rita Mirembe Revell to be adopted by Dennis Revell and Ms. Maureen Reagan, and be classified as "immediate relative child".
I think he meant how did Scott Baio score an invite?
Nice picture!
So that was Chachi? I thought I was crazy!
I think that was her (Delores Hope), only she had her hair
pulled back last night. She must be close to 100.
. . .that was probably Bess??
howwever I wondered the same thing watching this live and thought it looked like Jean Stapelton
In early 1981, after starring in box-office movies for 49 years, she won the role of the conniving matriarch, Angela Channing Erikson Stavros Agretti, in the movie, "The Vintage Years", which was the unaired pilot for the soap opera, "Falcon Crest" (1981), later in the year. For 9 seasons, she formed that character in a way that no other actress could have done and she was drawn as the moral center of the show. In its very 1st season in 1981, it was a ratings winner and her co-stars _Robert Foxworth_ , _Lorenzo Lamas_ , _Abby Dalton_ , and _Susan Sullivan_ , really impressed her work. Near the end of its 1st season, and according to the storyline, she was told that her evil TV son, _David Selby_ had just inherited 50% of a California newspaper company, which led to even bigger ratings for the next 5 years. She was nominated six times for a Soap Opera Digest Award; and in 1984; she won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series Drama. During the eighth season of "Falcon Crest" (1981), Wyman was emotionally ill; she also had the friction of working on the set, which made it look very exhausted, but wanted to keep on working, anyways. After the 8th season, and after the first two episodes of the 9th season, her health was in jeopardy, which (in real-life) led to her departure on the 9th and final season of FC, as her character suffocates before going into a hospital and slips in a coma, she stood away from the show for almsost the entire season, but came back to make the best of that bad job and decided (against her doctor's advice) to finish the last 3 episodes of the series. She then guest-starred as Jane Seymour's mother on "Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman" and 3 years later, she appeared in Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996). In the late 1990s, she purchased a home in Rancho Mirage, California, where she's still living in retirement. Her daughter, Maureen (who died in August 2001), was a writer who also involved herself in political issues and organized a powerful foundation.
She has a somewhat unusual but not unattractive face - almost round - the bottom of her earlobe is almost level with the corner of her mouth. That shows up in the photo of her behind the vehicle and in both inaugural photos.
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