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Stanley Fafara ("Whitey" on Leave it to Beaver) is Dead.
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Posted on 09/26/2003 2:47:31 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former child actor Stanley Fafara, who played Beaver's pal Whitey on the idyllic family sitcom "Leave It to Beaver" but descended into a real-life adulthood of drugs, alcohol and petty crime, has died at age 53, friends said on Friday.
Fafara died in a Portland, Oregon, hospital on Saturday, Sept. 20, of complications from surgery he underwent last month to repair a constricted intestine caused by a hernia, according to Tom Hallman Jr., a reporter for the Portland Oregonian who knew him.
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Dropping like flies today
To: Lunatic Fringe; ABG(anybody but Gore)
Another one.
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posted on
09/26/2003 2:51:39 PM PDT
by
Dog
(How is my posting? Call 1-888-ITS-GOOD)
To: Lunatic Fringe
Very creepy. He was 54. So was John Ritter, and so was Robert Palmer.
Good day to be 45.
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posted on
09/26/2003 2:53:33 PM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Tag Line Expired: Resubmit)
To: Dog
Yep. I hate to sound cynical, but who's coming next week?
To: SandyInSeattle
Damn, I just turned 54 this past Monday! This is getting scary!
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posted on
09/26/2003 3:08:49 PM PDT
by
angelwings49
(STILL Proud To Be An American!)
To: angelwings49
You might be safe, there's some conflict on different threads about his age. He might have been 53, which would break the jinx. Until we know for sure, though, stay under the bed!
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posted on
09/26/2003 3:24:59 PM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Tag Line Expired: Resubmit)
To: Lunatic Fringe
Another sad ending for a former child star.
To: Lunatic Fringe
"We're all gonna die!!!"
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posted on
09/26/2003 3:31:29 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: SandyInSeattle
"Very creepy. He was 54. So was John Ritter, and so was Robert Palmer.
Good day to be 45."
Or 55 :-D
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posted on
09/26/2003 3:58:18 PM PDT
by
Mercat
To: GreenHornet
So true. Hearing about his death is sad, but so is hearing about his life.
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posted on
09/26/2003 4:14:48 PM PDT
by
Paul Atreides
(Bringing you quality, non-unnecessarily-excerpted threads since 2002)
To: SandyInSeattle
Robert Palmer.Who's that? From Emerson, Lake, and Palmer?
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posted on
09/26/2003 4:24:18 PM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
("No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper.)
To: Mercat
LOL!!!!! Just what I was thinking.
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posted on
09/26/2003 4:25:01 PM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
("No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper.)
To: FrdmLvr
Who's that? From Emerson, Lake, and Palmer?
He was big in the 80s - his most famous song was addicted to love - MTV video had the real tall models with the guitars behind him...
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posted on
09/26/2003 5:14:38 PM PDT
by
microgood
(They will all die......most of them.)
To: ABG(anybody but Gore); Lunatic Fringe
Keep up with those who have passed away.
Famous Deaths
Child actor who played Beaver's friend Hubert 'Whitey' Whitney on "Leave It to Beaver" from 1957 to 1963, who struggled with drug and alcohol problems for many years after his acting career ended, working as a roofer, waiter and janitor and eventually as a drug dealer, but who had been clean and sober since 1995, died Sept 20 in Portland, OR of liver and kidney failure after surgery for a constricted intestine at the age of 54.
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posted on
09/26/2003 5:23:19 PM PDT
by
csvset
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