Last time I saw her in person was at Santa Anita (three or four years ago) where she was being honored for some equestrian charity work she had done. I met her during my intern days at CNBC, and I recall her doing a skit on Leno’s Tonight Show. In all encounters she was friendly and funny.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 1:19 PM Steve Timko <steveti...@gmail.com> wrote: > She made token appearances but she wasn't part of the fabric of the > community. The Terry Lee Wells Discovery Museum is named for her cousin. I > don't think she ever did anything to promote it, but I could be wrong. The > Discovery Museum is way cool and worth checking out. > I get the sense she cut her ties to Reno when she left for Hollywood. > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 12:19 PM Tom Wolper <twol...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:54 PM Steve Timko <steveti...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> She was Miss Reno and Miss Nevada before going to Hollywood. Her family >>> had several businesses here. Wells Avenue is named after her uncle. For a >>> couple of years in the mid 1960s, right about the time Gilligan's Island >>> had its first TV run, a young Tom Hanks lived in a duplex on Mill Street a >>> couple of doors down from Wells Avenue while his father was a casino cook. >>> I have talked to her surviving relatives. A couple of them. They hate >>> her. >>> >> >> Did her relatives hate her before she became famous? >> >> The Deadline report says she kept working after Gilligan's Island and >> that she was active with a northern Nevada charity. Steve, was she part of >> the community there? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFrcmYdg15Hn%3DvHTp1D7-%2ByFiCfujODq38xza_4AcJ8Cw%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFrcmYdg15Hn%3DvHTp1D7-%2ByFiCfujODq38xza_4AcJ8Cw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yy0AOX4hGgfb%2BB4Y2UOSTfdNXPGAxxPx%3DnirKDxCyR%2BmA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yy0AOX4hGgfb%2BB4Y2UOSTfdNXPGAxxPx%3DnirKDxCyR%2BmA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4Bpd79HQ_jy716i6ROY3S4edOUJMi3Jupdpv0ko5eSc9Q%40mail.gmail.com.
