Muriel Youngs, mother of actor John Savage, 81
deb...@comcast.net
YOUNGS-Muriel Vanderveer Smeallie died in Manhasset, NY on December 28,
2005 at 81. Also known as Jhan Smeallie, Muriel was born in Amsterdam,
New York in 1924, to John Vanderveer Smeallie and Madge Robie Smeallie.
Muriel was a proud graduate of Adelphi College, where she was a member
of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority. and May Day Queen in 1946. She and her
husband Floyd-Jones Youngs were founding residents of the Long Island
town of Old Bethpage; after raising four children, she ran the Clothes
Club in the town of Manhasset. She is survived and will always be
missed by her children, John Smeallie Youngs (the actor John Savage),
Robin Caldwell Youngs, Gail MacLachlan Youngs Dwyer, and James
Vanderveer Youngs. She is loved by her grandchildren Jennifer, Lachlan
and Joshua Youngs, Dialynn, Gwynna and Amberline Dwyer, and her
great-grandchild Zolan Youngs. Funeral services will be held today,
Thursday, January 5, 2006 at 1 PM at the Betz, Rossi & Bellinger
Funeral Home, 171 Guy Park Avenue, Amsterdam, NY, with the Rev. R.W.
Williams presiding. Interment will take place in Fairview Cemetery. A
calling hour will precede the funeral from 12-1 PM.
Published in Newsday on 1/5/2006.
deb...@comcast.net
be a big star, but it never quite happened. Still, he did one of my
favorite movies, "Inside Moves" (1980).
Louis Epstein
: For awhile in the early '80's, it looked like John Savage was going to
: be a big star, but it never quite happened. Still, he did one of my
: favorite movies, "Inside Moves" (1980).
And he did a TV movie opposite Liane Langland in 1987.
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<deb...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Muriel Vanderveer Smeallie Youngs
>
> YOUNGS-Muriel Vanderveer Smeallie died in Manhasset, NY on December 28,
> 2005 at 81. Also known as Jhan Smeallie, Muriel was born in Amsterdam,
> New York in 1924, to John Vanderveer Smeallie and Madge Robie Smeallie.
> Muriel was a proud graduate of Adelphi College, where she was a member
> of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority. and May Day Queen in 1946. She and her
> husband Floyd-Jones Youngs were founding residents of the Long Island
> town of Old Bethpage; after raising four children, she ran the Clothes
> Club in the town of Manhasset. She is survived and will always be
> missed by her children, John Smeallie Youngs (the actor John Savage),
> Robin Caldwell Youngs, Gail MacLachlan Youngs Dwyer, and James
> Vanderveer Youngs.
Her daughter, Robin Youngs, is better known as Robin Young, who has been on
Boston radio and television in some capacity or another since the mid-'70s.
She was the original host of "Evening Magazine" (syndicated show known in
some markets as "PM Magazine") on WBZ-TV, was a DJ on WBZ-AM and WBOS-FM
about 25 years apart, and now co-hosts the midday news/features program
"Here & Now" on WBUR radio; the show is heard nationally on satellite radio.
She also was a correspondent on the ill-fated "USA Today on Television"
syndicated show in the '80s.
Another daughter, Gail Youngs, who retained the final "s" on her surname,
had a brief movie career and was married for a time to Robert Duvall.
Howard
Howard
Louis Epstein
:
: <deb...@comcast.net> wrote in message
But was she at all related to Toppie Smellie,
who appeared in TV commercials years ago for a
product I've forgotten (and I imagine may have
been chosen because of her unusual name)?
A family who will drop a final S,
may drop an intervening A...
deb...@comcast.net
who appeared in TV commercials years ago for a
product I've forgotten (and I imagine may have
been chosen because of her unusual name)?
I could be wrong, but Toppie Smellie's commercials were for ""Shake &
Bake".
mill...@intergate.com
I thought he was dead.