Max "Jethro" Baer Jr.'s girlfriend, from self-inflicted gunshot
La N
Baer's girlfriend dies from self-inflicted gunshot wound
Adam Jensen
Nevada Appeal News Service
January 29, 2008
The 30-year-old girlfriend of Zephyr Cove resident Max Baer Jr., an
entrepreneur and actor best known for his role as Jethro in the 1960s sitcom
"The Beverly Hillbillies," died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot over
the weekend.
At about 1:15 p.m. Thursday, Douglas County sheriff's deputies and
Tahoe-Douglas paramedics responded to a report of an attempted suicide at
Baer's Zephyr Heights residence, according to a news release from the
sheriff's office.
Baer led deputies to a bedroom of the home, where they found the woman
suffering from a single gunshot wound to the chest from a semiautomatic
handgun. The woman still was conscious when officers arrived and "told the
deputies that the incident was an attempted suicide on her part," according
to the statement.
A CALSTAR helicopter flew the woman to Renown Medical Center in Reno, where
she underwent trauma care and subsequently was put on life support.
The woman's family took her off life support Sunday, according to Douglas
County sheriff's Sgt. Jim Halsey.
The gun was recovered from the scene, and the case is being investigated as
a suicide.
"No foul play is suspected at this time," the news release stated.
Citing confidentiality issues, Halsey did not release the name of the woman
Monday.
Kris Baker
"La N" <nilita20...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Adam Jensen
> Nevada Appeal News Service
> January 29, 2008
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> The 30-year-old girlfriend of Zephyr Cove resident Max Baer Jr., an
> entrepreneur and actor best known for his role as Jethro in the 1960s
> sitcom
> "The Beverly Hillbillies," died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot over
> the weekend.
That's a strange thing for a woman to do. Drugs?
Kris
Matthew Kruk
news:MoSnj.8700$Ej5....@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...
"Suicide by firearms was the most common method for both men and women,
accounting for 57% of all suicides.":
http://www.healthyplace.com/communities/depression/related/suicide_8.asp
Jonathon J Miller
I assume that you mean in the USA. In countries like New Zealand,
Australia and the UK, where the access of firearms is restricted, the
suicide rate by this method is much lower.
lp13-30
me puzzled-- I'm almost positive the credits on the show that show up
when they are in the truck originally said Max Baer Jr., and now on the
reruns it is just Max Baer. Maybe they were changed when Sr. died.
Anybody know? Larry
Charlene
Traditionally, ordinals like Junior, Senior, III, and IV were not
considered actual parts of the names. When Sr. died, Jr. would drop
his suffix unless he had a son of the same name. In that case, Jr.
became Sr., III became Jr. ,and everyone else move up. Only in recent
years have Sr., Jr., and other ordinals become an unchangeable part of
the person's actual name, although each family makes its own choice. I
suspect Max Baer's family may have been of the old school.
One interesting note is that you really only find this in the US. A
friend of mine, pressed to think up a good English name, recently came
out with something like Chauncey Spencer Winston Doodle IV. It wasn't
easy to convince him that ordinals are considered a nouveau-riche
American affectation by most Englishmen, since the only person in the
UK known to use an ordinal is the Queen, and that only because it's
legally required.
wd43
Kris Baker
"lp13-30" <LP1...@webtv.net> wrote in message
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Miss Manners says that when a Sr dies, Jr's no longer a Jr.
Properly, Sr doesn't use that title.
mack
IIRC, he was known by that name to the end of his long life. And of the
many movies he made in the forties, after his father's death in 1939, he was
always billed as Jr. (or maybe in England, Jnr.)
Jim Beaver
Miss Manners can do what she likes. I plan to be a Jr. till the day I die.
I'm proud to be my old man's namesake.
Jim Beaver
lp13-30
change the credits seems an extreme-- after all, he was Jr. when the
show was on, or at least through the first part of it, and the obit.
refers to him as Jr. Anyway, that reminds me of a standup comic who said
that the very least imaginative parents in the world, when it came to
naming their offspring, had to be Mr. and Mrs. Efrem Zimbalist Sr.
Larry
Kris Baker
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>
> Then Douglas Fairbanks, Jr never heard of Miss Manners, nor she of him.
> IIRC, he was known by that name to the end of his long life. And of the
> many movies he made in the forties, after his father's death in 1939, he
> was always billed as Jr. (or maybe in England, Jnr.)
But on film, Sr doesn't die.
Speaking of professional Jrs, whatever happened to Go-Go dancer
(Hullabaloo?)
Lada Edmund Jr?
Kris
Sheesh, I remembered THAT?
Useful information's gone
Larc
>She was 30--How old is Jethro? He must be over 70 by now.
According to IMDb, his 70th birthday was last Dec. 4.
Larc
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Larc
Wouldn't that depend on what somebody's birth certificate says?
Kris Baker
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Only if someone's named "Sr" at birth ;)
Kris
Larc
<charlene...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Jan 30, 4:36 pm, LP1...@webtv.net (lp13-30) wrote:
>> She was 30--How old is Jethro? He must be over 70 by now. One thing has
>> me puzzled-- I'm almost positive the credits on the show that show up
>> when they are in the truck originally said Max Baer Jr., and now on the
>> reruns it is just Max Baer. Maybe they were changed when Sr. died.
>> Anybody know? Larry
>
>Traditionally, ordinals like Junior, Senior, III, and IV were not
>considered actual parts of the names. When Sr. died, Jr. would drop
>his suffix unless he had a son of the same name. In that case, Jr.
>became Sr., III became Jr. ,and everyone else move up. Only in recent
>years have Sr., Jr., and other ordinals become an unchangeable part of
>the person's actual name, although each family makes its own choice.
Wouldn't that make it very confusing when a deed to property, for
instance, is in the name of Joe Smith, Jr., and he suddenly becomes
just Joe Smith or even Joe Smith, Sr., when his father dies? I guess
he'd have to cough up the fee to have the deed changed.
>One interesting note is that you really only find this in the US.
That, of course, makes it fully as valid as any other naming practice
anywhere else on earth.
Del Stanley
"Kris Baker" <kris....@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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And when they are BOTH dead they apparently start using their
respective living titles again?
Years ago (before the internet) I always got confused as to
which Lon Chaney (&Jr.) was in which picture. I remember
seeing "The Wolf Man" (1941) in the late 50s. In those years
I seem to recall that the trailers and posters (originals) said the
film starred Lon Chaney. No Jr. no Sr. just Lon Chaney.
When I first heard of a Lon Chaney Jr. I thought it was
"The Wolf Man's son! As we all know today The Wolf Man
WAS Lon Chaney Jr. son of another creature player, Lon Chaney.
Senior died (1930) before Wolf Man so I guess following the
above rules Jr. became simply Lon Chaney. But then again,
"Jr." was never really a Jr. He wasn't named after his father!
As they say "that's Hollywood."
For funzzies I looked up "The Wolf Man" (1941) to see what
they called the creature over at IMDb, it said:
Lon Chaney Jr.-----The Wolf Man (as Lon Chaney)
See what I mean?
I have VHS tapes of "The Mummy's Ghost" and
"The Mummy's Tomb." Lon Chaney gets the billing
(the son) not Lon Chaney Jr. It seems like he was
never a marquee Lon Chaney Jr. He was Lon Chaney Jr.
ONLY in death. That doesn't sound right. Someone please
correct me on this. It seems if you are watching an original
movie (no new tech titles, etc) then ALL of the movies are
Lon Chaney. Lon Chaney Jr. doesn't exist in any film credit.
If (no, make that when) Lon Chaney and Lon Chaney "Jr."
come back from the dead on some full moon Halloween
night (my birthday), and they want to see some old scary movies,
starring "Lon Chaney" I'll bet they won't know who is who (father-son?)
behind that monster make-up. In the 50s you really wouldn't know.
If a guy is a Jr. make him a Jr. forever for heaven's sake! Let's don't
confuse the angels at heaven's gate. At least fix/freeze the titles for
Hollywood people.
Then there is Douglas Fairbanks-Douglas Fairbanks Jr. I wonder
is DF Jr. ever billed himself as just DF? With so many pictures
between them... nah I don't even wanna go there. Forget it.
Del
Louis Epstein
:
: "Kris Baker" <kris....@prodigy.net> wrote in message
Three generations of Congressmen were elected in in these parts,
and the fourth defeated for election,as "Hamilton Fish Jr."
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at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
Louis Epstein
: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:36:03 -0600, LP1...@webtv.net (lp13-30) wrote:
:
:>She was 30--How old is Jethro? He must be over 70 by now.
:
: According to IMDb, his 70th birthday was last Dec. 4.
Meanwhile,Elly May is now four years older than Granny lived to be!!
Kathi
<kris....@prodigy.net> wrote:
JFK Jr. and MLK Jr.
My dad used Jr. as long as his dad was alive and there needed to be
something to distinguish them. When Grandpa died in 1991, my dad
dropped the Jr. I was six years old (1969) when my brother was born
and beginning to get into the name thing. I asked my mom why they
named him Scott, instead of III. My mom's reply was, "You know how
much I like cats, right? (she doesn't) I wouldn't name my pet cat
Alfred, much less my son."
Kathi
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Stacia
> Traditionally, ordinals like Junior, Senior, III, and IV were not
> considered actual parts of the names. When Sr. died, Jr. would drop
> his suffix unless he had a son of the same name. In that case, Jr.
> became Sr., III became Jr. ,and everyone else move up. Only in recent
> years have Sr., Jr., and other ordinals become an unchangeable part of
> the person's actual name, although each family makes its own choice.
My husband is a III, and he's been told to sign with the III on
almost every legal document, with no one asking him if the previous
two are still alive (they aren't). He's had problems with insurance,
debt collectors, and even income taxes one year, because he will
forget to use the III after his name.
I'm sure families make their own choice, but the government and
other entities make it pretty clear that they want your name the same
as it is on your birth certificate, which kind of negates the "choice"
aspect.
Stacia
Stacia
> I have VHS tapes of "The Mummy's Ghost" and
> "The Mummy's Tomb." Lon Chaney gets the billing
> (the son) not Lon Chaney Jr. It seems like he was
> never a marquee Lon Chaney Jr. He was Lon Chaney Jr.
> ONLY in death. That doesn't sound right. Someone please
> correct me on this. It seems if you are watching an original
> movie (no new tech titles, etc) then ALL of the movies are
> Lon Chaney. Lon Chaney Jr. doesn't exist in any film credit.
The tapes you have are original credits: he wasn't billed as Lon
Chaney Jr in those films. His name is a bit confusing, as Terri
mentioned above.
The silent film actor Lon Chaney's son's name was Creighton.
Creighton was a businessman who didn't even enter the acting business
until the early 30s after his father died. He went by his real name
Creighton Chaney until the mid 30s when Universal pretty much forced
him to change his name to Lon Chaney, Jr. He was billed as Lon
Chaney Jr until he starred in the 1941 film "The Wolf Man". From then
on he did just go by "Lon Chaney", but most people still use the "Jr"
when referring to him, simply to distinguish between him and his
father.
Stacia
La N
"Louis Epstein" <l...@main.put.com> wrote in message
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> >
> Three generations of Congressmen were elected in in these parts,
> and the fourth defeated for election,as "Hamilton Fish Jr."
Not to be confused with Hamilton Fish, the cannibal ....
- nil
Brad Ferguson
<55b1bae2-32d0-4eb6...@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
Stacia <glitte...@gmail.com> wrote:
The last time I saw Jr as the Wolf Man in the original film, I wondered
again if he was doubled in the action scenes. The Wolf Man who jumps
over fences and through windows and so on seems to me to be a shorter,
more lithe man than Jr. Do you happen to know?
Stacia
> The last time I saw Jr as the Wolf Man in the original film, I wondered
> again if he was doubled in the action scenes. The Wolf Man who jumps
> over fences and through windows and so on seems to me to be a shorter,
> more lithe man than Jr. Do you happen to know?
I've noticed that myself, and I always assumed it was a double. All
I found online were people speculating it was doubled by well-known
stunt man Eddie Parker, but I don't know if that's true or not.
Stacia
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> Baer's girlfriend dies from self-inflicted gunshot wound
>
>
>
> Adam Jensen
> Nevada Appeal News Service
> January 29, 2008
>
> The 30-year-old girlfriend of Zephyr Cove resident Max Baer Jr., an
> entrepreneur and actor best known for his role as Jethro in the 1960s sitcom
> "The Beverly Hillbillies," died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot over
> the weekend.
>
> Tahoe-Douglas paramedics responded to a report of an attempted suicide at
> Baer's Zephyr Heights residence, according to a news release from the
> sheriff's office.
>
> Baer led deputies to a bedroom of the home, where they found the woman
> suffering from a single gunshot wound to the chest from a semiautomatic
> handgun. The woman still was conscious when officers arrived and "told the
> deputies that the incident was an attempted suicide on her part," according
> to the statement.
>
> A CALSTAR helicopter flew the woman to Renown Medical Center in Reno, where
> she underwent trauma care and subsequently was put on life support.
>
> The woman's family took her off life support Sunday, according to Douglas
> County sheriff's Sgt. Jim Halsey.
>
> The gun was recovered from the scene, and the case is being investigated as
> a suicide.
>
> "No foul play is suspected at this time," the news release stated.
>
> Citing confidentiality issues, Halsey did not release the name of the woman
> Monday.
fffuuucccmmmm
R H Draney
>On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:32:38 PM UTC-8, La N wrote:
>>
>> The 30-year-old girlfriend of Zephyr Cove resident Max Baer Jr., an
>> entrepreneur and actor best known for his role as Jethro in the 1960s sitcom
>> "The Beverly Hillbillies," died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot over
>> the weekend.
>>
>> At about 1:15 p.m. Thursday, Douglas County sheriff's deputies and
>> Tahoe-Douglas paramedics responded to a report of an attempted suicide at
>> Baer's Zephyr Heights residence, according to a news release from the
>> sheriff's office.
>>
>> Baer led deputies to a bedroom of the home, where they found the woman
>> suffering from a single gunshot wound to the chest from a semiautomatic
>> handgun. The woman still was conscious when officers arrived and "told the
>> deputies that the incident was an attempted suicide on her part," according
>> to the statement.
--
Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.