Dead Mouseketeers?
walker
to say goodbye to all our company..." for the last time, and when?
gjw
> >
> > Wow, I just happen to have a list lying around. See below. All of the
> > most famous child mouseketeers are alive and in their 50's. The two
> > adults, Jimmie Dodd and Roy Williams, both died before reaching old age.
And oddly enough, both Jimmie Dodd and Roy Williams (as well as Roy
Disney) are buried at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills.
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RWilson963
Scott Wilson
Elaine Parrish
Oh, wow, David! That's a great list.
Do you know what happened to the 4 (? did I count right????) that
have died?
Elaine
> On Tue, 25 May 1999 19:31:19 +0000, walker <wal...@acadiacom.net> wrote:
>
> >Which members of the original Mickey Mouse Club have sung "now it's time
> >to say goodbye to all our company..." for the last time, and when?
>
> Wow, I just happen to have a list lying around. See below. All of the
> most famous child mouseketeers are alive and in their 50's. The two
> adults, Jimmie Dodd and Roy Williams, both died before reaching old age.
> Note that my list is fairly complete for seasons 1 and 2 and fairly
> incomplete for seasons 3 and 4.
>
> David Carson
>
> ------------------------------
> Below is a list of people who appeared as a Mouseketeer on the Mickey
> Mouse Club show of the 1950's. Along with their name, date of birth, and
> date of death (if applicable) is an indication of which seasons that
> person was with the show:
>
> 1) 1955-1956 season
> 2) 1956-1957 season
> 3) 1957-1958 season
> 4) 1958-1959 season
>
> A minus sign (-) is shown before the season number if the person joined
> the Mouseketeers while that season was underway. A minus sign is shown
> after the season number if the person left the Mouseketeers before that
> season was over.
>
> Currently, this list is fairly reliable concerning the first and second
> seasons and quite unreliable concerning the third and fourth seasons.
>
> Jimmie Dodd (adult leader, S1,2,3,4) b. 3/28/1910, d. 1964
> Roy Williams ("Big Mooseketeer", S1,2,3,4) b. 7/30/1907, d. 11/7/1976
> Nancy Abbate (S?) b. 6/19/1942, alive
> Sherry Alberoni (S2) b. 12/4/1946, alive
> Sharon Baird (S1,2,3,4) b. 8/16/1943, alive
> Billie Jean Beanblossom (S1) b. 1/4/1944, alive
> Bobby Burgess (S1,2,3,4) b. 5/19/1941, alive
> Lonnie Burr (S1,2,3,4) b. 5/31/1943, alive
> Tommy Cole (S1,2,3,4) b. 12/20/1941, alive
> Johnny Crawford (S1) b. 3/26/1946, alive
> Dennis Day (S1) b. 7/12/1942, alive
> Eileen Diamond (S2) b. 6/15/1943, alive
> Dickie Dodd (S1) b. 10/27/1945, alive
> Mary Espinosa (S1) b. 1/16/1945, alive
> Bonnie Lynn Fields (S3) b. 7/18/1944, alive
> Annette Funicello (S1,2,3,4) b. 10/22/1942, alive
> Darlene Gillespie (S1,2,3,4) b. 4/8/1941, alive
> Don Grady (S3) b. 6/8/1944, alive
> Judy Harriet (S1) b. 9/13/1942, alive
> Cheryl Holdridge (S2,3,4) b. 6/20/1944, alive
> Linda Hughes (S3) b. 10/22/1946, alive
> Dallas Johann (S1-) b. ????, alive?
> John Lee Johann (S-1) b. 12/23/1942, alive
> Bonni Lou Kern (S1) b. 7/2/1942, alive
> Charley Laney (S2) b. 6/18/1943, d. 3/9/1997
> Larry Larsen (S2) b. 9/3/1939, alive
> Cubby O'Brien (S1,2,3,4) b. 7/14/1946, alive
> Karen Pendleton (S1,2,3,4) b. 8/1/1946; alive
> Paul Peterson (S1-) b. 9/23/1945, alive
> Lynn Ready (S2) b. 12/3/1944, alive
> Mickey Rooney Jr. (S1-) b. ????, alive?
> Tim Rooney (S1-) b. ????, alive?
> Mary Sartori (S1) b. 1/4/1943, alive
> Bronson Scott (S1) b. 7/21/1947, alive
> Michael Smith (S1) b. 8/29/1945, d. 1983
> Jay-Jay Solari (S2) b. 9/12/1943, alive
> Margene Story (S2) b. 7/21/1943, alive
> Ronnie Steiner (S1) b. 11/21/1942, alive
> Mark Sutherland (S?) b. 12/17/19441217, alive?
> Doreen Tracey (S1,2,3,4) b. 4/13/1943; alive
> Don Underhill (S2) b. 9/15/1941, alive
>
>
>
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Brad Ferguson
<da...@neosoft.com> wrote:
> On 26 May 1999 03:28:08 GMT, rwils...@aol.com (RWilson963) wrote:
>
> >Other than Jimmie Dodd and Roy, just Sharon, I believe.
>
> Sharon Baird is alive. She lives in Reno.
>
> David Carson
David, Sharon's death (from cancer) was reported on the newswires in
1996. Was this in error? (Hope so.)
Also, Roy was looking pretty old and feeble when he made a surprise
appearance during a Mouseketeer reunion on Tom Snyder's TOMORROW show
in (I think) 1976.
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television career before joining "The Mickey Mouse Club."
Sharon started dancing at the age of 3, and just a few years later her legs
were insured for $50,000 with Lloyds of London while she appeared on "The
Colgate Comedy Hour."
Sharon currently resides in the Reno, Nevada, area.
STILL ALIVE !!!!!!!!!!!!......ALOHA
Brad Ferguson
<mous...@mpinet.net> wrote:
This is all well and good, but since a great many people think Sharon
is dead (and her death was widely reported), and since you seem to be
in contact with her, does she have anything to say about the matter?
(Assuming she's not really, actually dead, of course.)
Brad Ferguson
<da...@neosoft.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 May 1999 19:51:57 -0500, Brad Ferguson <thir...@frXOXed.net>
> wrote:
>
> >In article <7ifr0h$6v3$1...@uuneo.neosoft.com>, David Carson
> ><da...@neosoft.com> wrote:
> >> Sharon Baird is alive. She lives in Reno.
> >>
> >> David Carson
> >
> >
> >David, Sharon's death (from cancer) was reported on the newswires in
> >1996. Was this in error? (Hope so.)
>
> No, I just didn't hear about it, and apparantly some other people who I
> use as sources hadn't either. But, after searching, I did find a record
> of her death on 6 January 1998. She was also known as Sharon Kaiser and
> Sharon Paiva.
>
> David Carson
Sorry I misremembered the year. I guess she was married twice?
As you can see, a couple of cyberketeers are insisting that she's still
alive anyway. I love this place.
Jon Nadelberg
Actually, it'd be kind of interesting if she was dead, but still had
something to say on the matter.
Louis Epstein
: In article <260519991951574007%thir...@frXOXed.net>, Brad Ferguson <thir...@frXOXed.net> wrote:
: >In article <7ifr0h$6v3$1...@uuneo.neosoft.com>, David Carson
: ><da...@neosoft.com> wrote:
: >> On 26 May 1999 03:28:08 GMT, rwils...@aol.com (RWilson963) wrote:
: >>
: >> >Other than Jimmie Dodd and Roy, just Sharon, I believe.
: >> Sharon Baird is alive. She lives in Reno.
: >>
: >> David Carson
: >
: >
: >David, Sharon's death (from cancer) was reported on the newswires in
: >1996. Was this in error? (Hope so.)
: >Also, Roy was looking pretty old and feeble when he made a surprise
: >appearance during a Mouseketeer reunion on Tom Snyder's TOMORROW show
: >in (I think) 1976
: .
: Sharon Baird, born August 16, 1943, in Seattle, Washington, already had a
: television career before joining "The Mickey Mouse Club."
:
: Sharon started dancing at the age of 3, and just a few years later her legs
: were insured for $50,000 with Lloyds of London while she appeared on "The
: Colgate Comedy Hour."
:
: Sharon currently resides in the Reno, Nevada, area.
:
:
: STILL ALIVE !!!!!!!!!!!!......ALOHA
Is your "still alive" source from after January 1998?
RWilson963
"You're Outta Here" web site, which listed the death of Sharon Lee Paiva /
Kaiser, on the show 1955-59, in Long Beach, Ca. on Jan 6 1998, age 56. If
that's wrong, the guy who runs the site and printed out the obit. would want to
be notified so such an error could be corrected and an apology issued, I'm
sure.
SW
Brad Ferguson
<da...@neosoft.com> wrote:
> That web site maintainer was not the originator of the reference.
> There was a wire service story telling of the death of Sharon Kaiser
> on 1/6/1998. The story referred to her as a Mouseketeer and also gave
> the name Paiva, but -- perhaps significantly -- did *not* refer to her
> as Sharon Baird. Also, the DOB traditionally given for Sharon Baird
> is 8/16/1943 or 8/16/1942, but Sharon Kaiser's DOB was 10/30/1941.
> This also seems to support the theory that the late Sharon Kaiser was
> not Sharon Baird, the Mouseketeer.
>
> At this point, I have no idea what to believe anymore. Some people
> here are saying that Sharon Kaiser was never a Mouseketeer and that
> the wire service obituary passed along that information without
> verifying it. That certainly seems possible. We have seen one or two
> deceased people who were supposedly in the Little Rascals, even though
> no one familiar with the Little Rascals knows who they were. Quite
> possibly, the person who told the reporter that Sharon Kaiser was a
> Mouseketeer had no idea who Sharon Baird was.
>
> I guess I'm leaning toward the "Sharon is alive" camp, mostly because,
> as I mentioned, the wire service obituary gave the names Kaiser and
> Paiva, but not Baird; and because the DOB's are different. I think
> Sharon Kaiser and Sharon Baird are two different people, and since
> Sharon Baird's death has never been reported, and some people claim to
> have had recent contact with her, she must be alive.
The AP roundup I saw was headlined with the name Sharon Baird, for what
that's worth. That's how I came to notice it.
If someone with Nexis or full AP database access would do a search,
that'd be helpful. I don't think anyone here has yet qualified when
their "recent" contact with Sharon was. Actually, I haven't seen
anyone claim to have had _any_ contact with her. Someone with a
Mouseketeer site says that some of the Mousekevets keep in touch with
their fans there, but I didn't see anything that said, specifically,
that Sharon did. (BTW, the Reno newspaper's web site is under
construction and presently lacks a search facility.)
There are several possibilities:
Sharon is dead. Hope not, but it could be true.
Sharon is alive and her death was misreported. It might be that a
deceased woman who had claimed to be Sharon the Mouseketeer was
actually a fraud, a la the fake Buckwheat who made it onto the 20/20
program in the '80s.
A fake Sharon is participating in the Mousekchat on the Mouskeboard.
This could be true whether Sharon is alive or dead.
M.M. Bell
>> snip
>
>The AP roundup I saw was headlined with the name Sharon Baird, for what
>that's worth. That's how I came to notice it.
>
>If someone with Nexis or full AP database access would do a search,
>that'd be helpful.
Search from Lexis-Nexis
November 29, 1998; Sunday 15:15 Eastern Time
HEADLINE: What Became of the Mouseketeers?
BYLINE: The Associated Press
BODY:
Most of the original nine of the 39 Mouseketeers from the 1955-59 run of
the ''Mickey Mouse Club'' extended their show business careers after they
retired their ears:
_SHARON Baird: Starred in the film ''Ratboy,'' directed by Sondra Locke.
Continued to work in children's entertainment, performing on stage and
television. Maintains a close friendship with Annette Funicello.
<rest of story snipped>
This speaks of Sharon Baird in the present tense in November 1998. No
obituary appeared in response to the search.
M.M. Bell
mmbe...@xxathena.louisville.edu
RWilson963
the Mousketeers are still around, the still younger I must be .....(?)
Ponder that one awhile.
SW
Brad Ferguson
<mmbe...@xxathena.louisville.edu> wrote:
Thanks very much, M.M. This looks definitive -- and it's good news,
too.
Brad Ferguson
<da...@neosoft.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 May 1999 20:20:30 -0500, Brad Ferguson <thir...@frXOXed.net>
> wrote:
>
> >In article <374fb08a...@news.neosoft.com>, David Carson
> ><da...@neosoft.com> wrote:
> >
> >> There was a wire service story telling of the death of Sharon Kaiser
> >> on 1/6/1998. The story referred to her as a Mouseketeer and also gave
> >> the name Paiva, but -- perhaps significantly -- did *not* refer to her
> >> as Sharon Baird. Also, the DOB traditionally given for Sharon Baird
> >> is 8/16/1943 or 8/16/1942, but Sharon Kaiser's DOB was 10/30/1941.
> >> This also seems to support the theory that the late Sharon Kaiser was
> >> not Sharon Baird, the Mouseketeer.
> >>
> > [snip]
>
> >The AP roundup I saw was headlined with the name Sharon Baird, for what
> >that's worth. That's how I came to notice it.
> >
> [snip]
>
> Well, also for what it's worth, there is a post available in www.deja.com
> to alt.obituaries that reads as follows:
>
> ------------------------------
> Subject: Sharon, Mouseketeer
> Date: 1998/01/29
> Author: Brad Ferguson <n...@this.time>
>
> Sharon Lee Kaiser, 56, who was one of the Mouseketeers on THE MICKEY MOUSE
> CLUB in the 1950s, died of cancer Tue Jan 6 in Long Beach, CA.
>
> She was born Sharon Lee Paiva in 1941. She and her mother answered a
> casting call for the MMC in 1955 and became one of a total of 39
> Mouseketeers who appeared on the show during its three-year run.
>
> And now it's time to say goodbye...
> ------------------------------
>
> No mention of "Sharon Baird" there. Brad, does this spark any
> recollection, or only confuse the situation further?
Well, I'm definitely the person who posted that. Not only is my name
on it, but the date is in my style. I cut and paste the wire obit and
substitute the exact date for the loose time reference ("yesterday" or
"Wednesday" or whatever it happens to be).
To belabor the obvious, this puts Sharon Lee Kaiser in Long Beach, not
Reno, and the age is wrong for the date of birth we've been given by
the Mousekehonchos. These roundups always have the name of the
decedent as a hedline, which I cut when I posted it. However, I can't
imagine that they said "Sharon Baird" in the hedline and "Sharon Lee
Kaiser" in the first graf, so I must have misremembered that. It was
probably the "Mouseketeer" reference in the first line that grabbed me.
Clearly, I propagated an incorrect report, and I apologize for whatever
angst this created. Sharon Baird is, by all other reports, alive and
well, and this is good news indeed.
Thanks for clearing this up, David.
George Pollard
David ... wasn't Carol Lynly (spelling?) a Mouseketeer? Always thought she
was one of 'em. Great list? Thanks. george
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Sharon the Mousketeer is not dead. Rob Pilatus of Milli Vanilli died and had her
name put on his gravestone.
W.