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Date Posted: 00:26:01 03/09/05 Wed
Author: P
Subject: Re: Vermeer TS-20, TS-30, or up to 44" Tree Spade WANTED
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Film Star Ann Sheridan's cremated remains are interred, 38 years AFTER her death, in 1967 ! More ... http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:LP1DvtGTiS0J:br.geocities.com/astrosestrelas/Ann_Sheridan.bmp.jpg"


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Film Star Ann Sheridan's cremated remains are interred, 38 years AFTER her death in 1967 !

Hollywood, CA (February 4, 2005) – The cremated remains of classic film star Ann Sheridan have been laid to rest in accordance with her final wishes, 38 years after her death, at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The niche will be publicly unveiled during a 90th Birthday Celebration & Niche Dedication memorial service on Monday, February 21 at 2:00 p.m.



“We’re deeply honored Ann Sheridan’s family has chosen our cemetery as her final resting place,” says Hollywood Forever owner Tyler Cassity. “She truly embodied the beauty, intelligence, patriotism and glamour of Hollywood’s Golden Age.”



The service will be a celebration of the actress’ life and career, officiated by her cousin, Presbyterian Pastor Sallie Watson of Denton, Texas. Special guests will include Carole Wells (“Pistols ‘N Petticoats”), Vincent Sherman (director, “Nora Prentiss”), Hollywood Mayor Johnny Grant and A.C. Lyles of Paramount Studios.



Sheridan, dubbed “The Oomph Girl” at Warner Bros. during WWII for her earthy sex appeal (a moniker she openly disliked but eventually learned to accept), starred in such classic films as “Kings Row,” “I Was A Male War Bride,” “Angels With Dirty Faces” and “Nora Prentiss.” She died one month shy of her 52nd birthday on January 21, 1967 from esophageal cancer. At the time of her death she had transitioned to television, starring in CBS’s new hit western comedy series “Pistols ‘N Petticoats.”



In late 2004, biographer Karen McHale discovered that Sheridan made a will just months prior to her death which stated that she wanted to have her cremated remains interred in a niche in a columbarium in Los Angeles. Her ashes have remained at Chapel of the Pines crematorium since 1967 in an informal metal container inside a storage drawer along with her wedding ring and a pair of earrings.



McHale tracked down the executor of Sheridan’s estate, business manager Bart Hackley, who recollected that Sheridan’s third husband, the late actor Scott McKay, made the seemingly temporary arrangements. McKay passed away in 1987, leaving unanswered questions about why Sheridan’s written instructions were not followed. Attempts to locate McKay’s survivors have been unsuccessful.




Upon receiving approval from Sheridan’s closest remaining relatives to investigate proper interment of the ashes, McHale approached Cassity, a community leader in preserving the burial sites of the stars from yesteryear. Cassity offered to give Sheridan a permanent home among her peers at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, which is located next to Paramount Studios where Sheridan began her career by winning its beauty contest in 1933.



Celebrity liaison Michael Roman of Hollywood Forever has overseen all aspects of the transition including facilitating necessary legal paperwork, physical transfer of the ashes and niche display. Sheridan’s ashes have been placed into an urn donated by “Mortician to the Stars” Mike Steen, which will be encased in a glass-fronted niche in the Chapel Columbarium. Niche decorations include portraits by famed photographer George Hurrell which were struck by Hurrell historian Mark A. Vieira (“Hurrell’s Hollywood Portraits”) from original negatives courtesy of the Michael Epstein Collection.



“The job of a biographer is to tell a person’s story rather than add to it, so this is an unusual turn of events,” said McHale, a first-time writer who began researching her forthcoming book last summer. “But when I learned that the last chapter of Ann’s life was incomplete, I felt compelled in my heart to try to have her final wishes fulfilled. This is being done for Ann because it’s what she wanted.”


(Courtesy of findadeath.com, who have an account of the ceremony last month.)

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