Desiluforever Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Getty images has color footage of the funeral.... click here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreddieMertz Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Very interesting I always wonder if Viv attended? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Both she and Lucy did not. Lucy I think had some nice words published somewhere. Viv was off buy champagne for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 This is incredible footage! Thanks for letting us know about it! Viv was living on the east coast at the time. There was no way she would travel across the country to attend Bill Frawley's funeral. It looks like Patsy Kelly was there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desiluforever Posted August 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Is this Edna? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 I thought that was Patsy Kelly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desiluforever Posted August 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 I thought that was Patsy Kelly. That does look just like her. I only ask because in the caption it said that shot was "widow Edna Louise Frawley outside church" and I wasn't sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 That does look just like her. I only ask because in the caption it said that shot was "widow Edna Louise Frawley outside church" and I wasn't sure. It certainly could be Edna Louise. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of her after the Frawleys' marriage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desiluforever Posted August 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 It certainly could be Edna Louise. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of her after the Frawleys' marriage. Same... it may be a mystery, because didn't Pasty perform with Bill at some point? If so, they may have remained friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leenorman Posted August 13, 2014 Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 Very interesting I always wonder if Viv attended? Strange that Lucille didn't attend, though donchathink? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Strange that Lucille didn't attend, though donchathink? Yes, it is a bit odd that Lucy didn't attend. However considering what she thought of Frawley, one couldn't expect the Widow Mertz to be there except maybe to sing out "Happy Days Are Here Again". I can't imagine that's anyone other than Patsy Kelly, though I don't know what their connection was. Bill and Edna Louise Roberta Mae Frawley had been divorced for decades which hardly qualifies her as the widow. Also absent: Fred's mother. Instead of sending her a box of lint, maybe she got the urn of ashes. Frawley had the longest life of the four: 79. Lucy was a close second at nearly 78. Viv: 70. Desi: a relatively young 69. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 I can't find any evidence of Bill and Patsy Kelly working together on stage and screen. However, Patsy's bio on Find a Grave mentions Bill as one of her stage costars, but I can't find any project that featured the two of them. I wonder if Bill and Edna Louise ever saw each other in the last 40 years of his life outside her surprise appearance on This Is Your Life in 1961. Edna Louise lived to be 99! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desiluforever Posted August 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 I can't find any evidence of Bill and Patsy Kelly working together on stage and screen. However, Patsy's bio on Find a Grave mentions Bill as one of her stage costars, but I can't find any project that featured the two of them. I wonder if Bill and Edna Louise ever saw each other in the last 40 years of his life outside her surprise appearance on This Is Your Life in 1961. Edna Louise lived to be 99! I think that's where I read that a while back.... Weren't we just talking about Edna this weekend, or is my mind wondering? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 I think that's where I read that a while back.... Weren't we just talking about Edna this weekend, or is my mind wondering? We were! I think we were talking about how when Lucy would talk about Bill in her seminars she said that his wife had died many years before they did I Love Lucy. Edna was, of course, still alive and outlived Lucy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desiluforever Posted August 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 We were! I think we were talking about how when Lucy would talk about Bill in her seminars she said that his wife had died many years before they did I Love Lucy. Edna was, of course, still alive and outlived Lucy! That's right!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 I wonder if Bill and Edna Louise ever saw each other in the last 40 years of his life outside her surprise appearance on This Is Your Life in 1961. Edna Louise lived to be 99! They did a "This is Your Life" for Bill Frawley? Has anyone seen it? Who appeared? Maybe Edna could have played Fred's mother. She could have brought the box Ethel sent her to Connecticut, so she and Ricky could compare lint collections. What do you know about Edna? I wonder what she thought of Bill's ILL success. What year did Edna die? When did they divorce? Did she continue in show business? Maybe teaming up with Barney's wife for their act "Mrs. Mertz and Kurtz: The Wives of the Laugh Twins". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 Bill was the subject of a This Is Your Life in January 1961. I've never seen it. I'm not sure who was there besides the My Three Sons group and Edna Louise. Bill was not happy his ex-wife was there. Lucy was doing Wildcat at the time, but sent a recorded message that was played. Mr. and Mrs. Frawley were married from 1913 to 1927, but they had been separated since 1921. I think Edna left show business after the marriage ended. She never remarried and lived until the age of 99 in 1992. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 Although I had seen this before, it sure was nice to see again. Of course that's actress Patsy Kelly, I also wondered why she was there. Lucy never attended funerals, but issued a nice statement to the press. The only funeral I remember her attending was Dino Martin jr's and I assume that was because he had been a good friend of Desi jr's and also Dino's and his wife's child, as she loved both of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 Lucy and Desi were also Dino Martin's godparents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 I never knew that. How nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 Neither did I, Harry, you are a whiz! I remember seeing Lucy on ET or something, showing her looking faint and having two people helping hold her up, she was so devastated at him dying in an accident like that at such a young age. Dean never got over it. Harry, you're so good at this, why don't you help answer some questions in the QUESTIONS FOR THE EXPERTS thread? We need YOUR expertise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 I remember hearing when Dean Martin died I think in 92'? That he really died the day Dino Jr did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leenorman Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 I remember hearing when Dean Martin died I think in 92'? That he really died the day Dino Jr did. Dean passed on Christmas Day, 1995. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 Christmas day??? Had no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Christmas I remembered. Year I didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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