Tuesday, April 9, 2013

RIP Mouseketeer Annette Funicello ...

Annette Funicello, the most popular Mouseketeer on "The Mickey Mouse Club," who matured to a successful career in records and '60s beach party movies but struggled with illness in middle age and after, died Monday, The Walt Disney Co. said. She was 70.

She died peacefully at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., of complications from multiple sclerosis, the company said.  Funicello stunned fans and friends in 1992 with the announcement about her ailment. Yet she was cheerful and upbeat, grappling with the disease with a courage that contrasted with her lightweight teen image of old.  The pretty, dark-haired Funicello was just 13 when she gained fame on Walt Disney's television kiddie "club," an amalgam of stories, songs and dance routines that ran from 1955 to 1959
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  1. AnonymousApril 9, 2013 at 2:06 PM

    RIP

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  2. AnonymousApril 9, 2013 at 2:34 PM

    She was truly a special lady who had to endure sooooo much ts hard to believe that she was on 79 years old, she battled fior more than 25 years.
    RIP

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  3. AnonymousApril 9, 2013 at 4:27 PM

    RIP ... All the good ones are being called home!

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  4. AnonymousApril 9, 2013 at 8:05 PM

    Sometimes life doesnt seem fair. She was a great soldier.

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