FAMOUS PEOPLE

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* - Jane Wyman

Birth Name: Sarah Jane Mayfield?

Height: 5' 2 1/2" (1.59 m)

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Date of Birth: January 15,?1917, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
Date of Death: September 10, 2007, Palm Springs, California, USA. (complications from arthritis and diabetes)?

Mini Biography
Jane Wyman was born Sarah Jane Mayfield on January 15, 1917, in St. Joseph, Missouri (she was also known later as Sarah Jane Fulks). When she was only eight years old, and after her parents filed for divorce, she lost her father prematurely. After graduating high school she attempted, with the help of her mother, to break into films, but to no avail. In 1932, after attending the University of Missouri, she began a career as a radio singer, which led to her first name change to Jane Durrell. In 1936 she signed a contract with Warner Bros. Pictures and that led to another name change, the more familiar one of Jane Wyman.

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Jane Wyman? was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress. Her most prolific appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s and included her best known film roles in Johnny Belinda, for which she won an Oscar, and Magnificent Obsession opposite Rock Hudson. The actress became known to new generations in the 1980s, not only for her leading role as the malevolent matriarch Angela Gioberti Channing on the hit prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest, but because of her prior marriage to Ronald Reagan, a former actor who became President of the United States.

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? Under that name she appeared in "A" and "B" pictures at Warners, including two with her future husband, Ronald Reagan: Brother Rat (1938) and its sequel, Brother Rat and a Baby (1940). In the early 1940s she moved into comedies and melodramas and gained attention for her role as Ray Milland's long-suffering wife in The Lost Weekend (1945). The following year she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Ma Baxter in The Yearling (1946), and won the coveted prize in 1949 as deaf-mute rape victim Belinda MacDonald in Johnny Belinda (1948). She followed that with a number of appearances in more prestigious films, such as Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright (1950), Frank Capra's Here Comes the Groom (1951), Michael Curtiz's The Story of Will Rogers (1952) and the first movie version of The Glass Menagerie (1950). She starred opposite Bing Crosby in the musical Just for You (1952). She was Oscar-nominated for her performances in The Blue Veil (1951) and Magnificent Obsession (1954). She also starred in the immensely popular So Big (1953), Lucy Gallant (1955), All That Heaven Allows (1955) and Miracle in the Rain (1956). In addition to her extensive film career, she hosted TV's "Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre" (1955) and starred in most of the episodes of the show, which ran for three seasons. She came back to the big screen in Holiday for Lovers (1959), Pollyanna (1960) and her final film, How to Commit Marriage (1969).

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??? Although off the big screen, she became a presence on the small screen and starred in two made-for-TV movies, including The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1979) (TV). In early 1981, in the 49th year of her career, she won the role of conniving matriarch Angela Channing Erikson Stavros Agretti in the movie "The Vintage Years", which was the unaired pilot for the prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest" (1981), later in the year. For nine seasons she played that character in a way that virtually no other actress could have done, and became the moral center of the show. The show was a ratings winner from its debut in 1981, and made stars out of her fellow cast members Robert Foxworth, Lorenzo Lamas, Abby Dalton and Susan Sullivan. At the end of the first season the storyline had her being informed that her evil son, played by David Selby, had inherited 50% of a California newspaper company, and the conflicts inherent in that situation led to even bigger ratings over the next five years. Wyman was nominated six times for a Soap Opera Digest Award, and in 1984 she won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series Drama. By the show's eighth season, however, she was emotionally drained and the strain of constantly working to keep up the quality of a hit show took its toll on her. In addition, there was friction on the set among cast members. All of these events culminated in her departure from the show after the first two episodes of the ninth season (her character was hospitalized and slipped into a coma) for health reasons.

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?After a period of recuperation, she believed that she had recovered enough to guest-star in the last three episodes of the season (her doctor disagreed, but she did it anyway). She then guest-starred as Jane Seymour's mother on "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" (1993) and three years later appeared in Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996).

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Her daughter, Maureen Reagan (who died in August 2001), was a writer who also involved herself in political issues and organized a powerful foundation.

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Jane Wyman lived in seclusion for a number of years because of declining health. She was rarely seen in public, with the exception of attending the funerals of her daughter, Maureen Reagan, and her close friend Loretta Young.

During her retirement, she purchased a house in Rancho Mirage, California?in 1997, so that she could continue living a quiet life and attend honorable charity events. Reportedly, on April 16, 2003, she moved to a retirement home in Palm Springs, California, but after her death it was reported that she died at her own home at the Rancho Mirage Country Club.? Also, she placed her 3200-sq.-ft. Rancho Mirage condominium on the market.

Death

Jane Wyman died at the age of 90 at her Rancho Mirage home on Monday, September 10, 2007, having long suffered from arthritis?and diabetes. Wyman's son, Michael Reagan, released a statement saying, "I have lost a loving mother, my children Cameron and Ashley have lost a loving grandmother, my wife Colleen has lost a loving friend she called Mom and Hollywood has lost the classiest lady to ever grace the silver screen."

It was reported that Wyman died in her sleep of natural causes. Since she was a member of the Dominican order of the Catholic church, she was buried in a nun's habit. She was interred at Forest Lawn Mortuary and Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.

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Marriages

Ernest Eugene Wyman

It has been rumored that on April 8, 1933 Wyman married Ernest Eugene Wyman (or Weymann), a salesman; the marriage was mentioned in Dutch, the authorized biography of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris, who says that the marriage certificate is on file with the State of California, with the bride giving her name as Jane Fulks, daughter of Richard D. and Emma Reise Fulks. Morris also says that Reagan hinted at Wyman's first marriage when he told him in 1989, "What you have to look at [is] that there were a few husbands before me." American geneaologist William Addams Reitwiesner suggests that Jane Wyman adopted her professional surname from her German-born foster mother, Emma (Reise) Fulks, whom he says was previously married to Dr. M. F. Weyman, a St. Louis, Missouri ophthalmologist by whom she had several children who lived with Jane Wyman in her youth.

?Myron Martin Futterman

Wyman married Myron Martin Futterman (1900?1965), a dress manufacturer, in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 29, 1937. Because Wyman wanted a baby and Futterman did not, they separated after three months of marriage They divorced on December 5, 1938.

?Ronald Reagan

In 1938, Wyman co-starred with Ronald Reagan in Brother Rat (1938), and its sequel Brother Rat and a Baby (1940). Reportedly engaged to Reagan only after Wyman attempted suicide over the actor's indecision regarding marriage the two were married on January 26, 1940, at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather at Forest Lawn in Los Angeles; they divorced on June 28, 1948. She and Reagan had three children; Maureen Elizabeth Reagan (1941?2001), Michael Edward Reagan (born March 18, 1945 and adopted shortly after), and Christine Reagan (born prematurely June 26, 1947 and died later that same day). The end of the marriage was hastened by Wyman's affair with her Johnny Belinda co-star, Lew Ayres. Since Reagan is the only U.S. president to have been divorced, Jane Wyman has the unique distinction of having been the only ex-wife of an American President.

?Fred Karger

Following her divorce from Reagan, Wyman married Hollywood music director and composer Frederick M. Karger (1916?1979) on November 1, 1952 at El Montecito Presbyterian Church in Santa Barbara, California. They separated on November 7, 1954 and were granted an interlocutory divorce decree on December 7, 1954; the divorce was finalized on December 30, 1955. They remarried on March 11, 1961, and Karger divorced her again on March 9, 1965; according to The New York Times report of the divorce, the bandleader charged that the actress "had walked out on him." Wyman had a stepdaughter, Terrence (Karger) Melton, by Karger's first marriage to Patti Sacks, an actress.

Wyman never remarried, and after her conversion to Roman Catholicism, both she and her best friend Loretta Young obtained special indults from their bishop to receive communion.

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Trivia

Her Best Actress Oscar for Johnny Belinda (1948) makes her the only wife of a future U.S. President (Ronald Reagan) ever to win such an award.
Adopted mother of nationally syndicated radio talk show host Michael Reagan.
Her name changed to "Jane Faulks" when she was unofficially "adopted" by the Faulks family, middle-aged neighbors of her single mother. Moved to So. California with Mrs. Faulks when she was widowed in 1928
Several sources have given her date of birth as January 5, 1917, which would mean she was one of the first (and one of the very few) actresses to make herself older. Most likely, if this is true, it would have been due to her very early first marriage. She is a serious convert to Roman Catholicism, attending Mass with good friend Loretta Young.
Apparently broke up with Ronald Reagan over her love for Lew Ayres, but that relationship failed in the long run.
Mother of Maureen Reagan and Michael Reagan.
Daughter, with first husband - actor/former president Ronald Reagan - Maureen Reagan dies of malignant melanoma (skin cancer) at her Sacramento-area home. [8 August 2001]
Holds the record for the longest screen kiss, with Regis Toomey in You're in the Army Now (1941), at 3 minutes and 5 seconds.
Was once a switchboard operator.
Had taken a break on the ninth and final season of "Falcon Crest" (1981), during the third episode, due to the health problems she was suffering, but came back for the last three episodes of the series.
Is a diabetic.
Was always good friends with Loretta Young.
Attended the University of Missouri.
Has 2 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Would never talk about Ronald Reagan in an interview.
Daughter, Maureen Reagan, was admitted to the John Wayne Cancer Institute for malignant melanoma. [11 December 2000]
She and her mother moved back to Missouri in 1930, where she could finish her education in high school before attending college.
Appeared in every episode of "Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre" (1955) and was nominated for an Emmy twice.
Was a chorus girl before being a successful actress.
She was good friends with Barbara Stanwyck, Loretta Young and Agnes Moorehead.
Replaced Gracie Allen for an evening of "The Burns and Allen Radio Show" when Gracie had a migraine. It turned out to be the only time Gracie missed their show in all the years Burns and Allen performed together.
She would never talk about Ronald Reagan in an interview, but voted for him three times and attended his funeral.
Is the actress who came in second place, who appeared in 208 of the 227 episodes of "Falcon Crest" (1981).
In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by either Lidia Simoneschi or Dhia Cristiani. She was occasionally dubbed by Rosetta Calavetta, Renata Marini, Rina Morelli or Giovanna Scotto.

Personal Quotes
"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself everytime you meet a human being."
(On winning the 1949 Academy Award for Leading Actress): "I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now."
"I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them."
(On her ex-husband's, Ronald Reagan's death): "America has lost a great president and a great, kind gentleman".

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Awards and nominations

Academy Awards

• Nominated: Best Actress, The Yearling (1946)
• Won: Best Actress, Johnny Belinda (1948)
• Nominated: Best Actress, The Blue Veil (1951)
• Nominated: Best Actress, Magnificent Obsession (1954)

?Emmy Awards

• Nominated: Best Lead Actress - Drama Series, Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (1957)
• Nominated: Best Lead Actress - Drama Series, Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (1959)

?Golden Globe Awards

• Won: Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama, Johnny Belinda (1949)
• Won: Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama, The Blue Veil (1952)
• Nominated: Best Actress - Drama Series, Falcon Crest (1983)
• Won: Best Actress - Drama Series, Falcon Crest (1984)

Wyman has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; one for motion pictures at 6607 Hollywood Boulevard and one for television at 1620 Vine Street.

Filmography

Television

• Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955 - 1958)
• Summer Playhouse (host in 1957)
• The Failing of Raymond (1971)
• Amanda Fallon (1973) (unsold TV pilot)
• The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1979)
• Falcon Crest (1981 - 1990)

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OBITUARY

Jane Wyman Remembered As Strict, But Loving

PALM DESERT, Calif. -- Jane Wyman, the actress who rose to prominence in Billy Wilder's "The Lost Weekend" in the 1940s and married future President Ronald Reagan, was remembered as strict but loving woman Wednesday at a funeral Mass in Palm Desert.

Adopted son Michael Reagan attended the service with his wife and their daughter, Ashley, and son, Cameron, who was a pallbearer.

When he first spoke, Reagan, a syndicated radio show host, was choked up.

"Hopefully I can get through this," he said, adding that his mother "spent a lot of time on her knees, praying for me."

He recalled asking for a bicycle when he was 10. His mother told him he would have to get a job.

"She built men, not boys," he said. "I was lucky to be her son."

For most of his life, he said he was asked about his famous father.

"A lot of people talk about my father, but I am who I am today because of my mother," he said.

Wyman, a convert to Catholicism, joined a Dominican order in the latter part of her life. She was buried in her habit.

The Rev. Howard Lincoln of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Palm Desert, where Wyman's funeral Mass was celebrated, said Wyman was especially generous to him.

"I saw my first $100,000 check because of Jane Wyman," he said.

Wyman's donations paid for padded pews, kneelers and a new sound system at the church.

Reagan said his mother always wanted everyone to be comfortable, half- seriously adding that was why she sprang for the cushions.

Lincoln called her "the antithesis of Norma Desmond," the vain, washed- up "Sunset Boulevard" character.

"She was long on style, but longer on substance," Lincoln said. The priest was philosophical about Wyman's passing.

"She has never been as alive as she is right now," he said. "She was one of those people who understood that there is no permanent address on this globe. Her new home is heaven." Wyman, he said, was "very plugged-in to our Lord."

Nelda Linsk, a real estate agent who sold Wyman her first home in Rancho Mirage and later became friendly with her and actress Loretta Young, called Wyman a remarkable woman. "So giving, so faithful to her friends and to her church," she said. "I will miss her terribly."

Wyman was buried in a private ceremony at Forest Lawn Memorial Park- Cathedral City.

Born Sarah Jane Mansfield -- her birthdate was always kept a secret, though her birth certificate lists Jan. 5, 1917 -- in St. Joseph, Mo. Her parents divorced in 1921, and her father died the next year. The then-5-year- old became known as Sarah Jane Fulks, because she was unofficially adopted by her Missouri neighbors, according to Wyman's official biography.

Her interest in singing and dancing was evident at age 10. The next year, Richard Fulks died, and Emma Fulks moved to Hollywood with Sarah Jane.

By 1932, she had dropped out of high school and was making a living as a waitress, but was soon to land a job as a chorus girl, according to her biography.

She would eventually earn four Oscar nominations for best actress, winning in 1949 for her portrayal of a deaf rape victim in "Johnny Belinda."

She received the first of her four best actress Academy Award nominations in 1947 for "The Yearling."

Wyman said "The Blue Veil" was her favorite film. It was made in and around New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral and released in 1951, about the time she became a Roman Catholic. It earned her a best actress Oscar nomination, but she lost out to Vivien Leigh's memorable performance as Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Wyman's final Academy Award nomination came for the 1954 melodrama "Magnificent Obsession."

Wyman's film career began with "Gold Diggers of 1937" and ended in 1969, when she co-starred with Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason in "How to Commit Marriage."

From 1981 to 1990 she played Angela Channing, a Napa Valley winery owner on the hit CBS primetime soap opera "Falcon Crest."

"Falcon Crest" was not Wyman's first television success. From 1955-58, she hosted and occasionally performed in the 1955-58 NBC dramatic anthology, "The Jane Wyman Show."

Her final acting appearance came in a 1993 episode of "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman," as the mother of the title character, played by Jane Seymour.

Wyman married fellow Warner Bros. contract player Reagan in 1940. They divorced in 1948, a year before she received her Oscar. They had two children, Maureen, who died in August 2001 from cancer, and adopted son Michael.

In 1937, Wyman married a wealthy manufacturer of children's clothes, Myron Futterman, in New Orleans. The marriage was reported as her second, but an earlier marriage was never confirmed. They were divorced in 1938.

After Reagan became governor of California and then president of the United States, Wyman kept silent about her ex-husband, who had married actress Nancy Davis.

It was not until a few days after Reagan died on June 5, 2004, that Wyman broke her silence, saying: "America has lost a great president and a great, kind and gentle man."

Wyman's longtime business manager recalled her as "a tough lady, but a nice lady."

The family has asked that memorial donations be made to the Arthritis Foundation of Southern California or Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Palm Desert.

Maureen Reagan's obituary.

Maureen Reagan, who as the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan and actress Jane Wyman raised national awareness of Alzheimer's disease, the memory-robbing disorder that gradually forced her father's exit from public life, died Wednesday of malignant melanoma. She was 60.

The political activist, commentator and author died peacefully in her Granite Bay, Calif., home near Sacramento, said her husband, Dennis C. Revell.

Reagan's battle with the deadly skin cancer, diagnosed in 1996, was private at first. But she broke her silence about her ordeal in 1998 after a yearlong course of treatment that pushed the disease into remission. In late 2000 the disease was found to have spread and she began aggressive treatment at the John Wayne Cancer Center at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica. Doctors had hoped to put the disease into remission again with a multi-pronged assault of chemotherapy and other drugs. Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, is incurable once it has spread and patients generally live six to 12 months. Each year, 40,000 new cases are diagnosed and 8,000 Americans die from it.

Released from St. John's after nearly four months, Reagan returned to her home in Northern California. In May, however, tests showed that the cancer had progressed. Lesions showed in bones of her right arm, liver and right ribs. She was admitted to Mercy San Juan Hospital in Carmichael after experiencing periodic spasms and mild seizures over the Fourth of July. An extensive MRI found lesions in both sides of her brain. She was released from the hospital on July 23 but scheduled to undergo weekly chemotherapy.

The oldest of the former president's four children, Reagan embraced many different roles during her lifetime, including entertainer, political analyst, political candidate, talk show host and author. With her sparkling, round eyes and prominent cheekbones, she often looked like a blond, pixieish version of her mother, actress Jane Wyman.

She devoted most of her last years to raising awareness of the debilitating, fatal disease that made her father the most famous Alzheimer's patient in the world. As a board member and top spokeswoman for the Chicago-based Alzheimer's Assn., she lobbied for more research money and early medical intervention and raised millions of dollars to combat the malady, which affects about 4 million Americans.

She often put her father's illness and her obligations to the Alzheimer's Assn. ahead of her own health, postponing medical care so she could be closer to the former president or maintain an energy-sapping schedule of national appearances on behalf of Alzheimer's patients and their families.

"I consider this his unfinished work," she once told the Sacramento Bee. "If this were any other disease, my father would be out telling people what they needed to know."

In an interview with The Times in July 2000, Reagan spoke movingly about the impact of Alzheimer's on her relationship with the man who was once the nation's Great Communicator. Because Alzheimer's patients are often upset by changes in their environment, she said she learned to temper her natural ebullience around her father and make quiet entrances, to "kind of slide into a room" and to gently take her leave.

Although her father only sporadically recognized her, Reagan, whose Secret Service code name was Radiant, said she learned to find joy in their small moments together. Asked what constituted a good day with him, she responded: "When I get several smiles and laughter. There's nothing nicer than the sound of his laughter."

In advocating more research spending, she always held out the hope that somehow science would find a way to erase the fog of dead brain cells so he could speak with her again.

In a sad coincidence, Reagan was undergoing melanoma treatment at St. John's in mid-January when her father was admitted to the hospital for surgical repair of a broken hip. She never saw him while he was there, however.

On Wednesday, former First Lady Nancy Reagan praised her stepdaughter.

"Ronnie and I loved Mermie very much. We will miss her terribly," she said, employing the former president's nickname for his daughter. "Like all fathers and daughters, there was a unique bond between them. Maureen had his gift of communication, his love of politics, and when she believed in a cause, she was not afraid to fight hard for it."

Reagan's melanoma was diagnosed in 1996 when it appeared as a large, pigmented mole on the back of her right thigh. After extensive testing, she underwent a grueling year of therapy with intravenous interferon, a naturally occurring protein that helps the body fight viral infections and some cancers. The side effects were so severe that she did not see her father during that time. However, after treatment, doctors determined that the disease was in remission and she got back to her family and her Alzheimer's activism.

Last October, she underwent emergency surgery in Chicago, where doctors discovered that the disease had spread; they removed lymph nodes from her knee to her groin and were planning additional treatment. In November, when she was admitted to Mercy San Juan Hospital in Carmichael for colon surgery that she had put off to spend more time with her ailing father, doctors found a cancerous tumor the size of a Ping-Pong ball on the right side of her pubic bone. Physicians decided at that time to try an aggressive program to tame the disease. She was admitted to the John Wayne Cancer Institute on Dec. 11 and began the first 21-day cycle of treatment. Doctors expected to carry out about six cycles.

Reagan grew up in Hollywood, but hers was not an easy childhood. Her parents divorced when she was 7 and she was packed off to the Chadwick School in on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, returning home on weekends. She attended Emerson Junior High School in Los Angeles for a year before going to high school at Immaculate Heart. Only when she was 19 did her then-7-year-old half sister Patti, one of Ronald Reagan's two children with second wife Nancy, learn they were related.

After a year of college at Marymount in Arlington, Va., she dropped out and began working, then met and was married briefly to a Washington, D.C., police officer. She accused him of beating and abusing her, and they divorced in 1962. A second marriage, to a Marine Corps lieutenant who became a lawyer, ended in divorce in 1968.

She married Revell, a Sacramento lobbyist and owner of a public relations firm, in 1981. On one of several trips to Africa for her father, they met a Ugandan girl, Rita Mirembe, whom they adopted in 1994. Last month, President Bush signed into law a special measure giving the girl permanent residency in the United States.

Reagan's interest in politics dated back to when she was 11 and watched the first gavel-to-gavel television coverage of the national conventions in 1952. She became a committed Republican and soon was knocking on doors for Dwight Eisenhower. She sometimes pointed out that she was a Republican before her father, a Democrat who switched affiliation before running for California governor in 1966.

She became an officer of the Young Republicans and the Republican Women's Federation in California and led Republican women advocating passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. She founded a political action committee for Republican women candidates and became a prolific fund-raiser for them. In 1987 she became co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee.

She became the third Reagan child to write a book about her famous father with the publication in 1989 of "First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir." Although a largely affectionate account, Reagan discussed the pain of her parents' divorce and her lonely childhood and portrayed serious flaws in father-daughter relations. Confronting her father about why he hadn't told the young Patti about her, she reported this reply: "Well, we just haven't gotten that far yet." She, in turn, never told her father about the brutality of her first marriage, which she grippingly described in the book.

She endured other embarrassments when she ran for public office. Unlike her father, she supported abortion rights and the Equal Rights Amendment for women. During her 1982 bid for the Republican nomination to the Senate, her uncle, Neil Reagan, supported her opponent. Her father, when asked by a reporter if she was running, replied, "I hope not" and did not publicly endorse her.

She made a second bid for office in 1992 when a new House seat opened in Southern California. This time she ran with her father's support, but was defeated in the primary by another GOP candidate.

Commenting on press accounts of sibling-parent dysfunction in the Reagan family, she told the Washington Post in 1984: "I don't think it's really anybody's business how we have all arrived at where we are today. The fact of the matter is we are a family. Whether we all like each other every day or not is irrelevant."

Reagan was a U.S. representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and a trustee of Eureka College in Illinois--her father's alma mater--and was active with the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.

She joined the Alzheimer's Assn. national board in 1999 and had been national honorary chairwoman of its annual Memory Walk since 1997. She was the keynote speaker at the World Alzheimer Congress 2000 in Washington, D.C. In October she received the Alzheimer's Assn. Distinguished Service Award.

In addition to Revell, she is survived by their 16-year-old daughter, Rita, her father and stepmother, her mother, her brother Michael Reagan, her half sister Patti Davis and her half brother Ronald Reagan Jr.

A public memorial service and Mass is scheduled for 10 a.m. Aug. 18 at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 1112 26th St., Sacramento, followed by private burial.

The family has asked that any memorial donations be made to one of the following: the Maureen Reagan Tribute Fund of the Alzheimer's Assn., 919 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 1100, Chicago, Ill. 60611-1676; Eureka College, P.O. Box 280, 300 E. College Ave., Eureka, Ill. 61530-0280; or the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley, Calif. 93065.

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Hartson S. Dowd

hsdowd@telus.net