Widow(er) Shopping

[YoungWillz 21,037]

12 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

 

 

So, who gets the most famous comedian's widow title now

 

I'm thinking that's a question that depends on whether you think Paul Daniels was funny, as well as a magician

 

Dunno.

 

If you think Bruce Forsyth was funny, there's a widow knocking around, a beauty queen no less. I don't really know about celebrities and their families, mind, avid readers of celeb mags and the society pages may help.

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I don't know the answer to mpfc's question, but I do know it's not Cassie, the widow of Mike Winters, as she died in April 2022.

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4 hours ago, maryportfuncity said:

 

 

So, who gets the most famous comedian's widow title now

 

I'm thinking that's a question that depends on whether you think Paul Daniels was funny, as well as a magician

 

 

Is the question, who is the person who had the most famous partner, or is it who is the most famous widow/widower?

If the latter:

Jeffrey Durham

David Sherlock

Judy Loe

 

If the former:

The widows of Sean Lock and Rik Mayall would likely live for a while yet 

 

[Ulitzer95 12,586]

Some popular deceased British comedians and their spouses:

Barry Cryer OBE 1935–2022
Theresa Donovan b. 1932 <--- definitely still with us, unveiled a memorial to him lately

Bernard Manning 1930–2007
Veronica Finneran 1929–1986

Bob Monkhouse OBE 1928–2003
Elizabeth Thompson b. c. 1927 <--- covered by the media in 2001 when their son died, I think there's a good chance she's still alive
Jacqueline Harding 1935–2008

Charlie Williams MBE 1927–2006
Audrey Crump 1937–1999
Janice Greener (now remarried as Janice Brown)

Dave Allen 1936–2005
Judith Stott 1929–2010
Karin Stark b. 1963

Dudley Moore CBE 1935–2002
Suzy Kendall b. 1937
Tuesday Weld b. 1943
Brogan Lane b. 1955
Nicole Rothschild b. 1964

Eric Morecambe OBE 1926–1984
Joan Bartlett 1927–2024

Eric Sykes CBE 1923–2012
Edith Milbrandt 1925–2018

Ernie Wise OBE 1925–1999
Doreen Blythe 1930–2018

Frank Carson 1926–2012
Ruth Campbell 1927–2015

Sir Harry Secombe CBE 1921–2001
Myra Atherton 1924–2017

Janet Brown 1923–2011
Peter Butterworth 1915–1979

Jim Bowen 1937–2018
Phyllis Owen b. c. 1937

John Bird 1936–2022
Ann Stockdale b. 1943
Bridget Simpson b. 1948
Libby Crandon 1946–2012

John Fortune 1939–2013
Susan Waldo 1930–2006 <--- took me ages to crack this one... turns out she was a Yank. Obit here.
Emma Burge b. 1959

Sir Ken Dodd OBE 1927–2018
Anne Jones b. 1942

Les Dawson 1931–1993
Margaret Plant 1937–1986
Tracey Roper b. 1951

Michael Bentine CBE 1922–1996
Marie Barradell 1919–2010
Clementina McCall 1927–2020

Mike Reid 1940–2007
Shirley Collins 1936–2019(?) <--- There is a Shirley E. Reid b. 1936, d. 2019 in Devon that COULD be her, though they don't seem to have a Devon connection. She looked frail at his funeral in 2007.

Norman Wisdom 1915–2010
Doreen Brett 1923–2017
Freda Simpson 1928–1992

Peter Butterworth 1915–1979
Janet Brown 1923–2011

Peter Cook 1937–1995
Wendy Snowden b. c. 1939
Judy Huxtable b. 1942
Chiew Lin Chong 1945–2016

Peter Sellers 1925–1980
Anne Howe 1930–1982
Britt Ekland b. 1942
Miranda Quarry 1947–2020
Lynne Frederick 1954–1994

Ronnie Barker OBE 1929–2005
Joy Tubb 1932–2011

Ronnie Corbett CBE 1930–2016
Anne Hart 1933–2023

Sid James 1913–1976
Berthe Delmont 1911–1976
Meg Sergei 1913–1977
Valerie Assan 1928–2022

Spike Milligan KBE 1918–2002
June Marlow (aka June Marchini) 1929–2018
Patricia Ridgeway 1934–1978
Shelagh Sinclair 1944–2011

Terry-Thomas 1911–1990
Ida Patlansky 1902–1983
Belinda Cunningham b. 1941

Tim Brooke-Taylor OBE 1940–2020
Christine Wheadon b. 1940

Tommy Cooper 1921–1984
Gwen Henty 1920–2002

Tony Hancock 1924–1968
Cicely Romanis 1930–1969
Freddie Ross MBE 1930–2022

Happy to add more names if anyone has any suggestions or wants me to look through records, but only deceased comedians and lets cap it at born 1940 or before 

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20 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

 

Norman Wisdom 1915–2010
Doreen Brett 1923–2017
Fred Simpson 1928–1992
 

 

I never knew Norman Wisdom was that way inclined 

[Ulitzer95 12,586]

5 minutes ago, Master Obit said:

 

I never knew Norman Wisdom was that way inclined 

Changed to Freda. The annoying thing about doing these lists is they're time consuming as it is, so I type them out quickly.

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Just now, Ulitzer95 said:

Changed to Freda. The annoying thing about doing these lists is they're time consuming as it is, so I type them out quickly.

It could be worse. A male friend of mine failed to notice that his phone had autocorrected "thank" to "wank" and consequently sent me a message that he had "a lot to wank me for"

 

He's never actually made good on it, even though I have attempted to redeem it numerous times.

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@Ulitzer95 I think Shirley Collins was 1937 instead of 1936. Ancestry seems to suggest 1937.

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36 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Mike Reid 1940–2007
Shirley Collins 1936–2019(?) <--- I THINK I found her in the death records. Shirley E. Reid b. 1936, d. 2019 in Devon. I can't connect her or Mike to Devon though? She looked frail at his funeral in 2007 so I imagine it's her

 

IMDB has helpfully confused her with the folk singer of the same name (unless someone decided to interview Mike Reid's widow in between David "Ram Jam" Rodigan and Goldie). 

 

Anyway, Reid, his son and his granddaughter (who both pre-deceased him) are all buried close together at St Mary the Virgin Churchyard in Essex, so there's presumably a family plot? The cemetery is still interring bodies, but FIndAGrave (not a perfect resource obv) doesn't mention anyone called Collins or with the first name Shirley buried there in the past decade.

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2 minutes ago, Master Obit said:

@Ulitzer95 I think Shirley Collins was 1937 instead of 1936. Ancestry seems to suggest 1937.

I would dispute that.

Birth record here. Born as Shirley E. Allder in 1936, then became Shirley E. Collins, then finally Shirley E. Reid.

No?

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Right, this might help: here's one of those YouTube guys who wander around cemeteries and read out Wikipedia entries of famous people. Last year he went around Mike Reid's resting place:

 

 

 

And if we take a screengrab of the money shot:

 

 

Someone has left a "My Husband" memento on the stone. So unless Reid's ghost has an erotomania enthusiast, I think we can say Shirl's alive.

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1 minute ago, Ulitzer95 said:

I would dispute that.

Birth record here. Born as Shirley E. Allder in 1936, then became Shirley E. Collins, then finally Shirley E. Reid.

No?

 

I stand corrected - my own fault for not being more thorough - I'd failed to account for the original change. Apologies.

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1 minute ago, Spade_Cooley said:

 

IMDB has helpfully confused her with the folk singer of the same name (unless someone decided to interview Mike Reid's widow in between David "Ram Jam" Rodigan and Goldie). 

 

Anyway, Reid, his son and his granddaughter (who both pre-deceased him) are all buried close together at St Mary the Virgin Churchyard in Essex, so there's presumably a family plot? The cemetery is still interring bodies, but FIndAGrave (not a perfect resource obv) doesn't mention anyone called Collins or with the first name Shirley buried there in the past decade.

Yeah, I found the plot on FindAGrave. I searched for her on there, and you're correct in saying she isn't on there. Though I'm not sure when that was last updated. Her death was more "recent". I'm still convinced it's her, I just can't work out why she died in Devon.

[Ulitzer95 12,586]

2 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Right, this might help: here's one of those YouTube guys who wander around cemeteries and read out Wikipedia entries of famous people. Last year he went around Mike Reid's resting place:

 

 

 

And if we take a screengrab of the money shot:

 

 

Someone has left a "My Husband" memento on the stone. So unless Reid's ghost has an erotomania enthusiast, I think we can say Shirl's alive.

Hmmmmmmmm.... allllright you've convinced me. I'll edit the post slightly from likely dead to possibly dead.

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3 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Hmmmmmmmm.... allllright you've convinced me. I'll edit the post slightly from likely dead to possibly dead.

 

It definitely could be her - Shirley E Allder registered in Q1/1936, and the Shirley Eileen Reid who died in 2019 was born 10/03/1936. 

[Ulitzer95 12,586]

7 minutes ago, Master Obit said:

 

It definitely could be her - Shirley E Allder registered in Q1/1936, and the Shirley Eileen Reid who died in 2019 was born 10/03/1936. 

Yeah I still think it's her. Just appeasing the masses  

[Ulitzer95 12,586]

1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Terry-Thomas 1911–1990
Ida Patlansky 1902–1983
Belinda Cunningham b. 1941

Just added Terry-Thomas to the list.

Not somebody who I ever in a million years thought would have a living spouse!

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Dave Allen? His (second) wife gave birth to his son three months after Allen's death in 2005, and was reportedly 42 then.

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Chryssie Lytton Cobbold, widow of Baron David Lytton Cobbold, has died aged 83.

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Death notice for Elizabeth Mabon, widow of the former Labour MP Dickson Mabon, a former Minister of State for Energy and also Scotland: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/mabon-notices_57258

 

Dickson Mabon died in 2008.

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The widow of Celtic's Tommy Burns, Rosemary Burns, has died after being taken ill while on holiday in Tenerife. She took a turn for the worse on the flight back and died in hospital in Cork.

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Judith Belushi Pisano, widow of John Belushi, dead at 73.

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Following the death of Alwyn Hughes, here is every living spouse of a DL pick:

 

1980s debuts:

1987
Priscilla Morgan (1934): Widow of Clive Dunn
Tracy Dawson (1948?): Widow of Les Dawson
Joan Plowright (1929): Widow of Laurence Olivier
Sharon Osbourne (1952): Wife of Ozzy Osbourne

 

1989
Diana Melly (1937): Widow of George Melly
Francine Cousteau (1946): Widow of Jacques Cousteau
Elsie Robson (1934): Widow of Bobby Robson
Graça Machel (1945): Widow of Nelson Mandela
Diana Ditka (1943): Wife of Mike Ditka
Eileen Paisley (1931): Widow of Ian Paisley
Eileen Moore (1932): Ex-wife of George Cole
Jean Marsh (1934): Ex-wife of John Pertwee

Ingeborg Pertwee (1935): Widow of John Pertwee
Margaret Chant-Papandreou (1923): Ex-wife of Andreas Papandreou
Dimitra Liani (1955): Widow of Andreas Papandreou

1990s debuts:

1990
Felicidad Noriega (1945/46): Widow of Manuel Noriega
Ulla Thorsell (1944) : Widow of Charles Aznavour
Jackie Alliss: Widow of Peter Alliss
Rita Williams: Wife of Rex Williams
Naina Yeltsina (1932): Widow of Boris Yeltsin
Helen Waite: Wife of Terry Waite
Mia Farrow (1945): Ex-wife of Frank Sinatra

 

1991
Samira Shahbandar (1946): Widow of Saddam Hussein
Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt (1943): Widower of Zsa Zsa Gabor
Elizabeth Smith (1940): Widow of John Smith

 

1992
Barbara Botha (1941): Widow of PW Botha
Joanne Ryder (1971): Wife of Shaun Ryder

 

1993
Jill Vandenberg (1971): Widow of Tony Curtis
Fiona Castle (1940): Widow of Roy Castle
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe (1951): Widow of Arthur Ashe
Nancy Kissinger (1934): Widow of Henry Kissinger
Carolyn Garcia (1946): Widow of Jerry Garcia

 

1994
Anita Thompson (1972): Widow of Hunter S. Thompson
Michael Carroll (1965): Husband of Edmund White
David Beckett (1952): Widower of Anne Kirkbride
Steph Shilton (1968?): Wife of Peter Shilton

 

1995
Anthea Redfern (1948): Ex-wife and assistant of Bruce Forsyth
Wilnelia Merced (1957): Widow of Bruce Forsyth
Micheline Roquebrune (1929): Widow of Sean Connery

 

1996
Nena von Schlebrügge (1941): Ex-wife of Timothy Leary. Also Uma Thurman's mother
Rosemary Gullikson: Widow of Tim Gullikson
Tarita Teriipaia (1941): Ex-wife of Marlon Brando
Suha Arafat (1963): Widow of Yasser Arafat

 

1997
Anna Sandhu Ray (1946): Ex-wife of James Earl Ray. Possibly still in jail
Bobi Ladawa Mobutu (1945): Widow of President Mobutu
Katherine Quinn: Widow of Anthony Quinn
Jan Rooney (1938): Widow of Mickey Rooney

 

1998
Janan Harb (1947): "Secret wife" of King Fahd

 

1999
Muna Al Hussein (1941): Ex-wife of King Fasial
Queen Noor (1951): Widow of King Fasial
Dagmar Havlová (1953): Widow of Václav Havel
Vera Shelton: Widow of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Leona Leeson (1972): Wife of Nick Leeson
Sophy Dury (1965): Widow of Ian Dury
James Taylor (1948): Ex-husband of Carly Simon
Jacqueline Beer (1932): Widow of Thor Heyerdahl

2000s debuts:

2000
Nigella Lawson (1960): Widow of John Diamond
Khadijah Farrakhan (1935): Wife of Louis Farrakhan
Suzy Kendall (1937): Ex-wife of Dudley Moore
Tuesday Weld (1943): Ex-wife of Dudley Moore
Jean Schultz (1940): Widow of Charles Schultz
Victoria Getty (1944): Widow of John Paul Getty Jr.

 

2001
Frances Kazan (1946): Widow of Elia Kazan
Nomalizo Tutu (1933): Widow of Desmond Tutu

Mark Gero (1952): Ex-husband of Liza Minelli
Marilyn Erskine (1926): Ex-wife of Stanley Kramer
Karen Sharpe (1934): Widow of Stanley Kramer

 

2002
Lynn Higgins: Ex-wife of Alex Higgins

 

2003
Stephanie McLean: Widow of Barry Sheene
Alexis Maas (1952): Widow of Johnny Carson

 

2004
Joan Dangerfield (1952): Widow of Rodney Dangerfield
Sehba Musharraf (1948): Widow of Pervez Musharraf
Grace Mugabe (1965): Widow of Robert Mugabe

 

2005
Karen Lewis (1945): Widow of Al Lewis
Zeenat Karzai (1970): Wife of Hamed Karzai
Claudia Villafañe (1962): Ex-wife of Diego Maradona
Wende Doohan (1956): Widow of James Doohan
SanDee Pitnick (1950): Widow of Jerry Lewis

 

2006
Antonia Fraser (1932): Widow of Harold Pinter
Candy Spelling (1945): Widow of Aaron Spelling

 

2007
Barbara Johnson: Widow of Tim Johnson
Kitty Toombs (1959): Widow of Roddy Piper

 

2008
Louise Watson (1989?): Wife of Russell Watson
Susan Blanchard (1928): Widow of Richard Widmark
John Edwards (1953): Widower of Elizabeth Edwards
Julie Andrews (1935): Widow of Blake Edwards
Peggy Crosby (1940): Widow of Jack Klugman
Jewel Taylor (1963): Ex-wife of Charles Taylor

 

2009
Lisa Niemi (1956): Widow of Patrick Swayze
Joan Kennedy (1936): Ex-wife of Ted Kennedy
Victoria Kennedy (1954): Widow of Ted Kennedy
Geraldine Novak: Widow of Robert Novak
Vanessa Hubbard (1958): Widow of Dai Llewellyn

2010s debuts:

2010
Fiona Fullerton (1956): Ex-wife of Simon MacCorkindale
Susan George (1950): Widow of Simon MacCorkindale

 

2011
Mansoureh Bagherzadeh (1947): Wife of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Glynn Turman (1947): Ex-husband of Aretha Franklin
Elizabeth Dole (1936): Widow of Bob Dole
Lynne Cheney (1941): Wife of Dick Cheney

Diandra Luker (1955): Ex-wife of Michael Douglas
Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969): Wife of Michael Douglas
Anneke Wills (1941): Ex-wife of Michael Gough. Looks eerily similar to my old high school math teacher.

 

2012
Dwina Gibb (1952): Widow of Robin Gibb
Queen Sirikit of Thailand (1932): Widow of Rama IX
Suzanne Mubarak (1941): Widow of Hosni Mubarak
Arlene Silver (1971): Wife of Dick Van Dyke
José Alvarez (1961?): Widower of James Randi
Jane Hawking (1944): Ex-wife of Stephen Hawking

Elaine Mason (1951): Ex-wife of Stephen Hawking

 

2013
Marisabel Rodríguez (1964): Ex-wife of Hugo Chávez
Steve Doneathy (1954/1955): Widower of Bernie Nolan
Geraldine Winner (1941): Widow of Michael Winner
Siân Phillips (1933): Ex-wife of Peter O’Toole

 

2014
Tony Cacciotti (1939): Widower of Valerie Harper

Lyn Pratchett: Widow of Terry Pratchett

Amor Vittone (1972): Widow of Joost van der Westhuizen
Jean Kasem (1954): Widow of Casey Kasem

 

2015
Lorraine Downes (1964): Widow of Martin Crowe
Maike Kohl-Richter (1964): Widow of Helmut Kohl
Zara Carr (1963): Widow of Leslie Phillips
Cheryl Paris (1959): Ex-wife of Ken Kercheval
Susan Bay (1943): Widow of Leonard Nimoy
Lisa Bonder (1965): Ex-wife of Kirk Kerkorian

 

2016
Dr. Robert Levine (1953/1954): Widower of Mary Tyler Moore
Timothy West (1934-2024): Husband of Prunella Scales
Shelby Chong (1948): Wife of Tommy Chong
Wendy K. Prisig: Widow of Robert M. Pirsig
Kimberly Woolen (1959): Widow of Glen Campbell
Leia Boutros-Ghali: Widow of Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Irene Greaves (1939): Widow of Jimmy Greaves
Bernadette Chirac (1933): Widow of Jacques Chirac
Vicky Noakes: Widow of John Noakes

 

2017
Jez Hughes (1975): Widower of Leah Bracknell
Kaya Usher (1967): Widow of Gord Downie
Kay Stiles: Widow of Nobby Stiles
Alfred Molina (1953): Widower of Jill Gascoine
Kimberley Conrad (1962): Ex-wife of Hugh Hefner
Crystal Harris (1986): Widow of Hugh Hefner
Empress Michiko (1934): Wife of Emperor Akihito
Kathleen Watkins (1934-2024): Widow of Gay Byrne

 

2018:
Carol McCain (1937): Ex-wife of John McCain
Cindy McCain (1954): Widow of John McCain
David Mills (1944): Widower of Tessa Jowell
Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing (1933): Widow of Valery Giscard d'Estaing
Marsha Mason (1942): Ex-wife of Neil Simon
Elaine Joyce (1945): Widow of Neil Simon
Jo Wood (1955): Ex-wife of Ronnie Wood
Sally Humphreys Wood (1978): Wife of Ronnie Wood
Matt Lattanzi (1959): Ex-husband of Olivia Newton-John
“Amazon” John Easterling (1957?): Widower of Olivia Newton-John
Larry Klein (1956): Ex-husband of Joni Mitchell
Brix Smith (1962): Ex-wife and bandmate of Mark E. Smith

 

2019
Blanche d'Alpuget (1944): Widow of Bob Hawke
Andrea Mitchell (1946): Wife of Alan Greenspan
Pamela Belafonte: Widow of Harry Belafonte
Franco Nero (1941): Husband of Vanessa Redgrave
Joanna Shimkus (1943): Widow of Sidney Poitier
Jenny McCririck: Widow of John McCririck
Victoria Mary Clarke (1966): Widow of Shane MacGowan
Jenny Clegg: Widow of Johnny Clegg

2020s debuts:

2020
Brenda Spinks (1963?): Widow of Leon Spinks
Paula P-Orridge (1963): Ex-wife of Genesis P-Orridge
Annie D'Angelo (1956?): Wife of Willie Nelson
Elaine Trebek (1963?): Ex-wife of Alex Trebek
Jean Trebek (1963?): Widow of Alex Trebek
Anna Söderström (1983?): Widow of Terry Jones
Pierrette Le Pen (1935): Ex-wife of Jean-Marie Le Pen

Jany Le Pen (1932_: Wife of Jean-Marie Le Pen
Mimi Gates (1943): Widow of Bill Gates Sr.
Sonia Sutcliffe (1950): Ex-wife of Peter Sutcliffe

 

2021
Angie Dickinson (1931): Former DL pick; ex-wife of Burt Bacharach

 

2022
Norma Ball: Widow of Bobby Charlton
Nadine Whale (1965): Wife of James Whale
Sarah McCombie: Widow of Bill Turnbull
Diana Law (1941): Wife of Denis Law. Also a cancer survivor.
Debrah Charatan Durst (1957?): Second wife of Robert Durst, who was much luckier than his first wife
Valeria Chomsky (1963): Wife of Noam Chomsky
Katherine Kessey (1946): Widow of Bill Treacher
Anne Gambon: Widow of Michael Gambon
Veronica Lario (1956?): Ex-wife of Silvio Berlusconi

 

2023
Jill St. John (1940): Wife of Robert Wagner. She also dated Frank Sinatra, Henry Kissinger, and Sean Connery.
Lyn Lear (1947): Widow of Norman Lear
Luciana Pedraza (1972): Wife of Robert Duvall
Aiko Yano (1955): Ex-wife of Ryuichi Sakamoto
Mary Parkinson (1936): Widow of Michael Parkinson
Heini Wathén (1955): Widow of Mohamed Al-Fayed
Tracey Wilson (1961): Wife of Andy Taylor

 

2024
Kate Garraway (1967): Widow of Derek Draper
Betsy Arakawa (1961): Wife of Gene Hackman
Grant Roffey (1957): Husband of Julie Walters
Meredith Auld Brokaw (1941?): Wife of Tom Brokaw
Elena Bashkirova (1958): Wife of Daniel Barenboim
Steve Novosel (1940): Ex-husband of Roberta Flack
Jacques Charrier (1936): Ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot
Bernard d'Ormale (1941): Husband of Brigitte Bardot

Jane Fonda (1937): Ex-wife of Ted Turner

Anca Faur (1959): Wife of Buzz Aldrin

Kathy Silva (1948): Ex-wife of Sly Stone

Lalla Ward (1951): Ex-wife and co-star of Tom Baker
Heidi Beckenbauer (1964): Widow of Franz Beckenbauer

 

Possibly living:

Caroline Lecerf (~1940): Wife of Stewart Granger
Angela de Cesaris: widow of Andrea de Cesaris

Marge Ditka: Ex-wife of Mike Ditka
Helene du Lau d'Allemans (1926): Widow of Peter Ustinov
Sajida Talfah (1937): First wife (and first cousin) of Saddam Hussein. Whereabouts unknown.

Maureen Willis: Widow of Norman Willis
Judith Kliban (1942): Widow of Bill Bixby
Linda Lee Bukowski: Widow of Charles Bukowski
Becky Croft: Widow of Simon Cadell
Sue Shilton: Ex-wife of Peter Shilton
Helen Flashman: Widow of Stan Flashman
Patricia Scott (1929): Widow of Paul Eddington

Brogan Lane (1955): Ex-wife of Dudley Moore
Nicole Rothschild (1964): Widow of Dudley Moore
Najwa Ghanem (1960?): Wife/cousin of Osama Bin Laden
Nesta Howells: Widow of Frank Bough
Sue Hughes: Widow of Geoffrey Hughes
John Burrow: Widower of Diana Wynne Jones
Artis Mills: Widower of Etta James
Patsy McGinnis: Widow of Eddie Large
Elizabeth Walker: Widow of Murray Walker
Betsy St. John: Widow of Ian St. John
Donald Ibbetson: Widower of Liz Dawn

Gene Dickinson: Ex-husband of Angie Dickinson

 

Leo Beenhakker's wife is also alive, but there is no information about her.

 

The following had multiple living spouses that I didn’t bother to include:

Spoiler

Jerry Lee Lewis (7 wives; two dead)
Richard Pryor (5 wives; one dead)
Muhammad Ali (4 wives; one dead)
Peter Tork (4 wives; all living?)
Dennis Hopper (5 wives; all living)
Larry King (7 wives; at least two dead)
Rush Limbaugh (4 wives; all living)
Shannen Doherty (3 ex-husbands; all living)
Pele (3 wives; all living)
Marianne Faithfull (three ex-husbands; all living)

Edited Friday at 15:27 by polar duck
somehow forgot about Jany Le Pen

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Dang Bich Ha, widow of general Giap, dead at 96.

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On 11/07/2008 at 23:52, maryportfuncity said:

Well, it's over 24 hours since I started a thread so...

The death of Mrs Ralph Vaughan-Williams was a timely reminder of the existence of widows much younger than their more famous husbands and wives. I think it's time we pooled our knowledge on those obit-worthy if low-profile survivors. The likes of Imelda Marcos, Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan are already on the DL radar. Let's limit this collection to those out of the headlines but still obit-worthy to DDP standards and beyond. I'd wager the following brace would score, even by the exacting standards of the CPDP.

Step forward, Bing's bed-steady: Kathryn Crosby

and

Prime Minister's poetess partner: Mary Wilson.

Its only taken 16 years for Kathryn Crosby to accept @maryportfuncity's invitation.

 

@Death Impends List of the missed for Mrs C, last picked in 2011.