thanks, Lisa!! I will take your info and go read more about them. Neysa ----- Original Message ----- From: Lisa Lepore To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 2:27 PM Subject: Re: [ML] Up and at it !!! There's a good article here http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/fts/wichita_200803A12.html and from wikipedia - there are only 2 still living now another one died in 2001. The identical quintuplet sisters were (in order of birth): Yvonne Édouilda Marie Dionne - died June 23, 2001, age 67, of cancer Annette Lillianne Marie Dionne (Allard) - age 78 as of April 2013 Cécile Marie Émilda Dionne (Langlois) - age 78 as of April 2013 Émilie Marie Jeanne Dionne - died August 6, 1954, age 20, of accidental suffocation during an epileptic seizure at her convent Marie Reine Alma Dionne (Houle) - died February 27, 1970, age 35, of an apparent blood clot of the brain in Montreal Lisa > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:memory-lane- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Neysa > Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 2:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ML] Up and at it !!! > > I had heard about that, but guess nothing since. They were very popular when > I was a kid. > Neysa > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Barbara Mangan > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 2:38 AM > Subject: Re: [ML] Up and at it !!! > > > As of 1997 3 quints were still alive. They won a settlement of 24 million > dollars from the Canada government for taking them away from their parents > and some money that was stolen from them. > Barb > > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Neysa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This reminds me of the Dionne Quintuplets from Canada. Anyone know what > > ever happened to them? > > Neysa > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Connie Leaman > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 1:03 PM > > Subject: Re: [ML] Up and at it !!! > > > > > > I have a picture of my sister-in-law in a distinctly Shirley Temple > > pose. I do wonder if that was deliberate. > > > > Connie > > > > > > > > In our local paper they have a full page on Shirley Temple, my name > > sake. My sister wanted to name me Shirley Temple, that's how I got my name > > Shirley. Shirley Temple Black turns 85 tomorrow, she's won 2 academy > > awards, one miniature "juvenile" Oscar in 1934, and one full size Lifetime > > Achievement award in 1985. She was the Rose Parade grand marshal at age > ten > > in 1939, At the age of ten, her weekly salary was $1,250. It also says she > > had 56 corkscrew curls on her head. Her first marriage to John Agar [the > > war hero] she was 17 and there were 500 guests at the wedding. At the > ripe > > old age of 22, she announced her retirement from films. When the song "On > > The Good Ship Lollipop" debuted in 1934, they sold 500,000 copies of the > > music. Sales of Shirley Temple dolls, by 1941 went to 45 million dollars. > I > > have a few of Shirley Temples movies, on VHS, and when my granddaughter > was > > around 5, she loved them, I had told her I was named after her, she even > > liked them better. > > > > > > Sully, in Beautiful California > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message