This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wood Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jUB.2ACI/1096 Message Board Post: I am in need of an obiutuary lookup for Audrey Wood whose last known residence was West Babylon. She died on May 3, 2000 and is buried in Rockville Cemetery. Does anyone know if obits from Newsday can be accessed on line. My guess is that she did not have a 'paid for' obituary written as I don't think she had any children or immediate family, but I may be wrong. That's what I'd like to find out from an obit....Did she have living kin or who took care of her funeral. Thanks in advance, Janet

I tried looking through the database my library has. They have Newsday from 1985 to present, I did not find an obit or a death notice, but I did find this, not sure if it is that lady in question.... (Copyright Newsday Inc., 1986) CONFESSIONS OF A NIGHTINGALE. One-man play starring Ray Stricklyn asTennessee Williams. Adapted by Charlotte Chandler and Stricklyn fromChandler's "The Ultimate Seduction." Directed by John Tillinger. Audrey Wood Playhouse. HE'S A GRAY-HAIRED man in a white linen suit, sipping from a glass of white wine as he welcomes visitors - us - to his Key West home. He has just emerged from a long depression, he says, and he's ready to talk about himself. "I'm going to let it all hang out." (Copyright Newsday Inc., 2001) Jacqueline Babbin, a television writer and producer who won Emmy and Peabody awards, has died. She was 80. She died Oct. 6, 2001 at her home in Kent, Conn., after a short illness. Babbin had a broad career in TV, working initially with pioneering producer David Susskind. Later, she produced Emmy-winning dramas before switching to daytime television as producer of the soap opera "All My Children." But not all of her shows were successes. In 1975- 76, she produced the much-anticipated CBS prime-time series "Beacon Hill," which folded after 11 episodes to become one of the biggest flops in the network's history. A native New Yorker, Babbin graduated from Smith College. One of her first jobs was as production secretary to Audrey Wood, who was Tennessee Williams' agent. But her first big break in television was working as a story editor for Susskind. She built a reputation as one of the better story editors and drama producers in the industry and broke new ground for a woman by p! roducing episodes of the "Dupont Show of the Week" and "Armstrong Family Circle." After leaving Susskind, she produced Arthur Miller's "A Memory of Two Mondays" and Lonnie Elder's "Ceremonies of Dark Old Men." She then turned to "Beacon Hill," which - though critically successful - failed in the ratings. Set in Boston, "Beacon Hill" tried to be America's answer to the popular British TV series "Upstairs, Downstairs." Babbin moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s and produced the miniseries "Sybil" for NBC. Starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward, "Sybil" told the story of a woman with multiple personalities. Field won an Emmy in the starring role. Babbin was a producer in Los Angeles for several years after the success of "Sybil" and served as vice president for novels and miniseries at ABC-TV. Finding none of those posts fulfilling, she jumped at the chance to return to New York when the offer came to produce "All My Children," which she worked on from 1982 to 1986. She left the se! ries for what she said was retirement, but later Babbin was the producer for a year on "Loving," another ABC soap. After she finally retired, she wrote two mystery novels: "Prime Time Corpse" and "Bloody Soaps." Hope it helps..... Terre