Talk:Glenda Farrell

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Why was she buried at West Point?

The article gives no connection between her life and the US Army or West Point. Why is she buried at the WP Cemetery? --rogerd (talk) 16:54, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Clicking on the Find a Grave link gets you a photo of her gravestone with her name and "His Wife" beneath it. So her husband must be buried there, and though a doctor must have been a WP graduate. But that's a lot of assumptions, and speaks to the inadequacy of this article. Addendum - a NY Times article here - http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50E1FFD355F127A93C4A8178ED85F458785F9&scp=1&sq=Glenda%20Farrell&st=cse - notes that she is the only member of her profession buried at West Point, but you have to pay to get the whole article. Wlegro (talk) 23:44, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I found it here: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/28/obituaries/dr-henry-ross-89-eisenhower-s-chief-of-health-in-war.html?scp=30&sq=Glenda%20Farrell&st=cse. Her husband, Dr. Henry Ross, was indeed a West Point grad and was "chief of the public health section of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's command in Europe in World War II." It also says he married Farrell in 1940, not 1941. Sigh. I'd fix the part of the entry about her burial at West Point but don't know how to do cites or references because I don't do it enough to remember how. Wlegro (talk) 23:52, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Marriages?

In the photo box at the top it says she was married to Thomas Richards from 1921-29 and Dr. Henry Ross from 1941-71. The Richards link is to several Thomas Richards's, one of whom was a film editor born in 1899 - so it's likely that he was her husband, especially since her son Tommy Farrell was born in Oct. 1921 - reasonable that he should be named after his dad, though it also means his mom was only 17 when he was born. (I corrected his description as a still-living (the verb "is") "club entertainer" to B-Western sidekick, since that's in Tommy Farrell's bio.) But in the section on Glenda's personal life, it doesn't mention Richards at all, and instead lists a guy named Durant - who isn't in the list of spouses up top. What's more, the Henry Ross link in the photo box is to an entirely different Henry Ross, so I took it out. But really, this is a pretty shoddy article. Wlegro (talk) 23:44, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Year of Birth

She is on the 1900 Census for Enid, Oklahoma. She wasn't born in 1904. You can find the same information on the 1920 Census for California.Stutzey (talk) 14:54, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]