She made token appearances but she wasn't part of the fabric of the community. The Terry Lee Wells Discovery Museum is named for her cousin. I don't think she ever did anything to promote it, but I could be wrong. The Discovery Museum is way cool and worth checking out. I get the sense she cut her ties to Reno when she left for Hollywood.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 12:19 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:54 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> She was Miss Reno and Miss Nevada before going to Hollywood. Her family >> had several businesses here. Wells Avenue is named after her uncle. For a >> couple of years in the mid 1960s, right about the time Gilligan's Island >> had its first TV run, a young Tom Hanks lived in a duplex on Mill Street a >> couple of doors down from Wells Avenue while his father was a casino cook. >> I have talked to her surviving relatives. A couple of them. They hate her. >> > > Did her relatives hate her before she became famous? > > The Deadline report says she kept working after Gilligan's Island and that > she was active with a northern Nevada charity. Steve, was she part of the > community there? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFrcmYdg15Hn%3DvHTp1D7-%2ByFiCfujODq38xza_4AcJ8Cw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFrcmYdg15Hn%3DvHTp1D7-%2ByFiCfujODq38xza_4AcJ8Cw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yy0AOX4hGgfb%2BB4Y2UOSTfdNXPGAxxPx%3DnirKDxCyR%2BmA%40mail.gmail.com.
