Buckles Blog: 1963 Grotto Circus #5

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

(While I was still in high school, Miss Reitta was killed in a fall.)

Chic Silber said...: Carla & her then husband Paul

Jordan were performing in Commack

when she got the phone call to the

lobby pay phone about Henrietta's

fall to her death; 15 February, 2012 10:25
Chic Silber said...: Henrietta Place in Sarasota was

named for her in memoriam & her

nephew Tino & his family live

on this street; 15 February, 2012 10:43
Chic Silber said...: Carla's daughter is named for her; 15 February, 2012 11:02
Chic Silber said...: Correction Tino would be her

grandnephew; 15 February, 2012 11:04
Buckles said...: That accident was in Omaha.
Barbara and Reitta shared the same area in the ladies dressing room.
Later eye witnesses said she was standing upright then leaned forward to go into her handstand but continued on down as though she had blacked out.; 15 February, 2012 11:42

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