RIP PRENTICE--Mimi WaltersThe New York Times
By Staff
November 20, 2014
Dancer, singer, actress and loving wife, passed away on November 16th in New York City. First dancing professionally at the age of three or four, Ms. Prentice performed on Broadway in "Annie Get Your Gun," and toured with Guy Lombardo and his band. She also acted in television commercials and appeared in Bonanza. In 1968 she became the first woman Account-Executive at the Wilding Firm in New York City, where she worked for two years. Then she met and married the love of her life, the late Spelman Prentice, a grandson of John D. Rockefeller. She is survived by five step-children, sixteen step- grandchildren, and twenty two great-grandchildren. She was a private, perceptive, loyal, feisty, and loving woman with a great deal of presence. She will be missed. A memorial service will be held at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel at 81st Street and Madison Ave on Friday, November 21st at 11am. Donations can be made in in her memory to The Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
WALTERS, Mimi
Born: 11/21/1920
Died: 11/16/2014, New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Mimi Walters’ western – actress:
Bonanza (TV) – 1964 (Marie)