Asa bordages biography
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Murders in Silk
Tiberius Bixby (known as Tie), whose father Zebediah Bixby (Zeb), had a thing about Romans and named his other two kids, Caligula and Messalina. They live on a big plot of land in “Scrafton” on Long Island. The story is told initially from Tie’s point of view and then about 75 percent of the way through Zeb picks up the narrative in first-person, which is a little confusing. Tie talks about his “pa” as if they were backwoods country folk although they live on Long Island (somewhere near Mineola we are told) and Tie works news in the city. Pa, we are told, didn’t leave his rambling old house a dozen times a year, spending his days with a bottle and his books in the library on the second floor, dreaming that he would re-edit Gibbons’ the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. At first, we readers are led to believe that Pa or Zeb is a bumbling old coot, but he later appears to be Sherlock to Tie’s Watson and the two joke a bit about playing such roles. The story is set in 1
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Trying to ID obscure actress Gertrude Flynn
Does her obituary say anything about children, or when she was born?
No mention of any children for either Asa or Josephine Bordages, living or deceased.
I found a news item and an obituary for Asa and Gertrude’s daughter, Ellen Flynn Bordages, from October 1950.
Had not come across that. The obits for Asa and Josephine both said they had lived in the area (Warren TWP, NJ) since 1949.
Here’s a 2002 obit for a woman named Catherine who could possibly be Gertrude’s sister, although there’s no confirmation that it’s the same Gertrude Flynn. However, they’re the right age (90s) and geography. If this woman was Gertrude’s sister, then her parents were Thomas and Helen Flynn, which means ‘Flynn’ is not a stage name. And that rules out Josephine Stanley as Gertrude’s birth name.
Yep. And if I could just find an obit for Gertrude Flynn, that might cinch it.
Speaking of which… it seems odd to think that she’d have changed her name from Josephine Stanley to Gertrude Flynn (during her theatrical career and at the time of the child’s accident), then back to Josephine Bordages for her “Art Digest” career, and then back to Gertrude Flynn for her film career. And wouldn’t the obituary make some mention of her r
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