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Photos taken in honor of Jeanette’s and Nelson’s Birthdays!

Every year, our club holds a Birthday Bash for Jeanette and Nelson on the last Sunday of June. Afterwards, or usually on Nelson’s birthday (since it’s always close to the date of our event) some of the fans visit their graves and place flowers.

The gals that were responsible for purchasing the urns in front of the grave markers – on behalf of the Mac/Eddy Club – made their yearly visit on Nelson’s birthday. The next day they visited Jeanette’s crypt. They graciously emailed us pictures to share with you, along with this email:

Thank you for a lovely meeting on Sunday. Everyone truly enjoyed the Brent Perry interview.
 
We went to the Hollywood Forever cemetery to bring our birthday flowers for Nelson. When we arrived, no one had been there. We did our usual trimming and cleaning…We always put in an hour’s worth of trimming and grooming the site and placing our flowers before [the NEAS rep arrives], and add their flowers. We have been doing this for nearly 10 years.

I have attached the "after" (with our flowers) , complete with our flags for the Fourth of July to symbolize Nelson’s love of country. It would be nice if you would post the photo of the way we left the site with our flowers….Brian and Beryl [members from the U.K.] brought the lovely basket in the middle.
 
Today, we made a special trip to Forest Lawn to visit Jeanette’s site and took two small bouquets, each containing two pink roses which we placed on each side of her crypt in memory of Nelson’s love for her.

Here are the photos showing the lovely flowers. Thank you, gals, for your loving care every year, as always!

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Today in J/N History

1937 Nelson who has cancelled 7 dates on his tour due to illness, heads back to LA for a 2-week rest. (Note that Jeanette's upcoming wedding to Gene Raymond is less than 3 months away. During the years they were together, Nelson's track record for becoming seriously physically ill on tour always seemed to coincide with his mental stress over the current scene with Jeanette. This was true all the way up to losing his voice in Australia in November 1963 at the same time that Jeanette entered the hospital for heart surgery; Nelson ultimately canceled that tour and returned to the US.)

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