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Mary Ann (Powell) Parry was born in 1861 in Merthyr Tydfil, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales United Kingdom. She was in a relationship with William Parry, and had a child Thomas W Parry. Mary Parry died at age 66 years old in 1928 in Cwmbwrla, Swansea County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Ann (Powell) Parry.

William Parry was born in 1860 in Llangorse, Powys County, Wales United Kingdom. He was in a relationship with Mary Ann (Powell) Parry, and had a child Thomas W Parry. William Parry died at age 66 years old on March 25, 1927 in Cwmbwrla, Swansea County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember William Parry.

Sarah Alberteen (Yardley) Parry was born on September 10, 1879 in Oregon United States. She was married to Thomas W Parry on July 7, 1914 in Victoria, Capital County, British Columbia Canada, and died at age 84 years old on March 25, 1964 in Pascedena, California County, CA. Sarah Parry was buried at Mountain View Mortuary & Cemetery 2400 N Fair Oaks Avenue, in Altedena, Los Angeles County, California. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Sarah Alberteen (Yardley) Parry.

• Betty Cashman Obituary New York Times Save CASHMAN-Betty, ''Coach to the Famous,'' nationally known drama coach for politicians and performers, died Wednesday after a long illness. She was 90 years old. A native of New York City she taught acting and speech skills to a wide range of public figures from the late director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William J. Casey, and the late New York City Mayor, John Lindsay, to actors, Jack Palance and Tony Curtis. She was born in New York and began her professional acting career at age 4. Betty graduated with honors from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and began her coaching career in New York City. During the 1950's, Ms. Cashman received four consecutive ''Show Business Oscars'' for ''Greatest Development of New Talent in the Theatre.'' Over the years, her list of clients included Dr. Joyce Brothers, Nancy Sinatra, Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor, Gene Shalit, and Eileen Ford. Co-Founder of Ford Models, Eileen Ford said that ''Betty Cashman was very much a part of my life and that of Ford Models in the early days of television commercials. She gave us lessons that not only improved our speech, but gave us all the confidence we all needed. Betty Cashman was the best there was. We all owed her a lot.'' In an interview with Charlie Rose on Rose's PBS program, Academy Award-winning actor, Jack Palance, singled Ms. Cashman out for praise as ''a fantastic coach.'' Bernadette Casey-Smith, daughter of the late CIA Director, William J. Casey, said her father called Betty Cashman ''a national treasure.'' Betty's technique attracted her to show producers who hired her as an ''Actor's Doctor,'' working with performers on a dramatic role. She was the author of several books on acting, one of which, ''Betty Cashman and You in Personality, Acting and Public Speaking,'' earned the coveted International Mark Twain Award. Betty is also listed in the ''Who's Who of American Women'' and ''Who's Who of the American Theatre.'' A celebration of Betty Cashman's life will be held at a later date. ''Liz'' Wickersham CASHMAN-Betty. A prominent drama and political coach in New York City for many years. Beloved sister of Larry and Gilda. Devoted aunt of Ronald, Annette, Jeffrey and Arlene. Loving grand aunt of Brett and Jill. She will be missed by the many whose lives she touched.

By Eric Wilson July 10, 2014 82 Eileen Ford, the grande dame of the modeling industry who influenced standards of beauty for more than four decades while heading one of the most recognizable brands in the trade of gorgeous faces, died on Wednesday in Morristown, N.J. She was 92. Her death, at a Morristown Memorial Hospital, was announced on Thursday by her daughter Katie Ford. Mrs. Ford lived in Califon, N.J., in Hunterdon County. Ford Models, created by Mrs. Ford and her husband, Jerry, in the late 1940s, became the top agency in the world. It elevated the modeling profession into a serious business with $1 million contracts, represented thousands of beautiful young women, and created a market for “supermodels,” a select handful who could command enormous salaries for their looks. While Mr. Ford managed the business, Mrs. Ford became the face of the agency and its chief talent scout, sometimes virtually plucking young women out of a crowd and turning them into models. Some became celebrities in their own right, among them Christie Brinkley, Cheryl Tiegs, Veruschka, Jerry Hall, Grace Jones, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Elle Macpherson. Many found stardom in Hollywood: Suzy Parker, Jane Fonda, Ali MacGraw, Brooke Shields, Candice Bergen, Rene Russo, Kim Basinger, Lauren Hutton and Jean Shrimpton, who in her modeling days embodied the miniskirted Swinging London of the 1960s. And long before she became a lifestyle mogul, Martha Stewart was in the Ford stable to help pay her way through college. Mrs. Ford built a reputation for transforming girls into stars with lessons in grooming, etiquette and style while running her agency like a convent. Some in the industry called her the mother of New York modeling, in almost the literal sense. A formidable manager, she was widely known for protecting models from underhanded deals and sexual misconduct and generally cleaning up the sleazy image of the business, insisting that both clients and models observe a code of ethics and decorum. Indeed, Mrs. Ford allowed some of her charges to live in her Upper East Side townhouse when they were starting out so she could keep a watchful eye on their careers. On weekends, she would take them to her summer home in Quogue, on Long Island, and have them help in the garden. “They have to account for their time to me,” she said in a Forbes article on the industry in 1984. “They eat dinner with me, at table, every night. I don’t ever want to tell a mother I don’t know where her daughter is at 2 a.m.” In his 1995 book, “Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women,” Michael Gross described the Fords as the moral exemplars of modeling. Their agency, he wrote, was “a fortress of propriety and moral rectitude that was to stand for 50 years.” At the same time, Mrs. Ford was criticized for an imperious approach. She was well known for brusquely dismissing applicants of a sensitive age with stinging rejections. “Eileen Ford took one look at me and told me to get a nose job,” Lynn Kohlman, a favorite model of the designer Perry Ellis who died in 2008, wrote in Vogue. Birgitta af Klercker, a favorite of the fashion editor Diana Vreeland and the photographer Richard Avedon, said Mrs. Ford told her that she was fat and had crooked teeth. Mrs. Ford was unapologetic. “I interview about three thousand models yearly, and I must see almost 20 tons of excess avoirdupois annually,” she wrote in “Eileen Ford’s Book of Model Beauty” (1968), one of her five books on modeling. “The average would-be model weighs about 16 pounds more than she should.” Mrs. Ford made perhaps her most infamous statement while appearing on “The Dick Cavett Show” in 1971 — and in doing so seemed to crystallize the perception of a fashion industry that was indifferent to complaints that it was promoting an unhealthy body ideal. Challenged by another guest on the show — the writer Gwen Davis, who compared a model agency to pimping — Mrs. Ford coolly replied, “I never worry about fat people worrying about thin people, because slender people bury the dead.”

Selva Eugene McGinty was born on July 2, 1923 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California United States to Grace May Williams, and had a sibling Marguriet Lenora McDonald. Selva McGinty died at age 72 years old on February 14, 1996 in Moab, Grand County, UT. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Selva Eugene McGinty.

Marguriet Lenora McDonald was born on April 29, 1916 in El Reno, Canadian County, Oklahoma United States, and died at age 83 years old on May 31, 1999 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Marguriet Lenora McDonald.

Watkin T Parry of Stony Brook, Suffolk County, NY was born on October 21, 1908, and died at age 84 years old in November 1992.