Charlotte Reid, former pop singer and U.S. Representative
By way of the Courier News Online web site comes notice that Charlotte T. Reid, former pop singer and U.S. Representative, died at age 93. She once described herself has having five careers.
“She was a pop singer, a wife and mother, a U.S. representative, a member of the Federal Communications Commission and a businesswoman. Add to that a longtime Aurora icon, and key figure in the Fox Valley Republican Party.”
Reid, 93, died this past Wednesday, January 23, 2007. Born Charlotte Thompson in Kankakee, she lived most of her life in Aurora.
“The one thing about my mother is that she was as gracious and nice to everybody, whether it was the president of the United States or a janitor,” said Patricia Reid Lindner, one of Reid’s two daughters. Reid Lindner is a Republican state representative from Sugar Grove. “She always treated everybody the same.”
“That openness and ability to relate to people is what former Aurora Mayor Albert McCoy remembered about Reid on Thursday. McCoy was Aurora mayor from 1965 to 1977, and Reid represented Aurora and five northern Illinois counties for about five years of that time.”
“Reid also studied music and voice in Chicago, and was a featured vocalist with the NBC Radio show, Don McNeil’s Breakfast Club, which originated in Chicago. She appeared under the professional name of Annette King. She also sang on other NBC radio shows, like Club Matinee (1937-1946) and Sunday Dinner at Aunt Fannie’s. “
“Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
Passin’ trains that have no names,
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.”
~~ by Steve Goodman
with perhaps the best known version by Woody’s boy Arlo Guthrie
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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January 30th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
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