| Birth: | Jun. 26, 1911 | | Death: | Sep. 27, 1956 | 
American Sportswoman, also known as Babe Zaharias. Widely considered one of the greatest women athletes of all time, she excelled in basketball (Women’s All-America team 1930 and 1931), track and field (9 national titles between 1930 and 1932 and two gold medals in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics), and golf, which she began playing full time in 1934, after only having started playing casually in 1932. In 1947 she won 17 straight tournaments, including the British Ladies’ Amateur, the first American to do so. She won the US Women’s Open in 1948 and 1950 and was the leading money winner among women golfers from 1948 to 1951. She married professional wrestler George Zaharias in 1938 and used his name professionally from then on. In 1952 she played herself in the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn film "Pat and Mike," and her autobiography "This Life I’ve Led" was filmed in 1975 with Susan Clark as Babe and Alex Karras as George. (bio by: Paul F. Wilson)
Cause of death: Cancer
Search Amazon for Babe Zaharias | | | Burial:
Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Funeral Home
Beaumont
Jefferson County
Texas, USA
Plot: Intersection of Blocks C, I & K |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Jan 01, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 1139 |
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