Find A Grave - Blaine County

Harrah, William Fisk b. September 2, 1911 d. June 30, 1978
Founder of Harrah's Casino Hotels. Having been fascinated with cars in his childhood and teens, he studied mechanical engineering at UCLA until the stock-market crash of 1929. He then worked at his family's business, where a Bingo-like game was played. At age 20 he bought the business. It prospered under his leadership, but he eventually moved it to Nevada so he could escape persecution from the politicians of California, where Bingo was illegal. Thus, on October 30, 1937, the first Harrah's...[Read More] (Bio by: Collins Crapo)
Hailey Cemetery, Hailey, Blaine County, Idaho, USA
Hemingway, Ernest b. July 21, 1899 d. July 2, 1961
Author. He was born at Oak Park, Illinois, grew up in the Chicago suburbs while spending summers at the families water front home on Bear Lake. Ernest Hemingway was one of six children the son of a strict doctor who gave him a passion for fishing and hunting and a music teacher mother who cultivated a cultural knowledge of music and literature. He spoke often of his ideal, happy childhood. After his high school graduation he began his writing career as a reporter followed by a dangerous...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
Cause of death: Suicide by gunshot
Ketchum Cemetery, Ketchum, Blaine County, Idaho, USA
Hemingway, John Hadley Nicanor 'Jack' b. October 10, 1923 d. December 1, 2000
Author. An Idaho outdoorsman, writer and son of Ernest Hemingway. He is the father of actress Mariel Hemingway, actress-model Margaux (who died of a drug overdose in 1996), and an older daughter, Muffet. His early life was recounted in his father's" A Moveable Feast." The boy spent his toddler years in Parisian cafes frequented by writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Tolkas, were his godparents and frequently baby-sat him. Hemingway recalled his relationship with...[Read More] (Bio by: William Barritt)
Ketchum Cemetery, Ketchum, Blaine County, Idaho, USA
Hemingway, Margaux Louise b. February 16, 1954 d. July 1, 1996
Movie Actress and Model. She was featured in 16 films, from 1976 to 1996, most of the films were minor. Born in Portland, Oregon, she grew up on a farm in Ketchum, Idaho. Her father, Jack Hemingway, was the son of Nobel prize author Ernest Hemingway. By 1975, when she was 21, she had a budding film career, a million dollar contract with Faberge perfume, and her face was on numerous magazines around the world. She was married twice, to Erroll Wetson (1977 to 1978) and to Bernard Foucher (...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Ketchum Cemetery, Ketchum, Blaine County, Idaho, USA
Hemingway, Mary Welsh b. April 5, 1908 d. November 27, 1986
Journalist. Fourth (and last) wife of author Ernest Hemingway.
Ketchum Cemetery, Ketchum, Blaine County, Idaho, USA
Sothern, Ann b. January 22, 1909 d. March 15, 2001
Actress. Born in Valley City, North Dakota, as Harriet Lake, her career spanned six decades and included 64 movies and 175 TV episodes. In the 1950's she was in the television series "Private Secretary" and later "The Ann Sothern Show." She received an Oscar nomination in 1988 for best supporting actress in the movie "The Whales of August." She died of heart failure at her home in Ketchum, Idaho.
Cause of death: Heart failure
Ketchum Cemetery, Ketchum, Blaine County, Idaho, USA

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