The "Fruitcake Lady" is dead

[rotorray]

If you have seen the wmv of The Fruitcake Lady, you will be sad to hear that she has passed away ... This is Jay Leno's tribute to her after she died. Turn up your sound.
She was quite a gal !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnudM458uz8

This is funny but also sad that she is gone..

 

[CivicFan]

She died a month ago, didn't she?

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

It's sad she died. However she, by nature of working with all those fruitcakes, will be well preserved for years to come...

 

[Patman]

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She died a month ago, didn't she?

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I think she died in November

 

[CivicFan]

Wow, time flies.

 

[CivicFan]

Patman, you are absolutely right, it was last November. Here is what Leno said:

REMEMBERING THE FRUITCAKE LADY
1911 - 2006




We're saddened to announce the passing of Marie Rudisill, our beloved "Fruitcake Lady." She died Saturday, November 3rd in Hudson, Florida. Born Edna Marie Faulk in Monroeville, Alabama, she was aunt to Truman Capote, and helped to raise him in Alabama and New York City when he was still young....
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[Pablo]

I like fruitcake.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Jay Leno (in one of the videos in the link) mentions that she was the model for the childlike woman in Capote's "A Christmas Memory," and for the neighbor lady in Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." She was famous three ways! Four, if you count living to 95!

 

[Laminar Lou]

I heard that she was spotted in Florida with Elvis last week eating Peanut Butter and bacon sandwiches...

 

[buster]

Hilarious lady. She will be missed.