I remember Shirley Temple Black

[VV note: When I was growing up in California, I watched many Shirley Temple films on TV and in theaters. As a teenager, Shirley Temple Black and my mother were friends (though not close) through the Junior League of Palo Alto. I remember her then as being a very gracious lady, committed to community and world service. And yes, her trademark dimples were still there as a woman in her mature years.]

Shirley Temple Black, childhood star turned diplomat, dies at 85

Mark Memmott · NPR · Feb 11, 2014

Shirley Temple, who charmed the nation as a child movie star in the 1930s and went on to become one of the nation's diplomats in posts that included ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the Cold War, has died.

She was 85.

The Associated Press writes that publicist Cheryl Kagan says the actress, known as Shirley Temple Black in her private life, died late Monday evening at her home near San Francisco. Kagan tells the AP that Temple's family and caregivers were with her.

In a statement, the family says:

"We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black."

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