[Deathwatch] Bob Denver, actor, 70

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Actor Bob Denver Passes Away


With a simple message on his website, the family of actor Bob Denver
let the world know that he had passed away September 2, 2005, at age
70.

At the time of his death, Denver had been undergoing cancer treatments
at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina.
His wife of 28 years, Dreama, and their four children, Patrick, Megan,
Emily and Colin, were at his side when he went.

Born in 1935, Denver first rose to fame as Maynard G. Krebs, the zany
sidekick on the 1950s tv show The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. But it
was as the title character on the 1960s television show Gilligan's
Island, a show that still lives on in syndicated repeats forty years
later, that he is best known. 

Following the cancellation of Gilligan's Island, he appeared on the
1975 children's show Far Out Space Nuts, as well as a few movies, but
never achieved the same level of stardom, even with a devoted fan base.


In a statement issued by the family, Dreama states, "Bob was and always
will be my everything. To be loved so completely was his greatest gift
to me...Ours lives will never be the same without him."

The family also requests that in lieu of flowers or gifts, a donation
be made to: The Denver Foundation, Inc.; Po Box 931; Princeton, WV
24740. 

No memorial information has been released yet.

The Bob Denver Website: www.bobdenver.com.


(from: http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art35361.asp )


Many thanks to Stevie Davidson for posting this obituary