Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - I Love Lucy
Thread: I Love Lucy
View Single Post
 
Old 07-18-2015, 10:30 PM
Shadow8IA Shadow8IA is offline
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 231
Thanks: 2
Thanked 13 Times in 7 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by MUHLBACH1@HOTMAIL.COM View Post
A little known fact...Lucy had one sister. Her name is Priscilla. She is from N.J. and I'm married to her. LOL
??????????

Lucille Ball had one brother, named Frederick Henry Ball, born in 1915, when she was four years old. She did not have a sister (her father died before Fred was born), but her cousin, Cleo, was as close, if not closer than any sister could have been. Cleo Mandicos was the daughter of Lola Hunt and George Mandicos. Lola Hunt was the sister of Lucille's mother, Desiree "DeDe" Hunt, and George Mandicos was the son of Greek immigrants. Lola ran a beauty shop, so Cleo spent her childhood at the Hunt home, where Lucille and Fred lived with their grandparents, Flora Belle Orcutt-Hunt and Fred C. Hunt, while their own mother, DeDe, worked