GOODBYE LITTLE RED-HAIRED GIRL...

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"... Little Red-Haired Girl

First mention Nov. 11, 1963.

First appearance Never. Once seen in silhouette on May 25, 1998.

Inspiration Mr. Schulz's ''real-life love for red-haired Donna
Johnson, whom I courted when I was a young man in Saint Paul. She chose
someone else as I was about to propose to her, and that broke my
heart.''

Accomplishments Winning Charlie Brown's heart.

Traits Never seen, often missed, cute..."

 No adult ever appeared in ''Peanuts  though in television specials 

there were occasional wah-wah sounds denoting the voices of teachers and

parents. As Mr. Schulz once put it, ''Well, there just isn't room for 

them.'' Curses never got worse than ''Aaugh!'' ''Good grief,'' ''Rats!''

''Curse you, Red Baron!'' or a knot of lines scrunched up in 

frustration..."

Donna Wold, who inspired Charles Schulz's 'Little Red-Haired Girl' in 'Peanuts,' dies

By Natalie Daher Star Tribune

 

AUGUST 20, 2016 — 5:54PM

Her hair was scarlet, and she was the one who got away.

In 1989, Donna Mae Wold was outed around the world as the longed-for “little red-haired girl” in the “Peanuts” comics strip. “Good Grief,” Rheta Grimsley Johnson’s biography of Minnesota cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, devoted an entire chapter to Wold, the Minnesota woman who got away — from him and from character Charlie Brown.

In the strip, loosely based on the cartoonist’s childhood, Charlie Brown pined for the girl but never chatted her up — and then she moved, just before the sixth-grade swim party. Poof, gone.

The “little red-haired girl” faded out of Charlie Brown’s universe, but Wold lived decades longer in the real world, inspiring others beyond Schulz.

“Donna had a whole, complete life,” said Cesar Gallegos, an archivist at the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, Calif. “For her, that was a moment in her life.”

Wold, who lived in Richfield, died Aug. 9 of heart failure and complications from diabetes. She was 87.

She was born Donna Johnson in Richfield and attended high school in south Minneapolis. While working at the Art Instruction Schools in Minneapolis, she met Schulz. Later, she raised a family of four with her husband and served as foster mother to at least 40 children.

Wold’s own trail hit a fork in her early 20s. Two bachelors proposed — first Schulz, or “Sparky,” then Allan Wold.

Allan and Donna, both redheads, attended the same middle school, where they hardly talked. After Allan returned from the Navy, he saw Donna singing in the choir at church. He decided he had to meet her.

Determined, Allan dialed hundreds of Johnsons living in the city. He found her, and landed a date.

“It went on from there,” he said. They married in 1950.

Instead of comics, their story is the stuff of fairy tales.

“I was with her when she passed,” Allan said. “Every day, almost.”

The Wolds camped often, and even spontaneously, as Allan’s schedule as a firefighter allowed them flexibility. “I can be ready by morning,” Donna would say.

They visited the Grand Tetons, her favorite spot, at least 40 times. They honeymooned on the North Shore, along the Canadian border. (“And we froze,” Allan said.)

Wold enjoyed playing cards, an interest she shared with her father. Her family would play a game that she learned from Sparky. The game, originally called Hell, was renamed Predictions.

“We changed the name because she didn’t want to swear,” said her daughter Peggy Baumtrog of Memphis. “She didn’t want any of us swearing.”

The Wolds had been married for 38 years when the world learned of Donna’s long-ago encounter with the famous cartoonist. Letters flowed to the Wolds’ Twin Cities home, where many of Sparky’s doodles still sat in Donna’s hope chest.

“It was a nice interlude,” Allan said. “It got her out in the spotlight just a little, not too much. … It was a good thing for her to lift her spirits.”

After their children were grown, Wold fostered others, often naming them after “Peanuts” characters, including Schroeder and Lucy.

“It was a fun story,” said daughter Sally Wold. “We’re all lucky we got to be part of it.”

In addition to her husband and her daughters Sally and Peggy, Wold is survived by another daughter, Susan Trulen; a sister, Margaret Olson; seven grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a son, Daniel, and two grandsons. Services have been held.

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I believe that the basic premise is correct:  If you listen to Trump, he is hitting many of the hot buttons of the electorate.  But you have to listen to him and not be distracted by his showmanship and obnoxious behavior.

 

I like the list of 13 things that I, as a senior American citizen, want.

Trump is at least talking about issues that most Americans are concerned about.  My mantra about Trump is this:  Truthfully, We are usually in agreement with most of what he says but wish someone else was saying it.  We are offended by his brash manner.  We are getting older and maybe our tickers aren't what they used to be, but what matters is that he covers most of the 13 things we as seniors want – at least I do for sure.

1.  Hillary: held accountable for her previous wrongs!

2. Put "GOD" back in America !!!

3. Borders: Closed or tightly guarded!

4. Congress: On the same retirement & healthcare plans as everybody else.

5. Congress: Obey its own laws NOW!

6. Language: English only!

7. Culture: Constitution and the Bill of Rights!

8. Drug Free: Mandatory Drug Screening before & during Welfare!

9. Freebies: NONE to Non-Citizens!

10. Budget: Balance the damn thing!

11. Foreign Countries: Stop giving them our money!  Charge them for our help!  We need it here.

12. Fix the TAX CODE!

And most of all.

13. "RESPECT OUR MILITARY AND OUR FLAG!!

AND DO NOT FORGET BLUE LIVES MATTER, SO INCLUDE THE POLICE.

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Obama has done more than any other President before him. Here is a list of some of his impressive accomplishments:

1. First President to be photographed smoking a joint.
2. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was
a foreigner.
3. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never
lived in.
4. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United
States.
5. First President to violate the War Powers Act.
6. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil
drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
7. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third
party.
8. First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs
when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.
9. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to
his union supporters.
10. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through
executive fiat.
11. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation
of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
12. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his
political appointees.
13. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to
resign.
14. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
15. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is
no longer a Christian nation.
16. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being
present.
17. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and
refuse to enforce it.
18. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on
the reasons for their rate increases.
19. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is
allowed to locate a factory.
20. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect
(AZ, WI, OH, IN).
21. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly
issued years ago.
22. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
23. First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of
his friends in a corruption case.
24. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his
office.
25. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
26. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in
office.
27. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel
records.
28. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
29. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and
concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
30. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights
and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the
taxpayers.
31. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
32. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at
taxpayer expense.
33. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week
at taxpayer expense.
34. First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the
Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
35. First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50
states (Mexico vs Arizona).
36. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for
their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and
knew the consequences."
37. Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY
were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.