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Wanda Clark Stomatovitch, identified to followers of Lucille Ball because the TV legend’s longtime secretary and confidante, has died at 87.
Her loss of life was introduced by Ball’s daughter, performer Lucie Arnaz, on Fb, the place she known as Clark “one of many best human beings I ever knew,” praising her for her “smile and her inspiring vitality.”
“Wanda started working as my mom’s secretary after I was about 11, she was the Matron of Honor at my first wedding ceremony, she traveled throughout the globe to catch any efficiency of mine she might get to, together with to our daughter’s wedding ceremony,” Arnaz wrote.
“She had a reminiscence like an elephant and a coronary heart the identical dimension. Everybody she met liked her. She and our late amanuensis, Frank Gorey, (who additionally knew me since I used to be 4 toes tall), stayed in my brother, Desi’s and my life for many years after my mom handed. She was my North Star. Wanda and Frank’s spirit of pleasure and pure kindness are answerable for most of something good in me.”
Arnaz continued, “I do know she is experiencing pure bliss proper now and being welcomed dwelling by so many acquainted faces. It’s we who should cope with the void she left. Our love goes out to her sisters and household in Oklahoma and past. Larry and I and our entire household maintain metaphysical palms along with her chosen Desilu, too household, Michael Stern, Tom Watson, Rick Carl, Laura Johansen, Ric Wyman, Stuart Shostak and plenty of, many others, who adored her as we did.”
She concluded, “Fly swift on angels wings, lovely Wanda. You lived an ideal life.”
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Clark had been a favourite of Ball’s legion of followers, showing at occasions and performs dedicated to the enduring star, sitting for interviews about Ball for “E! True Hollywood Story” (2005) and “Lucy Strikes to NBC: A Remembrance” (2012), and serving to to hold on her legacy of humor and kindness.
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Clark’s reminiscences of Lucy are extensively documented in Michael Stern’s “I Had a Ball.”