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Died. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli Willson, 46, who as a meaty teen-ager (15 years, 163 Ibs.) married (1926) sack-shaped moneybags Edward West ("Daddy") Browning, 51, six months later set the 1920s roaring at the decade's wildest divorce suit, in which she testified that Daddy (a "grey-haired old wowser," Damon Runyon reported) sometimes crawled around making "funny noises," was inordinately fond of a pet African honking gander; of a brain hemorrhage and liver failure after a fall in her Manhattan apartment. Peaches lost her divorce suit, but after Daddy died...
Frances ("Peaches") Browning, 40, tabloid-touted child-bride of the '205, got special mention in the will of her third husband, the late Joseph Civelli, San Francisco department-store executive, who left an estate of some $50,000. Wrote Civelli in his will: "It is my specific intention . . . to disinherit her completely...
Married. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli, 35, flapper-era child bride and later burlesqueen; and Ralph N. Willson, 36, former Columbus, Ohio picture-frame maker; she for the fourth time, he for the second; at Break-a-Heart Ranch, near Reno...
Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli, relict of Millionaire "Daddy" Browning and favorite child bride of the tabloids in the '20s, said that she was going to marry her fourth. After Browning had come 1) a Denver showman, 2) a San Francisco department-store tycoon. Groom-in-prospect: Ralph N. Willson, a former Columbus, Ohio picture-frame maker...
Divorced. By Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli, 35, child bride (at 15) of late Manhattan Millionaire Edward West ("Daddy") Browning, who grew up to be a burlesqueen: Joseph Civelli, 62, San Francisco store executive, her third daddy; in Reno...