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RHYTHM, COUNTRY AND BLUES’: Unlike ly duos teams on songds / C1 or NMee “Thursday _ Mesa Partly cloudy March 3, 1994 Vol 26 80; lows from near High today around Cox Arizona Publications Inc. 1994 Mesa, Arizona - 50¢ Map, data / A10 Tri Th “There will always be Ladmo,’ friends say Valley TV figure dies of cancer By Mark J. Scarp Tribune writer Ladmo, the kindly, rubber-faced comedian with a top hat and painted-on tie, whose antics on The Wallace and Ladmo Show delighted Arizonans of all ages every week day for 36 years, died Wednesday morning. He was 65. Ladmo died of complications from lung cancer at 6 a.m. at Desert Samaritan Hospital in Mesa. He was admitted to the hospital Feb. 21, according to hospital spokeswo man Susan Gordon. The family declined to release more informa tion about his illness, she said. Visitation has been scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. today at Carr-Tenney Mortuary, 2621 S. Rural Road, Tempe. The funeral will be 9 a.m. Friday at Our Lady of Mount Car mel Catholic Church, 2121 S. Rural Road, Tempe. The family requests donations be made to the Tempe Boys and Girls Club. Joined by Bill “Wallace” Thomp son and Pat “Gerald” McMahon, Ladmo’s slow, youthful demeanor and unabashed love for children earned him a permanent place in the pantheon of Valley kid heroes. The Wallace Ladmo Show set the record for the longest-running daily television show in U.S. his tory, said Steve Hoza, museum registrar of the Arizona Historical Society. It is also the longest run ning program with the same cast, he said. The show’s 9,220 episodes ran from June 1954 to Dec. 29, 1989, on Please see Ladmo / AG Wallace and Ladmo (Ladmo is in the top hat) during their early days on black-and-white TV, above, and later as their show neared its end. MEMORIES: Columnist Bruce Christian, East Valley residents look back / A6
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