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Mouseketeer Annette Funicello dies at 70
Annette Funicello, famed as a Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse Club in the 1950s and later a Beach Party star with Frankie Avalon, died at 70 from complications of multiple sclerosis at Mercy Southwest Medical Center in Bakersfield California. She rose to fame as the show’s most popular Mouseketeer, receiving thousands of fan letters monthly, and remained a baby boomer icon through decades of public life.
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