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Full Name	Katherine J. Browne-McGavin
AKA Full Name
People ID	74110
Title
First Name	Katherine
AKA First Name
Nickname	Kathie
Middle Name	Jacqueline
AKA Middle
Patronymic/Matronymic
Priorsurnames	Gell
Surname	McGavin
AKA Surname
Father's Surname	Browne
Mother's Surname	Woods
Suffix
Gender	Female
Full Birth Date If Known	1929-09-19
Birth Year	1929
Birth Month	9
Birth Day	19
Full Death Date If Known	2003-04-08
Death Year	2003
Death Month	4
Death Day	8

Events, Dates and Places

Event	Date	Geo Top Level	Geo 2nd Level	Geo 3rd Level	Geo 4th Level	Geo 5th Level	Notes
Birth	1929/09/19	USA	Missouri	Polk	Humansville
Death	2003/04/08	USA	California	Los Angeles	Beverly Hills

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Relationship	Related To	Relative's People ID	Relative's Birth Year	Relative's Death Year	Other Date (typically Marriage Date)
Wife of	Darren McGavin	716900	1922	2006

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Cemetery	Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Address	6300 Forest Lawn Drive
City/Town	Los Angeles
County/District	Los Angeles
State/Province	California
Postal/Zip Code	90068
Country/Principality	USA
Section	Vale of Hope
Map	E32
Lot	1719
Space	4

Organization
Property Type	Ground
Has Marker	Yes
No Marker
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https://mills-sfv.com/Genealogy/GLS/People/Text/74110.txt

There is some weirdness about Kathie Browne McGavin's history and I'm not sure what to make of it.

Some sources list her birthplace as Humansville, Missouri, and others San Luis Obispo, California. There are also two different dates extant, 19 September 1929 and 19 September 1930.

If she was born in 1929 or 1930 it was not in California. Her social security application lists the 1929 date and Humansville as her birthplace, but has an odd note that the date was corrected. However, the SS Death Master File record for her lists her birth year as 1930 not 1929.

Her birth name is supposed to have been Jacqueline Sue Browne, but at some point she started going by Katherine Jacqueline Browne and used the nickname Kathie. The SS application shows her as Jacqueline Sue and the SS DMF shows her as Jacqueline K. McGavin. Her father was Winn (or Wynn) Roscoe Browne, and her mother was Erma M. Woods Browne.

HOWEVER, I cannot find any of them in the census records to save my life. The Wikipedia article on her says her family moved to San Luis Obispo California after she was born, but then moved to Los Angeles by the time she was ten. Her social security card was issued in California in April 1943. She married Sherwood Price (Sherwood Gell) on 22 November 1953 in Los Angeles County, California. She married Darren McGavin (William Lyle Richardson) on 31 December 1969.

The Forest Lawn website lists her under the name "Katherine J. Browne-McGavin" and they show her birth year as 1930 not 1929.

I am guessing the problem with finding her in the census in because of the "Brown/Browne" surname, which is so freaking common that you get drowned in data looking for it. I am hoping she will show up in the 1950 census when it finally becomes searchable.

I cannot rule out the possibility that some of this information is just wrong. Actors and actresses are notorious for fudging their biographical data, usually to appear younger than they actually are. (Not just actors of course, I still remember how Danny Elfman told people he was born in Amarillo Texas because he thought being born in Los Angeles was too normal sounding, and I have no idea how long it took people to figure out he was from Los Angeles not Amarillo).

Speaking of her being an actress, I should spew out a few of her credits since I've gone to the trouble to add this note: Perry Mason, My Favorite Martian, Get Smart, Gomer Pyle, The Wild Wild West, The Rockford Files, Mannix, The Big Valley, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Star Trek (TOS), and of course, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, where she appeared with her husband Darren McGavin.

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Small notes (field in database 50 characters max)
Family Search ID	GSCB-GCK
Find A Grave 1	7358778
Famous per Find A Grave	Yes
Famous per Consensus	Yes
Find A Grave 2
Find A Grave 3
BillionGraves Record ID
Other websites	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathie_Browne
Record Entry Date	2011-11-30 01:00:00
Record Last Edit Date	2022-07-17 10:22:11

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