How did she contract the virus?
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naladog77 — 20 years ago(August 18, 2005 10:17 PM)
I am proud to be named after her, as she was my mother's favorite televison character. But when I was young, I thought she was kidding when she said she died of AIDS. How sad.
Amanda
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hrdwoodfun — 20 years ago(October 01, 2005 10:02 PM)
Amanada Blake acquired the virus from her fourth and last husband Mr. Mark Speath, an Austin TX city-council man. He was an active bi-sexual during the latter part of the seventies when little information was known about the disease. They married in a ceremony in Texas in 1984 and and Mr. Speath passed in 1985, almost a year after their marriage. She fought a long and hard battle, but lost in the end. Her immune system had been terribly weakened from a previous fight from throat and pallet cancer. She passed on August 16, 1989 at the age of 60. After cremation her ashes were spread over the wildlife refuge which she founded in CA. She is gone and will never be forgotten. We love you Kitty.
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Hoohawnaynay — 18 years ago(January 31, 2008 04:41 PM)
A very nice lady who deserved to live longer. I can't believe all the ignorant comments made about HIV on these posts. I thought people were smarter these days? If I went around saying some of these things to people they would lock me up quicker than Britney Spears babbling in an english accent!
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gtbutch-1 — 17 years ago(February 20, 2009 06:34 PM)
I tell you she was a truly wonderful lady, very unassuming and very genuine. I had the pleasure of working at a talent agency in her last few years. She was on my favorite show of all time, growing up I loved "Gunsmoke" and, of course, Miss Kitty too. I met lots of actors during this time at the agency and most of my idols were not what one would want them to be, but I can honestly say she was just a dream come true! Such a sweet lady and a damn shame she died so young. It is heartbreaking to think of it still these 20 years later, I cannot believe it. DeForest Kelley was another sweet unassuming, man in jeans (as Amanda was too) and a regular person. I cherish the photo I have with her. I just can't say enough about her.loved her.
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Cezar_TheScribe — 15 years ago(February 20, 2011 02:49 AM)
The doctor, Lou Nishimura, a Sacramento internist, said Monday that Miss Blake, who died at age 60 on Aug. 16, did have throat cancer. But he added,
''That wasn't the reason that she died.''
Dr. Nishimura spoke after a report by television station KRBK in Sacramento, where Miss Blake was a longtime resident, quoted her friends as saying now that her death was related to AIDS. He said that she had suffered from AIDS symptoms for about a year but that he did not know how she had contracted the disease.
Miss Blake's fifth husband, Mark Spaeth, a developer and City Councilman in Austin, Tex., died of pneumonia in 1985 at age 45. They married in April 1984, and divorced a short time later.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=950DEFD8 1031F93BA35752C1A96F948260
The doctor said she died of AIDS. Her sodomite husband did not tell her he had AIDS or that he had sex with males. People like that should be executed.
He is guilty of murder.
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toolkien — 14 years ago(March 21, 2012 11:24 AM)
If he knew he had this deadly disease and didn't tell the woman he was sleeping with, how does someone criticizing him for suddenly become ignorant? You seem to want to sympathize with a person who basically gave a death sentence to his wife and get angry at someone who thinks that is wrong. Knee-jerk bleeding heart reaction.
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rockcairn69 — 13 years ago(March 11, 2013 03:52 PM)
Hey toolkien,
Don't be so hard on the guy.
Maybe Hoohawninny had an irony fall on his head when he was young.
Most of "those types" always have an excuse for their hate while berating other's comments as such.
Sure, it doesn't matter how she died, but when it's from someone's willful negligence, it's always more tragic, because it was preventable. And that's what brings it up to the level of murder, or at least voluntary manslaughter.
"Go back to your oar, For2000ty One."