Merrie Virginia (Erlandson) Tyler (1925 - 2012)

Born 8 Aug 1925 in Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Lowell Studley Fenton — married 3 Jul 1946 in Seattle, King, Washington, United States

Wife of Albert R. Jacobson — married 25 Dec 1980 in Reno, Washoe, Nevada, United States

Died 13 Jul 2012 at age 86 in Issaquah, King, Washington, United States

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Biography

Ginny (Erlandson) Tyler is Notable.

Merrie Virginia Erlandson, known professionally as Ginny Tyler, was an American voice actress who performed on dozens of cartoons and animated films from 1957 to 1993.

Ginny was born 8 Aug 1925, at Berkeley, California. She was the daughter of Erland and Harriet (Rittenberg) Erlandson.

In 1930, she was a four-year-old girl residing in Seattle with her parents and three-year-old brother, Donald. Ginny's father was then working as a washing machine salesman.^[1]

Ginny's parents divorced when she was a young girl and her mother married s man namef Thomas Eggers in 1941. Both young teenagers at the time. Ginny and her brother both promptly assumed their new step-father's surname in place of their own.

Ginny married Lowell S. Fenton, 3 Jul 1946, at Seattle, Washington. Ginny continued her college studies after her marriage, and in 1949 she graduated with a degree in Drama from the University of Washington, Seattle.

In 1949, she graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle, with a Bachelor's degree in Drama.

Ginny and Lowell's's only child, Tyler Radford Fenton, was born 26 Oct 1953, at Seattle, Washington.

As a young girl Ginny had become a fixture on the local kids' radio show "Make Believe Island". She would stay with the program when it was moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s and rebranded as a television show known simply as Make Believe.

In the 190s, having rebranded herself as Ginny Taylor, she began working with the Walt Disney Company, narrating vinyl record versions of their classic films, including Bambi, Babes in Toyland, and Lady and the Tramp. She soon became known as the "Disneyland Storyteller". On 13 Jan 1963, Ginney premiered as the head Mouseketeer on the syndicated version of The Mickey Mouse Club. Ginny would introduce new segments of the show which were woven around the old. Hosting from the Main Street Opera House at Disneyland, she would also take viewers behind the scenes of various park attractions. Ginny also provide animal sound effects for several Disney films, including a love-struck squirrel in The Sword in the Stone (1963), some barnyard animals in the Jolly Holiday scene of Mary Poppins, and a colony of bees in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. She would be named a Disney Legend in 2006.

From 1956 to 1992, Ginny also provided voice work on numerous television programs including The Gumby Show, Davey and Goliath, and multiple Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon shows including Space Ghost and Dino Boy, Catanooga Cats, Jeannie, Devlin, Fred Flintstone and Friends, The New Fantastic Four, The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show, and Space Stars. Perhaps most famously, Ginny also performed the role of Polynesia the parrot in the 1967 feaature film Dr. Doolittle.

On 25 Dec 1980, now divorced from her first husand, Ginny married Albert Wallace Russell Jacobsen Jr., at Reno, Nevada. Over the course of the 1980s and early 1990s, Ginny gradualy decreased her work load and in 1992 voiced her final role as Miz Possum in the television movie Brer Rabbit's Christmas.

In 1994, Ginny and Albert moved back to Seattle. Albert died 20 Dec 1995, in Seattle, Washington. Ginny lived out her final days in a nursing facility. She died 13 Jul 2012, at Issaquah, Washington. She was 86 years old.

Sources

1. ↑ 1930 U.S. Federal Census. Ancestry.com (database online with images) Washington, King County, City of Seattle, ED 184, page 7A, dwelling 89, family 102, household of Erland A. Erlandson (image 11).

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginny_Tyler

Obituary: Ginny Tyler dies at 86, voice actress was Disney Legend, The Los Angeles Times, 22 Jul 2012.