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'Holly's never dealt with anger like this': TV star and Phillip Schofield shared 'emotional phone call over reaction to queue-gate' Showbiz roundup! Royal victory on topless pics & Dina on Dr Phil The legal battle became so acrimonious Dennis applied for a court order to keep his spouse at least 10ft away from him to eliminate unnecessary stress.ĭennis was married five times during his lifetime and had three other children, daughters Marin and Ruthanna and son Henry Lee. In the run-up to his death, Dennis, 74, and Victoria were embroiled in a bitter divorce battle, with Victoria alleging the actor's adult children from previous marriages had turned him against her and wanted her to be cut from his will. However, Victoria reportedly insisted Galen wouldn't be allowed to go without being accompanied by her because she would have had to have flown from Los Angeles on her own. Victoria claimed Galen was 'disinvited' from the service, while Dennis' friends insisted she used her own daughter 'as a pawn' in her battle with her husband's family.Īccording to a letter from the actor's lawyer, Dennis did not want Victoria to attend the funeral in Taos, New Mexico, but wanted Galen there. A seven-year-old girl has just lost her father, and she can't even go to his funeral.' Galen missed her dad’s funeral after her mother stopped her from attending.Ī source said at the time: 'That's the thing that's just tragic. The number of people who attended just shows how well loved Joan was."Joan passed away at The Lodge, on Bargate, Grimsby.Bitter split: The actor was in the middle of an acrimonious divorce from his wife Victoria Duffy, pictured in 2008, when he passed away

At the age of 63, she had a heart attack, and was not allowed to play any more.However, the couple still enjoyed visiting Norfolk, regularly staying in a hotel across from where Jack lived during the Second World War, when he served as a radar operative.He added: "She was a lovely lady and by that I mean a real lady."There were about 100 people who came to the church for her funeral. "She was first based at the back of Grimsby Town Hall and then moved to Victoria Street after the new station was built."During the 1960s, she also devoted a lot of her time to helping out at the centre for the blind in Cleethorpes."In the 1970s she set up a shop on Chantry Lane along with my sister Jean Black – called Jean-Jone's."Joan loved golf and played regularly. Joan served with the signals at a number of locations, including Nottingham, Chester and Rotherham."In Nottingham she worked alongside the RAF in its 'filter room', where staff plotted out the routes of enemy craft."Following the war, Joan spent much of her time serving the community."She worked on the police switchboard," said Jack. She never was a fan of genres like jazz."Later, during the war, she joined the Army. JOAN HOPPER Tributes were paid to much-loved Grimsby wife, business woman and charity worker Joan Hopper who died at the age of 87 on 3 April, 2009.Her husband Jack described her as a "lovely lady".The couple met following the Second World War at the Reynolds Street night school in Cleethorpes where they both studied German.After Joan agreed to go for a meal with Jack, romance blossomed and the couple married at Old Clee Church on 20 January, 1958.Joan was originally born in Cleethorpes in 1921 after her family moved to the area from Sunderland because of her father's work constructing boiler systems on trawlers.Jack said: "As a schoolgirl and during her teens, she used to sing at The Pier in Cleethorpes.
