Adeline De Walt Reynolds(1862-1961)
- Actress
She survived the death of her husband in 1905, the San Francisco
earthquake in 1906 and raising four children with no money. In 1926,
when she was 64 she became one of the most mature freshman ever to
enter the University of California. She graduated 6 years later with
her B.A. degree. In 1940 she went to Hollywood, where she began her
acting career. Best known for her role in Shirley Temple's Storybook
production of "Sleeping Beauty", although she is probably seen most
often in "Going My Way" as Father Fitzgibbon's elderly mother.
