My first "crush", former Mouseketeer Annette Funicello

[copperkid3]

passed away at 70, due to complications of MS.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...es-age-70.html

A guy never forgets his first love . . . .

[Yvonne's hubby]

Sorry for your loss.... I know how tough it can be to lose someone near and dear. She was quite a lil hottie back in the day though wasnt she?

[Nevada]

Oh, yeah. I was crazy about her too. I remember her from the black & white mousekateer show in the late 50s. Then she did all those surfing movies.

[Txsteader]

God bless her. She suffered for many years. My uncle had MS and spent the last 20 years of his life in bed, in pain.

[fordy]

...................I wrote her a long love letter when I was a 'prisioner' in military school in San Antonio way back in 1964 ! I was a junior in the second semester and wishing I was back in regular HS in west tx . I thought then , as I still do , Today , that , she was a class act and has been so all her life . , fordy

[FeralFemale]

My older sister had a Mouseketeer fan book that was already old and worn out by the time I got my grubby little hands on it. I used to look at AF in her pretty dresses and wished I could be her, all 'grown up' and beautiful.

ETA: One time in high school, I even bought a particular dress because it reminded me of a one she wore in that book! lol! I was only disappointed that it didn't poof out on the bottom like the one she wore...no crinolines in the 80s

[pancho]

The first girl I fell in love with.
As pretty inside as she was outside.

[SageLady]

I remember I had Annette Funicello paper dolls. She was something special!

My DH described her today as innocence and hotness all wrapped up in a nice package. I remember my Daddy thinking she was mighty pretty too, back in the day.

I'm so sorry she suffered so much the last years of her life.