Mister D: All I can say is, what a lady…strong-willed, but filled with compassion, conviction, and courage. I met her only briefly at one of Bette’s Hulaween parties, and I just remember the “life” inside her eyes. The eyes are always what grabs my attention, and hers shined.
New York Post
Liz Smith
Sept 15, 2006
Photo of Ann Richards, Hulaween 2003: Barry Shermer
Bette Midler just called to tell me the New York Restoration Project will plant a huge tree in the city in Ann’s memory. “Not one of those little mangy $100 ones either,” said the heartbroken Bette. I am under an avalanche of condolences now, and will offer them to Ann’s devastated family – her attorney sons Dan and Clark, her wonderful social worker daughter, Ellen, and her eldest, Cecile, who is now the head of Planned Parenthood in N.Y.C. Ann had many grandchildren, and she was surrounded by them, and by friends like the writer Bud Shrake, who was her main man, and Jean and Dan Rather, Ladybird Johnson, Liz Carpenter, Molly Ivins and others during her brief illness.
