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Lillian Disney- (Lillian Marie Bounds) 1900-1997. While Lillian Disney, wife of Company founder Walt Disney, worked behind the scenes in many ways to support the Company’s growth, her most celebrated contribution is the naming of a certain animated character. In 1928, as he rode a train from New York bound for Los Angeles Walt devised a new ...
Dec 19, 1997 · Lillian Bounds: born Lapwai, Idaho 1899; married 1925 Walt Disney (died 1966; one daughter, and one daughter deceased), 1969 John Truyens (died 1981); died Los Angeles 16 December 1997.
Dec 18, 1997 · Lillian Bounds Disney, who gave a world-famous cartoon mouse his name and left as her legacy the impetus for the still-unbuilt Walt Disney Concert Hall to honor her late husband, has died. She was 98.
Dec 18, 1997 · Lillian Disney’s first major contribution to the Walt Disney entertainment empire occurred in the 1920s as the young couple were riding on a train from New York to Los Angeles. Hoping to turn ...
Mar 7, 2006 · Jim Korkis. Since March is “Women’s History Month,” I thought I would use this column to spotlight the woman behind the legend, Lillian Disney. Lillian Disney, the widow of legendary animator and filmmaker Walt Disney, died peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday December 16th 1997. Lillian passed away at her home in West Los Angeles at the ...
Apr 25, 2024 · Lillian Bounds was born in 1899 in Spalding, Idaho and later grew up on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in Lapwai. Her dad worked as a blacksmith and federal marshal. In 1923, she and her older sister Hazel moved to Los Angeles. Here she earned $15 a week working as a secretary and inker of film frames at the Walt Disney Studio.
Jul 13, 2020 · "[Lillian] soon started to realize that even though she lived closest to the studio she was the last one to be dropped off." On July 13, 1925, Walt and Lillian married near her hometown.
