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In May 1985, during her last visit home to North Carolina, Ava and three of her sisters, Bappie, Elsie Mae, and Myra, drove out to the farm where they were born in Grabtown. After seeing the farmhouse, they headed to the nearby community of Brogden to see the Teacherage.
May 11, 2021 · Ava Lavinia Gardner was born on December 24, 1922, in a community known as Grabtown near the town of Smithfield, North Carolina. According to Doris Rollins Cannon, author of the Ava Gardner biography.
On Christmas Eve 1922, Jonas and Mary Elizabeth “Mollie” Gardner welcomed their seventh child into the world, Ava Lavinia Gardner. The large Gardner family made their home in the rural North Carolina community of Grabtown, seven miles east of Smithfield.
Jan 25, 2016 · On January 25, 1990, Johnston County native and world-famous actress Ava Gardner died in her London apartment.
6 days ago · Ava Gardner (born December 24, 1922, Grabtown, North Carolina, U.S.—died January 25, 1990, London, England) was an American film actress of the 1940s and ’50s who, despite her renowned beauty and sensuality, successfully resisted being typecast as a sex symbol.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Grabtown is an unincorporated community in Johnston County, North Carolina, United States. [1] Grabtown is located 9 miles (14 km) southeast of Smithfield. It is included in the Research Triangle Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Ava Lavinia Gardner was born on December 24, 1922, in Grabtown, a small rural community in Johnston County, North Carolina. In 1986, Gardner suffered a stroke leading to health complications and she later passed away on January 25, 1990.
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