Ingalls-Wilder Families
Caroline Celestia "Carrie" Ingalls-Swanzey (August 3, 1870--Montgomery County, KS-June 2, 1946--Rapid City, SD)
Cast
Wendy & Brenda Turnbaugh (Grace Ingalls) August 13, 1977--Los Angeles, CA
Ketty Lester (Hester Sue Terhune) August 16, 1934--Hope, AR
Wedding Anniversaries
David & Carrie (Ingalls) Swanzey August 1, 1912
James & Angelina (Day) Wilder August 6, 1843
Almanzo & Laura (Ingalls) Wilder August 25, 1885
Ingalls-Wilder Family:
Baby A. J. Wilder (July 11, 1889--DeSmet, SD-August 10, 1889--DeSmet, SD)
Cast:
Sherri Stoner (Rachel Brown Oleson) July 16, 1959--Santa Monica, CA
Patrick Labyorteaux (Andrew "Andy" Garvey) July 22, 1965--Los Angeles, CA
Karl Swenson (Lars Hanson) July 23, 1908--Brooklyn, NY-October 8 1978--Torrington, CT
Lucy Lee Flippin (Eliza Jane Wilder) July 23, 1943--Philadelphia, PA
Wedding Anniversaries:
Maxwell & Eliza Jane (Wilder) Gordon (July 1, 1904)
Ingalls-Wilder Family:
Perley Day Wilder (June 13, 1869--Spring Valley, MN-May 10, 1934--Kinder, LA)
Laura Ann Wilder (Howard) (June 15, 1844--Franklin County, NY-c. 1800)
Cast:
David Friedman (Jason Carter) June 10, 1973--Los Angeles, CA)
Bonnie Bartlett-Daniels (Grace Snider-Edwards) June 20, 1929--Wisconsin Rapids, WI)
Richard Bull (Nels Oleson) June 26, 1924--Zion, IL-February 3, 2014--Los Angeles, CA)
“Then they plunged their hands into the stockings again. And they pulled out two long, long, sticks of candy. It was peppermint candy, striped red and white. They looked and looked at the beautiful candy, and Laura licked her stick, just one lick.”
"Supper was cooked and eaten, the dishes washed, and darkness was falling on the prairie. No one wanted the lamp lighted, the spring night was so beautiful."
Leslie Landon Matthews (née Landon) is an American psychologist and former actress. She had a supporting role on the Little House on the Prairie television series, in which her father, Michael Landon, played the lead.
Career
Matthews portrayed schoolteacher Etta Plum on Little House on the Prairie from 1982 to 1984. She
also made small guest appearances in four other episodes of Little House
between 1975 and 1981.
Personal life
Landon's parents are actor-director Michael and Lynn Landon.
Landon has eight siblings, including two brothers, Michael Landon Jr. and
Christopher Landon, and a sister, Shawna Leigh Landon, from her parents'
marriage. From her mother's first marriage, Landon has another half-sister,
Cheryl Lynn Landon. From her father's marriage to Cindy Landon, she has a
half-sister, Jennifer Landon, and a half-brother, Sean Matthew Landon. She has
an adopted brother, Mark Landon (now deceased), and a half-brother, Josh
Landon, both from her father's first marriage to Dodie Fraser. Her paternal
grandfather was Jewish, and her paternal grandmother was Catholic. Her father
was raised Jewish.
Landon married Brian Matthews in 1990. Her eldest daughter,
born in 1993, Rachel Matthews, is also an actress, with her film debut in Happy
Death Day, directed by her uncle Christopher.
Landon obtained a BA in psychology and an MA in clinical
psychology from Pepperdine University and a Ph.D. in marriage and family
therapy from the California Graduate Institute.
Filmography
Little House on the
Prairie
1975: Leslie, a plague victim girl, in "The Plague" (season 1)
1977: Kate in "The
Election" (season 3)
1979: Marge in "The
Third Miracle" (season 6)
1981: Pam in "A
Wiser Heart" (season 8)
1982–83: Etta Plum, 15 episodes (season 9)
1983: Etta Plum in Little House: Look Back to Yesterday (TV
movie)
1984: Etta Plum in Little House: Bless All the Dear Children
(TV movie)
1984: Etta Plum in Little House: The Last Farewell (TV
movie)
Father Murphy
1982: Kate Jones in "The
Dream Day"
Bibliography
When Children Grieve: For Adults to Help Children Deal with
Death, Divorce, Pet Loss, Moving, and Other Losses. By John W. James, Russell
Friedman, Dr. Leslie Matthews. HarperCollins, 2001.
Ketty Lester (born Revoyda Frierson; August 16, 1934) is an American singer and actress known for her 1961 hit single "Love Letters", which reached the top 5 of the charts in the U.S. and the UK. She is also known for her role as Hester-Sue Terhune on the American television series Little House on the Prairie. In 2022, she was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame.
Life and career
Ketty Lester was born Revoyda Frierson on August 16, 1934, in
Hope, Arkansas. Her parents were farmers who would eventually have a total of 15
children. As a young child, Lester first sang in her church and later in
school choirs. She won a scholarship to study music at San Francisco State
College, and in the early 1950s, she began performing under the name "Ketty Lester" in the city's
Purple Onion club. She later toured Europe and South America as a singer with
Cab Calloway's orchestra.
Lester (as Revoyda Frierson) appeared as a contestant on the
December 26, 1957, episode of You Bet Your Life, hosted by Groucho Marx. Lester
sang "You Do Something to Me". The
chosen category was "Mother
Goose", a subject she admitted knowing nothing about; George Fenneman
fed the correct answers to her, and she and her partner won $1,000.
Returning to California, she recorded her first single, "Queen for a Day", for the
Everest label. She was introduced by Dorothy Shay to record producers and
songwriters Ed Cobb and Lincoln Mayorga of The Four Preps and The Piltdown Men,
who won her a contract with Era Records in Los Angeles. In 1961 they released
her single "Love Letters" b/w
"I'm a Fool to Want You".
Lester's recording of "Love
Letters", which featured Lincoln Mayorga's sparse piano arrangement
and Earl Palmer on drums, rose to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 early in 1962.
The record also reached No. 2 on the R&B chart and No. 4 on the UK Singles
Chart, selling over 1 million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA.
In 1991, it was ranked 176th in the RIAA-compiled list of Songs of the Century.
In 1962, she toured the UK as a support act on the Everly
Brothers tour. The follow-up, a version of George and Ira Gershwin's "But Not for Me" from the
musical Girl Crazy, reached No. 41 in the U.S. pop charts and No. 45 in the UK.
She released an album, Love Letters, which contained the tracks "You Can't Lie to a Liar" and
a cover of Woody Guthrie's "This
Land Is Your Land" (both of which were issued as singles) and was
nominated for a Grammy in the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance category.
Lester continued to record for Era with little success until
1964, when she signed with RCA. She released several unsuccessful singles for
that label, and two albums, The Soul of Me and Where Is Love?, in a more
R&B-oriented style that has been compared to Dinah Washington and Nancy
Wilson. Some of her earlier recordings also featured on one side of an album
shared with previously released tracks by Betty Everett. Also in 1964, she won
a Theatre World Award for her performance in the off-Broadway show Cabin in the
Sky. She moved to the Tower label, issuing a single and album, When a Woman
Loves a Man, an answer record to Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman". However, these releases, and
later records for the Pete label, including a 1968 album titled Ketty Lester,
met with little commercial success.
By the early 1970s, Lester gave up singing commercially and
turned to acting. She was reportedly offered the role eventually taken by
Diahann Carroll in the 1968–71 TV series Julia, and appeared in a variety of
movies, including Uptight (1968), Blacula (1972), Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
and The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975).
Lester established herself as a television actress in the
1970s and 1980s, playing the roles of Helen Grant on Days of Our Lives
(1975–77) and as Hester-Sue Terhune on Little House on the Prairie (1977–83),
and she appeared on other television shows and movies, including The Night the
City Screamed (1980).
Lester recorded an album of gospel music titled I Saw Him in
1984, and returned to films, appearing in Street Knight (1993) and as Aunt Lucy
in House Party 3 (1994).
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In 2020, she released her memoir, Ketty Lester: From
Arkansas To Grammy Nominated Love Letters to Little House on the Prairie.
Lester attended the 50th Anniversary Reunion for Little House on the Prairie in
2024, meeting fans and also delivering a sermon on stage.
Discography
Albums
Love Letters – 1962
Betty Everett & Ketty Lester – 1964 (one side each)
The Soul of Me – 1964
Where Is Love? – 1965
When a Woman Loves a Man – 1966
Ketty Lester – 1969
Ketty Lester in Concert – 1977
A Collection of Her Best – 1982
I Saw Love – 1984
Singles
1962 "Queen for a Day"
b/w "I Said
Goodbye to My Love" — — — Non-album tracks
"Love
Letters"
b/w "I'm a Fool
to Want You" 2 5 4 Love Letters
"But Not for
Me"
b/w "Once Upon a Time" (from Love Letters) — 41 45 Non-album
tracks
"You Can't Lie to
a Liar"
b/w "River of
Salt" — 90 —
"This Land Is
Your Land"
b/w "Love Is for
Everyone" — 97 —
1963 "Fallen Angel"
b/w "Lullaby for
Lovers" (Non-album track) — — — Love Letters
1964 "Some Things Are Better Left
Unsaid"
b/w "The House Is
Haunted (by the Echo of Your Last Goodbye)" — 127 — Non-album
tracks
"Roses Grow with
Thorns"
b/w "Please Don't
Cry Anymore" — — —
"I Trust You
Baby"
b/w "Theme from
'The Luck of Ginger Coffey'" — — —
"You Go Your Way
(and I'll Go Crazy)"
b/w "Variations
on a Theme by Bird" — — —
1965 "Pretty Lies, Pretty Make Believe"
b/w "(Looking for
a) Better World" — — —
"I'll Be Looking
Back"
b/w "West
Coast" — — —
1966 "Secret Love"
b/w "Love Me Just
a Little Bit" — — —
"When a Woman
Loves a Man"
b/w "We'll Be
Together Again" — — — When a Woman Loves a Man
1968 "I Will Lead You"
b/w "Now That I
Need Him" — — — Non-album tracks
1969 "Cracker Box Livin'"
b/w "The Measure
of a Man" — — —
"Show Me"
b/w "Since I Fell
for You" — — — Ketty Lester
1984 "Jesus Laid His Hands on Me"
"One Day at a
Time" — — — I Saw Love
"Have You
Heard?"
b/w "She'd Never
Heard of Anyone Called Jesus"
