Teal Tributes

When ovarian cancer touches someone close to you, it is only natural that you would want to remember them in a special way. You can do this with a tribute or memorial gift.

Remember your loved one by adding her name to the Teal Tributes Wall. Or make a donation in their name. Donations help support the OCAO’s mission.

Courtney Mae Clifford (November 29, 1982 - February 11, 2011)

Jan Staats (May 12, 1937 - January 16, 2011)

Mary (Susie) Huffer (April 26, 1947 - December 30, 2010)

Glenna D. Henderson (October 18, 1928 - August 13, 2010)

Karen Elizabeth Carpenter (July 30, 1945 - July 14, 2010)

Jennifer Cherveny (October 8, 1966 - April 10, 2010)

Susan Jill Costakos-Slomka (July 4, 1965 - March 11, 2010)

Arletta B. Schroeder (March 10, 1939 - February 14, 2010)

Kathy Lucas (September 4, 1961 - February 1, 2010)

Claudia Rinkov (August 10, 1949 - February 1, 2010)

Malia Sue Cardwell (October 12, 1956 - December 19, 2009)

Janet Kay Wilson (September 23, 1946 - December 18, 2009)

Jackie Ludaway (March 12, 1972 - December 12, 2009)

Marilyn Usinowicz (January 10, 1946 - October 15, 2009)

Rebecca S. Bonnell (May 12, 1935 - October 13, 2009)

Jo Ann Stobbs (October 29, 1949 - September 24, 2009)

Toni Wolfe (November 25, 1947 - August 10, 2009)

Dallas Ann Ritter Else (April 27, 1934 - July 31, 2009)

Sally Burns (February 13, 1948 - July 29, 2009)

Sue Waid Groom (August 9, 1952 - June 19, 2009)

Robyn Lynn Peltier (March 19, 1951 - June 3, 2009)

Beverly A. Carmichael (November 5, 1929 - April 21, 2009)

Bonnie Masdea (January 21, 1942 - November 12, 2008)

Deanna Koch (March 17, 1938 - October 23, 2008)

Marie Lago (March 17, 1950 - October 8, 2008)

Sylvia Donaldson (December 23, 1942 - August 1, 2008)

Julianna Grace Marks (April 15, 1939 - July 31, 2008)

Shirley Spencer (February 2, 1957 - May 22, 2008)

Coranita Longbrake (January 15, 1945 - February 7, 2008)

Robyn Howson (February 21, 1978 - February 4, 2008)

Bette Ghidotti (August 14, 1933 - January 15, 2008)

Beverly Zeller (September 26, 1941 - November 1, 2007)

Sharon Kotowicz (January 24, 1944 - October 2, 2007)

Annette Hollar (October 26, 1949 - September 30, 2007)

Susan Starks (February 5, 1952 - August 4, 2007)

Gina Adams (January 14, 1966 - June 25, 2007)

Patsy M. Guerra (March 17, 1947 - April 22, 2007)

Jacquelin Rae Fondy (February 21, 1938 - March 20, 2007)

Susan Priscilla Holmes Spear (April 13, 1934 - February 16, 2007)

Carol Lynne Hockenberger (December 23, 1942 - January 10, 2007)

Tam Greulich (October 30, 1960 - December 13, 2006)

Judy Ramspacher (April 27, 1952 - June 8, 2006)

Elizabeth Z. Olson (November 23, 1936 - May 19, 2006)

Julie Renee Gillespie (April 17, 1974 - February 22, 2006)

Claire M. Hatcher (December 18, 1941 - October 8, 2004)

Roberta Ellen Stephens (September 22, 1941 - May 31, 2004)

Laura Gullett (October 27, 1940 - March 4, 2002)

Eileen Kirkpatrick Payne (June 29, 1919 - June 26, 2001)

Ruth Denmead (February 16, 1933 - August 23, 1995)

Debora Jennings (December 22, 1959 - August 22, 1995)

Donna Jean Arnold Conwell (July 22, 1921 - January 30, 1989)

Ovarian Cancer Can Touch Anyone

Below is a list of famous women who lost their battle with ovarian cancer and those who are continuing the fight.

Glenda Adams - Australian novelist and writer (age 68)

Evelyn Ankers - American film actress (age 67)

Dr. Barbara Mary Ansell - British scientist and pediatric rheumatologist (age 78)

Marina Baiul - mother of Ukrainian Olympic figure skater Oksana Baiul (died in 1991)

Eileen Barton - Brooklyn-born American singer (age 81)

Kathy Bates - Oscar-winning American actress, surviving

Laurie Beechman - American actress/singer (age 43)

Marcheline Bertrand - American film actress; mother of Angelina Jolie and James Haven (age 56)

Carol Bly - American short-story writer/essayist (age 77)

Clare Boylan - Irish writer (age 58)

Raelene Boyle - Australian athlete, surviving

Diem Brown - Reality TV star (MTV's Real World and Road Rules, as well as MTV's documentary of her experience with the disease), surviving

Tina Brozman - American lawyer and judge (age 54)

Veronica Castang - British film, stage and television actress (age 50)

Jill Chaifetz - American lawyer and children's right advocate (age 41)

Carol Channing - American stage and musical comedy actress, surviving

Caitlin Clarke - American actress (age 52)

Sister Sarah Clarke - Irish-born Roman Catholic nun and London-based political activist during The Troubles (1980s-1990s); survived, died of other causes

Alma Cogan - English singer/entertainer (age 34)

Claudia Cohen - American socialite and journalist/gossip columnist (age 56)

Helen Cresswell - British writer and author (age 71)

Dixie Lee Crosby - American singer and the first Mrs. Bing Crosby (age 40)

Mildred Dean - mother of American actor James Dean; she died when Dean was 9 years old

Gay Delanghe - modern-dance choreographer and performer (age 65)

U.S. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, surviving

Amanda Dempsey - mother of American actor Patrick Dempsey (surviving)

Sandy Dennis - Oscar-winning American actress (age 54)

Diana Dors - British actress, also known as Diana d'Ors (age 52)

Doris Dungey - influential American blogger and analyst on economic and finance issues (age 47)

Stanley Ann Dunham -Soetoro (known as Ann Dunham, later as Ann Sutoro) - mother of President Barack Obama (age 52)

Patricia C. Dunn - embattled former chair of Hewlett-Packard, currently battling ovarian cancer

Robert Eads - American female to male transsexual who was refused medical treatment for the cancer in the state of Georgia (age 53)

Queen Mary I of England - died either of uterine or ovarian cancer (age 42)

Jeannie Ferris - Senator for South Australia (age 66)

Patty Franchi Flaherty - founded Ovations for the Cure (age 53)

Dame Margot Fonteyn - English ballerina (age 71)

Rosalind Franklin - British physical chemist and crystallographer, linked with the discovery of the shape of the double helix of DNA (age 37)

Lynda Gibson - Australian comedian and actress (age 47)

Debbie Goad - American journalist and magazine publisher (age 46)

Ella Grasso - former Connecticut governor, first woman ever to be elected governor (age 61)

Marjorie Gross - Canadian comedian and television writer/producer (Seinfeld) (age 40)

Dolly Haas - German-American actress and singer, wife of Al Hirschfeld (age 84)

Joan Hackett - American actress (age 49)

Cassandra Harris - Australian actress/wife of Pierce Brosnan (age 43)

Joyce Hatto - British pianist (age 77)

Dianne Heatherington - Canadian film and television actress (age 48)

Sharon Tyler Herbst - American chef and cook-book author (age 64)

Madeline Kahn - American actress, singer and comedienne (age 57)

Fakhriya Abdel Karim - Iraqi actress and political activist (age 63)

Shizuko Kasagi - Japanese jazz singer and actress (age 70)

Grace Keagy - American musical theatre, soap opera and television actress (age 87)

Coretta Scott King - American civil rights activist; widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (age 78)

Joyce Kulhawik - American film critic and Boston television personality; former TV co-host of movie critic Leonard Maltin, surviving

Sarabeth Kusick - wife of American baseball player Craig Kusick (age 56)

Francess Lantz - American librarian, novelist and writer (age 52)

Susan Fernandez Magno - Filipino singer, activist and academic (age 52)

Janet Margolin - American film, stage, and television actress (age 50)

Nancy McDonald - former Texas politician (age 72)

Heather Menzies - Canadian-born actress, most famous for portraying Louisa in The Sound of Music and widow of Robert Urich, surviving

Mary Millar - British actress, most famous as Rose from Keeping Up Appearances (age 62)

Shannon Miller - Olympic gold medal gymnast (age 33)

Miriam Mone - County Armagh-born Irish fashion designer (age 42)

Camille Monet - Model and first wife of Claude Monet (age 32)

Helen Simpson Morosini - mother of the late American singer/actress/activist Dana Reeve (age 71)

Bess Myerson - Miss America (1945), surviving

Akemi Negishi - Japanese film actress (age 73)

Anais Nin - Author and Diarist (age 73)

Ursula Nordstrom - American book editor (age 78)

Laura Nyro - American singer-songwriter (age 49; her mother, Gilda Nigro, also died of ovarian cancer and at the same age as Nyro)

Dawn O'Donnell - Australian LGBT rights activist, campaigner, and entrepreneur (age 79)

Meryl O'Loughlin - American casting director and talent executive (age 73)

Roberta Bobbi Olson - wife of basketball coach Lute Olson (age 65)

Julie Parrish - American film, stage and television actress (age 62)

Alice Pearce - American comedic stage, film and television actress (Bewitched) (age 48)

Gilda Radner - American actress/comedienne (Saturday Night Live) (age 42)

Patsy Ramsey - mother of JonBenet Ramsey (age 49)

Natalie Cornell Rehnquist - wife of U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist (age 62)

Katharine Clark Reilly - American Actress (age 55)

Lou Halsell Rodenberger - Texas author, educator, professor, and journalist (age 82)

Janet Sandell - South African social activist (age 70)

Margi Scharff - American artist (age 52)

Dinah Shore - American actress/singer (age 77)

Linda Smith - comedienne, actress; head of the British Humanists' Association (age 48)

Jessica Tandy - Oscar-winning British-born American stage and film actress (age 85)

Elizabeth Tilberis - Harper's Bazaar Editor-in-Chief (age 51)

Joyce Wadler - New York journalist and New York Times columnist, surviving

Jackie Walters - sister of Barbara Walters (age about 58)

Angela Winbush - American rhythm and blues vocalist (surviving)

Mari Yonehara - Japanese translator, essayist, non-fiction writer and novelist (age 56)

Loretta Young - Oscar-winning American film and television actress (age 87)