BEATRICE KOCHOROSKY
Stage and Screen Dancer Is Dead
Miss Beatrice Kochorosky, 37, formerly of Two Rivers, who until taken ill
followed the career of a professional dancer and actress, died this morning
in a hospital at Rochester, Minn.
She was known on the musical comedy state as "Bea Kent."
Miss Kochorosky had been in failing health since undergoing an operation in
Chicago six years ago. With her at her death was a brother, Edward, of Two
Rivers.
Her body is to be brought to the Klein and Stangel Inc., funeral home, Two
Rivers, with services to be held early next week.
She was born in Two Rivers in 1911, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Kochorosky and was graduated from Washington high school there in 1929. She
was active in dramatics and music in school and a year after graduation
joined the Fanchon and Marco musical production in Milwaukee. Under the name
of Miss Kent she attracted the attention of Ernie Young and joined one of his
revues.
Later she went to Hollywood where she appeared in a number of the screen's
musical comedies, which among them featured Jack Benny and Martha Rae, in 1936
she was selected among a group of American dancers for a show in London, England,
where her company appeared before the king and queen of Great Britain. Later the
company was booked for a long engagement in Paris.
In the late thirties Miss Kent returned to the states and joined the cast of the
widely known stage show, "Louisiana Purchase." Retiring from the stage Miss Kent
entered radio work with a dramatic sketch over Station WLS in Chicago. It was
there that she became seriously ill and sumbitted to an operation in 1943.
For a few years she remained at Two Rivers and last summer went to Milwaukee to
reside with an aunt, Mrs. Theckla Meyer.
Survivors are three brothers, Frank and Edward of Two Rivers and Stanley, of
Milwaukee.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Friday, January 21, 1949 P.16
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Services for Miss Beatrice Kochorosky, 37, of Two Rivers, musical comedy and
screen actress who died yesterday at Rochester, Minn., will be held at 9 a.m.
Monday at the Sacred Heart Catholic church, Two Rivers. Burial will be in
Calvary cemetery there.
The body may be viewed at the Klein and Stangel Inc. funeral home, Two Rivers,
after 2 p.m. Sunday, where the rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Sunday.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Saturday, January 22, 1949 P.2.
Stage and Screen Dancer Is Dead
Miss Beatrice Kochorosky, 37, formerly of Two Rivers, who until taken ill
followed the career of a professional dancer and actress, died this morning
in a hospital at Rochester, Minn.
She was known on the musical comedy state as "Bea Kent."
Miss Kochorosky had been in failing health since undergoing an operation in
Chicago six years ago. With her at her death was a brother, Edward, of Two
Rivers.
Her body is to be brought to the Klein and Stangel Inc., funeral home, Two
Rivers, with services to be held early next week.
She was born in Two Rivers in 1911, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Kochorosky and was graduated from Washington high school there in 1929. She
was active in dramatics and music in school and a year after graduation
joined the Fanchon and Marco musical production in Milwaukee. Under the name
of Miss Kent she attracted the attention of Ernie Young and joined one of his
revues.
Later she went to Hollywood where she appeared in a number of the screen's
musical comedies, which among them featured Jack Benny and Martha Rae, in 1936
she was selected among a group of American dancers for a show in London, England,
where her company appeared before the king and queen of Great Britain. Later the
company was booked for a long engagement in Paris.
In the late thirties Miss Kent returned to the states and joined the cast of the
widely known stage show, "Louisiana Purchase." Retiring from the stage Miss Kent
entered radio work with a dramatic sketch over Station WLS in Chicago. It was
there that she became seriously ill and sumbitted to an operation in 1943.
For a few years she remained at Two Rivers and last summer went to Milwaukee to
reside with an aunt, Mrs. Theckla Meyer.
Survivors are three brothers, Frank and Edward of Two Rivers and Stanley, of
Milwaukee.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Friday, January 21, 1949 P.16
********
Services for Miss Beatrice Kochorosky, 37, of Two Rivers, musical comedy and
screen actress who died yesterday at Rochester, Minn., will be held at 9 a.m.
Monday at the Sacred Heart Catholic church, Two Rivers. Burial will be in
Calvary cemetery there.
The body may be viewed at the Klein and Stangel Inc. funeral home, Two Rivers,
after 2 p.m. Sunday, where the rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Sunday.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Saturday, January 22, 1949 P.2.
BEATRICE KOCHOROSKY
Stage and Screen Dancer Is Dead
Miss Beatrice Kochorosky, 37, formerly of Two Rivers, who until taken ill
followed the career of a professional dancer and actress, died this morning
in a hospital at Rochester, Minn.
She was known on the musical comedy state as "Bea Kent."
Miss Kochorosky had been in failing health since undergoing an operation in
Chicago six years ago. With her at her death was a brother, Edward, of Two
Rivers.
Her body is to be brought to the Klein and Stangel Inc., funeral home, Two
Rivers, with services to be held early next week.
She was born in Two Rivers in 1911, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Kochorosky and was graduated from Washington high school there in 1929. She
was active in dramatics and music in school and a year after graduation
joined the Fanchon and Marco musical production in Milwaukee. Under the name
of Miss Kent she attracted the attention of Ernie Young and joined one of his
revues.
Later she went to Hollywood where she appeared in a number of the screen's
musical comedies, which among them featured Jack Benny and Martha Rae, in 1936
she was selected among a group of American dancers for a show in London, England,
where her company appeared before the king and queen of Great Britain. Later the
company was booked for a long engagement in Paris.
In the late thirties Miss Kent returned to the states and joined the cast of the
widely known stage show, "Louisiana Purchase." Retiring from the stage Miss Kent
entered radio work with a dramatic sketch over Station WLS in Chicago. It was
there that she became seriously ill and sumbitted to an operation in 1943.
For a few years she remained at Two Rivers and last summer went to Milwaukee to
reside with an aunt, Mrs. Theckla Meyer.
Survivors are three brothers, Frank and Edward of Two Rivers and Stanley, of
Milwaukee.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Friday, January 21, 1949 P.16
********
Services for Miss Beatrice Kochorosky, 37, of Two Rivers, musical comedy and
screen actress who died yesterday at Rochester, Minn., will be held at 9 a.m.
Monday at the Sacred Heart Catholic church, Two Rivers. Burial will be in
Calvary cemetery there.
The body may be viewed at the Klein and Stangel Inc. funeral home, Two Rivers,
after 2 p.m. Sunday, where the rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Sunday.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Saturday, January 22, 1949 P.2.
Stage and Screen Dancer Is Dead
Miss Beatrice Kochorosky, 37, formerly of Two Rivers, who until taken ill
followed the career of a professional dancer and actress, died this morning
in a hospital at Rochester, Minn.
She was known on the musical comedy state as "Bea Kent."
Miss Kochorosky had been in failing health since undergoing an operation in
Chicago six years ago. With her at her death was a brother, Edward, of Two
Rivers.
Her body is to be brought to the Klein and Stangel Inc., funeral home, Two
Rivers, with services to be held early next week.
She was born in Two Rivers in 1911, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Kochorosky and was graduated from Washington high school there in 1929. She
was active in dramatics and music in school and a year after graduation
joined the Fanchon and Marco musical production in Milwaukee. Under the name
of Miss Kent she attracted the attention of Ernie Young and joined one of his
revues.
Later she went to Hollywood where she appeared in a number of the screen's
musical comedies, which among them featured Jack Benny and Martha Rae, in 1936
she was selected among a group of American dancers for a show in London, England,
where her company appeared before the king and queen of Great Britain. Later the
company was booked for a long engagement in Paris.
In the late thirties Miss Kent returned to the states and joined the cast of the
widely known stage show, "Louisiana Purchase." Retiring from the stage Miss Kent
entered radio work with a dramatic sketch over Station WLS in Chicago. It was
there that she became seriously ill and sumbitted to an operation in 1943.
For a few years she remained at Two Rivers and last summer went to Milwaukee to
reside with an aunt, Mrs. Theckla Meyer.
Survivors are three brothers, Frank and Edward of Two Rivers and Stanley, of
Milwaukee.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Friday, January 21, 1949 P.16
********
Services for Miss Beatrice Kochorosky, 37, of Two Rivers, musical comedy and
screen actress who died yesterday at Rochester, Minn., will be held at 9 a.m.
Monday at the Sacred Heart Catholic church, Two Rivers. Burial will be in
Calvary cemetery there.
The body may be viewed at the Klein and Stangel Inc. funeral home, Two Rivers,
after 2 p.m. Sunday, where the rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Sunday.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Saturday, January 22, 1949 P.2.
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