Biography

She was the organist at Shea Stadium for the New York Mets from 1964 until 1979 and worked a day job at the Muzak Corporation from 1963 until 1978 from a clerk to Vice President in charge of programming and recording elevator music.

In 1954, she was playing piano and organ at nightclubs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin when she was approached by the newly transplanted Braves to be an organist which she accepted.

She lived at the Lillian Booth Actors' Home in Englewood, New Jersey from 2008 until her death.

In the 1980s, she was a regular fixture at the Zinno restaurant nightclub and restaurant in West Village, New York City.

She began her career as a jazz pianist at 11 years old on a radio show in Gary, Indiana and became a house pianist for a radio station in Chicago at 13 where she accompanied Ethel Waters and Sophie Tucker.