Wednesday, January 15, 2025 - Hollywood actress Dalyce Curry has d!ed in the harrowing Los Angeles wildfires.
The 95-year-old grandmother's remains were sadly located in
her destroyed home in Altadena amid the devastating Eaton Fire.
It was confirmed on Sunday, Jan. 12, by the coroner that
Dalyce's remains had been found.
Dalyce, who was known as Momma D to her family, appeared in
the likes of The Blues Brothers, The Ten Commandments and Lady Sings the Blues
over the years.
Her granddaughter had dropped her off at her home at
midnight on Tuesday, Jan. 7, after a long day of hospital appointments, and she
left for the evening - but sadly it was confirmed the 95-year-old passed away.
When she woke up in the morning, Kelley saw a text that the
power had gone out in her grandmother's house and headed over to the Altadena
area.
Tragically, an officer told her: "I'm sorry your
grandmother's property is gone. It totally burned down."
The officer suggested she'd go to the Pasadena Civic Center,
where residents had been sent who had been displaced by the fire.
On the Friday, Jan. 10, Kelley was taken to her
grandmother's home.
"It was total devastation. Everything was gone except
her blue Cadillac," she recalled.
However, it has now sadly been confirmed that her
grandmother has d! Ed.
On Sunday, Jan. 12, when the search for her grandmother was
still underway, Kelley told Eyewitness News she was "still praying for a
miracle".
She said: "Honestly we don't feel very hopeful that
she's still here with us."
Whilst the search was still on for Dalyce Curry, her
granddaughters had paid tribute to her.
She told KABC: "Our souls are aching, our hearts are
broken. She loved Altadena. There was no one who loved that city more than my
grandmother. She said she had not yet begun to live, so I knew she would just
be here beyond 100. She still wanted to date, she wanted to find a husband ...
They have to do better with the emergency system because there's a that was a
very elderly kind of community.
"There's a lot of retirees there, and we can't just
rely on the cellphone, because elderly people don't really do cellphones. They
don't. That's not the only way we should notify people when there's evacuation
orders."
She added: "And why did it not happen earlier? Why was
I allowed to have access to her home at midnight and not have any danger
warnings? No highway signs up the way saying, 'This is an evacuation
zone."
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