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Article: Lea was a devoted Packers fan
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 21, 2001
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Lea was a devoted Packers fan
She advised her son not to write anything bad about the team
By AMY RABIDEAU SILVERS
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Thursday, June 21, 2001
Gladys A. Lea was a loyal Green Bay Packers fan, but not just
because her son, Bud Lea, was a Milwaukee Sentinel reporter and
columnist who wrote about the team.
During the last season -- when she was 101 -- a health aide made
the mistake of coming into her Green Bay nursing home room and
turning off the television during a pre-season game.
By the following morning, no one was confused about Lea's
television privileges.
"My mother really got perturbed," Bud Lea said. "The next day
there was a sign on her door: `When the ...