From Detroit Free Press:
Gladys Horton, the Detroit native whose voice led such Marvelettes hits as “Please Mr. Postman” and “Beechwood 4-5789,” died late Wednesday at a nursing home in Sherman Oaks, Calif. She was 66.
“My mother died peacefully,” Horton’s son, Vaughn Thornton, said in a statement issued this morning by the Motown Alumni Association. “She fought as long as she could.”
Horton had lived in the nursing facility since a stroke last year.
She had retired from the music business in spring 2009, noting that travel was no longer enjoyable, effectively ending the 48-year reign of the original Marvelettes.
“Love comes in two directions, from your hearts to us and from our hearts to you, and it has always been that way!” she wrote in a statement at the time.
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“Please Mr. Postman” by The Marvelettes:
• Gladys Horton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Horton
