Hollywood actress Dalyce Curry has died 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 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 grandaughter had dropped her off to her home at midnight on Tuesday 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 Altadeana 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, 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 died. On Sunday, when the search 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 is no one who loved that city more than my grandmother. She said she had yet began 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 be to have access to her home at midnight and not have any danger warnings? No highway signs up the way saying, ‘This is evacuation zone.’”
Loree Beamer-Wilkinson added: “She just loved life, and at 95 she was still very active. She looked beautiful – she took really good care of herself, she took great pride in who she was and who she represented — and she was an amazing grandmother. I felt so privileged to know this woman and to have her as my grandmother.”