At the point when it became clear that Ann Willis Ratray would not endure the ailments that had tormented her lately, her dedicated acting understudies — kept from visiting by the COVID-19 pandemic — asked what they could do.
"Keep in touch with her," said her child Luke. Thus they did in a surge of enthusiastic letters that acknowledged her for dispatching their professions and moving their lives.
"Much thanks to you for instructing me to act," thought of one youthful star. "I will adore you for eternity."
Her significant other, entertainer Peter Ratray, sat at her bedside and read so anyone might hear to her the many recognitions in her last days.
"She changed the direction of such countless lives," he said in declaring that Ann had passed on June 9 at their New York City home with her loved ones around her. She was 81.
