“One night Marilyn was exhausted and said “Do you want to roll up my hair for me?” She showed me how, but I didn’t get it quite right. It includes rare family photographs and a number of previously published letters and anecdotes of some of their times spent together such as this: In 1967 Bernice took over the care of their mother Gladys Baker, who went to live with her.īernice’s 1994 book “My Sister Marilyn” sheds light on Marilyn’s early life and last years. Marilyn left $10,000 to her half sister in her final will. ![]() They were in touch with some regularity in the last years of Marilyn’s life and Marilyn visited her sister then living in Gainesville, during her 1961 trip to Florida.īerniece was contacted following Marilyn’s death and with Joe DiMaggio she helped arrange her funeral. In 1961 Bernice accompanied Marilyn to Arthur Miller’s country home in Roxbury, where Marilyn had lived to pick up the last of her things. Fred Lawrence Guiles writes that the half sisters met up several times during the fifties and Marilyn had occassion to introduce Mrs Miracle to Joe DiMaggio. It’s in Florida, Clearwater or St Petersburg.” Biographer Donald Spoto mentions Norma Jeane briefly visiting her half sister in Tennessee in the summer of 1944. Marilyn told earlier biographer Maurice Zolotow, “I have never seen my half sister. During Norma Jeane’s upbringing, Berniece lived with her father in Kentucky. Father Jack Baker took Berniece and her brother Jack to Kentucky with him in 1923 after divorcing Marilyn’s mother.Īccounts conflict about how much contact there was between the half sisters over the years. Photo taken from ‘Find A Grave’ uploaded by “Jc-roadrunner.’īernice Inez Gladys Baker was born to Jack and Gladys Baker on July 30th 1919 - seven years before the birth of Norma Jeane Mortenson. Our love and thoughts are with the family and we shall forever more ‘hold a good thought’ for Bernice. ![]() ![]() She now rests eternally beside her husband Paris in Pineville Cemetery Kentucky. Although it was believed that Miracle was alive and well, news spread through the Marilyn fan community on January 14th 2022 that she had indeed passed away on May 25th 2014, aged 94. Marilyn Remembered is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Bernice Baker Miracle, Marilyn’s sister, back in 2014. ~ Berniece Baker Miracle, speaking about her sister Marilyn. She loved people, she loved animals and she was very serious about her work.” “My sister was a very hard working person.
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