Isabel Terry - Coxville Cemetery, Parke County, Indiana
Posted by: 
Gypsysoul4
N 39° 38.846 W 087° 17.499
16S E 474977 N 4388667
Famous hollywood agent Isabel Terry is buried next to her equally famous husband Tex Terry in the Coxville Cemetery in Parke County, Indiana.
Waymark Code: WMJA3V
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 10/17/2013
Views: 2
Marie Isabel Draesemer was born on March 26, 1913 in San Francisco. As a young girl, Isabel loved the stage, and at age 16, won a Shakespearean contest in her local school district. But rather than move into acting, Isabel found careers in radio production and talent management. In 1938, she owned and operated Draesemer Radio Productions, writing radio scripts and teaching a course in radio broadcasting.
By 1947, she decided to become an actor's agent and founded The Isabel Draesemer Agency, where she guaranteed her place in history when she discovered a teenaged college student and a future Hollywood icon named James Byron Dean. Isabel needed to find a new face for a Pepsi ad, so she gathered up several students from UCLA and picked Dean. After encouraging him to move to New York where stage work would be more plentiful, James Dean went on to become one of Hollywood's most enduring legends.
Isabel coached a number of actors to stardom, including Hugh O'Brian, Buddy Ebsen, Joey Lawrence, Roger Perry, and Tex Terry. "I had sworn I would never marry an actor" she said, but in 1964 while coaching the career of b-movie stuntman and 'heavy' Edward Earl 'Tex' Terry, Isabel Draesemer became Isabel Terry. When Tex retired from the movie business in 1972, the couple moved to Mansfield, Indiana and then to Tex's hometown of Coxville, Indiana. Nestled in Indiana's famous Parke County with its collection of covered bridges, the Terry's owned and operated "Tex's Longhorn Tavern". Tex and Izzy enjoyed their retirement years in Coxville and were quite a popular couple in the area.
Isabel passed this life on April 1, 2002 at age 89, and joined her husband in their final resting place on the hilltop of the Coxville Cemetery.
Source: www.texterry.com
Description:
Isabel Draesemer Terry discovered James Dean who went on to become a hollywood legend. She also coached a number of other actors to stardom, including Hugh O'Brian, Buddy Ebsen, Joey Lawrence, Roger Perry, and Tex Terry.
Date of birth: 03/26/1913
Date of death: 04/01/2002
Area of notoriety: Entertainment
Marker Type: Headstone
Setting: Outdoor
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Dawn to Dusk 7 days a week
Fee required?: No
Web site: [Web Link]
|
Visit Instructions:
To post a visit log for waymarks in this category, you must have personally visited the waymark location. When logging your visit, please provide a note describing your visit experience, along with any additional information about the waymark or the surrounding area that you think others may find interesting.
We especially encourage you to include any pictures that you took during your visit to the waymark. However, only respectful photographs are allowed. Logs which include photographs representing any form of disrespectful behavior (including those showing personal items placed on or near the grave location) will be subject to deletion.