Myrna Ross
MYRNA ROSS is best remembered today for having been in a half dozen of the mid 1960s beach movies in which she played 'Puss', the brunette girl who was in ERIC von ZIPPER'S gang.
with TIMOTHY CAREY, ALBERTA NELSON & LINDA EVANS as Sugar Kane
from 1965's BeACH BLaNKeT BiNGO
As TONY FRANCIOSA'S protective secretary Sally in the 1966 ANN MARGRET film THE SWiNGER
While in Las Vegas over the July 4th holiday in 1967, she wed STUART NELSON, a successful Beverly Hills men's clothier.on an episode of GET SMART in which she played Fatima, an Arabian princess
MYRNA worked less as the two decided to start a family. In 1970 they welcomed a daughter whom they named TIFFANY and 3 years later, a second daughter SABRINA was born.
On December 26, 1975, the NELSONS along with MYRNA'S mother, and automobile publishing magnate BOB PETERSON, his wife MARGIE and their two small boys were headed to the LITTLE KING RANCH in Colorado for a skiing vacation.
After they arrived at Stapleton Airport in Denver they were to take a chartered plane for the final leg of their destination. BOB PETERSON had some business that needed his attention so he and MARGIE stayed at the airport so he could make a conference call. The NELSONS, MYRNA'S mother and the PETERSON boys took the first charter plane out with the senior PETERSONS planning on following in a few hours.
The plane went off course during a snow storm and crashed outside Granby, Colorado killing all on board.
MYRNA was 36.
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