Donna Wold, who inspired Charles Schulz's 'Little Red-Haired Girl' in 'Peanuts,' dies

[FONT=&quot]Her hair was scarlet, and she was the one who got away.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]In 1989, Donna Mae Wold was outed around the world as the longed-for “little red-haired girl” in the “Peanuts” comics strip. “Good Grief,” Rheta Grimsley Johnson’s biography of Minnesota cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, devoted an entire chapter to Wold, the Minnesota woman who got away — from him and from character Charlie Brown.

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[FONT=&quot]In the strip, loosely based on the cartoonist’s childhood, Charlie Brown pined for the girl but never chatted her up — and then she moved, just before the sixth-grade swim party. Poof, gone.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The “little red-haired girl” faded out of Charlie Brown’s universe, but Wold lived decades longer in the real world, inspiring others beyond Schulz.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“Donna had a whole, complete life,” said Cesar Gallegos, an archivist at the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, Calif. “For her, that was a moment in her life.”[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Wold, who lived in Richfield, died Aug. 9 of heart failure and complications from diabetes. She was 87.

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Fiddytree said:

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She lived a pretty good life and had a very large family. In addition to having a husband and four children, she was also a foster mother of 40 children. [/FONT]

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TheGoverness said:

40?! That's quite the handful.

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