Dorothy Hayden Cudahy, first female grand marshall, passes

@ the Yank. You made me laugh out loud. We must be around the same age. Our parents MADE us listen to Dorothy against our wills. And you are right, it was only when we got older that we appreciated what she was all about. Same with Lawrence Welk- although I never got him even when older. But Dorothy made us proud to be Irish Americans.

I always remember listening to her and had the pleasure of meeting her once. She had an unmistakable voice. Sorry to read that her son Sean predeceased her.

I knew Dorothy, John and Sean and thought the world of them. I grew up listening to her radio show and her father's show before her. A worthy FIRST Grand Marshall for THE St.Patrick's Day Pardade and a Great American! R.I.P.

Yeah, I guess the Grand Marshall thing was a big deal, but it's thanks to the radio show that most people know of her and why she got to be Grand Marshall in the first place. Dorothy Hayden's radio show was a plague on my life when I was a kid, but my father loved it. So, we all got to listen to it, especially when we were trapped in a car stuck in traffic on the Triboro Bridge or whatever. {I have one very clear memory of being in the slowest ever moving traffic jam on the Triboro around 1972/73 while Dorothy Hayden 'entertained' us in the back of the car.} Funny enough, when I tuned in as twenty-something I kind of liked her show for some strange reason, but wouldn't want to admit that.