Photos: Grace Bradley Boyd | 1913-2010

Grace Bradley Boyd and Hopalong Cassidy look-alike Joe Sullivan celebrate what would have been William Boyd’s 100th birthday in 1995 in Lone Pine, Calif., the location for many of his westerns.
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Grace Bradley Boyd poses with two of the actors in numerous “Hopalong Cassidy” films, Jimmy Rogers, left, the son of Will Rogers, and Rand Brooks, who played sidekick Lucky Jenkins, during the centennial celebration of William Boyd’s life and career. The gathering was held in 1995 in Lone Pine, Calif., where “Hopalong Cassidy” was filmed.
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Grace Bradley Boyd, wearing a black, beaded western gown she designed and an engraved necklace from Hoppy, stands in front of items to be auctioned at a 1995 fundraiser for South Coast Medical Center in Laguna Beach. With her is Joe Orsak, wearing a black tuxedo accented by silver collar tips and a bolo tie and holding a black “Hoppy look-alike” cowboy hat.
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At 85, Grace Bradley Boyd teaches tai chi, a series of postures and exercises as an aid to meditation, to seniors at Leisure World in 1999.
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Grace Bradley Boyd is reflected in a mirror as she tries on a hand-painted scarf at the the annual Festival of the Arts in Laguna Beach in 2000.
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