Travel & Experiences
An online museum, a writers workshop and a new PBS documentary underscore the staying power of the late columnist’s humor.
May 7, 2006
Archives
Re “Erma Bombeck, Columnist, Dies After Transplant,” April 23: Erma Bombeck was more than clever, she was bright; she was more than funny, she was nice; she was all the things our mothers wished we were, and we wished our children to be.
April 30, 1996
Television
Erma Bombeck, who has been the resident humorist on “Good Morning America” since the program debuted Nov 3, 1975, will make her last regular appearance on the early morning ABC series Thursday.
Sept. 20, 1986
Erma Bombeck, columnist and author of “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries--What Am I Doing in the Pits?”
Sept. 4, 1985
Erma Bombeck--columnist and author of “The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank” and “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries--What Am I Doing in the Pits?”
Sept. 5, 1985
Books
Writers: The homemaker-turned-humor author and speaker succumbs to complications at age 69.
April 23, 1996
High School Sports
I commend the Tournament of Roses Assn. for selection of grand marshal of the 1986 Rose Parade.
Sept. 15, 1985
* About six years ago I had correspondence with the late Erma Bombeck, asking permission to do a reading of her book “Family, the Ties that Bind--and Gag,” as a fund-raiser for my Boy Scout troop at Camarillo State Hospital.
April 27, 1996
Today The Times presents the spring issue of Traveling In Style magazine, with features by humorist Erma Bombeck, ex-U.N.
March 15, 1987
Business
I agree with Erma Bombeck (View, Sept. 6).
Oct. 4, 1992