For the Record - Sept. 15, 2007
Wyman obituary: The obituary of actress Jane Wyman in Tuesday’s California section stated that she was born Sarah Jane Mayfield Fulks. According to a biography approved by her family and posted on a tribute website, she was born Sarah Jane Mayfield and “assumed the name Sarah Jane Fulks in honor of her neighbors, Richard and Emma Fulks, who unofficially adopted her after her father died.”
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