Suzanne Waldron

Suzanne M. "Sue" Waldron was born in Portland, Oregon to Henrietta (Beyer) and Stuart Arthur Waldron. They had married in Butte, Montana 8-2-1921, moving to Portland in 1929 where Henrietta was Apartment Manager. Stuart was Sales Supervisor at Northwest Electric Co. In 1951 Waldron began at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico where she received stage and radio drama experience. In 1952 she began acting in the Fir Acres suspense drama "Rebecca" playing the role of Mrs. Danver's mysterious but domineering housekeeper. Later she played in "An Inspector Calls" as Sybil a socially prominent wife. Suzanne joined the Magic Ring Repertory Company the play "Sight Unseen" beginning November 1953 at: Alexander Oumansky's Magic Ring Theater-In-The-Round. On 9 October 1957 "House of Horror" debuted on KPTV with Waldron as host "Tarantula Ghoul" described as a cross between Vampira and a Charles Addams cartoon in The New Yorker. Around Halloween 1958, Meadows Records released the 45rpm "Tarantula Ghoul & Her Gravediggers" - "King Kong" with flip side "Graveyard Rock." On 30 December 1959, Waldron married John Petty in Stevenson, Washington. Beginning 19 February 1960 Waldron was back on stage, joining the Portland Civic Theatre with "The Desk Set" and co-starred in "See How They Run" in 1962; with "Threepenny Opera" in 1962 playing "Jenny". Waldron continued in theatre until the late 1970's. In June 1982 Suzanne Petty passed away in Omaha, Nebraska at age 50 from complications caused by colon cancer.