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When Adam McCarron of Chester, N.S., heard about comedy legend Betty White's death on Friday, he went straight to his basement to dig through some old boxes.

McCarron's father, Owen McCarron, was a well-known Canadian cartoonist and had worked for Marvel Comics and DC Comics while living in Halifax. He died in 2004.

"It's nice to see something like that that was up around us, right here in our province," McCarron said of his father's work and the people it reached. Owen McCarron was a well-known Canadian cartoonist who had worked for Marvel Comics and DC Comics while living in Halifax. He died in 2004. In 1988, Owen McCarron was working at the Chronicle Herald in Halifax, where he had started a comic section in the Saturday paper.comic strip, which was created by Jim Davis, he wrote to celebrities asking if they, along with their pets, wanted to wish Garfield, the feline title character, a happy birthday in the paper.McCarron said his father also received photos of Vanna White and her cat, as well as former U.S. president Ronald Reagan with his wife, Nancy, and their dog.

When McCarron found the photo and letter, he decided to post them in a Facebook group for others to see."I think Betty White touched a lot of people," he said. "She was a very good actress, she had been in a lot of shows. There's not many people who didn't know who Betty White was.

 

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