Grace Marilyn Warfield passed
away Sunday, June 1, 2014 at her home in Orlando after a lifelong struggle with Acute Intermittent Porphyria. Grace was
born April 14, 1970 in LaGrange, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Grace was Miss LaGrange in 1986 and being a
talented and avid baton twirler all through school, was named Miss Twirl in 1991. Grace started her modeling career in high
school with John Casablancas. Grace
moved to Orlando in 1992. She played
Pluto at Disney and was a member of the project team that built the Tree of
Life at Animal Kingdom. Grace was a
spokesperson for the American Porphyria Foundation and organized several
fundraisers. Grace is survived by her parents, Robert and Rose Mary Warfield, sisters, Leann Warfield Brezinsky and Beverly Boesch, brother, Robert C. Warfield, brother-in-law, Jerome Brezinsky, three nephews, Joshua Boesch, Robert A. Warfield and William Warfield, and her beloved Yorkies, Teddy and Scooter.
A Mass and memorial service will be held on June 14, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at the Dobbs Funeral Home, 430 N. Kirkman Road, Orlando, FL 32811. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the American Porphyria Foundation, 4900 Woodway Drive, Suite 780, Houston, TX 77056.
5 comments:
I am sorry for your loss please accept my deepest sympathy. I hope you will find your strength and comfort in Jesus promises of the earthly resurrection(:Acts 24:15) and the renewed Paradise earth, where death will be no more and no family will have to mourn the death of a loved one.-Revelation 21:3,4; Luke 23:43. May GOD(Psalms 83:18) grant you peace and comfort now during this grievous time.-Matthew 5:4.
Dear Gracie,
I'm quite sure that you are dancing around somewhere. Now it is just a little harder to see your smile.
I'll just look more carefully into the palmetto grove from now on.
Much Love, Kelly
Warfield family,
My dear cousin lost her battle and we are heartbroken. Although we have been separated by distance the childhood memories we shared will always remain in our hearts. She was always so sweet. Thinking of you Uncle Bob, Aunt Rosemary, Leann, Bev and Robert.
Dina Valli
Oh Grace! I was just looking at my copy of "The Making of Disney's Animal Kingdom" which was sort of like our High School Yearbook for those of us who had the pleasure of working there. You signed mine "Hey Tom, "Making The Tree" we did! It was a blast. You and your jokes, humor, and sensitive side! Will look forward tp the next project with you. Keep in touch. Grace M. Warfield." I had no idea you had passed and was stunned when I saw this. I didn't even know that you had this illness, although the fact that you were a spokesperson about your illness doesn't surprise me. I was in Clermont when you passed and just had no idea. For what it is worth you still live on in the video of the Pargo Parade where we won the trophy, and I still have friends who watch our "Making the Tree" song and ask me about you and how we came up with it and won against all odds (we were one of the few Pargos who didn't not have a Project Manager involved in our Pargo group. Just our little group. You were the light that made it happen, and I owe you a lot. I had never done anything theatrical before that moment, but since that moment at the Christmas party I got involved in the community theater in Clermont, acted in shows, eventually directed shows, wrote, directed and produced 5 original full length plays that did well. Everything in my life changed after Animal Kingdom, and to a large degree because of what we did. I will always cherish that time and your friendship. Rest in Peace until we meet again, my friend.
Tom Kline
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