Bobbe Van Heusen

AKA:

Josephine Brock, The Brox Sisters, Bobbe Brox, Josephine Van Heusen

Birth Name:

Dagmar Brock

Birth Date:

November 28,1901

Birth Place:

Memphis, Tennessee

Death Date:

May 2, 1999

Place of Death:

Glens Falls, New York

Age:

Cause of Death:

Natural Causes

Cemetery Name:

Desert Memorial Park

Claim to Fame:

Music

Associates:

Jimmy Van Heusen

Bobbe Van Heusen was married to the famous composer Jimmy Van Heusen. She was part of The Brox Sisters, which was an American trio of singing sisters, enjoying their greatest popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s. The trio performed in Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue from 1921 to 1924, at the New York Theatre. Berlin's hit song "Everybody Step" was written for and debuted by the sisters. They recorded a number of Berlin compositions, including "Bring on the Pepper," "How Many Times," "Lazy," "School House Blues," "Some Sunny Day," and "Tokio Blues." In 1925 and 1926, they performed on Broadway in the musical comedy The Cocoanuts, with the Marx Brothers. In 1927, they appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 at the New Amsterdam Theatre with comedian Eddie Cantor. The Brox Sisters were among the earliest artists to appear on Warner Bros.' Vitaphone sound shorts in the late 1920s. They were featured in three productions: "Glorifying the American Song," "Down South" (both in 1928), and "Headin' South" (1929).

Fun Fact

Ninety-Eight-year-old Bobbe Brox was the last surviving member of the Brox Sisters, and the widow of the songwriter James Van Heusen.

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Desert Memorial Park

31-705 Da Vall Drive

Cathedral City, California, 92262

USA

North America

Map:

Grave Location:

Section B-8, Plot 62

Grave Location Description

As you enter the cemetery from Ramon Road, drive 100 feet and park near the tree with the B-8 sign. Walk to the to the 1st row to the right of the tree and Bobbe along with her husband are buried side by side at the 8th marker down the row.