It was just announced today that Heather North passed away in her home on November 29, 2017 due to cardiac arrest. Heather North provided the voice of Daphne Blake for over 15 years, beginning with the second season of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? in 1970 up until the end of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo in 1985. Additionally, Heather returned to voice Daphne in the 1997 special "Bravo Dooby Doo," and also for the cast reunion movies in 2003, Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire and Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico. Her funeral will take place at 11:30am in Studio City, CA at the First Christian Church on Wednesday, December 20.
Photo credit: The Wrap
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Scoob16
12/19/2017 04:24:25 pm
We lost another one.... </3
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ScoobyGuru
12/21/2017 09:17:39 am
Truly sad news for the Scoobyverse.
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12/21/2017 10:24:56 am
Just looked it up and it appears you're right, a lot of sites list her at age 66. There are quite a few which say 71 as well, but I'm not sure if they changed it because of all the news articles listing it as that or not. Thanks for the info, ScoobyGuru! :)
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ScoobyGuru
12/21/2017 12:17:05 pm
I could be wrong, since I'm getting my info online. The SD Facebook page first had an image that said 1950, but they changed it to 1945 to line up with 71. I thought THR may have been getting her age confused with Indira Stefanianna Christopherson, who would've been 70 on Nov. 30th, but is 71 now. So either all of the sites are doing some seriously not very good reporting or the birthdate that I had to begin with is wrong. Hard to say. 12/21/2017 02:08:07 pm
I did some more investigating on this and I'm pretty sure that 1950 is the correct birth date. BehindTheVoiceActors, who are almost always reliable, list the date as 1950. If you Google search her name, it also comes up with the 1950 birth date. There's a tool which allows you to see the revision history of the page on Wikipedia as well, and people started switching it back to 1945 less than an hour after THR came out with their article. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heather_North&diff=prev&oldid=816189535
ScoobyGuru
12/21/2017 03:25:17 pm
I just learned that her age was indeed 71 (born 12/13/1945), according to her death certificate, which was obtained by TMZ. http://www.tmz.com/2017/12/21/heather-north-daphne-voice-scooby-doo-death-certificate/
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12/21/2017 04:28:05 pm
Nice find! Odd though how her death certificate lists her date of death as November 29, 2017 at 9:50am, whereas all other sites incorrectly list it as being November 30. It's also quite interesting that her occupation is listed as "homemaker," especially since she had such a famous acting career!
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