Co-Founder Of KCET & Public TV Pioneer, Was 101 – Deadline

Shirley Baskin Familian, the general public TV pioneer, multimedia artist, philanthropist and businesswoman who was concerned within the founding of Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream, handed away peacefully on the evening of October 13 along with her youngsters at her facet, in accordance with her household. She was 101.

Familian was deeply concerned in KCET since its introduction in 1964. Throughout her seven a long time on the board, the channel produced the landmark collection Cosmos: A Private Voyage with Carl Sagan, produced or offered The Cousteau Odyssey and American Household for PBS. It was one of many consortium of stations that produced the Emmy-winning American Playhouse.  Huell Howser’s folksy California’s Gold was additionally produced on the KCET lot till Howser’s demise in 2013. Familian was honored by The KCET Girls’s Council on the group’s annual fundraiser, Star Luncheon, in 2011.

As an artist, Familian used stamps to create collages, photos and new variations of on a regular basis issues like a stool or a model. Her work has been exhibited on the Los Angeles Craft & People Artwork Museum and The Kids’s Museum of Indianapolis and the Nationwide Museum of Girls within the Arts.

After attending school, she married Burton “Butch” Baskin, who had simply returned from WWII. Butch Baskin joined forces with Shirley’s brother Irv, who had discovered the dairy enterprise from their father, to discovered Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream. Shirley labored proper alongside facet them to construct what initially was a six-store chain into the biggest ice cream firm on the planet.

Her first husband handed when she was 47. She was married briefly for a second time to Aaron Goldfarb earlier than he handed away. At 60, she wed Isadore Familian with whom she shared 20 years of marriage.

Shirley Baskin Familian is survived by her youngsters, Edie Baskin Bronson, Richard Baskin and Richard “Skip” Bronson; grandchildren Anabella, David, Scott and Jon; and nice grandchild Goldie Bronson.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to UCLA Neurosurgery Institute and the Barbra Streisand Girls’s Coronary heart Heart.