Did you know that Della Reese, actress who spent almost a decade playing a down-to-earth heavenly messenger on the CBS series “Touched by an Angel” died she was 86?

Did you know that Della Reese, the husky-voiced singer and actress who spent almost a decade playing a down-to-earth heavenly messenger on the CBS series “Touched by an Angel” and became an ordained minister in real life, died on Sunday night at her home in Encino, Calif, she was 86?

Did you know that Reese had diabetes?
 

Did you know that Reese had been under contract to Jubilee Records for three years when, in 1957, she had her first big hit record, the romantic ballad “And That Reminds Me?”

Did you know that Reese was named the year’s most promising “girl singer” by Billboard, Variety and Cash Box, she was soon making regular appearances on the leading television variety shows of the day?

Did you know that Reese biggest hit was “Don’t You Know” — adapted from “Musetta’s Waltz,” an aria from “La Bohème” — which reached No. 2 on the Billboard singles chart in 1959?

Did you know that Reese became best known as an actress, particularly in the sentimental drama series “Touched by an Angel,” which had its premiere in 1994 and evolved into one of prime

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time’s top-rated shows?

Did you know that Touched By An Angel placed in the Nielsen Top 10 from 1996 to 2000, with an
average of more than 20 million weekly viewers at one point?
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Did you know that Touched By an Angel series lasted nine years?

Did you know that Reese’s salary from $40,000 to $100,000 per episode?

 Did you know that CBS’s made an agreement with Reese to fly from the set in Utah to California every weekend for church services?

Did you know that in the 1980s, Reese had been ordained as a minister by the Universal Foundation for Better Living and founded the Understanding Principles for Better Living Church?

Did you know that Reese church was a nondenominational Christian ministry and she delivered Sunday sermons there for many years?

Did you know that Delloreese Patricia Early was born on July 6, 1931, in Detroit?

Did you know that

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Reese 
e a vocalist with the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra. Although her biggest hits came in her youth, she continued to record well into her 60s and received a Grammy Award nomination for her 1998 gospel album, “My Soul Feels Better Right Now.”

Did you know that Reese made her television acting debut as a nightclub owner on the police series “The Mod Squad” in 1968?

Did you know that Reese in 1980, while taping a musical segment, she suffered a brain aneurysm that almost proved fatal?

Did you know that after multiple operations, she returned to work?

Did you know that Reese married Vermont Taliaferro, a Michigan factory worker, in 1951, and divorced in 1958?

Did you know that Reese married her second husband, from 1959 until their divorce in 1961?

Did you know that Reese married Leroy Gray, an accountant?

Did you know that Reese had a brief 1961 marriage to Mercer Ellington, Duke Ellington’s son, was annulled?

Did you know that in 1983 she married Franklin Lett, a concert producer, who survives her?

Did you know that ReeseA daughter, Delloreese Daniels Owens, died in 2002?
 

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