{"id":11250,"date":"2025-07-24T14:29:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11250"},"modified":"2025-07-26T09:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:10:10","slug":"ernestine-mccarren-in-a-kpr-full-page-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/ernestine-mccarren-in-a-kpr-full-page-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernestine McCarren in a KPR full-page ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a photo of my aunt, Ernestine McCarren in a full-page ad for the KPR (Kallir, Philips, Ross, Inc.) advertising agency. She helped market Tylenol and other medications in the 1980&#8217;s and 1990&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>We danced together at Christmas but dementia has now taken her lovely energy from our world. When I think of her, I hear her saying her silly and uplifting &#8220;Oh Scu! Tank you, tank you!&#8221; in my mind, her nickname for me is &#8220;Scu&#8221; as in &#8220;Scooby Doo&#8221;, and she&#8217;d say &#8220;Thank you&#8221; with this most wonderful chime-tinkling voice!<\/p>\n<p>She resides in a caring, well appointed facility near her former home in Florida.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Ernestine-Bean-KPR-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Ernestine-Bean-KPR-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Ernestine-Bean-KPR-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Ernestine-Bean-KPR-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Ernestine-Bean-KPR-90x120.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Ernestine-Bean-KPR-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Ernestine-Bean-KPR-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Ernestine-Bean-KPR-1535x2048.jpg 1535w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Ernestine-Bean-KPR-37x50.jpg 37w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Ernestine-Bean-KPR-scaled.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a photo of my aunt, Ernestine McCarren in a full-page ad for the KPR (Kallir, Philips, Ross, Inc.) advertising agency. She helped market Tylenol and other medications in the 1980&#8217;s and 1990&#8217;s. We danced together at Christmas but dementia has now taken her lovely energy from our world. When I think of her, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11259,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250\/revisions\/11259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}