If a book/movie character lived to great age

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Like so many others of their generation, Lulu Moppet and Tubby Tompkins married young in the '60s and went through a messy divorce twenty years later. They haven’t spoken to each other since and their whereabouts are unknown.

Iggy Inch dropped out of high school to work as an auto mechanic, but eventually got his GED. He stayed at the garage until he lost a hand while tuning an engine and now exists on disability.

After a furious row with their parents, his sister Annie moved out of the family home at the age of 16, had a lesbian affair with her new flatmate, and became a gay rights activist.

Their childhood friend Willy went to Canada to escape the draft. He now spends each day camped out on the sidewalk in Toronto’s Chinatown with his two dogs and a cardboard box left open for donations from passers-by.

Eddie, another childhood friend who grew bored with living in Suburbia in 1960s America, joined the Marine Corps on his 18th birthday and was killed a year later while on his first combat patrol in Vietnam.

The obnoxious Wilbur van Snobbe, the local little rich kid, was indicted for insider trading and tax fraud in the '80s and spent the next 30 years in a Federal penitentiary. He’s usually remembered at reunions nowadays with the remark “Who’ve thought with all that money he’d end up in jail?”

Wilbur’s girlfriend Gloria Darling gained a reputation as a slut in high school and took off for the West Coast as soon as she was able to. She worked as a high-priced hooker in LA until she was busted for possession and spent several years in rehab. She’s now a Hollywood madam with a high-priced stable of barely legal girls. Whenever she’s reminded of Wilbur today, her favorite comment is “I can’t believe I ever liked that stuck-up little prick!”

Little Alvin Jones was sent to reform school when he was nine. As an adult, he had a rap sheet so long it reached the floor when unrolled. He finally found religion and is now a Volunteer Minister in the Church of Scientology.

The old gang’s parents succumbed long ago to Alzheimer’s, as did Uncle Feeb, Miss Feeny, Mr McNabbem, Mr Kohlkutz, Mr Pestle, Crispy Bacon, and Mysto the Magician.

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Chubby, Tubby’s identical cousin, suffered from hypertension for many years until he finally died of diabetes and a ruptured colon at the age of 56.

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While Eddie Valiant died several years ago (he must’ve been born in the teens or even earlier, based on what we see in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and his years spent in heavy drinking would’ve put a strain on his system beside age), Roger and Jessica Rabbit are cartoon characters and not subject to the usual laws of time and space. Both, however, stay away from politics in the roles as Rubber-Limbed Buffoon and Incredibly Unreal Sexpot (like Betty Boop, she still has “got it”.)

But they had a son who they named after Eddie Valiant, and who passed himself off as human. He had a successful career as a singer/songwriter, although he had to forge his birth date and fake his own death.

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Bartholomew Zabladowski née Collins never played piano again. He followed in his step-father’s footsteps and became a plumber. He got a patent on a device to muffle pipe noise. He’s retired and lives in S. Cal.

His parents pre-deceased him.

(Notes: the actor who played Bartholomew, and Jeff on Lassie, died age 54. August Zabladowski and Heloise Collins were a couple in real life.)

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I do!

I had actually seen that letter some time back - but I think I missed that it was actually pretty famous at the time. And rightly so!

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Various characters from “The Day After”.
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=401147&highlight=Madigan

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Several of the members of Our Gang remain. E.g., Fatty, Ken, Happy. Margaret (Kerry) continued to sing and dance but never made it big.

Farina got a hard beating in the Zoot Suit Riots and was able to vote for Obama in the first election.

The less said of Mickey the better.