# Suzanne Crough - little redheaded girl Partridge died. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2015, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suzanne-crough-little-redheaded-girl-partridge-died/723334 "2015-06-24T07:58:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suzanne-crough-little-redheaded-girl-partridge-died/723334/1 "2015-06-24T07:58:09Z")
She was the other ginger cast member along with Danny Bonaduce. Younger people today may not realize how popular the Partridge Family was. David Cassidy and a few years later, his brother Shaun became pop stars because of this show. I Wouldn’t expect her to be the first kid to die. 52 years old. Don’t know much else to say. R.I.P. > **[Suzanne Crough, best remembered as Tracy on ‘The Partridge Family,’ dies at 52](https://www.nydailynews.com/2015/04/28/suzanne-crough-best-remembered-as-tracy-on-the-partridge-family-dies-at-52/)** > > Suzanne Crough, who portrayed Tracy Partridge on “The Partridge Family,” died Monday at 52, TMZ reports. Family members said Crough died suddenly at her home in Nevada. The cause wasn&#… > [@](#): > > As a ginger-headed tyke, Crough played the pop music family’s youngest child and tambourine player for the run of the series, from 1970 to 1974. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suzanne-crough-little-redheaded-girl-partridge-died/723334/2 "2015-06-24T10:59:55Z")
How sad! RIP. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suzanne-crough-little-redheaded-girl-partridge-died/723334/3 "2015-06-24T13:49:48Z")
She died in April, there was a thread about it [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=755593&highlight=crough). ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suzanne-crough-little-redheaded-girl-partridge-died/723334/4 "2015-06-25T01:38:56Z")
I didn’t notice the date. NY daily news almost always lists only current news articles. I saw this obit listed and thought it was current news. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suzanne-crough-little-redheaded-girl-partridge-died/723334/5 "2015-06-25T02:05:15Z")
So, to you, she was undead for two months. Which makes this a zombie thread from the OP. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suzanne-crough-little-redheaded-girl-partridge-died/723334/6 "2015-06-25T02:13:35Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I Wouldn’t expect her to be the first kid to die. Who woulda thunk? Bonaduce, Dey, and Cassidy must be a death pool regulars and yet the nice ordinary girl goes first. RIP Suzanne. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suzanne-crough-little-redheaded-girl-partridge-died/723334/7 "2015-06-25T02:49:14Z")
I thought I was at least 5 years older than the second littlest Partridge. Nope. I guess I thought I wa more grown up than I was. I wonder what happened. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suzanne-crough-little-redheaded-girl-partridge-died/723334/8 "2015-06-25T06:42:09Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > She was the other ginger cast member along with Danny Bonaduce. Younger people today may not realize how popular the Partridge Family was. David Cassidy and a few years later, his brother Shaun became pop stars because of this show. Didn’t the _Hardy Boys_ make Shaun Cassidy a star? In fact, his popularity didn’t happen until 1976, two years after the _Partridge Family_ had ended. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suzanne-crough-little-redheaded-girl-partridge-died/723334/9 "2015-06-25T06:46:19Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Didn’t the _Hardy Boys_ make Shaun Cassidy a star? In fact, his popularity didn’t happen until 1976, two years after the _Partridge Family_ had ended. Aceplace57 may have been thinking of **this guy** : > **[Bobby Sherman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sherman)** > > Robert Cabot Sherman Jr. (born July 22, 1943) is an American singer and actor who was a teen idol in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He had a series of successful singles, notably the million-seller "Little Woman" (1969). Sherman left show business in the 1970s for a career as a paramedic and a deputy sheriff, but performed occasionally into the 1990s. > In 1962, Sal Mineo wrote two songs for Sherman and arranged for Sherman to record them. In 1964, Mineo asked Sherman to sing with his band at ... ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suzanne-crough-little-redheaded-girl-partridge-died/723334/10 "2015-06-25T08:34:32Z")
Suzanne may have been a strawberry blonde, but she wasn’t a redhead. There was an episode of _ **Partridge Family** _ in which Danny freaked out because he thought he was adopted, since he was the only member of the family who had red hair. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suzanne-crough-little-redheaded-girl-partridge-died/723334/11 "2015-06-25T08:36:38Z")
Geez, how many times is she going to die? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suzanne-crough-little-redheaded-girl-partridge-died/723334/12 "2015-06-25T13:24:19Z")
How is her last name pronounced? Kruf? KrO? or some other way? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suzanne-crough-little-redheaded-girl-partridge-died/723334/13 "2015-06-25T14:28:51Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > How is her last name pronounced? > > Kruf? > > KrO? > > or some other way? I always thought it was Kroff. Don’t know why.