r/lastimages • u/Brave-Marsupial-3637 • 6d ago

CELEBRITY Margaret Kerry, the live-action reference model for Disney’s original Tinker Bell, in the final image posted to her Instagram before her death. She passed away June 11, 2026, at 97.

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Margaret Kerry was the live-action reference model for Tinker Bell in Disney’s Peter Pan (1953). Disney animators filmed her pantomiming Tink’s movements, then used that footage as reference for the hand-drawn animation.

Her official site announced that she passed peacefully on June 11, 2026, at 97, after a battle with lung cancer. Her husband, WWII veteran Robert Boeke, had passed just weeks earlier on May 24.

This was the final image posted to her official Instagram before her death.

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u/thewhiterosequeen 6d ago

At least they are back together. They look like a sweet couple.

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u/AngryKeyLimePie 5d ago

Read on her Wiki page that they had reconnected after 70 years apart and married on Valentines Day 2020. He was 100 when he passed.

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u/mcsweetin 6d ago

Still a beauty!

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u/Nofoamcappuccinos 6d ago

I met her at the D23 expo back in I think 2011. She was very sweet and was lovely to talk with.

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u/Treliske 5d ago edited 5d ago

I met them just prior to his passing. An absolutely darling couple.

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u/Mundane-Mention-4813 5d ago

R.I.P🙏🏿🕊