Despite Cushing’s fame, Keeler said he was so well respected and loved by locals that they “treated him like a normal resident”.<\/p>\n
Keeler said visitors at the museum often shared their recollections of their interactions with the actor.<\/p>\n
“He used to go cycling around the villages, he loved going to the tearooms and he used to draw pictures of the customers. <\/p>\n
“He also loved bird watching,” he said. “And he adored the sea view.”<\/p>\n
Keeler described Cushing as a “perfect gentleman”.<\/p>\n
“Anytime someone did something for him, he would write them a thank you letter. He would always include ‘may God’s blessing go with you’,” Keeler said.<\/p>\n
Cushing died in 1994 and Keeler said he would always be missed by the town.<\/p>\n
“Most people remembered him cycling to Seasalter to visit Helen’s grave and there were always tears in his eyes,” he said. <\/p>\n
“He used to say ‘I was born in 1913, I started living in 1943 when I met Helen and I died in 1971 when she did’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite Cushing’s fame, Keeler said he was so well respected and loved by locals that they “treated him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-739663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}