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There’s always a Dayton connection. Always.
In the case of George Carlin, who died Sunday, June 22, in California, the connection was strong and long-term, cemented through his marriage to Dayton native Brenda Hosbrook, who died of complications from liver cancer in May 1997, two months shy of the couple’s 34th wedding anniversary. She was 57.
Carlin fell for Hosbrook when he was in town for a two-week stand at the old Dayton Racquet Club on South Dixie Drive, appearing with his partner Jack Burns.
“It fell together very quickly,” Carlin told the Dayton Daily News in a 1997 interview. “We spent a lot of time together during those two weeks.”
The couple got married in 1963 at the Hosbrook family home on River Ridge Road; their only child, a daughter, Kelly, was born at Good Samaritan Hospital.
Carlin has done his share of stand-up shows in Dayton, too, appearing at nearly every venue possible: the old Suttmiller’s on North Main; Memorial Hall, Fraze Pavilion and, most recently, at the Schuster Center in 2005, a show the Dayton Daily News’ reviewer found to be “one of the most unpleasant hours I’ve spent in a theater seat in some time.”
Carlin’s time in Dayton wasn’t always great for him, either. In the early 1980s, he was admitted to St. Elizabeth Hospital after wrecking his car and hitting his head on the windshield.
“I was drinking and driving,” he admitted later. “I’ve never been one to refuse a party.”

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