Cynthia Boyd Stone was an American actress who lived from February 26, 1926, to December 25, 1988. Stone started the nonprofit organization Concern Unlimited and served as the organization’s first president as well as the founder of the Coconut Grove Republican Women’s Club.
On December 25, 1988, Stone, at 62, passed away. In Peoria’s Springdale Cemetery, she was laid to rest in a family gravesite.
Cynthia Stone parents: John Boyd Stone, Dorothy Drayton
Stone was the daughter of Dorothy Drayton, a banker, and John Boyd Stone. She was born in Peoria, Illinois. She was a Foxcroft School alumna from Middleburg, Virginia. In the 1950s and 1960s, Stone had a brief career as a television actress. She usually had cameo appearances in different television series, however she and her ex-husband Jack Lemmon co-starred in the short-lived show Heaven for Betsy (1952). They had previously appeared in the ill-fated television show That Wonderful Guy (1949). Additionally, Stone was in advertisements for Colgate.
