How much is a unit of blood? Brookhaven National Laboratory explains that within one unit of blood there are several components, including red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, platelets and cryoprecipitate. Each component of blood can be stored for differing amounts of time, with plasma lasting the longest.
Geneâs third wife was Patricia Ward Kelly. She met Gene in 1985. He was narrating a documentary for the Smithsonian Museum, and she was the scriptwriter. Gene invited her to move back to California with him, and in 1990 they were married. On February 2, 1996, Gene died in his sleep from a massive stroke. Patricia Ward Kelly is the trustee of the Gene Kelly Image Trust, and still makes public appearances speaking about her late husband.
He married Helen Tricknor, in 1940, with whom he had one child, Lynn, in 1942. Soon afterwards, he was called to Military Service and joined the U.S. Air Corps. After the war, Gene worked on the Rayburn and Finch Show and, later, the Gene Rayburn Show in the early fifties. During the 50s, Rayburn was instrumental in highlighting corruption on radio, by playing an older song so many times that it became a hit.