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Pat Kelly, Peru's famous hobo circus clown, dies

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Pat Kelly was the son of Emmett Kelly, whose sad, downtrodden “Weary Willie’ character redefined the nature of clowning around the world. Unlike the jolly clowns before him, Weary Willie dressed in tatters, ate cabbage and looked like a down-on-his-luck tramp. Pat Kelly started developing his persona when he first clowned in 1954 with his mother, the great circus aerialist Eva Kelly Lewis.

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Pat Kelly, Peru's famous hobo circus clown, dies

PERU — Thomas Patrick Kelly, the last living son of the nation’s most famous hobo clown who followed his father into a career under the big top, died Sunday at Hickory Creek at Peru. He was 87.

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