Ida was featured in the award winning documentary about Women's Wrestling, "Lipstick and Dynamite." Ida (real name Ida Selenkow) passed away last week. After her wrestling career she went on to become a nurse, and wrote about her experiences treating HIV-Aids patients in the early days of the epidemic.
As the documentary pointed out, she had a third career as a yodeler. Along with the other women featured: Penny Banner, Gladys "Killem" Gillem, The Fabulous Moolah, Mae Young, and Ella waldeck, Ida Mae helped shape the sport of Womens Wrestling.
She was buried on an Orthodox Jewish funeral on January 20th, in Pikesville, Maryland. May she rest in peace.
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