Funicello embodied an all-American ideal of wholesome, perky, spunky mid-'60s ...

She was the dream of millions of teenagers back when she owned the Mouseketeers. Annette Funicello was a lady adored for her poise and pizazz on Disney's legendary Mickey Mouse Club, as well as her co-starringAnnette Funicello, America's sweetheart who rocketed to fame as one of TV's original fresh-faced “Mouseketeers” and later teamed with Frankie Avalon in a series of successful 1960s “Beach Party” movies, died yesterday after a 25-year battle withMs. Funicello, who died Monday at 70, embodied youth, good cheer and beach parties for children of the '50s and '60s.If you are a guy of a certain age, you kinda grew up with Annette Funicello. You started paying attention to her on "The Mickey Mouse Club" at roughly the same time you started paying attention to girls your own age. And when she starred in "BeachIf you are a guy of a certain

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