Lynne graduated in 1967 from Horton Watkins High School in Ladue, Missouri, a
suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, where she starred as Emily in "Our Town" and
was a gifted pianist.
She trained as an actor at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City.
Her classmates included Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton. She adopted
Deerfield as her name because Hirschfeld, when translated from German
to English, is Deerfield.
She married three times. Her first husband was Paul Mates, a Wall
Street lawyer. In 1975, she married Bill Beutel, the late ABC news
anchor. After they divorced, she married Michael Kelly who preceded her
in death.
She returned to St. Louis in the mid-1980s.
