Feb. 26--Charlton Heston kept his two Academy Awards -- the best actor Oscar for the 1959 film "Ben-Hur" and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award he won in 1978 -- in a side table in his study where he read every morning, his family told The Hollywood Reporter.
Years after the Wilmette-raised actor's 2008 death, his son Fraser took his best actor Oscar while his daughter Holly Heston Rochell acquired his humanitarian award, which he received for work with various groups including the American Cancer Society.
"This award is meaningful to me," Rochell told The Hollywood Reporter for its series tracking the whereabouts of Oscar statuettes after the winner's death. "I remembered flying to Bangladesh with my mom and dad and doing charity work."
Rochell told the news outlet she keeps the award by her bedside in the apartment she shares with her 15-year-old son Charlie and 19-year-old daughter Ridley Charlton Rochell, a Northwestern University freshman.
Heston attended New Trier High School in Winnetka and Northwestern, where he met his future wife Lydia Marie Clarke. Clarke, 92, resides in an assisted-living facility.
Fraser Heston said he keeps the "Ben-Hur" Oscar in his home office near a French poster of Heston's 1958 movie "Touch of Evil." He said the Oscar will eventually go to his son Jack.
