People across the world are remembering Broadway star and actress Carol Channing.After a long career in the entertainment industry, she passed away Tuesday morning at 97 years old.Channing made several trips to New Hampshire, something that Granite Staters won't forget."There was just something direct and true about her. There wasn't a phony bone in her body," author Paul Brogan said.Brogan knew her well and got her to perform in New Hampshire twice."When I was executive director of an AIDS organization in Lebanon, I was thinking of ways that we could create awareness and I thought bring someone like a Carol Channing," he said.Channing performed at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord in 2007, raising thousands of dollars for the organization."I mean at 86 she was up dancing on the stage at the Capitol Center during her performance," Brogan said."Her show was one of the funniest evenings I have ever spent here. She was hilarious and talented and everything thing you think she would be," said Katie Collins, of the Capitol Center.Channing then returned to New Hampshire a year later to perform in Portsmouth, helping to raise even more money for the organization."It was easy enough to bring her back the next year for another benefit because the last thing she said the first time was, 'When are you going to bring me back again?'" Brogan said.Brogan said Channing was much more than a performer and that she was a genuine, down-to-earth woman who truly cared about the people that she met."It was obvious that people mattered, and I don't think she would have had a career of 70 years unless she subscribed to that philosophy herself," Brogan said.