Re: Valerie Mahaffey R. I. P.

On 2025-05-31 3:01 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

 From the Facebook
 I am sorry to report the passing of longtime actress Valerie Mahaffey.
She got her start on the daytime drama, “The Doctors.”
More recently, she appeared on the ABC series, “Big Sky,” the Netflix
series, “Dead To Me,” the CBS sitcom, “Young Sheldon,” and AppleTV+’s “ECHO
3.”
Valerie first got my attention for her Emmy-winning role on the CBS series,
“Northern Exposure.”
Her career spanned almost 50 years in TV and movies, including appearances
on such shows as “Seinfeld,” “Desperate Housewives” and “Wings.”
She would have turned 72 on June 16th.
Her husband, Joseph Kell, said in a statement, “I have lost the love of my
life, and America has lost one of its most endearing actresses. She will be
missed. “
On Facebook, their daughter, Alice, wrote, “I don’t really have the words
to say right now.  Cancer sucks.  I’ll look for you in all the fun moments
of life.  I know that’s where you’ll be.”
One of Valerie’s friends told me this evening, “She was truly a beautiful
person, inside and out.”
May she R.I.P.
 

Wow, I thought she was a good bit younger than 72. I had no idea she'd been alive or acting that long. I remember her from Northern Exposure but never saw her in anything prior to that.
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Rhino