Re: Valerie Mahaffey R. I. P.

Rhino wrote:

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.
 

I used to watch "The Doctors" back in the Olden Days, but
don't remember her. Given her age, she must have portrayed
a child or teen character at the time, perhaps as a limited
time character or child of one of the adult regulars. The
show got its start in the early-mid 1960s.

During the first couple of years of "The Doctors" each
day (later expanded to the full week of five episodes)
was a single story rather than a continuing story as
most soaps were, but had a stable cast of regular characters
(I remember a priest, the chief of staff, and a few doctors
and nurses were regulars) were built into the story line
of the day/week with a resolution (usually a happy ending)
at the end of the half-hour episode or on Friday.

R.I.P. Valerie.

Nyssa, who had to reach far back into her memory banks
for this post