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She was the second recurring regular cast member to unfortunately die, following the sudden death of her portraying actress, Nora Marlowe, in late 1977. Her character is not mentioned and later written out of the series narrative at the same time as grandfather Zebulon Walton / Will Geer, having died a short time later.
Ralph Waite (June 22, 1928 – February 13, 2014) was an American actor, best known for his lead role as John Walton Sr. on The Waltons (1972–1981), which he occasionally directed. He later had recurring roles as two other heroic fathers; in NCIS as Jackson Gibbs , the father of Leroy Jethro Gibbs , and in Bones , as Seeley Booth 's grandfather.
When Geer died shortly after completing the sixth season of The Waltons, the death of his character was written into the show's script. His final episode, the last episode of the 1977–1978 season, showed him reuniting with his onscreen wife Esther (played by Ellen Corby ; she had been absent for the entire season due to a stroke).
"The Waltons" aired for nine seasons (1972-1981) on CBS. A further six TV movies aired in the 1980s and 1990s on NBC and CBS. Series creator Earl Hamner died last March at age 92.
The Waltons is an American historical drama television series about a family in rural mountainous Western Virginia of the Appalachian Mountains / Allegheny Mountains / Blue Ridge Mountains chain, during the economic hardships and mass unemployment of the era of the Great Depression of the 1930s and subsequent wartime homefront of World War II of the early 1940s.
After portraying a landlady in an earlier episode of The Waltons, Rea permanently joined the cast in 1979 in the role of Rose Burton, a cousin of Olivia Walton, a surrogate parental figure replacing Ellen Corby (Grandma), Michael Learned (Olivia), and the following year, Ralph Waite (John).
Earle died aged 95 on November 4, 1984, in Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, California, [2] of uremia poisoning following surgery for colon cancer, having outlived both her husband and her daughter. [citation needed] She was interred at Green Lawn Cemetery in her home town of Columbus, Ohio. [3]
Fans grow to know and love reality TV stars as real people, not as characters — which makes the loss hit even harder. In recent years, stars from The Deadliest Catch, The Real World, Survivor ...