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From: Nyssa <Nyssa@logicalinsight.net>
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Subject: Re: Valerie Mahaffey R. I. P.
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:51:45 -0400
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anim8rfsk wrote:

> Nyssa <Nyssa@logicalinsight.net> wrote:
>> Rhino wrote:
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>>> On 2025-05-31 3:01 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>> From the Facebook
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>>>> I am sorry to report the passing of longtime actress
>>>> Valerie Mahaffey. She got her start on the daytime
>>>> drama, =E2=80=9CThe Doctors.=E2=80=9D More recently, she appeared =
on
>>>> the ABC series, =E2=80=9CBig Sky,=E2=80=9D the Netflix series, =E2=
=80=9CDead To
>>>> Me,=E2=80=9D the CBS sitcom, =E2=80=9CYoung Sheldon,=E2=80=9D and =
AppleTV+=E2=80=99s
>>>> =E2=80=9CECHO 3.=E2=80=9D Valerie first got my attention for her
>>>> Emmy-winning role on the CBS series, =E2=80=9CNorthern
>>>> Exposure.=E2=80=9D Her career spanned almost 50 years in TV and
>>>> movies, including appearances on such shows as
>>>> =E2=80=9CSeinfeld,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CDesperate Housewives=E2=80=9D=
 and =E2=80=9CWings.=E2=80=9D She
>>>> would have turned 72 on June 16th. Her husband, Joseph
>>>> Kell, said in a statement, =E2=80=9CI have lost the love of my
>>>> life, and America has lost one of its most endearing
>>>> actresses. She will be missed. =E2=80=9C On Facebook, their
>>>> daughter, Alice, wrote, =E2=80=9CI don=E2=80=99t really have the w=
ords
>>>> to say right now.  Cancer sucks.  I=E2=80=99ll look for you in
>>>> all the fun moments
>>>> of life.  I know that=E2=80=99s where you=E2=80=99ll be.=E2=80=9D
>>>> One of Valerie=E2=80=99s friends told me this evening, =E2=80=9CSh=
e was
>>>> truly a beautiful person, inside and out.=E2=80=9D
>>>> May she R.I.P.
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>> 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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>>=20
>> 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.
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>> 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.
>>=20
>> R.I.P. Valerie.
>>=20
>> Nyssa, who had to reach far back into her memory banks
>> for this post
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> We appreciate the effort.
>=20
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:)

You're welcome!

Nyssa, who is glad she still *has* working memory
banks