Ellen Corby [SEP] place of death
in the 1950s. and who lived with her until her death.
Her final role was in "A Walton Easter" (1997). In 1999, following several years of declining health, Corby died at age 87 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. Her memorial site is in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.
Filmography.
- 1930s
- "Rafter Romance" (1933) as Telemarketer (uncredited)
- "Sons of the
yards were cultivated as vegetable gardens rather than lawns.
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 1977–78 season, depicted his being reunited with his onscreen wife Esther (played by Ellen Corby; she had been absent for the entire season, due to a stroke). Geer's character was mourned onscreen during the first episode of the 1978–79 season.
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