[From JR: I remember her best as the nurse in the "I Love Lucy" episode in which Lucy gives birth, and as Neely O'Hara's voice coach in "Valley of the Dolls."]
Peggy Rea, a veteran TV actress who played Brett Butler's mother-in-law on the ABC sitcom Grace Under Fire, died Feb. 5 of congestive heart failure at her home in Toluca Lake, Calif. She was 89.
Rea also was a regular on such series as The Waltons (as Olivia Walton's cousin Rose Burton), The Dukes of Hazzard (as the man-chasing Lulu Hogg) and Step by Step (as Ivy Baker, the mother of Suzanne Somers' character).
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Interment will take place at 11 a.m. on Feb. 28 at Santa Barbara Cemetery in the mausoleum in the Pines Courtyard.
More (w/photo):
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tv-character-actress-peggy-rea-97830
Also (w/another photo):
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2011/02/10/2011-02-10_peggy_rea_dukes_of_hazzard_actress_dead_at_89_in_california_of_congestive_heart_.html
Blog, a searchable database of obituaries
back to 2001:
http://DeadCelebrityAlert.com
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