First, We Lose Patty Duke!!!!!!!!!! Now, We Lose Her "Father!!!!!!!!!!"

                                More people referred to character actor William Schallert as "Patty Duke's father" than knew his actual name.  His face was familiar, turning up everywhere before and after the show, but it was the teenage situation comedy which gave him a name.

                                 On May 8, he died. at the age of 93. His wife, Leah Waggner, died last year, which may have hastened things. No cause of death was given, but, darlings, he was 93, and that is OLD!!!!!!!!!  Though I am feeling increasingly old as these icons of my generation depart.

                                  Mr. Schallert died in Pacific Palisades, CA. He is survived by four sons, and seven grandchildren. He will be missed by all who knew him personally, and only through TV appearances.

                                   Jean Byron passed away ten years ago, in 2006, at the age of 80. She, of course, was Patty's "mother," Natalie Lane.

                                   If I were Eddie Appelgate (Richard) or Paul O'Keefe (Ross Lane) I would be very nervous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!