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DATE: THURSDAY, March 26, 1992                   TAG: 9203260169
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LOS ANGELES                                LENGTH: Short

TV ACTRESS NANCY WALKER DIES AT 69

Actress Nancy Walker, the short, wisecracking redhead best known to TV viewers as Rhoda's mother and for hawking "quicker picker-upper" paper towels, died at her home Wednesday. She was 69 and had battled lung cancer for two years.

Co-starring with Valerie Harper as television's archetypal Jewish mother, Walker's domineering portrayal of Ida Morgenstern on "Rhoda" earned her an Emmy nomination in 1975.

But she was just as famous as Rosie, the waitress always mopping up after klutzy customers in commercials for Bounty paper towels.

Walker's most recent work was a starring role in Fox Broadcasting Co.'s "True Colors" comedy, in which she played a Jewish mother whose daughter is married to a black man. 


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