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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 13, 1993                   TAG: 9303130307
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES                                LENGTH: Short

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TV SERIES CREATOR PARKE LEVY DIES

Parke Levy, who created the mother-in-law TV series "December Bride" and wrote and directed for the hit radio show "My Friend Irma," has died at age 84.

A TV version ran for two years and the 1949 film version introduced to movie audiences Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

Levy created the character Lily Ruskin from "December Bride" in the image of his own mother-in-law, making her a woman who inspired love rather than conflict in her married daughter's home.

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