Hersha Parady, who played the role of schoolteacher Alice Garvey in ‘Little House on the Prairie,’ died on Wednesday (Aug. 23) at age 78.
Hersha Parady, best known for her role as schoolteacher Alice Garvey on Little House on the Prairie, died yesterday (Aug. 23), Deadline reports. She was 78.
The actress passed away in Norfolk, Virginia, following surgery she underwent for brain cancer meningioma a month prior. In July, her son Jonathan Peverall created a GoFundMe page to support his mother, who he said “was once full of life and energy, [and was] now struggling with basic daily activities.”
Other credentials of Parady’s include acting in CBS Afternoon Playhouse, Unsolved Mysteries, and Kenan & Kel.
According to IMDb, Parady appeared in 35 episodes over the course of the show’s nine-year-long run. She starred alongside Merlin Olsen’s Jonathan Garvey, and were introduced in the Season 4 premiere episode, “Castoffs,” per The Hollywood Reporter.
Based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House book series, the historical drama followed the Ingalls family, led by patriarch Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) and matriarch Caroline (Karen Grassle).
