She Played Timmy’s Mom on “Lassie.” See This Legendary Actress Now at 98.
She won the hearts of American viewers in the 1950s, as the soft-spoken, always-patient mother on one of the most wholesome and most long-running family dramas on television. She was warm, composed, and strong, but in a quiet way, the epitome of the ideal mother in an era when television was trying to reflect and…