Hersha Parady Cause Of Death, Obituary – Hersha Parady, who played Laura in Little House on the Prairie, lost her fight with a brain tumor and passed away today. The 78-year-old actress was best known for her role as Walnut Grove schoolteacher Alice Garvey on television. She passed away on Wednesday at the residence that she shared with her son Jonathan Peverall in Norfolk, Virginia. The tragic information was confirmed by Peverall to The Hollywood Reporter. The former athlete had been undergoing treatment for a brain tumor for some years, and a GoFundMe page had been established to assist with the financial burden of the ongoing treatment.
In a message that was uploaded to the account at the beginning of this year, Peverall disclosed the fact that his mother had been battling meningioma for some time. After seeing that his mother’s condition had deteriorated even worse, he stated in the letter that he had brought her to live with him in Virginia from her previous apartment in the Los Angeles region. Later, in late July, he provided an update on his mother’s health, in which he said that she had undergone a’successful’ operation to reduce the effects of her malignancy. He also shared this information with his followers.
However, the performer acquired pneumonia while she was in the process of recovering, and she was consequently had to go back to the hospital, where she was admitted to the intensive care unit and stayed on a ventilator even after she lost consciousness. Betty Sandhoff gave birth to Parady on May 25, 1945 in the city of Berea, which is located in the state of Ohio. Before making the move to Los Angeles in the early 1970s to pursue her professional goals, the actress got her start in the industry by performing in stage shows in theaters in her hometown.
The artist first off her career on television with a role in an episode of Bearcats! that was broadcast in 1971. After that, she went on to make guest roles on a variety of other television shows, such as The Waltons and Mannix. After that, the actress tried out for the character of Caroline Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie; however, the job was finally offered to Karen Grassle and she played it to perfection. After that, Parady went on to play the role of Eliza Anne Ingalls in an episode of the western-drama television series program that was broadcast in 1976.
