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Katheryn Joosten who played Mrs. McClusky on Desperate Housewives died today of lung cancer. She was great on both The West Wing and Housewives. I will miss her.
loved her ‘spunk’ on DH. She was extremely witty and I had many a good laugh at her antics on that show.
until the end for sure. Just got an Email from a friend about her passing.
Emmy winner Kathryn Joosten, whose emotional death scene as Karen McKluskey gave Desperate Housewives‘ recent series finale its biggest emotional punch, died yesterday of lung cancer in Westlake Village, CA. She was 72.
Joosten won her Emmys in 2005 and 2008 in the Oustanding Guest Actress in a Comedy for her portrayal of Wisteria Lane’s crankiest (but still loveable) resident.
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Prior to her Housewives success, Joosten was best known for playing Mrs. Landingham, secretary to Martin Sheen’s President Bartlet, on The West Wing.
She also had roles on such shows as Scrubs, My Name Is Earl, Joan of Arcadia, and Dharma & Greg.
Joosten, who didn’t begin her acting career until she was 42, famously told interviewers through the years that Housewives‘ creator Marc Cherry had promised never to kill off Mrs. McCluskey, seeing how many of her prior characters hadn’t survived to their shows’ series finales.
According to her rep, Joosten was surrounded by family at the time of her death.
to the end as you said, 53tdogs. She was on the series finale of Desperate Housewives that was probably only filmed a couple of months ago. I knew she had cancer, but had no idea the end was so near for her.
lung cancer and they wrote it into the show for her character also. She was eventually told she was "cancer free" two years ago but apparently it came back. She knew she was terminal when she did the PSA at the end of the Housewives finale. That, to me, is a real trooper. When I saw that, I wondered if she was telling everybody good-bye herself.
I never saw his game show that he was on for years but I remember him in "Hogan’s Heros". He passed away of cancer as well.
From what I understand about lung cancer, (just what I heard when my father-in-law passed away from lung cancer in ’98 at the age of 68 (he smoked for 20 years but had given it up the last 20 years of his life – but per his doctors, it may have been all the jet fuel injested and getting into his lungs from being shot down and bailing in the water three times during tours in Vietnam)…that you can be declared cancer free with the lungs but it always comes back later – something about the make up of the lungs and their relationship to the rest of the body. But that’s 14 years ago – so that may have been the medical criteria at that time – with new drugs and procedures, it may not be so anymore.
lung cancer returning. My sister started with colon cancer, then it went to her lungs, then finally her liver. A friend from church a long time ago, never smoked a cigarette in her life, got it, "cured" and got it again. Also, a friend back in California went through the same thing.
Hey, Pammy, I’m coming to California (Mill Valley) on June 12th; my twin g.daughters are graduating from the U. of Santa Clara. Should I bring shorts or long pants? I don’t remember what the weather is like in June. I DO remember that Mill Valley is much like SF though with the fog.
never smoked a day in their life. You will like Calfornia again – they don’t let you smoke anywhere anymore practically, even in your front yard…
Oooooooo Bonbon – it’s now dead heat of summer…hit here about a week ago now. I’m a semi-snow bird now – maintain home in California because selling is not an option in the state in this economy and you have to have a home base somewhere (just not here anymore)…but I do get to travel quite a bit on the road to get away from the heat. My mantra is – have our poochies, laptop, gas money, my guy friend and RV (in that order too
) – will travel to cooler climes. But just three days ago it was hot, Hot, HOT – we’d already hit the 100 degree mark in May…I’m for sure going to be somewhere else come July and August if it’s this hot in May already! However, this week, they are calling for two days of rain early part of the week which will lower the temps by about 30 degrees. I think it should be around 88 to 95 on June 12th – so pack shorts – (but remember Mill Valley is Bay Area) and you know how that area can be – when the rest of Cali is burning up under the sun and parched, it’s freezing ccccccold and windy in the Bay Area – so perhaps take one or two long pants with ya. Especially for the evenings. Bay Area weather is difficult to gauge at times – I’ve gone to the Garlic festival in Gilroy just over the hills from Mill Valley and they’ve had rain before in July.Congrat’s on your granddaughters graduation! What an achievement and milestone! All the best to them! Enjoy your trip to the left coast!
Wow. My mouth is hanging open right now. This is the first I’ve heard. I had no idea she died. I knew she had lung cancer in the past but I didn’t know she had it again. How hard it must have been for her to do that scene in DH knowing at that time that she was really sick in real life. Unless that storyline helped her cope in a way. What a great actress; so natural and really funny on DH.
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