Did Grandma Walton died on the show?

Ellen Hansen Corby was an American actress and screenwriter. She played the role of Esther "Grandma" Walton on the CBS television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards. She was also nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Aunt Trina in I Remember Mama.

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What episode does Grandma Walton died?

"The Waltons" The Empty Nest (TV Episode 1978) - IMDb.
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Did Grandma Walton died on the series?

Ellen Corby, who played the grandmother on the television series ''The Waltons,'' died on Wednesday at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif. She was 87, a hospital spokesman said. Ms. Corby, who was born Ellen Hansen, spent 12 years as a script assistant before turning to acting.
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Why did Grandma Walton leave the show?

She also won a Golden Globe award for best supporting actress in a TV series for The Waltons, and was nominated another three times. She left the show November 10, 1976, owing to a massive stroke she had suffered at home, which impaired her speech and severely limited her mobility and function.
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Did Olivia Walton died on the show?

Her character's abrupt disappearance was explained by Olivia developing tuberculosis and entering a sanatorium in Arizona. She made occasional guest appearances until the show's cancellation and later appeared in four of the six Waltons reunion movies made during the 1980s and 1990s.
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How did the last episode of The Waltons end?

The final episode, titled “The Revel,” aired on June 4, 1981. In the episode, John-Boy goes to New York to pursue his writing career but arrives to find that his manuscript has been rejected. His publisher's secretary gives him enough money to return home and advises him to start a new book. He returned home dejected.
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Who died first on The Waltons?

If you were watching The Waltons when it originally aired back in the '70s, you probably remember hearing the news that Will Geer — the man who played Grandpa Zebulon Walton — had died. Will passed away from respiratory failure on April 22, 1978, shortly after filming Season 6 of The Waltons.
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Who has died from The Waltons?

Earl Hamner Jr., the person without whom none of "The Waltons" would have been possible, passed away from bladder cancer at the age of 92 in 2016 (via The New York Times). Not only did Hamner Jr. serve as the series creator, writer, and producer of "The Waltons," but he also provided the narration for all nine seasons.
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Did any of The Waltons date each other?

In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com on the fifth anniversary of his death, Learned, 79, reveals that she and Waite 'were in love' off screen and they even went on a date.
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Where were the mountain scenes in The Waltons filmed?

While filmed on location in California, the fictional Walton family would have been at home in the tiny town of about 300 residents 40 minutes southwest of Charlottesville, Va., in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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What happened to John Boy Walton?

In The Waltons fifth season episode "The First Edition," John-Boy walks with a cane, and what many fans may not realize is that the actor Richard Thomas was acting through a real injury while filming.
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How many kids did Grandma Walton?

She has seven living children: John Walton Jr., Jason Walton, Mary Ellen Walton, Erin Esther Walton, Benjamin Walton II, James Robert Walton, and Elizabeth Tyler Walton.
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What season does Grandma come back to The Waltons?

The Waltons - Season 6 Episode 26: Grandma Comes Home - Metacritic.
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What happened to Ben and Cindy's child on The Waltons?

Cindy Walton (formerly Cindy Brunson) is the wife of Benjamin Walton, they were married in the Tv series and had a daughter Virginia also goes by Ginny she died from accidental drowning at a young age, they also had a son Charles he was born on Mothers Day on Waltons Mountain but was never seen or mentioned again after ...
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Did John Boy Walton Get Married?

She and John-Boy get married in the next episode "A Walton Wedding". Two years later, in the following episode and the last of the series, "A Walton Easter" Janet is heavily pregnant and eventually gives birth to twins, Jade Walton and Justin Walton, just after John and Olivia Waltons 50th anniversary.
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Did Erin and Paul divorce on The Waltons?

Erin and Paul end up having three kids together: Susan, Amanda, and Peter. Although it's Erin's most successful relationship, it doesn't really end too spectacularly. It is later revealed during one of the reunion movies that the two got divorced because Paul was unfaithful.
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Who did Erin marry on The Waltons?

The beloved Waltons characters return in this heartwarming movie about love and loyalty. Erin Walton and Paul Matthews Northridge have professed their love and are ready to commit their lives to each other. They intend to marry on Valentine's Day which is coming up very soon.
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What happened to Mary Ellen's husband on The Waltons?

ANSWER: Mary Ellen (Judy Norton-Taylor) married Dr. Curtis Willard in the 1977 season, and they had a baby. Then Curt was killed at Pearl Harbor in the 1978 season, and Mary Ellen found new love with Arlington Wescott "Jonesy" Jones (Richard Gililand) while taking premed courses.
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What happened to the Baldwin sisters on The Waltons?

Helen Kleeb passed away just shy of her 97th birthday in late December, 2003. Two years later, Mary Jackson died shortly after her 95th birthday in December of 2005.
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Are all The Waltons still alive?

Andrew Duggan (John Walton) 1988 at age 64 of throat cancer in Westwood, CA. Edgar Bergen (Grandpa) 1978 age 75 of a heart attack in Las Vegas, NV. Ellen Corby (Grandma) 1999 age 87 natural causes in Woodland Hills, CA. Dorothy Stickney (Miss Emily) 1998 age 101 at her home in NYC.
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Why did Ralph Waite leave The Waltons?

According to IMDb, it call came down to budgetary reasons — and wanting a shift in the audience of the show. "Ralph Waite was fired from his role on due to budgetary issues," the site wrote. "The show had become more expensive as Waite aged, usually at the same time the ratings start to decline."
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Is The Waltons a true story?

Lies the small town of Schulyer, Virginia, home of the Hamner family – the real-life family on which the Waltons were based. The mountain town of Schuyler is home to about 400 residents, and there the two-story Hamner family home still stands.
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Is Season 9 the last season of The Waltons?

This ninth and final season of the Waltons is a bit of a departure from the themes and values that made the previous eight seasons so wonderful to watch.
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What did they say at the end of The Waltons?

“Good night, John-Boy.”
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