Little House on the Prairie teacher Hersha Parade has died at the age of 78

Following the death of Lance Kerwin last January at the age of 62, it’s the turn of Little House on the Prairie actor Hersha Parade’s Danny Peters to die. The person who played Alice Garvey, a teacher at Walnut Grove School, died on Wednesday, August 23rd. He was 78 years old.

Suffering from a brain tumor, he was at the home of his son, Jonathan Peveral, in Norfolk, Virginia. He also created GoFundMe page Helped pay medical bills as the illness progressed. in the message published on His Facebook accountwrites his friend Alison Arngrim, who played Nellie Oleson Dalton in the series “Our wild, indomitable and talented Hersha has left us.”

Born on May 25, 1945 in Ohio, Hersha Paradis made her screen debut in 1971 for an episode of the series. Bearcats!, which featured two men going on an adventure in the American Southwest before World War I. He also appeared in the series Mannix, The Family of the Hills or the western series Cheyenne Trail, always during an episode.

But his main role is, of course Little House on the Prairie. For 35 episodes between 1976 and 1980, she would lend her qualities to Alice Garvey, a Walnut Grove teacher who had moved to town after the Edwards family left.

The tragic end of his character scared the audience of that time. In Season 6 Episode 18, fire, he died in a fire caused by the carelessness of Albert Quinn Ingalls, who secretly went to smoke with a friend. Not only Ali Garvey died in the fire, but also Mary Ingalls’ baby.

FYI, the famous sequence below…

A scene in which Alice Garvey, holding a child, unsuccessfully tries to break a school window later gave rise to an urban legend that series creator Michael Landon pranked Hershey Parade by replacing the breakable fake glass window with standard glass. .

The rest of his career is much more up and down, where he acts irregularly: the series Phoenix (1981); bisseux Marathon Killer in 1984. or Kenan & Kel, in 1997-1998, a two-episode run that represented his last appearance on screen.