Audrey Meadows

 Audrey Meadows (February 8, 1922 – February 3, 1996)

Meadows was best known for her role as the deadpan housewife Alice Kramden on the 1950s show The Honeymooners. She appeared in a 1960 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, entitled "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat", one of the 17 episodes in the 10-year series directed by Hitchcock himself, and a rather light-hearted one. She also appeared in feature films, appeared on Dean Martin's television variety shows and celebrity roasts, and years later returned to situation comedy in the 1980s playing Ted Knight's mother-in-law on Too Close for Comfort (1982–85). Meadows served as director of the First National Bank of Denver for 11 years, the first woman to hold this position. For twenty years, from 1961 to 1981, she was an advisory director of Continental Airlines, where she was actively involved in marketing programs that included the designs of flight attendant and customer service agent uniforms, aircraft interiors, and Continental's exclusive "President's Club" airport club lounges. In 1995 Meadows was diagnosed with lung cancer and given a year to live. She declined all but palliative treatment. She died on February 3, 1996, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after slipping into a coma, five days before her 74th birthday. Meadows was married twice, her second marriage was to Robert Six, who was President of Continental Airlines. She is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, CA .