Popular 1980s actor Loni Anderson of the hit TV series 'WKRP in Cincinnati' has died
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Source: AP
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday.
Anderson died at a Los Angeles hospital following a “prolonged” illness, said her longtime publicist, Cheryl J. Kagan.
“We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our dear wife, mother and grandmother,” Anderson’s family said in a statement.
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Just broke.
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she was all over TV and her marriage to Burt Reynolds kept her in the spotlight. She was one of the group of "pin up" stars during that time (along with Farrah Fawcett, Suzanne Somers, Cheryl Tiegs, Cheryl Ladd, etc).
Sorry to see this, condolences to her family, and R.I.P.
(as a sidenote, that show always made me want to visit the city and I did in fact get there for work stuff in the late '80s - and one of my sisters ended up moving out there not far from the city, so I was there all the time, and even walked over a bridge to Covington, KY 
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