His former mother-in-law, Pearl Shear, died in 2009 and lived to be age 91. Shear guest-starred on The Waltons (1972) with him.
The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
Father roles post The Waltons as having been widowers.
Cancer
Ralph Harold Waite Jr.
White Plains, New York, USA
(age 85)
Palm Desert, California, USA