Her manager Barbara Lawrence told People magazine that she passed at New York Presbyterian Hospital and had her family with her. “She passed away at 1 a.m.,” she said. “She went in peace.”
“The Golden Girls” was broadcast on NBC from 1985 until 1992 and centered on four older women sharing a Miami home. McClanahan starred as the man-crazed Southern belle Blanche Devereaux. She co-starred with Bea Arthur, Betty White and Estelle Getty.
McClanahan received an Emmy Award in 1987 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on the sitcom.
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