SANTA
BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Mary Grace Canfield, a veteran character actress who
played handywoman Ralph Monroe on the television show "Green Acres,"
has died. She was 89.
Her
daughter, Phoebe Alexiades, says Canfield died of lung cancer on Saturday at a
hospice in the California coastal town of Santa Barbara.
Canfield
had appearances on a number of TV shows during a four-decade career, including
"General Hospital" and "The Hathaways." She was Harriet
Kravitz on four episodes of the 1960s series "Bewitched."
But
she was best known for her role of Ralph Monroe in some 40 episodes of
"Green Acres," which ran from 1965 to 1971.
Monroe greeted folks
in the town of Hooterville with a cheery "howdy doody," wore
painters' overalls and was forever working on the Douglas family's bedroom with
her brother, Alf.