{"id":357940,"date":"2026-08-29T04:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/shelley-fabares-cause-of-death-revealed-five-days-after-she-died-at-82"},"modified":"2026-08-29T04:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:46:30","slug":"shelley-fabares-cause-of-death-revealed-five-days-after-she-died-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/shelley-fabares-cause-of-death-revealed-five-days-after-she-died-at-82","title":{"rendered":"Shelley Fabares&#8217; Reason behind Demise Revealed 5 Days After She Died at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Shelley Fabares\u2019 family has revealed what caused the <em>Coach<\/em> and <em>The Donna Reed Show<\/em> actress\u2019 death five days after she died at 82.<\/p>\n<p>Fabares died of pneumonia, her <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/shelley-fabares-cause-of-death-revealed-12066817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">family confirmed<\/a> on Aug. 27. She had died Aug. 22 in Los Angeles surrounded by loved ones, but the family\u2019s initial announcement did not disclose a cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo her family and friends, Shelley was a source of love, strength, laughter, and comfort,\u201d the family said after her death. Fabares had been through a different life-threatening illness years earlier. An emergency-room visit for an esophageal bleed in early 1999 revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/3eff1ba6cde3260f478713466a669fe6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">progressive liver failure<\/a>. She was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis and spent 22 months waiting for a transplant.<\/p>\n<p>A new liver became available in October 2000. Fabares later said she had been \u201cchanged by the experience.\u201d Mike Farrell had been with her through it. She said her husband was there \u201cevery step of the way.\u201d Fabares and the <em>M*A*S*H<\/em> actor married on Dec. 31, 1984. She became stepmother to his two children, Michael and Erin.<\/p>\n<h2>Farrell Remembered the Cable Car Ride That Started Their Romance<\/h2>\n<p><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SHELLEY FABARES &amp; MIKE FARRELL answer fan questions &amp; untold stories: Exclusive 3 episode interview!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lXmGk55F7DU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Farrell was <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/mike-farrell-remembered-romance-shelley-fabares-before-her-death-12066608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talking<\/a> about how they got together only a few months before Fabares died. The two actors had known each other casually and would \u201cbump into each other\u201d at Hollywood events. In 1980, Farrell returned from a trip to El Salvador and went directly to San Francisco for a CBS dinner. He saw Fabares there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just would like you to know that every time I see you, I feel really good and I feel a little calmer than I had been prior to that,\u201d Farrell remembered telling her. After dinner, a cable car stopped outside. Farrell asked if she wanted to take a ride. Fabares told him she was seeing someone. Then she changed her mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe turned away, and then she turned back and she said, \u2018Sure, why not?\u2019\u201d Farrell recalled. They rode down to Fisherman\u2019s Wharf. Farrell had just come back from visiting refugee camps in Central America. He said he spent their walk telling Fabares about what he had seen. \u201cShe was very patient and very sweet and very supportive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, CBS put them in the same car to the airport. Farrell invited Fabares and the man she was dating to hear him speak about El Salvador. She could not make that talk but asked him to tell her when he did another one. He did. Months later, Fabares came with her sister.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell remembered getting coffee with her afterward and asking about a problem she had mentioned the last time they spoke. He meant a problem with the writers on <em>One Day at a Time<\/em>. Fabares answered a different question. \u201cOh, we\u2019re not seeing each other anymore,\u201d she told him.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell laughed when he retold the story. \u201cAnd I said, \u2018Oh. Well, that\u2019s nice.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Nanette Fabray Worked With Her Niece on \u2018One Day at a Time\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SHELLEY FABARES &amp; MIKE FARRELL answer fan questions &amp; untold stories: Exclusive 3 episode interview!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7haXvObhMLg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Fabares was playing Francine Webster on <em>One Day at a Time<\/em> at the time. She joined the CBS comedy during its later seasons, while her aunt Nanette Fabray was already appearing as Katherine Romano, the mother of Bonnie Franklin\u2019s Ann Romano. The aunt and niece worked on the same series.<\/p>\n<p>Fabray later remembered working with Fabares when she sat down for the Television Academy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/interviews.televisionacademy.com\/interviews\/nanette-fabray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oral-history<\/a> project. <em>One Day at a Time<\/em> ended in 1984. That was also the year Fabares and Farrell got married.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They married in the backyard of Fabares\u2019 aunt, actress Nanette Fabray, on New Year\u2019s Eve 1984. Fabray turned up in another of her niece\u2019s television shows a few years later. She guest-starred on <em>Coach<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>Craig T. Nelson Called Fabares a \u2018Foundational Part\u2019 of His Life<\/h2>\n<p>Fabares had begun playing Christine Armstrong opposite Craig T. Nelson\u2019s Hayden Fox in 1989. She had a feeling about the series early. \u201cI did always feel from the very beginning if they could find the right spot for us, this was a show that would last,\u201d Fabares said in a 1993 interview.<\/p>\n<p>It lasted nine seasons. Fabares stayed through the final season in 1997 and received two Emmy nominations for the role. Nelson <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/craig-t-nelson-mourns-death-of-coach-costar-shelley-fabares-12066071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembered<\/a> her after her death. \u201cShe was a foundational part of my life during the run of <em>Coach<\/em>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He remembered going to Fabares for advice and described her as a steady presence when making television became chaotic. \u201cI\u2019ll remember you with love, Shelley Fabares,\u201d Nelson said.<\/p>\n<p>Years earlier, Farrell had another description of what he saw in her. \u201cThere is a light inside her that is just magical,\u201d he told PEOPLE in 1991. Fabares had her own description of the marriage. \u201cMike grounds me, and I think I pull him out sometimes,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a nice mix.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/shelley-fabares-cause-of-death-revealed-five-days-after-she-died-at-82\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelley Fabares\u2019 family has revealed what caused the Coach and The Donna Reed Show actress\u2019 death five days after she died at 82. 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