Mary Jackson, 95; Actress Known for Her Role on ‘The Waltons’

Mary Jackson, 95, a character actress best remembered for portraying Miss Emily Baldwin on the CBS series “The Waltons,” died Saturday of complications from Parkinson’s disease at her home in Hollywood, said her assistant, Woody Roll.

Jackson’s television and movie career, which began in 1952, spanned five decades and dozens of roles.

In the movies, she played Jane Fonda’s mother in “Fun With Dick and Jane” (1977) and one of the nuns in “Airport” (1970). She portrayed the great-grandmother on NBC’s “Parenthood” in 1990, and made her last TV appearance in “A Walton Easter,” a 1997 reunion movie on CBS.

Born in 1910 in Milford, Mich., Jackson graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Western Michigan University in 1932. She briefly taught school before acting in summer stock and on stage in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles.