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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1264/
- Published: 2025-08-04T18:30:13.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-04T18:30:13.000Z
- Description: “We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our dear wife, mother and grandmother,” the family said in a statement, adding that she was surrounded by loved ones.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> Actress Loni Anderson, who won acclaim for her US television sitcom role as the brainy, glamorous radio station receptionist defying workplace sexual stereotypes on *WKRP in Cincinnati*, has died aged 79.  
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> Anderson, also remembered for her much-publicized storybook [marriage to actor Burt Reynolds](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/365892/hollywood-actor-burt-reynolds-dies-aged-82?ref=goodoil.news) in 1988 and their tabloid-fixated divorce six years later, died at a Los Angeles hospital “following an acute prolonged illness,” her family said.  
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> “We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our dear wife, mother and grandmother,” the family said in a statement, adding that she was surrounded by loved ones.  
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> RNZ

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