Little House actress dies

Katherine MacGregor, who played petty, gossiping mother Harriet Oleson on TV’s Little House on the Prairie, has died, a representative said Wednesday. She was 93. MacGregor died Tuesday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement community in Los Angeles, said Tony Sears, her attorney. While her onscreen daughter Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) was the character viewers most loved to hate on the NBC series that ran from 1974 to 1983, her mother Harriet was just as awful.