'The Young and the Restless' Star Sharon Farrell Dead at 82
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Sharon Farrell has died. She was 82 years old.
The soap opera star's death was announced in a Facebook post made by her sister Dale Candace Forsmoe.
"My sister, Sharon Farrell,.,Sharon Lee Forsmoe, passed away at LA Downtown Medical Center May 15, 2023," Forsmoe wrote in an Aug. 2 post. "I do not know the cause of death."
The news came a little over a week after Forsmoe shared that she had "reason to believe" her sister had died, noting that she had been in a care facility for some time.
"I have reason to believe my sister, Sharon Farrell, has died, not confirmed yet...no one contacted me," Forsmoe wrote in a July 31 Facebook post. "She was in a care facility and had been relocated a couple of times."
Forsmoe added that Farrell's adult son, Chance Boyer, "chose not to share [the news of her passing] with me."
Boyer later told The Hollywood Reporter that his mother died at a hospital in Orange County on May 15 "unexpectedly" and of "natural causes."
Recognized for her talents on both the big and small screens, Farrell is best known for her portrayal of Det. Lori Wilson on the final season of CBS’ Hawaii Five-O from 1979-1980, her performance as Florence Webster, mother of Tricia Cast’s Nina Webster, on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless from 1991-97 and the ex-wife of Chuck Norris’ Texas Ranger in the 1983 western Lone Wolf McQuade.
Farrell's credits also include A Lovely Way to Die (1968), It’s Alive (1974), The Stunt Man (1980), and Can’t Buy Me Love (1987), among many others.
Along with her sister Dale and son Chance, Farrell is survived by her grandson, Wayde, and daughter-in-law Mandi.
Chance told The Hollywood Reporter that while his mother entertained relationships with actors Andrew Prine and John F. Boyer, as well as producer Ron DeBlasio and director Dale Trevillion, she never officially married them, nor anyone else. "That’s something they do in Hollywood, to say that they’re married," he said.
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