Nancy Fields O’Connor, widow of “All in the Family” star Carroll O’Connor, died Nov. 10 of complications from Alzheimer’s Disease at the couple’s Malibu home, a spokesperson for O’Connor said Thursday. She was 84.
O’Connor was an artist, author, activist, philanthropist and documentary filmmaker in her own right, executive producing the 2007 documentary “Anita O’Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer.”
Born Nancy Ann Kathleen Fields on December 13, 1929 in Spokane, Washington, O’Connor met her future husband in 1951, when both were undergraduates at the University of Montana at Missoula and involved with the Drama and Fine Arts Department production of “Life With Father.”