Barbara Rickles, Widow of Don Rickles, Dies at 84
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hollywoodreporter.comBarbara Rickles, the widow of famed comedian Don Rickles, died Sunday on what would have been the couple's 56th wedding anniversary.
She was 84. Rickles died at her home in Century City of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, publicist Paul Shefrin told The Hollywood Reporter.Her husband died in April 2017 of kidney failure at age 90.
Born Barbara Sklar and raised in Philadelphia, she first met the insult comedian when she was working as a secretary for his agent, and they married in 1965.
She and Don often vacationed with comic Bob Newhart and his wife, Ginnie. In his 2007 memoir, Rickles' Book, he called her "the world's best sport.
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