Ellise Shafer administratorPat Loud, the matriarch of the show “An American Family,” which is considered the first reality series on American television, died Sunday.
She was 94.A representative for Loud confirmed her death to Variety, and the news was posted to the official Loud Family Facebook page.“With inconsolable sorrow, we are sad to share the news with friends and family that on Sunday January 10 at 1:55pm PT, Pat Loud passed away peacefully in her sleep of natural causes,” the Loud Family’s post reads.
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