Lori March Scourby (March 6, 1923 – March 19, 2013)

Lori March Scourby, an actress known as the “First Lady of Daytime
Television” for her decades of work in serials who also starred in a
memorable 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone, died in her sleep
March 19. No other details of her death were immediately available.

Scourby played Valerie Hill Ames Northcoate on CBS’ The Secret
Storm from 1964-74 (Alexander played her husband for a couple
of years on the show) and appeared on other soaps including The
Brighter Day, Search for Tomorrow, One Life to Live, The Edge of
Night, Texas, Guiding Light and Another World.

She was the wife of the late Alexander Scourby, an actor and narrator
of numerous audiobooks including the King James Bible

Alexander Scourby

Lori March Scourby and Fritz Weaver from The Twilight Zone episode, Third
From The Sun which aired January 8, 1960.

 
Cast member Bret Morrison

Light of the World presented dramatized stories from the bible that were
found to be uplifting to women on the home front during WWII. The NBC
radio series aired until June 2, 1950. It was sponsored by General Mills.

Mrs. Wiggs of The Cabbage Patch was radio soap that aired
originally on CBS and ended on the NBC network in Dec. 30,
1938. It starred Betty Garde in the leading role of a woman
living in a shantytown known as Cabbage Patch. The series
was based on the novel by Alice Rice.

Betty Garde