Betty McGuire, the actress best known for her role as grandmother Kate Malone on the ABC sitcom “Growing Pains, died Oct. Betty McGuire, a stage and screen actress who starred in a recurring role as the mother of Joanna Kerns’ character on the hit ABC sitcom "Growing Pains," dies. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• Betty McGuire, the actress best known for her role as grandmother Kate Malone on the ABC sitcom “Growing Pains, died Oct. 8 at the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills, Calif., of natural causes. She was 100. Keith Gerchak, McG...S1

• Betty McGuire, a stage and screen actress who starred in a recurring role as the mother of Joanna Kerns’ character on the hit ABC sitcom "Growing Pains," dies.S2