Real Brady Mom Dies

Friday December 05, 1997 12:00 AM EST

Helen Eileen Beardsley, 70, a mother of 20 (she was a widow with eight children who married a widower with 10 before they had two of their own) died on Wednesday in northern California after having battled Parkinson's disease for 10 years. Her story was the basis of the 1968 Lucille Ball movie "Yours, Mine and Ours," which served as the inspiration for TV's "The Brady Bunch."

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