June Lockhart, beloved on-screen mother on the farm in Lassie and in the stars with Lost in Space , died on October 23 in California at the age of 100. “Mommy always considered acting as her craft, her vocation, but her true passions were journalism, politics, science and NASA,” her daughter June Elizabeth shared in a statement to Deadline . “She cherished playing her role in Lost in Space and she was delighted to know that she inspired many future astronauts, as they would remind her on visits to NASA. That meant even more to her than the hundreds of television and movie roles she played.” Her decades-long career in Hollywood began in 1938 with her family, as she starred in The Christmas Carol alongside her parents, Gene and Kathleen Lockhart, as the Cratchit family. Several

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