AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Tedde Moore, beloved teacher from A Christmas Story, dead at 79
Tedde Moore, the Canadian actress who played the stern but memorable Miss Shields in the 1983 holiday classic A Christmas Story, has died at 79 in the Ontario lakeside town she loved, leaving behind a family that called her farewell "beyond beautiful and also difficult." Moore died on August 5 in Huntsville, Ontario, surrounded by […] The post Tedde Moore, beloved teacher from A Christmas Story, dead at 79 appeared first on American Almanac .
Tedde Moore, the Canadian actress who played the stern but memorable Miss Shields in the 1983 holiday classic A Christmas Story, has died at 79 in the Ontario lakeside town she loved, leaving behind a family that called her farewell "beyond beautiful and also difficult." Moore died on August 5 in Huntsville, Ontario, surrounded by family, her relatives announced in a Facebook post. Her cause of death was not disclosed. Moore had publicly revealed a multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 2009, a condition that also struck her son Noah, a Grammy-winning music producer, who was diagnosed with MS in 2005 at age 22. The family's tribute painted a picture of a woman who shaped lives well beyond the screen, a teacher by temperament, a mother and…Open