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PASSINGS: Gloria Winters-Vernon

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Gloria Winters- Vernon

Actress in 1950s TV series ‘Sky King’

Gloria Winters-Vernon, 78, an actress who starred as Penny in the 1950s TV series “Sky King,” died Aug. 14 at her home in Vista, Calif., from complications of pneumonia, her family announced.

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As Gloria Winters, she had appeared in “The Life of Riley,” Jackie Gleason’s first TV series, in 1949 and ’50.

On “Sky King,” a half-hour contemporary western show about an Arizona rancher who flew a twin-engine plane over his land instead of chasing outlaws on horseback, she played the niece of Kirby Grant’s Sky King. The series aired on NBC and ABC in the 1950s.

A Los Angeles native, Winters married Dean Vernon, a sound engineer on “Sky King” and eventually gave up acting.

— Times staff and wire reports

news.obits@latimes.com

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