# Nurse Kellye, RIP

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** celebrity-death\
**Created:** [February 22, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurse-kellye-rip/848336 "2020-02-22T03:16:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurse-kellye-rip/848336/1 "2020-02-22T03:16:09Z")

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Winchester called her “Lt Nakahara” in at least one episode:

> **[Kellye Nakahara Wallett, Actress on ‘M\*A\*S\*H,’ Dies at 72](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/kellye-nakahara-wallett-dead-actress-mash-dies-at-72-1279682/)**
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> Kellye Nakahara Wallett, a film and television actress best known for playing Lt. Nurse Kellye Yamato on ‘M\*A\*S\*H,’ has died. She was 72.

She’s now in that big post-op in the sky. ☹

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurse-kellye-rip/848336/2 "2020-02-22T05:59:13Z")

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I remember her character on M_A_S\*H. The actress was from Oahu, so it’s been in the news here.

RIP, Nurse Kellye. ☹

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurse-kellye-rip/848336/3 "2020-02-22T13:56:26Z")

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Kellye Nakahara. Usual IMDb [link](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0619990/). Hey, she was in _Clue_?\*

It was eerie that I had just thought of her a couple of days before the news came out. I was watching a medical show (I think _The Good Doctor_, might have been _Chicago Med_) and one of the nurses reminded me of her. I did a little math to make sure that it really couldn’t have been the same actress. After all it was 40+ years ago. Gulp.

IMDb lists 167 episodes of _MASH_. (But some say 165.) That puts her in 8th place in appearances there. Ahead of Stiers and Linville. Nearly as many as Farrell, Burghoff and Morgan.

- So she will miss out seeing the remake. Well, that’s a plus.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurse-kellye-rip/848336/4 "2020-02-22T14:32:07Z")

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“Why would anyone kill the cook?”

“Dinner wasn’t _that_ bad…”