With your faithful partner, the late Carl Hardman, you devoted your life to the stage, at one point merging with George Romero's influential Latent Image (aka, the Laurel Group).
It was as Helen Cooper in Night of the Living Dead that you gained fame (just as Mr. Hardman gained such as your fictional spouse, Harry), igniting screens with deftness and tension.
Other screen appearances include Santa Claws, Houseguest, Night of the Black Mass (alas, still unreleased) and even an episode of Perry Mason, but as the mother of Kyra Schon's ghoulish daughter you seized immortality. (And your cameo as a bug-eating zombie holds ceaseless, pop-cultural weight, too.)
Bless you for entertaining us, Ms. Eastman, and being so gracious to those who knew and loved you. You will be deeply missed, affectionately remembered.
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