Gloria Henry, who is remembered as Alice Mitchell, the mother on 1959 to 1963 TV sitcom Dennis the Menace, died Saturday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 98.

Born Gloria Eileen McEniry on April 2, 1923 in New Orleans, the actress began her career on film under the stage name Gloria Henry in horse racing film Sports of Kings in 1947. Other early movie roles included football-themed Triple Threat and horse race-themed Racing Luck in 1948, romantic comedy Miss Grant Takes Richmond opposite Lucille Ball in 1949, and William Bendix baseball comedy Kill the Umpire in 1950.

Henry segued to television in her first regularly scheduled show, syndicated crime drama The Files of Jeffrey Jones in 1952, and as a guest star in series like My Little Margie, The Abbott and Costello Show, Father Knows Best, Perry Mason, and The Life of Riley.

“Many of the fans say… ‘Oh, I always wished you were my mom’ and ‘My mom was jealous of you because I wanted you for a mom, which is pretty funny because I don’t think my own children felt that way,’’ Henry said in an interview in 2011. ‘I have a daughter and two sons. All they knew was, I was off to work, and I wasn’t with them as much as they would have liked me to be.”

Post Dennis the Menace, Henry traveled the TV show guest star route in comedies like Hazel, The Farmer’s Daughter, The Brady Brides and Newhart; and dramas Dragnet, Simon & Simon, and the original Dallas. Her final appearance was in a 2012 episode of NBC comedy Parks and Recreation.

The actress is survived by daughter Erin and sons Jeffrey and Adam.