Margaret F. Lynch

(1916- ) born in Lincoln. Radio and television writer, actress, was creator of husband/wife comedy series Ethel and Albert which was broadcast nationwide on radio from the 1940s to the 1970s, including a decade on television; played the role of Ethel and wrote thousands of scripts after initially creating the foibles of married life sketches in Albert Lea, Minnesota in 1938. Consult New York Times, June 2, 1946, Sec. 2, p. 7 and May 14, 1950, Sec. 2, p. 9 and Newsweek, May 11, 1953, pp. 69-70 and University of Minnesota Alumni Association's Gopher Grad Magazine, November 1955, pp. 9-10 and Current Biography (1956) 389-390 and Hobbies, June 1977, pp. 58-59.

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