PORTLAND, Ore., May 7 (UPI) -- Margaret Groening, who married one cartoonist, gave birth to another and inspired the cartoon character Marge Simpson, has died in Oregon. She was 94.
Margaret Groening, who didn't go by "Marge" even though her son Matt gave that name to the matriarch of his cartoon family, "The Simpsons," died peacefully in her sleep April 22, an obituary carried in The (Portland) Oregonian Monday stated.