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Rose Nylund

Alma Lindstrom (née Gorkleknabygens, formerly Gorkleknabygenshöffstädlerfeil) is the biological mother of Lily, Holly, and Michael Lindstrom, as well as the adoptive mother of Rose Nylund.

She is portrayed by Jeanette Nolan.

Biography[]

Alma Lindstrom was born as Alma Gorkleknabygenshöffstädlerfeil (the last name was shortened later as most of the family was in show business) in St. Olaf, Minnesota.

She later married Gunter Lindstrom and they had eight biological children including Holly Lindstrom, Lily Lindstrom and Michael Lindstrom. They also had an adopted daughter, Rose Nylund.

Alma was described as being prim and proper. She visited the girls in the Season 1 episode Blanche and the Younger Man, and didn't like how Rose was being overprotective of her. Later in the series, Rose would mention her mother as if she had died, however she could have been referring to her birth mother, Ingrid Kerklavoner.

In The Golden Palace, Rose mentioned in the episode One Old Lady to Go” that she put Alma in a home six years prior to the show and Alma was there for six months, implying that Alma died somewhere around Season 3 of The Golden Girls.[1]

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  1. The Golden Palace, Season 1, Episode 4, “One Old Lady to Go”. Vallely, Jim (writer) & Passaris, Lex (director) (October 9th, 1992)
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