Aside from her Emmy-nominated starring role in “Alice” — the 1976 CBS sitcom adaptation ... a working class icon as a waitress on the TV sitcom ‘Alice,’ has died at age 87.

Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has ... in Town," ran from 1976 to 1985.

Lavin starred on the hit sitcom from 1976 to 1985 and most recently appeared ... Lavin, who guest-starred on Barney Miller before getting her own TV series, Alice, died on Sunday, Dec. 29, PEOPLE ...