Wally Kurth joined Basic Hospital in 1991 as Ned Ashton, a member of the Quartermaine household — so Ned loved an in depth relationship along with his aunt, Monica Quartermaine, performed by Leslie Charleson, who handed away on January 12, 2025, on the age of 79. Kurth, who joined Basic Hospital contemporary off a four-year run as Days of our Lives’ Justin Kiriakis, remembers Charleson as a optimistic drive across the studio.
“She at all times had a smile on her face, each morning,” he shares.