[1] After Earle's father retired, her parents relocated to La Crescenta, California, to be closer to their daughter.

[2] Beginning her professional career late in life, Earle's first jobs included ads for Polaroid.

Scheduled to make her Broadway debut, at age 88, in a revival of Paul Zindel's Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds in 1978, Earle suffered a fractured hip during the show's initial run in La Jolla, California and withdrew from the production prior to its New York premiere.

[citation needed] She guest starred on many notable television series including Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched, Night Gallery, The Bob Newhart Show, All in the Family, Alice, Phyllis and Whiz Kids.

Earle died aged 95 on November 4, 1984, in Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, California,[2] of uremia poisoning following surgery for colon cancer, having outlived both her husband and her daughter.