 Elizabeth Patterson (actress)

Mary Elizabeth Patterson (November 22, 1874 – January 31, 1966) was an American theatre, film, and television character actress who gained popular recognition late in her career playing the elderly neighbor Matilda Trumbull on the television comedy series "I Love Lucy".Born in 1874 in Savannah, Tennessee, Mary Elizabeth Patterson was the child of Mildred ("née" McDougal) and Edmund D. Patterson, a Confederate army veteran.