Jane Nebel Henson, who partnered with her husband Jim Henson to launch the Muppets and worked to preserve his artistic legacy, died on Tuesday, April 2nd, in Conn. She was 78. The cause was cancer, said a spokesman for the Jim Henson Company, the production company owned by the couple’s five children.
In the Henson family lexicon, Henson’s daughter and president of the Jim Henson Foundation, Cheryl Henson said, “We called her the great maza shelaza of the Muppets.”
Roughly translated, she added, that meant the mother of all Muppets.
sadface.