Mary Lasswell, an author whose humorous novels about life in Southern California and Texas were popular in the 1940s and '50s, has died in Solvang, Calif. She was 89. The cause was Alzheimer's disease, said her husband, Dr. Dudley Winn Smith, a surgeon.
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Her first book, "Suds in Your Eye," published by Houghton Mifflin in 1942, was described as "a crazy, funny story" about three impecunious elderly women. A Broadway play in 1944, based on the book, was dramatized by Jack Kirkland.Among her other books were "High Time" (1944); "Mrs. Rasmussen's Book of One-Arm Cookery" (1946); "Wait for the Wagon" (1951); "I'll Take Texas" (1958); "Let's Go for Broke" (1962) and "Tio Pepe" (1968).