June Foray’ at the Happy Feet Two’ film premiere, Los Angeles 13 Nov 2011 Photo by Jim Smeal/BEI/Shutterstock

Another piece of your childhood is gone. Voice actress June Foray has passed away at age 99.

Unlike her male counterpart, Mel Blanc, Foray was non-exclusive to any one studio. She did voices for Disney, Warner Brothers and Jay Ward. It was the latter where she became somewhat of a cult figure as the voice of both Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Natasha Fatale, female companion of diminutive spy Boris Badenov.

At Warner’s she provided the voice of Granny in the Sylvester and Tweety cartoons. This is where she first worked with animator Chuck Jones who cast her as Cindy Lou Who in The Grinch That Stole Christmas.

As noted in Variety this morning, Foray had an impressive list of fans. Film critic and historian Leonard Maltin wrote the forward to Foray’s 2009 autobiography “Did You Grow Up With Me, Too?” He wrote: “When I was fortunate enough to attend the Oscar nominees’ luncheon in 2007, I asked director Martin Scorsese who he was excited to have met that day, among the hundred-or-so contenders and Academy guests. He smiled and said, ‘June Foray.’ ”

She is one of the last actors to be able to peg the beginning of her career to American network radio and her last credit was for a Rocky and Bullwinkle theatrical short released in 2014. Her loss will create the demand for another “legacy” voice in animation, that is, someone who can imitate her and maintain the characters she originally brought to life. At last count it took more than a dozen voiceover artists to cover the loss of Blanc in 1989.