Mercer’s many stage credits include Fiorello, Stop the World – I Want to Get Off, Little Mary Sunshine, Twelfth Night A Midsummer Night’s Dream and A Streetcar Named Desire.
Her many television credits include It’s a Living, St. Elsewhere, Archie Bunker’s Place and The Golden Girls.
She is survived by her husband, Patrick Hogan, her sister, Marjorie Keith, and a daughter, Deidre Whitaker.