Francis Bay in a scene from "Seinfeld"

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Frances Bay, who tussled with Jerry Seinfeld over a loaf of marble rye bread on the comedian’s hit TV show “Seinfeld” , died on Sept. 15 in California.  She was 92.
Bay was a middle-age housewife when she became a successful actress, acted through 2011, nine years after losing her leg in a car accident.  Over the course of her career, she appeared in more than 50 motion pictures and 100 television shows. In addition to her role as Mabel Choate, the “marbel rye lady” on the hit TV show “Seinfeld” – a role she reprised in the series’ final episode – Bay’s roles included that of the grandmother in Adam Sandler’s “Happy Gilmore,” and “Fonzi’s Grandma Nussbaum on the hit TV show “Happy Days.” Her last role was as Aunt Ginny in the ABC sitcom “The Middle.”
Bay, who also appeared on the final episode of “Happy Days,” had a particular fondness for “Happy Days” star, Henry Winkler, whom she described as “a sweet guy.”
“He lost his own grandmother in the Holocaust,” she is reported to have said, “and he wrote me a letter saying I was his virtual grandmother.”
Born Frances Goffman in a small town in the Canadian province of Alberta, Bay’s father was a Ukrainian immigrant who ran a clothing store. She acted in local theater and earned a degree of fame in Canada during World War II as “The Girlfriend to the Canadian Forces” on a CBC radio show. But she married and gave up her career for homemaking.  She didn’t return to acting until the 1970s when she took classes with the renowned drama teacher Uta Hagen.
Bay won a Gemini Award, the Canadian equivalent of the Emmy, in 1997 and a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto in 2008.
She was predeceased by her husband and her son.