The first lady of the Chicago airwaves Lee Phillip Bell passed away on Tuesday in her Los Angeles home. A spokesperson for the family says Bell died of natural causes. She was 91 years old.

The Emmy Award winning broadcast Journalist and TV show writer was known for hosting The Lee Phillip Show in 1953, where she got her start in broadcast journalism. The Lee Phillip Show covered array of social issues such as the lives of prisoners and breast cancer. The show featured celebrity guest interviews from Oprah Winfrey, The Beatles, President Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan.

In 1973, Lee alongside her husband co-created the soap opera “The Young and the Restless” and its spin-off “The Bold and the Beautiful.”  Both shows have won a combined 147 daytime Emmy awards and are two of TV’s longest running soap operas.

Lee Phillip Bell was also the first woman to receive the Governor’s Award from the Chicago chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She produced several award-winning specials that surrounded topics such as divorce, rape, and foster children

“Our mother was a loving and supportive wife, mother and grandmother,” the family said in a statement. “Gracious and kind, she enriched the lives of all who knew her. We will miss her tremendously.”

In addition to her three children, Mrs. Bell is survived by a brother and eight grandchildren.