Alvarine Bisque

Alvarine Gurney
Status
Hair Color	Blue
Relations	Children: Jacqueline, Gladys Gurney Grandchildren: Selma Patty Marge Bouvier Great-Grandchildren: Bart Simpson, Hugo Simpson, Lisa Simpson, Maggie Simpson, Bartie Ziff, Ling Bouvier (adopted) Husband: Ferdinand Gurney
First episode appearance	Fear of Flying
Portrayed by	Julie Kavner

Alvarine Gurney (née Bisque) was the mother of Jacqueline Bouvier and Gladys Gurney and the maternal grandmother of Selma, Patty and Marge Bouvier. She did not smoke, resembled Patty and disapproved of Jacqueline and Marge's choices of husbands. Even though she did not smoke, she has the most raspy voice of all the girls in her family. She was almost blind which may have had led to Marge's fear of flying. In Homer's Phobia it's revealed that she had a secret drinking problem when the family found out that her civil war toy was actually a liquor bottle from the 70's.

Appearances

• Episode – "Fear of Flying"
• Book – The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album