This is apparently one of those delayed death announcements for whatever
reason:

Melinda Dillon, an actress with honey-blonde hair and hard-earned
emotional depth, died of undisclosed causes on Jan. 9 in L.A. She was
83. Dillon played a range of challenging parts -- the devastated source
of a newspaper scoop in Absence of Malice (1981), a troubled poet in The
Prince of Tides (1991) -- but audiences remember her best as two iconic
moms. In 1977's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, she was
Oscar-nominated as a woman whose son is abducted by aliens (she admitted
feeling "petrified" while filming the famously harrowing scene). Then
she played Mrs. Parker, 1940s housewife whose son desperately wants a BB
gun, in the holiday staple A Christmas Story (1983) (the role offered
her an immortal line: "You'll shoot your eye out!") The Hope, Ark.,
native struggled with with mental health issues early on -- she was
hospitalized in her 20s while on Broadway with "Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?" -- but eventually found her footing in Hollywood, earning a
second Oscar nod for Absence of Malice. She is survived by Richard, her
son with the late actor Richard Libertini. - People, 2/20/23.