Danielle Spencer — well-known for enjoying Dee Thomas on the hit ’70s sitcom “What’s Occurring!!” — spent her closing days alive in a hospital mattress … she had tubes hooked as much as her nostril, and wanted them for meals and medication.

Danielle’s mother, Cheryl Pelt, tells TMZ … Danielle was hospitalized August 1 after a urinary tract an infection turned septic. She was unable to eat laborious meals and needed to get her vitamins and meds by tubing.

What’s extra, we’re advised Danielle had pneumonia in each lungs … and he or she was shedding pounds and her gastric most cancers was kicking up.

The previous little one star’s mom says Danielle suffered a “code blue” and was unresponsive … medical doctors labored on her and located a pulse, and he or she was transferred to the ICU for extra focused therapy … however her coronary heart was weakening.

As we reported, Danielle died Monday at 60 years outdated. Her mom says she died of cardiac arrest and gastric most cancers.

Danielle’s mom says after her appearing profession slowed, she began working as a veterinarian within the Los Angeles space for over twenty years … which was at all times her dream after appearing.

However we’re advised Danielle bought sick in 2013 and he or she moved in together with her mom at Cheryl’s dwelling in Virginia …

Danielle’s mother says her daughter suffered a very long time … she battled most cancers, and there have been long-lasting well being issues from a extreme automobile accident again within the day, which killed her stepfather, Tim Pelt.