Loni Anderson, who died Aug. 3, never forgot her Minnesota roots

Loni Anderson, who died Aug. 3, never forgot her Minnesota roots

People might not have been all that surprised to learn that Loni Anderson — the curvy, charismatic blonde who stole the spotlight on “WKRP in Cincinnati” — hailed from Minnesota. After all, the state has long been home to a slew of flaxen-haired Scandinavians. And while Anderson, who died Sunday, Aug. 3, in Los Angeles at age 79, was of both Swedish and Norwegian ancestry, she was no blonde. In fact, her natural hair color was so dark that, in h…