Cate Egan Hennessy (Katey Sagal)Katey Sagal as Cate Egan Hennessy A wife, mother, nurse and easily the most sane and composed person in the family, who becomes widowed when her husband dies. She takes a nursing job at the kids school so that she can work standard hours and spend more time with the kids. She received her middle name "Stinky" as a result of her father promising his best friend he would name one of his children after him after accidentally shooting his friend while they were drunk in Korea. | 
