The mother of the original 'Brady Bunch' family, Florence Henderson, has passed away at the age of 82.
According to her publicist David Brokaw, she died yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles, a day after being admitted to hospital after suffering heart failure.
"She was quite active until she started not feeling well several days ago," Mr. Brokaw said. "It was felt that she would just bounce back from it."
The much-loved show first aired in 1969 and ran for five seasons before returning in various forms, including a 1995 film in which Henderson played the mother of her original character, Carol Brady.
Many of us would have grown up with re-runs of 'The Brady Bunch' on RTÉ in the 80s and 90s and had strong memories of the show and film.
Outside of 'The Brady Bunch', Henderson had a successful musical theatre career, starring in lead roles in 'Oklahoma!', 'The Sound of Music', and 'South Pacific', and was also the first woman to host "The Tonight Show" while Johnny Carson was on holiday.
When asked in a 1999 Archive of American Television interview how she would like to be remembered, she answered, "Probably as someone who survived for a long time in a very tough business and, hopefully, managed to retain a sense of humanity."
Via NY Times