Brady Bunch stars pay tribute to Florence Henderson 0

Henderson died with family and friends at her side, the Associated Press reported, citing her manager Kayla Pressman.

“I think that small-town IN feel never left her, and she never grew out of it”, Bryant said. “It was felt that she would just bounce back from it”. “She was serious about what she did but didn’t take herself seriously”.

Michael McKean, who played Lenny Konowski on “Laverne & Shirley” in the ’70s, called the late acress a “dame” and claimed she was “funny as hell”.

In later years she made guest appearances on such shows as Roseanne, Ally McBeal and The King of Queens.

Before the series, Ms. Henderson had built an impressive reputation with stage work.

She died November 24 at a Los Angeles hospital at age 82. “I’ll miss u dearly.” she wrote on Twitter. “I learned so much about how to be in public from her graciousness, the way she would stop and really give undivided attention to fans, she took her fan mail very seriously”, he said.

And she certainly had some glamorous tales to tell, Applegate recalled.

“She was just a very wholesome woman, a mom that you would maybe want to have”.

NBC’s venerable morning news and entertainment series “Today” was a part of her career twice.

She grew up in a poor family with an alcoholic father and a mother who abandoned her and her siblings.

She had a strict Roman Catholic upbringing and was sent to St. Frances Academy in Owensboro, Kentucky, for her high school education. “But she didn’t sing it”. In 2010, Henderson joined the cast of a show she loved: “Dancing with the Stars”.

While appearing on “Today” past year, Henderson said she didn’t “get the memo” that she was supposed to be slowing down with age. She made numerous guest appearances on shows which included “The Muppet Show”, and, in the 2000s, “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”, “The Ellen Degeneres Show”, and “30 Rock”.

But even before the Brady Bunch, she was a star in musical theater. She appeared on countless TV variety shows and game shows and made commercials for Wesson cooking oil for more than 20 years. We had slumber parties and would go swimming and hang out and cook in her kitchen. “She was nearly like a time traveler”, she said.

The actress-singer saw IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe compete in person at Monday’s “Dancing with the Stars” season finale. “I hope I’ve inspired people to get off their behinds and move and dance and live and enjoy life”, she said at the end of the episode, prompting fellow competitor Brandy to start crying. There had to be a hundred people surrounding her, and she talked to each and every one of them.

Maureen McCormick, the eldest Brady daughter, tweeted, “You are in my heart forever Florence”. They were married for 29 years.