Valerie Harper has passed away.

[imanamerican63]

Former actress best known for Rhoda on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" and her own spin off "Rhoda". She was 80 years old. She was funny and a great actress.

[Roland99]

1. Aww. :(

[smirkymonkey]

2. I loved her as Rhoda.

Very Sad. RIP, Valerie.

[bdamomma]

3. Oh I used

to watch her when she was Mary Tyler Moore show and then her spinoff show, I loved her. Rest in Peace.

[FakeNoose]

4. Goodbye and rest in peace to our old friend Rhoda

[Rebl2]

11. Yes we

do need that tissue. She lived much longer than the doctors told her she would. I think that is a lesson to be learned-sometimes they are wrong.

[BigmanPigman]

5. She hung on longer than most expected. I hope she has peace now.

[whathehell]

7. Yes, she was diagnosed with cancer quite awhile ago, I believe.

I'm glad she hung in too.

[forgotmylogin]

15. It's actually rather incredible.

It seems like I've been hearing about her in health jeopardy since the 90s and the grocery tabloids reported her on the precipice of death's door at least once a year since then. We're fortunate that advances in cancer treatment and detection has made it not necessarily an immediate death sentence.

My aunt had breast cancer in the 80s and underwent a radical mastectomy. My elderly mom had it in 2015 and it was an outpatient surgery and a limited round of chemotherapy. Not that all cancer is as easy to treat and by no means is chemo a quick and easy process, but there are cancer survivors today who would have been cancer victims as recently as a couple of decades ago.

[BigmanPigman]

16. Most people expected her to die but

Mary surprised everyone and went first. I just watched a rerun of the MTM show where she fell asleep with a cap-style hair dryer on and Phyllis woke her up by yelling into the hose..what a great cast! Harper's real life husband at the time was on the show 4 times, he was a really good comic actor too. They show reruns on the Sundance Channel (it is free with my cable package) and I record all of them.

[Cha]

6. Awww.. Rest in Peace, Valerie!

[boston bean]

8. Really wonderful actress and more importantly great person.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. R.I.P. She fought a good battle.

[StarryNite]

10. Awww Noooo

[Liberal In Texas]

12. RIP Ms Harper.

My past is fading away.

[lunatica]

13. She was beautiful and self deprecating and hilarious.

One of a kind.

[warmfeet]

14. She was a great role model for women, for humans.

We need many more like her. I will miss her.

[BeyondGeography]

17. The NYT obit concludes as follows

“Rhoda, like most of us, was a victorious loser,” Ms. Harper once said, a sentiment that might easily be applied to herself in her final days. Her illness may have been a metastatic recurrence of lung cancer, which she survived in 2009.

Afterward she spoke often in interviews on television, urging people to take advantage of their lives while they have them.

“I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death,” she said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/obituaries/valerie-harper-dead.html

[Va Lefty]

18. Co-star Ed Asner on Valerie

Link to tweet

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[colsohlibgal]

19. Sad

The icons of we Boomer’s younger years keep departing this Earth, RIP Valerie/Rhoda.