RIP Estelle Getty

[Kryton]

Just heard it on the TV machine...dead at 84.

Golden to the end.

http://www.ktok.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104665&article=3989279

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

She was great as Sophia in The Golden Girls. Rest in peace, Estelle Getty.

 

[Tactical Drone]

I love the Golden Girls.

 

[The Evil Dead]

RIP, she gave me a lot of laughs on Golden Girls.

 

[auntiehill]

Just read this on the news. How sad.
Apparently, she had been ill for some time.

RIP.

 

[Brian]

One factoid of the Golden Girls is that, though Estelle played the oldest character, she was in fact younger than Bea Arthur (who played her daughter) and Betty White. Bitter irony then that she should be the first to go.

RIP, Estelle.

 

[mr.peany]

Awww. She was great on the Golden Girls. She had suffered severe dementia for some time now. May she rest in peace.

 

[Capt_Piett]

"Thank you for being a friend...travel down the road and back again...your heart is true; you're a pal and a confidant...."

I used to love watching Golden Girls. Still do, whenever I catch the odd re-run here or there. RIP Estelle.

"Picture it, Sicily, 1956...."

 

[DarkHelmet]

Damn sad news, indeed. Suffered from advanced dementia - sounds like my grandmother (last grandparent alive).

Rest in peace, Estelle.

 

[Dorian Thompson]

Rest in peace, Estelle. You'll no longer suffer the shackles of a mind that no longer worked. You're free.

 

[doubleohfive]

Picture it: Washington, DC, 1991.

Every Saturday night, Dad would sit us down and we'd watch The Golden Girls while Mom was off working at the hospital.

Those four ladies cracked us up week after week. One of the best sitcoms I've ever seen, and still remains to this day hilarious.

Rest in peace, Estelle. You will be missed.

 

[Geck]

Thanks for the laughs, Estelle. You had a gift for deadpan humour and great comic timing.

 

[Kira's Mom]

Sad that her last days were spent with dementia. RIP, and thanks for all the laughs.

 

[Gryffindorian]

Rest in peace, Ma.

 

[ancientone51]

RIP Estelle.

And thanks for the accent...I sort of stole it for a show...one patron said I sounded just like her, good ear.

As Milton Berle once said...only steal from the best...that she was.

Picture it:
Heaven, July 2008... laughter abounds.

 

[Emher]

RIP Mrs Getty.

 

[doubleohfive]

Picture it:
Heaven, July 2008... laughter abounds.

I don't think there will be a better tribute than this. Well done.

 

[Turbo]

RIP, Ma.

Dorothy: Ma, I do not snore.
Sophia: Please, I had to turn you away from the windows so you wouldn't inhale the drapes!

 

[shivkala]

Though the concept was more readily accepted than one might think ("It's a show about women in their golden years...), I don't think the show would have been such a hit without Estelle.

Rest in peace Estelle, thank you for the golden memories.

 

[DarthPipes]

RIP