Bea Arthur was an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress who starred in the television shows Maude and The Golden Girls.
1922-2009
Betty Buckley is an American actress best known for roles in the television show, Eight is Enough, and later film roles.
1947-
Bonnie Franklin is best known for playing Ann Romano, a loving but tough divorced mother on the hit television show One Day at a Time.
1944-2013
For close to a decade, actress Karen Grassle was known to TV audiences as pioneer mother, Caroline Ingalls, on the hit show, Little House on the Prairie.
1944-
Shirley Jones is a singer and actress best known for her parts in movie musicals, and for her role as Mrs. Partridge on the 1970s television show The Partridge Family.
1934-
Michael Learned is an Emmy Award-winning American actress best known for her role on the long-running television drama The Waltons.
1939-
A stage, film and TV actress, Esther Rolle is best remembered as Florida Evans -- a character she played on two comedy series, Maude and Good Times.
1920-1998
1928-
1917-2004
Jean Stapleton is an American actress best known for her award-winning role as Edith Bunker in the TV hit series All in the Family.
1923-
Actress Nancy Walker appeared in films and on stage before playing Ida Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rosie in the Bounty paper towel commercials.
1922-1992