Jean Stapleton, TV's Edith Bunker, has died

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Our younger members may not know who she is.

Jean Stapleton, the stage-trained character actress who played Archie Bunker's far better half, the sweetly naive Edith, in TV's groundbreaking 1970s comedy "All in the Family," has died. She was 90.

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/jean-stapleton-tvs-edith-bunker-dies-90-211007203.html
 

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It seems like every other day now some actor from tv/movies of my youth shows up on yahoo trends as recently deceased. Of course its always sad, but most of the time when I see these my reaction is disbelief that these people were actually still alive just a week or so before. I mean Edith Bunker? I thought she wasn't long for the grave back when I watched the show as a kid in the 70's. RIP Edith.
 
Those were the days...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkue1ns4XvU
 
I will miss her.

The show All in the Family is truly an historic television series.

'Reminds me of one of my favorite poems:

Precaution
I never dared to be radical when young,
For fear it would make me conservative when old.
-- Robert Frost​
 
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A little bit of trivia,
In an episode of the courtroom drama series, "The Defenders" (1961), "The Defenders: The Hidden Jungle (#2.11)" (1962), which aired 1st December 1962, an unknown actress at this time, she played a woman who witnessed a murder. In the episode, while on the witness stand, she is asked to point out the murderer. The actor playing the murderer was another unknown named Carroll O'Connor, who later starred with her in "All in the Family" (1971).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0822958/bio