"Who Can Turn the World on With Her Smile?"

You knew it would happen one day , but when Mary Tyler Moore passed away at 80, it was the beginning of the end of our childhoods growing up watching Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show and Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show-both all time comedy classics that were showered with Emmys and viewers/critics love for many years.  An evening with her on TV was a pleasant, fun, wonderful memory.  She did many more TV shows and movies especially almost winning an Oscar for Ordinary People by playing a troubled mom.  She would bring a smile to your face, and even though she had health issues that she advocated like diabetes, her contributions to TV history particularly as the career woman circa 1970 are profound.  (It is ironic that her co-owned production company with former husband Grant Tinker produced great shows like Hill Street Blues –and now, within a year, Tinker is gone too.) At least we have hundreds of hours of reruns of her to savor forever. We will miss you Mary.