Betty White has passed away at the age of 99.

This is so sad. I've been watching Betty White since I was 4 years old. I'm also happy that she got to live this long and did so much with her life.

https://nndb.com/people/887/000022821/

I think that she was so close to her 100th birthday, that we can go ahead and say that she was 100 years old
Betty White, beloved and trailblazing actress, dies at 99

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Another thing that endeared her to me: Years ago she adopted an older dog who had to retire from being a guide dog for actor/singer Tom Sullivan who was blind. Tom had hoped to keep Dinah, a Golden Retriever if i recall correctly, with his family after age made it hard for her to keep up with the active entertainer. But she was unhappy watching a younger dog take over her duties.

Living with Betty White allowed her to find some joy in her final years. I'm a big advocate for adopting older dogs and cats, and keeping ours as they age. And that touched me deeply, that she took in a senior dog struggling to adjust to changes in her 'purpose'.
 
Betty also embraced people of color instead of rejecting them, she was truly a special person.

She stood firm against racial pressure, even though it could have hurt her career
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Her daytime variety show featured Arthur Duncan, a talented young singer and dancer who credits White with giving him his start in show business. According to a PBS biography, Duncan was the first black series regular on a talk/variety show.

However, as White’s show expanded nationally, she faced a potential boycott from stations in the South, which threatened to pull it from the schedule if White didn't remove Duncan. “I said, ‘I’m sorry. Live with it,’ ” White says in the film.

During a panel in July at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Duncan said he wasn’t aware of the matter until White wrote about it years later. “She just stood up for her beliefs. That solved everything at the time.”
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Duncan on left.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/life...pbs-tribute-first-lady-television/1026883002/
 
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