Mary Tyler Moore, the much loved and admired former star of her eponymous TV show, and before that co-star of the Dick Van Dyke Show, died today at her home in Greenwich, Connecticut. She was 80, and had suffered ill health for some years.

According to her New York Times obituary, she was born in Brooklyn Heights. She didn’t stay long, though. Her parents moved to Flushing, Queens and then. when she was eight, to Los Angeles. She is survived by her husband, Dr. Robert Levine.

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