Award-winning television star and American icon Betty White has died at the age of 99, according to White’s agent, Jeff Witjas.
“Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever,” agent Witjas told People magazine. “I will miss her terribly and so will the animal world that she loved so much. I don’t think Betty ever feared passing because she always wanted to be with her most beloved husband Allen Ludden. She believed she would be with him again.”
White, born in 1922, was best known for her role as Rose in the 1985 sitcom “Golden Girls.” Her extensive entertainment career began in 1930 at only 8 years old, when she appeared in an episode of the radio show “Empire Builders.”
She is well-known for her work on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” and “Hot in Cleveland.” White was the recipient of five Primetime and two Daytime Emmy Awards, among others, and is featured on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
She would have turned 100 on Jan. 17.
