I saw no one had posted this, so I thought I would as a tribute to a great American actress. Bea Arthur passed beyond the veil on April 25.

She was best known as Maude and then Dorothy Zbornak on "The Golden Girls".

I certainly am glad she is no longer suffering, since reports indicate she was quite ill with cancer. May her light shine always.

http://bulletin.aarp.org/opinions/ot..._PK=bea_arthur

I heard last Saturday that she'd passed on. I remember watching Bea Arthur as Maude in "All in the Family" before her character was "spun off" and given her own show. Later, her character became pregnant and had an abortion, and the abortion episode on "Maude" was quite ground-breaking for its time back then. Then she went on to entertain us for years as Dorothy in the "Golden Girls."

I saw Betty White and Rue McClanahan interviewed on TV earlier this week, and they spoke in loving terms of her and had such high praise for her as a person and actress. They both said she was extremely quiet and even somewhat shy in real life, something I would have never guessed based on the types of roles she played. Shows what a good actress she was. Anyway, Bea Arthur brought a lot of laughs to many people, and she will be missed.

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