Fond Farewell
Esther Rolle
September 29, 1920 - - - November 19, 1998
Born the daughter of a Florida vegetable farmer, she was the 10th of 18 children and went on to become a well-respected actress in Hollywood. While she made movies like Driving Miss Daisy, she was most famous for her role as Florida Evans in the 1970s sitcom, Good Times. She had previously been in the sitcom Maude and won the NAACP Civil Rights Leadership Award for helping to raise the image of Afro Americans. She died at age 78, and had been under treatment for diabetes.
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Obituary from Spokane.Net cda.net/stories/1998/Nov/19/S486573.asp
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