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  1. Jan 25, 2017 · But in 1980, Moore received a fateful phone call and learned news that would forever change her life — her son was dead. “On Oct. 15, 1980, at 5 a.m., the phone awakened me,” she wrote in ...

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    • Jodi Guglielmi
  2. May 25, 2023 · Mary Tyler Moore had only one child during her life: a son, Richard “Richie” Meeker Jr. Richie was the son of Mary and her first husband, Richard Meeker. Richie died on Oct. 14, 1980, from a ...

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  3. Oct 16, 1980 · Miss Moore's estranged second husband, TV producer Grant Tinker, who informed her of her son's death, said 'the news absolutely destroyed Mary.' The 43-year-old actress was unavailable for comment.

  4. Mary Tyler Moore puts her arm around her son, Richard Meeker Jr., in 1968. ... Mary’s only son, Richard Meeker Jr., died in October 1980, after he accidentally shot himself in the head. He was 24.

  5. Dec 29, 2017 · Within six weeks of her wedding, Mary became pregnant and the couple’s son, Richard “Richie” Carleton Meeker Jr., was born on July 3, 1956. Mary and her son, Richie, in 1968. (Photo Credit ...

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  6. Dec 28, 2021 · On January 25, 2017, she died from a heart attack while already suffering from pneumonia. She was 80 years old. While she was survived only by her husband, Moore was in fact a mother. In 1956, she gave birth to her son and only child, Richard Meeker, whom Moore had with her then-husband Dick Meeker, according to Bustle. By Moore's recollection ...

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  8. Jan 25, 2017 · Following the death of Mary Tyler Moore on Wednesday at age 80, here is the full text from PEOPLE magazine’s October 30, 1995 cover story on the release of her memoir, After All. “During the ...