Beloved Actress Estelle Getty Passes Away

Beatrice Arthur, Getty's daughter on the show considers that the relationship between them was "one of the greatest comic duos ever," and added that she will miss her.

Her son, Carl Gettleman of Santa Monica, said she suffered from advanced dementia.

Lewy Body Dementia is a disease with similar symptoms to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

Getty played the no-holds-barred mother as aco-star on "Golden Girls" from 1985 until 1992.

Getty received the Golden Globe Award in 1986 when she was 62.She also received an American Comedy Award.

Getty played Sylvester Stallone's domineering mother in "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot."

She also played Grandma Estelle Little in "Stuart Little" in 1999, and more recently she played Sister Roseanne" in "The Million Dollar Kid."

She appeared on "Hollywood Squares" in 1998.

Getty wrote an autobiography, "If I Knew Then What I Know Now ... So What?", where she summarized: "I've played mothers to heroes and mothers to zeroes."