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Jan 25, 2017 · Moore gave birth to Richie just one year into her first marriage with Meeker at the age of 18. By the time he was 3, she had steady work on TV. When Richie was 6, Moore and Meeker...
Jan 26, 2017 · Mary Tyler Moore, who died at age 80 on Wednesday, January 25, recalled her son Richie's tragic death in her 1995 memoir, 'After All' — find out more.
May 25, 2023 · Only her first marriage produced a child, the young Richard Carleton Meeker Jr. Sadly, Richie died in 1980 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The tragedy haunted Mary for years afterward.
Dec 29, 2017 · On Oct. 14, 1980, Mary’s son sadly passed away from an unintentional, self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. Richie was reportedly handling a small .410 shotgun when the weapon...
May 24, 2023 · The Emmy winner’s only child, Richie Meeker, died in 1980 at the age of 24. In the years that followed her son’s death, Moore revealed how she managed her grief through the difficult...
Dec 18, 2019 · In 1980, the “Dick Van Dyke Show” and “Mary Tyler Moore Show” star received word that her only son Richie Meeker died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 24.
Richard Carleton “Richie” Meeker Jr. Cremated, Ashes scattered. Specifically: Scattered in a stream at Mammoth Mountain, California Add to Map. Actor. Son of actress Mary Tyler Moore and her first husband Dick Meeker. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officially ruled accidental.
Jan 25, 2017 · The year that Richard Meeker Jr. died, Mary Tyler Moore starred in Ordinary People, a movie in which she plays a woman who loses her son in an accident and whose other son attempts...
Dec 28, 2021 · 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, her relationship with her son was strenuous due to her divorce from his father and her focus on her career, but did not see any signs of trouble or self-harm from him (via People ).
Oct 18, 1980 · Miss Moore, Tinker, and Meeker's Father, Richard Meeker Sr., of Sacramento, also described the youth as happy and well adjusted. The coroner's office was performing pathological tests to...
