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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 divorced.
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Apr 6, 2022 · 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.
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Oct 16, 1980 · LOS ANGELES -- Mary Tyler Moore's only son, 24-year-old Richard Meeker, killed himself with a shotgun blast to the head late Tuesday night at the home he shared with two young women near the...
May 25, 2023 · Richie was the son of Mary and her first husband, Richard Meeker. Richie died on Oct. 14, 1980, from a shooting accident. He was 24. Mary Tyler Moore will forever be revered as an...
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- She Gave Birth to Him When She Was 18
- He Died in 1980 of An Accidental Gunshot Wound
- Moore Later Said She Regretted Being So Busy When Her Son Was Growing Up
- He Was Working at CBS at The Time of His Death
- Moore’s Sister Died of A Drug Overdose Two Years Earlier
Mary Tyler Moore married her first husband, Richard Carleton Meeker, in 1955 when she was 18 years old. Meeker was 28 at the time. In her book Growing Up Again, Moore describes Meeker as a “boy next door” (literally). “And since he had a job (cranberry sauce sales manager) and his own apartment (as I said, next door), I accepted the invitation to g...
Richard Meeker died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on October 14th, 1980. At the time, there were some false reports that Meeker had committed suicide; in reality, his death was accidental. “Unfortunately, there were terrible rumors that Richie killed himself, but it was an accident,” Mary Tyler Moore told the National Ledger. “He was a gun coll...
When Richard Jr. was young, Moore was working on both The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and in her book Growing Up Again, she says that she wishes she had been around more. “If I had it to do over, I wouldn’t have pursued a career while I had a little boy to care for,” she writes. “My heart breaks when I think of the times misse...
In addition to being a student, Meeker was working as a messenger for CBS when he died. This is the television network that aired The Mary Tyler Moore Show from 1970 through 1977, and it was also home to The Dick Van Dyke Show. After his death, Meeker’s coworkers at CBS praised him as a fine young man, with one of his superiors saying, when it was ...
The death of Richard Meeker Jr. must have been especially tough for Mary Tyler Moore considering she had just recently lost her sister, Elizabeth Ann. Moore’s sister died of a drug overdose in 1978 at the age of 21. The coroner ruled her death a suicide, according to The Bulletin,but Mary Tyler Moore said that it was completely accidental. When Mee...
Dec 18, 2019 · Richard G. Meeker, 24, son of television star Mary Tyler Moore, accidentally shot himself in his home near the University of Southern California campus.
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Jan 26, 2017 · Mary’s only son, Richard Meeker Jr., died in October 1980, after he accidentally shot himself in the head. He was 24. “It came from out of nowhere. He was doing so well,” Moore recalled in...
