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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.
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...
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 · 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...
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...
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...
