Back when sit-coms were clean (for the most part) and we could all enjoy a good laugh- those were the good times. We will remember “Shirley” (Cindy Williams) and all the sparkly effervescence she added to the box in our living rooms of yesteryear.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Cindy Williams, who played Shirley opposite Penny Marshall’s Laverne on the popular sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” has died, her family said Monday.

Williams died in Los Angeles at age 75 on Wednesday after a brief illness, her children, Zak and Emily Hudson, said in a statement released through family spokeswoman Liza Cranis.

by Associated Press (NBC Montana)

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