Florence Henderson

Florence Henderson, 82, died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Thursday night, a day after she was hospitalized. She had suffered heart failure. On the surface,  ABC’s The Brady Bunch with Henderson as its ever-cheerful matriarch Carol Brady resembled just another TV sitcom about a family living in suburban America and getting into a different wacky situation each week. But well after it ended its initial run in 1974, the show resonated with audiences, and it returned to television in various forms again and again