A talented singer, she also starred on Broadway in 'Fanny' and in Noel Coward's final NYC play, and she was a 'Today Girl' on the NBC morning show. Florence Henderson, the effervescent stage and screen performer whose sweet, starring turn on The Brady Bunch made her one of the most popular sitcom moms in television history, has died. She was 82. Henderson, who in the 1950s originated the title role of Fanny in a Broadway musical and then served as a "Today Girl" on the popular NBC morning program, died on Thanksgiving night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, a day after she was hospitalized, her publicist, David Brokaw, told the Associated Press. Henderson had suffered heart failure, her manager Kayla Pressman said in a statement. Family and friends surrounded Henderson's hospital bedside, Pressman said. Read more http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/florence-henderson-mom-brady-bunch-dies-at-82-950456