Betty White’s Influence, Passion Reached Sacramento

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — This New Year’s Eve, we said goodbye to America’s aureate girl. Beloved histrion Betty White died Friday astatine the property of 99, conscionable weeks shy of her 100th birthday.

Flowers and different tributes person been placed connected her prima connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her endowment touched the world, including our small country of it.

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Betty White loved the zoo. Sacramento Zoo Director Jason Jacobs remembers his person arsenic the aureate miss who fought for good.

“There is nary 1 successful the amusement manufacture who has done much to beryllium an advocator for animals,” Jacobs said. “She was a tireless ambassador and champion for animals.”

In 2009, White visited California’s superior metropolis and utilized her fame to assistance money the section zoo. 

“She understood the value of zoos, redeeming taxon from extinction and what they meant to children,” Jacobs said.

She near a lasting content arsenic she’s done for decades.

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“She was 1 of a kind,” Jacobs said.

And she was fiercely funny, too.

“I person 3 cats and they’re each named aft characters from The Golden Girls,” said section comedian Ronn Vigh. “I americium a large Betty White fan.”

Vigh was inspired by Betty White’s quality – similar immoderate bully comedian – to interruption the rules.

“There’s a batch of truly affirmative things that they were doing successful that show,” Vigh said. “Things you shouldn’t person been doing successful the ’80s. They were for cheery rights, carnal rights, it went connected to tackle issues similar homelessness and aids.”

In March, Vigh volition header Laughs Unlimited successful Sacramento.

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“She volition decidedly beryllium successful my heart,” helium said. “She was [almost] 100 and she had a vocation successful amusement business. That’s astonishing and that’s worthy celebrating, not getting sad.”

Laura Haefeli