BernNadette Stanis and Janet Jackson honor their 'Good Times' co-star Johnny Brown, the actor and singer who died last week at age 84.
Esther Rolle, a sharecropper’s daughter who grew up to become a respected actress and role model for other blacks, has died.
“That’s the Way Love Goes” singer Jackson, who played abused child Penny Gordon Woods in Season 5, also shared her condolences via“Such loving memories of our time together. You were full of laughter and forever smiling. Always so sweet and so kind to me. I love you and will miss you,” she wrote on Saturday.on March 4 but did not state the cause of death.
“Our family is devastated. Devastated. Devastated. Beyond heartbroken. Barely able to breathe,” the artist wrote. “We respectfully ask for privacy at this time because we need a minute to process the unthinkable. To articulate the depths of profound sadness... It’s too terrible. It will never not be. It’s a shock. He was literally snatched out of our lives. It’s not real for us yet. So there will be more to say but not now. Dad was the absolute best. We love him so very much.
According to her post, Brown is survived by his wife, Jane Russell, son JJ, grandchildren Elijah and Levi and his older brother, George.