Danielle Spencer Explanation for Demise: ‘What’s Occurring!!’ Star Passes Away at 60

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Actress Danielle Spencer has handed away on the age of 60.

The previous little one star portrayed Dee on the long-lasting Seventies sitcom What’s Occurring!!

Spencer grew to become a veterinarian after retiring from appearing within the Nineteen Nineties.

Actress Danielle Spencer arrives on the 2006 TV Land Awards on the Barker Hangar on March 19, 2006 in Santa Monica, California. (Picture by Stephen Shugerman/Getty Pictures)

Nelson — who performed Dwayne on What’s Occurring!! — says that Danielle was surrounded by family members, together with her mother, Cheryl, and her brother, famed jazz musician Jeremy Pelt.

The actor, who says he all the time considered Spencer as his little sister, paid tribute and revealed her reason behind dying in a shifting Instagram publish.

Danielle Spencer handed away after a protracted battle with most cancers

“Dr. Dee, our brilliant, loving, positive, pragmatic warrior, without fail, has finally found her release from the clutches of this world and a body,” Nelson wrote.

“We celebrate Danielle Spencer and her contributions as we regret to inform her departure and transition from a long battle with cancer,” he continued, including:

“We have lost a daughter, sister, family member, ‘What’s Happening’ cast member, veterinarian animal rights proponent and healer, and cancer heroine. Our Shero. Danielle is loved. She will be missed in this form and forever embraced.”

Extensively thought of one of the groundbreaking sitcoms of the Seventies, What’s Occurring!! debuted as a summer time alternative sequence in August of 1976.

It carried out so nicely {that a} full season was ordered, and the present continued its run till 1979.

It later discovered a brand new viewers by syndicated reruns.

Spencer resumed her function in a sequel sequence, What’s Occurring Now!!, that ran on CBS from 1985 to 1988.

Our ideas exit to Danielle Spencer’s family members throughout this devastating time.