The beloved actor died on December 31.
Summary
- Betty White died from a stroke she had six days before her December 31 death at age 99, according to her death certificate.
- She was cremated and her remains were given Friday to Glenn Kaplan, the man in charge of White’s advanced health care directive.
- She took the last name of her husband Allen Ludden, to whom she was married from 1963 until his death in 1981.
- The information from the death certificate was first reported by TMZ.
- President Joe Biden, Mel Brooks, and many other celebrities and prominent leaders paid tribute to her after her death.