Betty White Stamp to Be Released in 2025, Postal Service Says

Arts|Betty White Stamp to Be Released in 2025

The actress Betty White, who is known to generations of viewers for her memorable characters in television shows such as “The Golden Girls” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” will be getting her own postage stamp.

The U.S. Postal Service announced on Friday that it would release a stamp in 2025 featuring a digital illustration based on a 2010 photograph by Kwaku Alston of Ms. White dressed in purple.

Ms. White died in 2021, just three weeks before what would have been her 100th birthday.

In its announcement, the Postal Service described Ms. White as “an icon of American television” who shared “her wit and warmth with viewers for seven decades.”

The Postal Service said that the 2025 list of stamps was a partial one, and that additional stamps were still to be announced. Another stamp will honor Allen Toussaint, a versatile producer, songwriter, pianist and singer who died in 2015 at age 77.

Ms. White had a radio career before shifting to television in 1949, when she appeared on a local talk show called “Al Jarvis’s Hollywood on Television.” When Mr. Jarvis left the show, she succeeded him as host.

In the 1950s, she had a few television shows of her own, including two sitcoms and a variety show.

Her breakthrough came later in life, when she was over 50, with her role as the upbeat but manipulative Sue Ann Nivens on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” from 1973-77, for which she won two Emmy awards. Ms. White’s character was the host of a household-hints show on a fictional television station in Minneapolis.

Ms. White became best known for her role as the sweet and dim Rose Nylund on “The Golden Girls,” which followed the lives of four older women who shared a house in Miami. The show ran from 1985-92.