Editing Mary Tyler Moore (section)

==Early life==
Moore was born in the [[Brooklyn Heights]] neighborhood in [[Brooklyn]], New York City, in 1936 to Marjorie (née Hackett) and George Tyler Moore. Her father was a clerk.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/11/us/mary-tyler-moore-fast-facts/ |title=Mary Tyler Moore Fast Facts |work=CNN.com |access-date=May 21, 2015 |date=December 20, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/marytylermoore00finn |url-access=registration |title=Mary Tyler Moore |first=Margaret L. |last=Finn |publisher=Chelsea House Publishers |year=1996 |isbn=9780791024164}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| last= Heffernan|first=Virginia|date=January 25, 2017|title=Mary Tyler Moore, Who Incarnated the Modern Woman on TV, Dies at 80|language=en-US|work=The New York Times| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/arts/television/mary-tyler-moore-dead.html|access-date=September 1, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190517081057/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/arts/television/mary-tyler-moore-dead.html|archive-date=May 17, 2019|issn=0362-4331 |url-access=limited}}</ref> Her [[Irish-Catholic]] family lived in a rental apartment in Brooklyn's [[Flatbush, Brooklyn|Flatbush]] neighborhood, then the family later lived in a rented apartment at 144-16 35th Avenue in [[Flushing, Queens]].

Moore was the oldest of three children, with a younger brother John and a younger sister Elizabeth. Moore's paternal great-grandfather, Confederate Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Tilghman Moore, owned the house that is now the [[Stonewall Jackson's Headquarters Museum]] in [[Winchester, Virginia]].<ref name=genea>{{cite web |url=http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/marym/index.html |title=Ancestry of Mary Tyler Moore | website= Genealogy.com |date=September 27, 2001 |access-date=August 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080611165122/http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/marym/index.html |archive-date=June 11, 2008}}</ref>

When Moore was eight years old, the family relocated to Los Angeles, California in 1945, at the recommendation of her uncle, an employee of [[MCA Inc.|MCA]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/mary-tyler-moore# |title=Mary Tyler Moore |website= emmytvlegends.org| publisher= Archive of American Television |language=en |access-date=February 3, 2017}}</ref> She was raised [[Catholic Church in the United States|Catholic]]<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/71943104/ |title=Mary Tyler Moore opens up about grief, alcohol and vision |first=Kew |last=Kills |newspaper=The Index-Journal |location= Greenwood, South Carolina| via= newspapers.com |date=September 17, 2008 |page=27 |access-date=May 21, 2015}}</ref> and attended St. Rose of Lima Parochial School in Brooklyn until the third grade. In Los Angeles, Moore attended Saint Ambrose School and [[Immaculate Heart High School (Los Angeles)|Immaculate Heart High School]] in the [[Los Feliz, Los Angeles|Los Feliz]] neighborhood.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://50.56.218.160/archive/category.php?category_id=23&id=25411 |title=Shapely Legs An Asset | website= brooklyneagle.com |date=December 29, 2008 |access-date=August 14, 2010 |archive-date=September 4, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150904004156/http://50.56.218.160/archive/category.php?category_id=23&id=25411 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=134771 |title=Biography, move to California and High School |website= Turner Classic Movies |access-date=August 14, 2010}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Moore's sister Elizabeth died at age 21 "from a combination of{{nbsp}}... painkillers and alcohol." Her brother died at the age of 47 from [[kidney cancer]].<ref>{{cite news| first= Frazier |last= Moore| url= http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/actress-mary-tyler-moore-dies-at-80-1.3256784 |title= Actress Mary Tyler Moore dies at 80| agency= Associated Press | website= CTVNews.ca| date= January 25, 2017| access-date= }}</ref>