Despite her advanced age and successful career, fans still feel she was taken too soon.

Despite an 11-year age difference, they found plenty of common ground, according toCloser Weekly.

Behind their comic on-screen personalities, both women were actually shrewd businesswomen.

Betty White zoo fundraiser 2015

Like Ball, White was a cofounder of a production company called Bandy Productions.

White called them “dynamite.”

When Ball’s marriage to Desi Arnaz began to crumble, the twice-divorced White offered words of wisdom.

Betty White and Lucille Ball at book signing 1987

Goddamnit, I didn’t think I’d get this upset.'"

“Password” was also the setting for one of the friends' most memorable moments on-screen.

White exclaimed, “You don’t buzz a legend!”

The whole studio laughed but none harder than Ball herself.

They considered each other family."