Cheryl Holdridge, remembered as the blonde and beaming Mouseketeer on the 1950s show "The Mickey Mouse Club," died on Tuesday in her home. She was 64. Holdridge has reportedly been battling lung cancer for the last two years, said a former-Mouseketeer friend.

Holdridge was a mere 11 years old when she auditioned for Walt Disney’s show of talented, singing, dancing children. In 1959, she worked with other famous ear-bearing legends including: Annette Funicello, Tommy Cole, Cubby O’Brien, Sharon Baird, Bobby Burgess, Karen Pendleton, Lonnie Burr and Darlene Gillespie. Cole, who kept in touch with Holdridge decades after they shared the screen, visited Holdridge hours before her death. He said, reports the Los Angeles Times, when he heard that she had died two hours after he left her side, "a little bit of sunshine went out of my life."

After hanging up her ears, Holdridge went on to play Wally Cleaver’s girlfriend, Julie Foster, for two seasons on "Leave It to Beaver." She also had roles on several classic shows including "The Rifleman," "My Three Sons," "Bewitched" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show." Holdridge had no immediate surviving family members. She’s the widow of Lance Reventlow, the son of Woolworth retail-chain heiress Barbara Hutton.

In remembrance of Holdridge, watch this warm tribute to the cherished children’s show:

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