Pelt watched Spencer, 60, take her last breath. “August 11, 2025 will forever be a reminder of the day that I lost a big part of myself,” he said. “After many years, my big sister, Dr. Danielle Louise Spencer lost her battle with cancer.

Danielle Spencer, who played the wisecracking and tattling little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom “What's Happening!!” has died at 60. Spencer, who became a veterinarian later in life, died Monday at a hospital in Richmond,

Danielle Spencer, the actress who played Raj’s sarcastic little sister Deadra “Dee” Thomas on What’s Happening!!, died Monday. She was 60 years old. The news was posted by her former What’s Happening!