Patricia Heaton went on social media this week to honor the one year anniversary of losing Linda Lavin — the woman she calls her TV mom and the person who cast her in her very first regular sitcom role and changed the entire direction of her life.

She said she learned more from Linda Lavin about being a person than she ever did about being an actress — the way she led a set, the way she treated every single person in that room with equal respect regardless of their job title — and that she has carried that with her every single day since. Some people leave a mark on your career. Linda Lavin left a mark on who Patricia Heaton became — and this tribute made that impossible to miss.