The award-winning longtime producer of a popular daytime TV soap opera has sadly passed away.

Felicia Minei Behr, who won multiple Emmys for her production of ABC's long-running soap series All My Children, died on Sunday at the age of 82, Deadline reported.

According to her family, Behr was surrounded by loved ones when she succumbed to a five-year battle against brain cancer.

A decades-long career in the entertainment industry

According to Behr's obituary, she was born in 1942 on Long Island, New York, and received training as a secretary when her family was unable to afford to send her to college.

That secretarial training led directly to her decades-long career in the entertainment industry as she landed her first job in 1960 as a secretary for CBS, which served as a steppingstone for her advancement up the ladder at the network while working in various positions on several popular shows of the era.

Included in her work at CBS was the 1970 launch of "All My Children," which she later followed to ABC, where she was named the executive producer of the program in 1989 and helped make it an award-winning success.

She continued to advance her career at ABC throughout the 1990s and early 2000s and ended up being promoted to the role of senior vice president of ABC Daytime Programming, which granted her control over all of the network's soap operas plus the daytime talk show The View.

An award-winning producer

Per Behr's IMDb page, she was perhaps best known for her production of All My Children, for which she produced a total of 3,538 episodes between 1970 and 1996.

Her work on that program during the 1990s earned nine total Daytime Emmy Award nominations and two wins in '94 and '96 in the "Outstanding Drama Series" category.

Prior to achieving the height of success with All My Children, Behr also produced 1,366 episodes of Ryan's Hope in the 1980s and, afterwards, 175 episodes of As the World Turns in the mid- to late-'90s.

Will be remembered for "warmth, humor, and generosity"

According to Behr's family, "Her storytelling expertise and deep connection with audiences helped create some of the most memorable moments in soap opera history."

The family further noted that she "will be remembered not only for her groundbreaking work in television but also for her warmth, humor, and generosity."

Behr was preceded in death by both her father and mother, Vito Anthony and Frances, as well as her husband of many decades, Robert, who died in 2017.

She is survived, however, by her son and four daughters plus their spouses, along with 10 grandchildren and many more great-grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.