which they mistakenly claimed depicted a young Frances Bavier, the actress who played Aunt Bee Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show, posing for a pin-up style photograph: While the woman shown on the ...

Her original career plan was to become a teacher, but after a stint in vaudeville as a young woman, she decided ... s really good,’ except for Frances Bavier (Aunt Bee). She just saw him as ...

Aunt Bee was a warm, wonderful woman, who took care not only of Andy ... a great deal more complex. Frances Bavier was born in New York City in 1902. Raised in a working-class family, Bavier ...

Frances Bavier may be best ... Today, her former home belongs to a woman named Kathy Nail, who has become something of an unofficial caretaker of Bavier’s legacy. Along with her friend Nancy ...

Frances Bavier ... “She wasn’t the woman you saw on TV,” Floyd Bowers, who worked at an Exxon station near Bavier’s grave, told the newspaper in 2004. “She liked her privacy, and ...