7/2/2023 0 Comments Aunt bee siler city house![]() The house had a cool way of letting the breeze sort of mist through, maybe lightly stream through. The night before, knowing what was going to happen at breakfast made going to sleep harder than going to sleep on Christmas Eve. ![]() And I wanted to because she was always smiling with me, she’d work puzzles with me, she colored with me, she watched ballgames with me, and she had a screened-in porch where I could sleep at night, then wake up to sausage frying and she crumbled it up and put it in the scrambled eggs. She told momma who she was and said she’d keep us while momma was in the hospital having a surgery. We had been in this little town for about two months when my mother, only 24 and far from her home in Louisiana, already with three children, answered a knock on our door. I wonder if my “Aunt Bee” will remind you of yours. ![]() Dale, and she passed away in October this year, back home in Carolina. Not only have I had a black-and-white Aunt Bee, I’ve had a full-color, real-life Aunt Bee. So my favorite TV show continues to teach me valuable lessons it’s just taken me a while to recognize the latest one. Second thing: To add insult to injury, a couple decades ago it dawned on me that while I’d always wanted to grow up to be Andy, I’d nearly turned into Otis. You learn as you age that from Point A to Point Aunt Bee isn’t nearly as far as you’d thought. He’d have had the same chance in Dodge City as a breath mint has against an acre of onions.Īnyway, it’s me and Aunt Bee and Clara Edwards now, ambling to garden shows, working on quilts and fretting about the weather. (Festus could have been best man.) That doesn’t keep me from wondering why fate and programming kept those two apart, and whether or not - had romanced blossomed - Andy could have talked Matt Dillion into doing it “the Mayberry way” and not packing heat.ĭoubt it. If you live long enough, these things happen.Īunt Bee was so old that the only other guy she could have realistically dated was Doc from “Gunsmoke,” but two different kinds of lives and eras and time slots kept that from happening. She was by far the oldest member of the Taylor clan and here I am, knocking on her door. I am only two years younger now than Frances Bavier was when she started being Aunt Bee on television, in 1960. One is that I am now closer to being Aunt Bea than I am to being Sheriff Taylor or - and this is way off in the rearview mirror - Opie Taylor. 6, 1989, only eight days short of her 87th birthday. Frances Bavier, the actress who played Bea Taylor, died. Happenstance helped me discover that 26 years ago today, the matriarch of what TV Guide (and I) call the Best TV Series of All-Time passed away in Siler City, N.C. Aunt Bee could cook, clean, garden, sew, organize.If she were a basketball player, she’d be a very short LeBron James. If the TV version was what you got, you still came out ahead. > WE COULD USE MORE AND THINGS IN THE WORLD.Did you ever know a real-life Aunt Bee, or have you known only the one on “The Andy Griffith Show”? BUT DO YOU THINK SHE DID LIVE PEACEFULLY YEAR? I THINK AS MUCH AS SHE PROBABLY COULD BE ANYWHERE WANTS MORE ON THIS. THIS MIGHT BE A SMALL TO YOU AND TO DIE IN A SMALL TENT AND THEY'RE HONORING HER BY DROPPING OFF OF TARA PICK JARS OF PICKLES IN MEMORY OF THE LIFE BEAUTIFULLY LIT. WHAT DO YOU THINK SHE WAS LOOKING FOR? I THINK HE'S JUST TO LIVE IN. IS THERE THE FACT THAT SHE WAS ALONE THAT MAKES SOME SENSE TO ME OF TIME ANYONE BEING ALONE? > BUT, YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE THAT AND BE HERE CAME HERE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING AND HOPE AND PRAY SHE FAILED IT. ![]() ALL THOSE PEAKS CAN TAKE A TOLL ON THE PEOPLE PERSON AND I LOVE PEOPLE, BUT I COULDN'T I HAVE IT MAKES YOU WONDER IF THERE EVER REALLY IS MAYBERRY, IF THERE IS, I THINK PROBABLY STOP THE CITY'S BUS COMES TO THE > AND I'M THE STORY OF AND B, THERE'S A HINT OF SADNESS ABOUT IT. SOMETIMES SHE PASSED I HAD HEARD THAT SOMETIMES 2 BATTERS WOULD COME THROUGH AND STOP AND THAT SOMETIMES PEOPLE WOULD GET OFF AND GO TO HER DOOR, KNOCK ON THEIR DOOR, JUST WANT TO GET PEOPLE OVER. DIDN'T SHE UNDERSTAND THAT? SHE HAD PROBABLY 15, 20 CAN. SEND ANY WOULD WOULD OFTEN COME HOME AND HE WOULD SHARE A LITTLE STORIES WITHIN STORIES THAT KANYE LINE BERRY HAS PUT IN A BOOK AND SHE SURE WHERE SHE HAD A CAMP. EVERYTHING WAS AND HOW FRIENDLY EVERYONE WAS SAID HE WAS ALWAYS THE TYPE OF PERSON THAT WHEN THERE WAS A VISTOR CHURCH BEFORE HE LAYUP, HE WOULD TRY TO DO MEET THEM IN GREAT THEM AND THANK THEM FOR COMMENT AND DADDY IN AND BE SOON BECAME FRIENDS. > SILER CITY IS WHERE SHE RETIRED THE GRASS AND HAVE GREEN. OUR SON WAS OFTEN AND BRITISH AN ACTRESS FRANCES BOUGHT THIS HOUSE IN SILER CITY AFTER THE SERIES ENDED. SPEAR WAS A JAR THAT BEING AND THIS BIG AROUND PICKLES, THE PICKLE EPISODE ON THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW AND HEE IS THE SURPRISE. > WHAT IN THE WORLD IS SETTING IN HER GREAT PICKLE. ![]()
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