![]() So, Aunt Bee died and her house stank like cats gone wild and everyone referred to her as “the crazy old cat lady. She is so cute and she is absolutely fearless! Sam Dog loves her and I hope he doesn’t eat her! The other cats aren’t real sure what they think, yet. So I thought of Aunt Bee and her 15 cats today because we brought Charlie into the house. You see, we are now a four cat family (unless someone steps forward to take the newest addition, Charlie). ![]() It is the 15 cats that made me think of her. Well, when she died in 1989, she left her estate to numerous local charities. It was also discovered that she left behind 15 cats. I read that Ron Howard came to visit once and she wouldn’t let him into her house. (Griffith said later that about 4 months before she died, she called him to apologize.) The story also said that when Bavier moved to North Carolina, she became quite a recluse. The article stated that she had a reputation for being a difficult actress and apparently even had a few run-ins with Andy Griffith on the set. I tell you this because Brian and I lived in North Carolina at the time of her death and our local paper had a pretty huge write-up about her. Samuel Williams, has said.Today, I was thinking about Aunt Bee, Frances Bavier, from “The Andy Griffith Show.”Īfter that show and a few other acting gigs, Bavier retired from show business in 1972 and moved to the picturesque little town of Siler City, North Carolina. But in her later years, she became reclusive and increasingly referred to herself as Aunt Bee and continued to wear her hair in a bun, her lawyer and a close friend for many years, J. I'm seriously considering that,'' she said, to which her husband replied: ``Oh, my God.''Įarly in her retirement, Bavier sought to escape identification with her television past. ``There's a college course you can take now in Charlotte. Kendrick watches the show at home every day, and says she plans to bone up on her Griffith history. You just want to take a little bit of that home.'' ``She was on television so long and so much a part of your life and you watched her. Everybody wants a little bit of Aunt Bee to take home with them,'' Kendrick said. ![]() ``It'll go in a storage room right now, in a corner that he won't touch.īud Kendrick and his wife, Penny walked out of the sale with a writing table, slightly water-stained but a priceless treasure by their standards. ![]() Today, people leave pickles on Aunt Bee's gravestone in Siler City in honor of a particularly favorite episode from the show. ``He's a fan and he better not use it,'' she said. Actress Frances Bavier retired to Siler City after the series ended and became friends with a man in town whose daughter has written a book about that special friendship. The rake went to Glennie Bell of nearby Garner, who said it was for her husband. ``This is what she lived with and what she sat on and what she ate, held and touched,'' said Priscilla Bratcher, a director at the university's Center for Public Television.īooks, mostly novels, and lamps were most popular amid the end tables, chests of drawers and furniture. What didn't get snapped up before lunch then went up for an afternoon auction. One of Bavier's last wishes was to leave the contents of her Siler City home to the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television endowment fund.Īnd you could find it all during a morning sale open to the public, some of whom traveled from as far away as Minnesota and Florida for the buying and bidding. The actress, who died in December at age 86, portrayed the matronly head of the Taylor household in the popular ``Andy Griffith Show,'' which is nearing its 30th anniversary and enjoying continued life in syndication. Just about anything at the late Frances Bavier's house went up for sale yesterday. You can buy a velvet Elvis portrait anywhere, but only this weekend could you get a great deal on Aunt Bee's rake. ![]()
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