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Beatrice Taylor (Frances Bavier) is Andy's paternal aunt and known in the show as Bee or Aunt Bee. After a five year sojourn in Morgantown, West Virginia, she returns to Mayberry in the premier episode to manage Andy's household after the departure of his housekeeper Rose (to be replaced by a weekly housekeeper, whom the house must be kept clean for the arrival of). Her most important duty in the household is being Opie's surrogate mother. She undergoes a dramatic change in the color seasons, when she leaves behind her role as homemaker and discards her frumpy wardrobe for more stylish attire. She then dates several respectable gentlemen, opens her own restaurant, hosts a television show, buys a car, runs for office, and takes flying lessons. Bavier received her sole opening credit nod in the final season.
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Frances Bavier( December 14, 1902 – December 6, 1989 ) was an American character actress , best remembered for her role as Aunt Bea on The Andy Griffith Show [I]n the 1960s. She played the same role on Mayberry R.F.D. (1968-70).
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When Frances Bavier, Aunt Bee of The Andy Griffith Show fame, died of heart failure in 1989 at the age of 86, she left behind a home reeking of cat pee--not surprising, as the rotund matron had 14 kitties. "She didn't keep a tidy home," according to Scott Michaels' Find a Death Web site. In text accompanying photos of Bavier's two-story brick home in Siler City, N.C., Michaels notes, "The plaster was peeling, the carpets frayed, and the upholstery worn."
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Frances Bavier, co-director of the institute, said she began receiving word last year that things in Jacksonville were changing. A Starbucks was sprouting on every corner. There were even reports that you could get a meal after 11 p.m. that didn't include a taco or waffle.
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Frances Bavier, “Aunt Bee” of the old Andy Griffith television show, is buried in Siler City, North Carolina, where she spent the last 17 years of her life. The Andy Griffith Show chronicled life in Mayberry, an idyllic Southern village, a place where time seemed to have stopped. In the words of Richard Kelly, author of The Andy Griffith Show, “Mayberry is totally conservative and … is guided by its traditions and rituals and resists change of all sorts.”
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Only Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Frances Bavier, Don Knotts and Hope Summers appeared in all eight seasons. Don Knotts was a regular character for the first five seasons and a recurring one for the last three.
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