Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frances Bavier spent more than four decades working in stage, film and television, but for generations of fans she will always be ...

Actress Frances Bavier died on this day in 1989 and is buried in Siler City. She played Aunt Bee on "The Andy Griffith Show." A Mount Airy hotel has turned one of its rooms into an Aunt Bee museum, ...

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. Today, people leave pickles ...

In her flowered dress and apron, Aunt Bee delighted the Mayberry townsfolk with her fried chicken and pecan pies, floating cheerfully through a world of church picnics and county fairs. And in real ...