“She lived and breathed being an artist, being an actress was who she was born to be,” Morton said. Golonka died in her residence in West Hollywood after a long battle with Alzheimer’s, her niece, Stephanie Morton, said. CBS/PHOTOFESTĪrlene Golonka, MAYBERRY RFD and ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW Actress, Dies at 85Īmerican actress Arlene Golonka, best known for her role in the ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW spin-off MAYBERRY R.F.D., died on May 31, 2021, at the age of 85. You can also find them here at GPB.org/Salvation-South and now on your favorite podcast platforms as well.Facebook Tweet Pin Email Arlene Golonka, far left. during All Things Considered on GPB Radio. Salvation South editor Chuck Reece comments on Southern culture and values in a weekly segment that airs Fridays at 7:45 a.m. If there are any Mayberrys still out there, the kids who grow up there should count their blessings. They both had an entire town to help them with the job. And it occurred to me that Andy and Clarence did not raise Opie and me by themselves. Sheriff Andy Taylor and Clarence Reece shared a common problem: the challenge of raising young boys on their own. I watched a bunch of Andy Griffith reruns recently, and as I did, I let my memories of growing up in Elijay flood my soul. I'd stop at the barber shop and visit my Uncle Clifford, who ran it. I'd drop into Willie's Elijay Record Shop, where I spent hours combing through the racks. I'd stop at the soda fountain inside Starn's drugstore on the town square. I had free rein to wander anywhere I wanted to go in my hometown of Elijay, Ga. Opie had free rein to wander the streets of Mayberry. Andy was a widower my father, Clarence, was a widower, too. "My family didn't watch The Andy Griffith Show to count black people," Riley wrote, "we watched to see our way of life, one that included spending hours picking plums in a plum orchard and sitting under a chinaberry tree, eating them, walking along ponds to collect cattails. She grew up watching the show in her hometown of Tarboro, N.C. Rochelle Riley, a prominent Black columnist for the Detroit Free Press, made that case forcefully. But the experience of community that the show represented crossed racial barriers. In the entire history of the show, there was only one Black character with a speaking part. Was Mayberry representative of the diversity of Southerners in the 1960s? Of course not. And for those of us who grew up in towns like Mayberry, the voice of Sheriff Andy still conjures up the memory of parents or neighbors who could set us straight if we got out of line. He respected everyone in his community - from the oddballs like Briscoe Darling to the drunks like Otis Campbell. He resolved problems through reason and friendliness, not force. Sheriff Andy was a single father raising his son, Opie. A man I worked with years ago told me, in all seriousness, that there was nothing you needed to know about living, that you couldn't learn by watching The Andy Griffith Show. The show ran on CBS from 1960 to 1968, and I grew up watching it. Mayberry was the fictional North Carolina town that was the setting for the The Andy Griffith Show. Chuck Reece - Salvation South editor: Talk to anyone who grew up in a small Southern town in the middle of the 20th century, and you will likely hear this:
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