Frances Bavier may be best known for her role as the kind-hearted but firm Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show, but she infamously wasn’t much like her character in real life. Behind the soft ...

Frances Bavier spent more than four decades working in stage, film and television, but for generations of fans she will always be Aunt Bee—the kind-hearted, apron-wearing matriarch from The Andy ...

Frances Bavier, who played Aunt Bea, died in 1989 in Siler City at 86. Bavier’s largesse is even more impressive considering how she lived her final years.

A 1966 Studebaker will be for sale along with more than 800 items that belonged to the late Frances Bavier. Miss Bavier, who played Aunt Bee on the Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry RFD series, died ...