Please visit the Photo Galleries page for many good memories of those visits over the years.īecoming Thelma Lou-My Journey to Hollywood, Mayberry and Beyond (BearManor Media, 324 pages), was published posthumously, on August 29, 2022, the 96th birth anniversary of actress Betty Lynn, who died in Surry County, N.C., on October 16, 2021. The Andy Griffith Museum is grateful for Betty's many appearances at the museum and Mayberry Days®. Box 141, Mount Airy, NC 27030 or Holy Angels Roman Catholic Church, 1208 N Main Street, Mount Airy NC 27030, or a charity of the donor’s choice. In lieu of flowers, donations in Betty’s memory may be made to the Betty Lynn Scholarship Endowment (for students pursuing a career in dance or acting) or the Barbara and Emmett Forrest Endowment Fund (for the Andy Griffith Museum and Mayberry Days), both in care of Surry Arts Council, P.O. A memorial service will be held during Mayberry Days at the Historic Earle Theatre on Friday, Septemat 10:30 a.m. She was 95.Ī private burial service occurred in Culver City, CA. Details are to be released at a later date.Betty Lynn, the actress best known for her portrayal of Thelma Lou, Barney Fife’s sweetheart on The Andy Griffith Show, died peacefully on Saturday, Octoafter a brief illness. A memorial service will take place in Culver City, California. Lynn had been working on an autobiography before her death, which is now expected to be released posthumously, the museum stated. “He brought me to a sweet town, wonderful people, and just said, ‘Now, that’s for you, Betty.'” “I think God’s blessed me,” Lynn said at the time. She expressed her love for the city to The Associated Press in 2015. Lynn moved from Hollywood to Mount Airy in 2007 following a series of break-ins at her home. It was great to have known and worked with her. I saw her last a few years ago where she still lit up the room with her positivity. She played Thelma Lou on #TAGS & brightened every scene she was in & every shooting day she was on set. She was “thought to be the only American woman to have traveled the dangerous Burma Road during the war,” according to the museum’s statement.ĭirector and actor Ron Howard, who played Sheriff Andy Taylor’s son, Opie, paid tribute to Lynn in a tweet Sunday saying she “brightened every scene she was in & every shooting day she was on set.” Lynn took her talents overseas, performing in the USO for servicemembers during World War II. In 1944, she started performing as a part of USO Camp Shows. She reprised her role in the made-for-TV movie “Return to Mayberry,” in which Thelma Lou and Barney got married.īorn Elizabeth Ann Theresa Lynn on Augin Kansas City, Missouri, Lynn began studying dance and acting at a young age. Lynn appeared as Thelma Lou on the show from 1961 until 1966. Lynn moved from Hollywood to Mount Airy, Griffith’s boyhood hometown, that year. (Gerry Broome/Associated Press Archives) Lynn, left, stands next to a cutout of Barney Fife - the boyfriend of her character, Thelma Lou, on “The Andy Griffith Show” - as she reaches out to hug Charlotte Wright of Pulaski, Va., in Mount Airy, N.C., in 2007. Lynn died peacefully Saturday after a brief illness, The Andy Griffith Museum in Mount Airy, North Carolina, announced in a statement. Betty Lynn, the film and television actor who was best known for her role as Barney Fife’s sweetheart Thelma Lou on “The Andy Griffith Show,” has died.
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