Actress Jane Waytt of "Father Knows Best" Passes On

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I remember the episode where they bought a brand new Westinghouse Laundromat washer and the younger daughter had changed it into a pretend space ship, putting a lot of different items into it.
 
As a child I always loved that show and wanted a house just like theirs with all the same appliances. Chuck I would love to see the one where they got the new Westinghouse set!! Terry
 
Sounds like Jane had a wonderful life. I could have sworn I remembered seeing a Westinghouse Laundromat set in one of the episodes, now I know I'm not crazy (at least not with that memory).
 
They had a Bendix kitchen with a very baroque electric range and the washer and dryer across the kitchen. There were Westinghouse appliances also. I remember the WH 40 inch range. Years ago, I read something about the child actors of that period and the three "Anderson" children talked about how Jane Wyatt spent so much time with them on the set between takes, but Robert Young, who had a drinking problem, was not close to the children at all and was never there except when they were filming. Monday evening, Chris Matthews said that in the stories about Jane Wyatt, her children and grandchildren & great grandchildren said that she was the same wonderful mother to them as she was on screen. That is really a remarkable statement.

Wasn't it when Kenmore introduced the Dual Action Agitator, that they had the ad campaign with the three television mothers discussing laundry? They had Barbara Billingsley (who will be 91 on 12/22), Jane Wyatt and one other. I am quite sure that it was not Harriet Nelson because she had too much of an association with Hotpoint. Could it have been Shirley Jones?
 
Remember the FNB Reunion shows?

The kitchen had been remodeled with an island containing the gas cooktop and sink, which the grandchildren let overflow in one episode so that the floor was flooded. Beyond the kitchen was the laundry room and sitting there in solitary splendor was a Lady Kenmore combo like mine with the tortoise shell background on the control panel.

In the last reunion show, they gave the house to Bud and took off in a new motorhome.
 
It looks like a Norge timeline washer to me, with a lighted control panel, even though it's not lit up.
Jane Wyatt did have such a nice warmth to her. Living to 96 is a ripe old age. I had no idea that she was that old. And I didn't think that Barbara Billingsley was that old either. And Shirley Jones is 72 already. Goodness, where has all this time gone?
 

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