Barbara Billingsley passed in 2010
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Barbara Billingsley played Mrs June Cleaver. She was an actress who was born December 22, 1915 and passed on this day in 2010. Mrs Cleaver was a pillar of my childhood due to my television entertainment habits.
Ms Billingsley began playing uncredited roles and then appeared in serial roles as well. She will always be remembered as the mother of Beaver Cleaver from 1957 through 1963 — and I have fond memories of her since childhood.
She was born Barbara Lillian Combes on December 22, 1915, in Los Angeles, California. She was the daughter of Lillian Agnes and Robert Collyer Combes whow was a police officer.
She was married three times and had two children. She married Glenn Billingsley Sr in 1941 who was a restaurateur. They had two sons and divorced in 1947.
In 1953, she married British-born movie director Roy Kellino who passed of a heart attack in 1956. About six months later that she was handed the pilot for what would become Leave It to Beaver. Her third and final marriage was to William S Mortensen in 1959 they remained together until his death in 1981.
Barbara Billingsley died of polymyalgia rheumatica at her home in Santa Monica, California, on October 16, 2010, at age 94. She is interred at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica.
Rest in peace.
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