Bea bernadette absent from petticoat junction
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Bea Benaderet became best known for her comedic performances in “The Flintstones,” “The Beverly Hillbillies,” and “Petticoat Junction.”
Fans of the country hotel keeper at “Petticoat Junction,” which began its run in 1963, will know that Bea suddenly became absent on the show in 1967.
Bea bernadette absent from petticoat junction
Producers of the show eased concerns and said that she was “out of town.”
Bea resumed her role as Kate Bradley in 1968, but after filming five episodes for the 1968-69 season, she left again, and this time, she didn’t return.
The world had been unaware that Bea got diagnosed with lung cancer in 1967.
When she left “Petticoat Junction” the first time, she underwent treatment for the condition, and a recurrence of the illness in February 1968 sent her back to the hospital.
On October 13, 1968, at the age of sixty-two, Bea lost her battle with cancer at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.
Married to her second husband, Gene Twombly at the time, he passed four days