ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, June 3, 1990                   TAG: 9006030088
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: RALEIGH, N.C.                                LENGTH: Short

`AUNT BEE'S' AUCTION BRINGS BUYERS LONG WAY

You can buy a velvet Elvis portrait anywhere, but only this weekend could you get a great deal on Aunt Bee's rake.

Just about anything at the late Frances Bavier's house went up for sale Saturday. The actress, who died in December at age 86, portrayed the matronly head of the Taylor household in the popular "Andy Griffith Show."

She left the contents of her Siler City home to the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television endowment fund.

Some people traveled from as far as Minnesota and Florida for the sale. Items auctioned included the yellowed copies of Bavier's contracts and her guacamole-green Studebaker Daytona with 43,000 miles, rotting tires and a ceramic donkey on the dashboard. - Associated Press 


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