RIP Dawn 'Mary Ann' Wells

Team Mary Ann forever. RIP Ms Wells, wish you could have stuck around longer.

I shared the article on Facebook. A friend shared it, and another friend commented, ‘Now EVERYONE knows someone who died of COVID-19.’

Looks like the Movie Star is the only one left.

Damn.

My first TV crush! :cry: Hell, my first ever crush. RIP Dawn “Mary Ann” Wells, you had a swell life and bought joy to countless people.

She last posted a video on her FB page on December 24th. Seemed fine.

So sad. One of my childhood crushes.

Local Girl made good. Damn.

Jesus, now that’s striking at my childhood. Who’s next, Jan Smithers?

Genuinely nice person, by all accounts. Very sad.

I remember her playing a Lakota woman on Bonanza She wound up adopting a white boy.

I saw her on Gilligan’s Island today actually, on MeTV. She did a dream sequence where she played Eliza Doolittle. " 'E toat me ta wolk, and ta tolk like a reg’lar lidy, 'e did," then she loudly blew her nose in a dirty handkerchief.

Now every time I think about that scene or Eliza Doolittle, I’m going to think of Covid. Nice.

May she rest in peace.

I was a firm Team Mary Ann member from the first episode I ever saw.

RIP, Dawn.

Awwwww. She was the girl next door. May you Rest In Peace.

Oh and 2020 you can GTFA.

Dawn always seemed sweet and genuine in all the interviews that I’ve seen. A very nice lady.

RIP Dawn

Damn, damn, damn, damn!!! What a way to end this shitty, shitty, shitty year! :rage:

RIP, Miss Nevada 1959. You were the loveliest castaway ever!

http://www.missnevada.org/alumni_1959/

In addition to Bonanza, she was in Winterhawk (1975), where she played a white woman who was abducted by and then chose to remain with the Blackfoot Indians. A little known movie, but one I highly recommend!

I met her at a con once. I asked, “When you were Miss Nevada, what was your talent?” She said “A dramatic reading from Antigone.” Then she signed the photo and I moved on. But, for one second, that radiant smile was directed right at me! Charming woman.

I would have melted like a block of ice in high summer. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

I remember her from The Town that Dreaded Sundown which (if I recall correctly) was produced by the same folks that did The Legend of Boggy Creek.

That’s what happens when you are from Shreveport, and movies that feature Fouke, AR and Texarkana AR/TX are first run cinema features.

My dad wrote for Gilligan’s Island. Dawn kindly endorsed my book on comedy last year. :cry:

A part of my childhood is gone! RIP, Mary Ann.

(Neil Peart’s death kicked off the celebrity-death year, and Dawn Wells ended it. Both left us way too soon.)

Dang, I was definately in the Mary Anne camp.