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Before the world comes to an end I want to once again remember the cast of a show on my top ten favorites list...

"Green Acres"

I know this has been done before but but since then we've lost two more members of the surviving cast.

Eddie Albert (Oliver Wendell Douglas)
Born: April 22, 1906
Died: May 26, 2005 (pneumonia) [Age 99]

Eva Gabor (Lisa Douglas)
Born: February 11, 1919
Died: July 4, 1995 (respiratory failure) [Age 76]

Supporting Players

Pat Buttram (Mr. Haney)
Born: June 19, 1915
Died: January 8, 1994 (kidney failure) [Age 78]

Alvy Moore (Mr. Hank Kimball)
Born: December 5, 1921
Died: May 4, 1997 (heart failure) [Age 75]

Sid Melton (Alf Monroe)
Born: May 22, 1917
Died: November 3, 2011 (pneumonia) [Age 94]

Eleanor Audley (Eunice Douglas, Oliver's Mother)
Born: November 19, 1905
Died: November 25, 1991 (respiratory failure) [Age 86]

Robert Foulk (Mr. Roy Trendell)
Born: May 5, 1908
Died: February 25, 1989 (Age 80)

Fran Ryan (Doris Ziffel #2)
Born: November 29, 1916
Died: January 15, 2000 (natural causes) [Age 83]

Guest Stars from "Petticoat Junction"

Frank Cady (Sam Drucker)
Born: September 8, 1915
Died: June 8, 2012 (natural causes) [Age 96]

Hank Patterson (Fred Ziffel)
Born: October 9, 1888
Died: August 23, 1975 (bronchial pneumonia) [Age 86]

Barbara Pepper (Doris Ziffel #1)
Born: May 31, 1915
Died: July 18, 1969 (coronary thrombosis) [Age 54]

Kay E. Kuter (Newt Kiley)
Born: April 25, 1925
Died: November 12, 2003 (pulmonary complications) [Age 78]

Edgar Buchanan (Uncle Joe Carson)
Born: March 20, 1903
Died: April 4, 1979 (stroke complicated by pneumonia) [Age 76]

Bea Benaderet (Mrs. Kate Bradley)
Born: April 4, 1906
Died: October 13, 1968 (left lung carcinoma) [Age 62]

Rufe Davis (Floyd Smoot)
Born: December 2, 1908
Died: December 13, 1974 (Age 66)

Smiley Burnette (Charlie Pratt)
Born: March 18, 1911
Died: February 16, 1967 (leukemia) [Age 55]

At the time of this writing Tom Lester (Eb Dawson) and Mary Grace Canfield (Ralph Monroe) are still with us.

In Memoriam Remembers:
All of Them!

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