Johnny Carson (left) and Jack Benny (far right) received the Key to the City
of Anaheim, California from Mayor Calvin Pebley on January 12, 1967. They
were both named “Honorary Mayors” of the city.

 

Radio announcer Gary Owens

                
                   George Lindsey (December 17, 1928 – May 6, 2012)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – George Lindsey, who spent nearly 30 years as the grinning Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw," has died. He was 83.

A press release from Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home in Nashville said Lindsay died early Sunday morning after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements were still being made.

Lindsey was the beanie-wearing Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" from 1964 to
1968 and its successor, "Mayberry RFD," from 1968 to 1971. He played the same
jovial character — a service station attendant — on "Hee Haw" from 1971 until it
went out of production in 1993.