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Mar 25, 2016 · Earl Henry Hamner Jr. was born July 10, 1923, in Schuyler, Va., an unincorporated community 24 miles south of Charlottesville. He was the oldest of eight children — not seven as in “The ...
Mar 24, 2016 · The eldest of eight red-haired children in a poor, Baptist family, Earl Henry Hamner Jr. was born July 10, 1923, in Schuyler, Va., a mining and milling village in the foothills of the Blue Ridge ...
Aug 20, 2023 · Post by Brenda onAug 20, 2023 at 1:29pm. I just read that Earl Hamner’s wife, Jane, passed away yesterday, August 19, 2023. Her nephew John Hankins, Audrey’s son, posted a long tribute to her on Facebook. John Hankins. I am sitting in my living room enveloped in a pool of quiet tears at the news that my Aunt Jane passed away yesterday.
Judy Norton. Norton as Mary Ellen Walton, 1977. Judy Norton (born January 29, 1958) [1] is an American actress and theater director who is best known for her role as Mary Ellen Walton on The Waltons television series and subsequent Waltons TV movies.
Mar 25, 2016 · 12:03. LOS ANGELES — Earl Hamner Jr., the versatile and prolific writer who drew upon his Depression-era upbringing in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to create one of television's most ...
Earl worked in the summer painting dorms and was a dispatcher for The Brooks Transportation Company during the school year to help pay his expenses. In 1943, in the middle of his sophomore year, Earl Hamner was drafted into the U.S. Army. He trained initially at Fort Knox where he almost learned to drive a Sherman Tank.
Earl Henry Hamner Jr. was an American television writer and producer, best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s as the creator of two long-running series, The Waltons and Falcon Crest. As a novelist, he is best known for Spencer's Mountain, which was inspired by his own childhood and formed the basis for both the film of the same name and the television series The Waltons, for which he ...
