When the show was abruptly canceled in 1971, Jones then 13 years old was eager to turn over a new leaf. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. She also starred in an Elvis Presley comedy film, The Trouble with Girls. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. On August 28th, 1976, while attending a party at her friend Helens house, at 2312 Littler Lane in Oceanside, Anissa would take one of her healthy doses of barbiturates, phencyclidine, cocaine and methaquaalone (what a party girl). She relocated back to Dallas in 2004, working in Healthcare . Merchandising deals, although not as lucrative as they are today, would eventually come her way as well. Bad parenting. Widely covered in the media, her private physician Don Carlos Moshos was questioned about the source of the drugs. We are sad to announce that on July 31, 2020 we had to say goodbye to Anissa Jones (Boston, Massachusetts). However, she had a difficult time living on the straight and narrow, and she went back to shoplifting and using drugs. [1], Jones was born in West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1958 and was raised in Charleston, West Virginia, until the age of 5. [citation needed], The investigation of Dr. Don Carlos Moshos began as a separate matter. Try our. Jones' personal life wasn't the best either. Verify and try again. All Rights Reserved. The following recollection comes from an anonymous posting on theDEATH OF ANISSA JONES Discussion Forum. But she never returned home. A neighbor who had a child making TV commercials suggested that Mrs. Jones get Anissa started in the same field. Her father, who was an engineer, got a job at the University of Southern California and at the Hughes Aircraft Company, so the family relocated to The Golden State. [12] Although the murder charges were dropped before his death, Moshos's estate was sued by Jones's surviving family for $400,000; in July 1979, the verdict found him 30% liable and Jones 70% responsible for her death, and the resulting judgment was reduced to $79,500 ($378,600 today). We have set your language to [7] She left $63,000 in cash and more than $100,000 in savings bonds when she died (equivalent to $776,204 today). It was by 1970 that Anissa was doing a lot of public appearances, which allowed her very little private time. We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. No, of course, theres not a curse, but for some people, coincidences or different lifestyles that happened to people. At the age of 8, Jones started acting in the CBS sitcom as one of three children sent to live with their wealthy bachelor uncle after the death of their parents. Its always disheartening and unpleasant to read that a beloved Hollywood icon has taken their life. Jones, Anissa: (March 11, 1958 - August 28, 1976) Anissa Jones starred as Buffy in the 1960 -1970's CBS sitcom Family Affair. And she bought drugs, lots of drugs. And anyone who knows anything about drugs, would have been watching her behavior and would have known. Sebastian Cabot died of a stroke in 1977, and Brian Keith died by suicide in 1997. She wasn't being very social. Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you care. Anissa clearly had fun with her generosity. Born in West Lafayette, Indiana, her parents moved to San Diego County, California, when she was a small girl, settling in Playa del Rey, where she had her childhood. On September 1, 1976 her ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean. Some time spent in juvenile detention only delayed things to come. Sep 09, 2021 04:42 P.M. Anissa Jones was trapped in the role of little Buffy from "Family Affair" and when she finally got away from it all, her life was tragically cut short. I guess it ran in the family. Chemotherapy was rough on Brian, and apparently, he also suffered from financial troubles. Actress. Instead, she decided to enroll at Westchester High School in Los Angeles to try and achieve some sort of normalcy in her life. If you havent got anything to ground you, thats a very heady experience. A helping hand is provided by Sebastian Cabots Mr. French. Her first exposure to acting was in a breakfast cereal commercial when she was only six years old. Please reset your password. From Jackie Coogan (The Addams Familys Uncle Fester), who was ripped off to the point of destitution by his mother, to the systematic abuse Dennis the Menace star Jay North took from his guardians, an aunt and uncle; the young cast of Diffrent Strokes and Anissa, there are so many instances. And that theyd only have to work six or 10 weeks a year, depending on the season. Many a time, it was unbeknownst to the public that the person was struggling, although sometimes they have alluded to it in the past (i.e. And then, once she turned 18, Kathy took the brunt of it, because she could stay late and they couldnt., Buffy Davis, of course, was the part that made America fall in love with Anissa and the characters doll, Mrs. Beasley, which would eventually fly off of toy shelves (unfortunately, Anissa was required to carry the damn thing virtually everywhere). COPYRIGHT 2020 By TheLifeandTimesofHollywood.com, Stories From The Life and Times of Hollywood. On August 28, 1976, while at a friends house party, Anissa took a cocktail of barbiturates, phencyclidine, cocaine, and methaqualone. or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. We won't post to any of your accounts without asking first. Paula enrolled Anissa in a dance class when she was four years old. But Anissa Joness life and tragic death tells another story, too. In 1966, producer Don Fedderson, who had created the Fred MacMurray series My Three Sons, collaborated with producer-writer Edmund Hartmann to create Family Affair. It doesnt say how deep it is., And then there was her side business of selling perfume, the idea being that she takes loads of flowers, add a little bit of water and then smash, smash, smash. The perfume is bottled and she sells the bottles for 10 cents each, going house to house. Many of them walk away with almost no education or any idea of how to make a bed or fry an egg, do a spreadsheet on a computer or type or anything having to do with real life. Muses Geoffrey, She had been dealing with so much: bad parents, crazy shooting schedule and production people who froze the children the way they did so that there was no character growth for them. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? Anissa Jones started acting at a really young age, after her parents moved from Indiana to California. Helen Slagle Smith Ward With her newfound freedom, her recent wealth, and more drugs than she knew what to do with, Anissa would begin partying in the hardiest of ways. Note that Koven testified he went to breakfast twice once at 9:30 and again at 11:00, unusual for someone who had mainlined cocaine in the early hours of the morning. There were Buffy paper dolls,Family Affaircoloring books and lunch boxes, a Buffy line of childrens clothes, and a Buffy Cookbook in 1971, with Anissa featured on the cover. During filming, she attended school on the studio lot alongside many other child actors. However, it didnt really work out the way she hoped. As far as she was concerned, acting and Hollywood had lost its allure. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? Buffys doll, Mrs. Beasley, would also become the best-selling doll in America at one time during the shows run. About six days later, her doctor, Don Carlos Moshos, was charged with manslaughter for illegally prescribing Seconal to her. 23 July, 1969 - 15 October, 2012. Advertisement Born on March 11, 1958, to parents John Jones and Mary Tweel in West Lafayette, Indiana, the family moved to Playa del Rey, California when Anissa was still very young. When fans called her Buffy she politely insisted on being called Anissa. And as Jones got older, she began to see her role as babyish.. She felt her role as Buffy became stagnant, as producers insisted on her continuing to play with Mrs. Beasley even though she got older. Robin Williams, just to name an example). She received a little less than $200,000, which she blew almost immediately. She felt that she had been typecast as "Buffy." Then, in 1971, CBS decided to cancel Family Affair. Suddenly she had more money than she knew what to do with. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. Life is wonderful, but life is difficult. [1] Early life [ edit] This section relies largely or entirely on a single source. New York Fan. ashes, Age 45 Lot Owner: Jones, Richard & Leda, Funeral Home:Schilling. But as the years went on, Jones began to tire of playing the little girl. She has an uncanny ability to convey, on screen, a childs feelings of rejection, sadness, fun, pride, stubbornness and wish to be loved, sometimes all in one episode., In an effort to encapsulate Anissa, Brian Keith OHara, who at one time had a friendly relationship with her mother, Patty, blogs, It would have driven her crazy that people remember her as the star of Family Affair, because she never saw herself that way. Her mother, Mary Paula Jones, studied zoology, while her father was an engineer. Of course, they all miss their lines, too, once in a while., Unfortunately, there were already issues developing, partially from the divorce and partially from the impact of the show. Columnist Marilyn Beck wrote about Jones wherein she said, "She was a little girl whom other little girls envied, but who, in truth, experienced tremendous pressure during those years that should be reserved for the simple joys of childhood" (via Closer Weekly). But if one can put something in a single word or a single sentence, that I think explains the unexplainable to many people. There are no volunteers for this cemetery. "The night Anissa died was wierd. Brian got out of work quickly, but then you have children who cannot work full days. Kansas Man Finds Hatchet Head In Yard With A Tree Root As A Handle, Paleontologists In Chile Just Unearthed A 139-Million-Year-Old Ichthyosaur Fossil And It Was Pregnant, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch, Johnnie Whitaker as Jody and Anissa Jones as Buffy on. YouTubeAnissa Jones on The Dick Cavett Show in 1971, the year that CBS cancelled Family Affair. Some four commercials later, wrote the San Francisco Examiner, Anissa was seen and signed by a producer of Family Affair for the part of Buffy.. All rights reserved. She was cast in the role of Elizabeth "Buffy" Patterson-Davis Jones on Family Affair in 1965 at the age of 8. Jones became a popular child celebrity the same year the TV series became a hit. She received a little less than $200,000, which she blew almost immediately, Mark recalled. Their time by contract belonged to the production company and the network. She wasn't being very social. Try again later. She was cremated and her ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean. The ambient temperature was 75 degrees. The juveniles claimed they did not know she was dead until sometime between 11:00 a.m. and 11:30. So, not only are they working as actors in a weekly show, but theyre also required to do talk shows and publicity stunts and meet with the sponsors and fly across the country, Geoffrey says. Jones enrolled in dance classes at 4 years old, and two years later, she starred in her first commercial, per Reel Reviews. Anissa, Geoffrey adds, was not taught how to be anything more than Buffy. She died from combined drug intoxication when she was 18. Her official cause of death was listed as "barbiturate, phencyclidine, cocaine and methaqualone poisoning," per Autopsy Files. A staff writer for All That's Interesting, Kaleena Fraga has also had her work featured in The Washington Post and Gastro Obscura, and she published a book on the Seattle food scene for the Eat Like A Local series. Anissa Jones charmed audiences as Buffy during the shows five seasons. 104 8. I bet hes got blue eyes and is bald-headed and is a big, big man who looks just like Yul Brynner. How tragic that that should be the one dream Anissa got a chance of realizing at age 18., Geoffrey sees the blame pretty clearly: Young actors are not protected. Instead, with her family life in disarray, Jones started turning to drugs and shoplifting. However, Jones' family also blamed her doctor Dr. Don Carlos Moshos for her death. In 1966 she was cast as "Elizabeth "Buffy" Patterson-Davis" in the CBS television series "Family Affair," playing the role for 138 episodes until 1971, when she was age 13. Six days later, her doctor, Don Carlos Moshos, was arrested and charged with manslaughter for illegally prescribing Seconal to her. She had her whole life left to live but sadly she never got that opportunity. Her body would be taken to McCormick Funeral Home in Inglewood and then to the Pacific Crest crematory in Redondo Beach for cremation. The houses air conditioning was on. D C Thomas also said (in his notes) that rigor was evident on the neck jaw and extremities. The beach parties and the drinking and all the drugs escalated for two more years until Anissa turned 18. Mary Anissa Jones her middle name meaning Little Friend in Arabic entered the world on March 11, 1958, in Lafayette, Indiana. And anyone who knows anything about drugs, would have been watching her behavior and would have known. The Heartbreaking Death of Anissa Jones, Buffy from Family Affair Facts Verse 9.04M subscribers Join Subscribe 1.8K Share Save 46K views 1 year ago Do you think you know a lot about TV? The weather was warm and dry. Tragic Details Found In Anissa Jones' Autopsy Report. Ending her promising acting career, her cause of death was listed as an accidental drug overdose. Acting proved to be the big break for the Jones family. Her doctor, Don Carlos Moshos, was later charged with 11 felony counts of illegally prescribing powerful drugs, according to the New York Times. He was 24. Born Mary Anissa Jones on March 11, 1958, in Lafayette, Indiana, Anissa Jones found fame at a young age. Her father, John Paul Jones, was, at the time of her birth,. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. He won and Anissa went to live with him, but he died very shortly after Anissa arrived, but she didnt go back to her mother, she moved in with a friend. While awaiting trial, he died, resulting in the case being closed. The parents divorced shortly after moving to California and Mrs. Jones suddenly had to look for a job. Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? Anissa Jones was just eighteen years old. Said the Sacramento Bee in 1973, The shows cancelation after a six-year run represented a chance for its then 14-year-old leading lady to finally be herself free from the psychological burden of submerging her personality inside a screen character who never grew older.. She acted alongside Johnny Whitaker as her twin brother Jody, Kathy Garver as her older sister Cissy, Brian Keith as her Uncle Bill, and Sebastian Cabot as Uncle Bills butler. Try again later. Her boyfriend at the time, Allan Kovan did little to curb her enthusiasm and generosity with the drugs and presents and parties. But like many child actors, her life began to unravel when the cameras stopped rolling. Many people were not willing to take her on due to the image she had already made for herself on the show. Her parents divorce had led to a bitter custody battle, which resulted in her father winning custody of Jones and her brother. She wanted to make the move to the big screen, but didnt find many people willing to take a chance on her or the image of her that had been created. So, I dont think its a curse.. Around that time, producers Henry Garson and Edmund Beloin were developing a new show titled "Family Affair," and they thought Jones would be perfect for the role of Buffy. Family Affair lunch boxes and coloring books were popular; there were also Buffy paper dolls, a Buffy childrens clothing line, as well as a 1971 cookbook with Anissas face on the cover. Her parents divorced as she rose to stardom, and she lived with her father, who then passed away. He got diagnosed with lung cancer and emphysema early in 1997, in April that year his daughter committed suicide. Her schedule was grueling, often requiring her to work on or for the show all year round and sometimes even seven days a week. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. Thats a lot of pressure to put on someone less than 10 years old, less so where one has a good family life where one has parents really working on behalf of the children to make sure their lives are as normal as possible. By clicking Sign Up, you agree to our Terms and Conditions and that you have read our Privacy Policy. In 1969, Jones made her only film appearance with a small role in The Trouble with Girls which starred Elvis Presley. cemeteries found in will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Why in the world would her mother allow that? He died while awaiting trial and the case was closed. While other children her age played, Mary drove Anissa to learn more skills that would count in her favor in the industry. Many think that Jones' troubles started when she was very young and only escalated as she got older. She wasnt taught the exigencies of adult life. She and some other kids stayed in a bedroom taking angel dust and coke. The show hit number 1 in the ratings, turning Buffy and Jody into household names. And do you know why? This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. In her early teen years, as reported by Outsider, she started shoplifting and often skipped school. He was 24 years old. A friend, fellow student and partymate Steve Hanford recalled the following about Anissas death. She and some other kids stayed in a bedroom taking angel dust and coke. After a night of partying with her friends and then-boyfriend, she suffered an overdose. Could go either way. [5] Jones was 12 when the series ended in 1971. Please note that this form cannot be used to reset your Google or Facebook password. View Source Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Created by: DEBI (PEACHES SISTER) Added: 22 Mar 2017 When she auditioned for the role of Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist (1973), the director had a hard time imagining adorable little Buffy possessed by a demon. But Garver doesnt believe in the so-called Family Affair curse. This is thought to be the last photo of Anissa Jones, who died in August 1976. You may also light a candle in honor of Anissa Jones or send a beautiful flower arrangement to the funeral service. On March 15, 1984, Jones's brother, Paul, died of a drug overdose. After reading about the life and death of Anissa Jones, look through the tragic stories behind some of Hollywoods biggest child stars. Father of Anissa Jones (Tv show Family Affair) and of John Paul Jones Jr. Following a private service, Anissa was cremated and her ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean. She was four years old when Mary enrolled her in dance classes. Buffys life was on a one-way track to hell and Uncle Bill, Jody, Sissy and Mr. French were not there to pull her out. Anissa Jones was born June 23, 1969, in Dallas, Texas. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. Please fill in your e-mail so we can share with you our top stories. While Anissa was still a very young girl, her family would move to Playa del Rey, California with hopes that their precious little gem could hit it big in showbiz. Thanks for your help! She is best remembered for her role of Buffy on the television series Family Affair. She moved to Austin, Texas at a young age, where she attended Austin Public Schools.She married Ronald Bruce Williams, Jr. and to this union two She auditioned for the role of Regan MacNeil in "The Exorcist," but Linda Blair won the part. Per the New York Times, the doctor was charged with 11 felony counts of illegally prescribing powerful drugs, and Jones' family received $79,500 as compensation. I want to see God, she told me, because everyone always talks about him, but no one has seen what he looks like. Mary Anissa Jones her middle name meaning "Little Friend" in Arabic entered the world on March 11, 1958, in Lafayette, Indiana. But interesting nonetheless: The death photo shows rigor had set in pretty solidly on the arm at least, that would be a little after 12:39 p.m. according to the date stamp. In another painful twist of fate, Anissa's little brother, Paul, also died of a drug overdose on March 15, 1984. Following the cancellation of Family Affair, Anissa Jones attempted to jump from television to the movies. We first encountered Buffy three years ago in San Antonio, where the clothes bearing that name first came to the attention of the fashion press. Her life was spiraling out of control and little did she know, it would lead to an untimely demise some two short years later. If you are the site owner (or you manage this site), please whitelist your IP or if you think this block is an error please open a support ticket and make sure to include the block details (displayed in the box below), so we can assist you in troubleshooting the issue. It was a time of change at CBS, resulting in the loss of a lot of audience favorite shows to start making room for the likes of All in the Family, MASH and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. This account already exists, but then you have read our Privacy Policy and extremities the. 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