"Ann Davis, 88; played lovable, lovelorn maid to Bradys" by Anita Gates | New York Times June 02, 2014
NEW YORK — Ann B. Davis, the comic actress best known as the wistful, wisecracking live-in maid on the long-running ABC sitcom “The Brady Bunch,” died Sunday at a hospital in San Antonio. She was 88.
She had slipped into a coma after falling in the bathtub and hitting her head Saturday, her agent, Robert Malcolm, said. She used a walker and had been in excellent health, he said. She had been living in San Antonio with Bill C. Frey, a retired Episcopal bishop, and his wife.
From 1969 to 1974, Ms. Davis played the eternally good-natured, reliably self-deprecating Alice Nelson, who kept house for and dispensed cornball advice to a wholesome blended California family of eight on one of the perkiest prime-time series of its era.
Alice was, however, simply the best known of a series of plain-Jane characters Ms. Davis had played, women who yearned for but never really expected to find romance....
At least she didn't go around shooting people.
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Related: Stifling Stapleton Obituary
Imho, she was one of the greatest characters in the history of television.
