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TIL that Bea Benaderet, Jethro's mother on The Beverly Hillbillies and Kate on Petticoat Junction was also the voice of Granny in the Tweety commercials and the original series voice of Betty Rubble on the Flintstones. She died at age 60 in 1968 before any of those shows finished from Lung Cancer.

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