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Joe Conley (March 3, 1928 – July 7, 2013) was an American actor who played many small roles on television and is most remembered for his role as the storekeeper Ike Godsey in The Waltons. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
Edwards acted professionally from 1963 and is best known for the role of the domineering Corabeth Walton Godsey, the wife of storekeeper Ike Godsey played by Joe Conley, in the CBS television series The Waltons, created by Earl Hamner, Jr. She played Charlene's mother Ione Frazier on two episodes of CBS's Designing Women.
Her best friend, Aimee Godsey, is the adopted daughter of her father's second cousin, Corabeth, and general store owner, Ike Godsey. As a teenager, Elizabeth often babysits her nephew John-Curtis (son of sister Mary Ellen and first husband Dr. Curtis Willard) and her niece Virginia / "Ginny" (daughter of older brother Ben and Cindy).
Ronnie Claire Edwards, the actress who played Corabeth Walton Godsey on "The Waltons," died Tuesday. She was 83. Originally from Oklahoma City but living in Dallas, Texas, Edwards died peacefully ...
He later appeared as storekeeper Ike Godsey in The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971), the TV movie pilot for The Waltons (1971); The Moneychangers (1976); Backstairs at the White House (1979); and, in his only regular role, the short-lived 1979 CBS series Time Express.
Tina filed for divorce from Ike in 1967 and he later died in December 2007 of an alleged drug overdose. Tina wed her longtime love Erwin Bach after 27 years together in July 2013.
The Waltons is an American historical drama television series about a family in rural mountainous Western Virginia of the Appalachian Mountains / Allegheny Mountains / Blue Ridge Mountains chain, during the economic hardships and mass unemployment of the era of the Great Depression of the 1930s and subsequent wartime homefront of World War II of the early 1940s.
The family introduces her to Ike Godsey, who likes her and decides he is tired of the bachelor life. He takes her, John, and Olivia to a first-class restaurant and surprises John by proposing to Corabeth, and she accepts, despite her reservations. Ike is enthusiastic about their future together, but Corabeth is prim and reserved.