Anissa Jones
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Anissa Jones as Buffy on Family Affair
Mary Anissa Jones (March 11, 1958 – August 28, 1976) was born in West Lafayette, Indiana. She appeared alongside Elvis Presley in The Trouble with Girls (1969), but is best remembered as the freckle-faced Elizabeth 'Buffy' Patterson-Davis on CBS's Family Affair.
She portrayed the pleasant, warm and all too adorable Buffy from 1966 to 1971 alongside Brian Keith and Sebastian Cabot on Family Affair.
Anissa's personal life, in contrast, was anything but pleasant. She was victimized not only by her inability to deal with Buffy's immense and sudden popularity, but also by her inability to deal with her parents' messy divorce.
Following Family Affair, Anissa decided that she no longer wanted to be in the entertainment industry.
Anissa's turbulent relationship with her parents led to her living in various homes and spending a few months in juvenile detention.
Upon her 18th birthday, Anissa took control of a $75,000 trust fund that had been created with her earnings from Family Affair. Anissa and Paul, her brother, rented an apartment and Anissa started dating Allan Kovan, whose influence contributed to Anissa and Paul's involvement in heavy drug use.
On August 28, 1976, Anissa was found dead at a friend's house in Oceanside, California. The coroner who examined Anissa reported that she had died from the most severe drug overdose he had ever seen. Anissa's body was cremated and her ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean.
In 1984, Paul Jones also died of a drug overdose.
Anissa attended Paseo Del Rey Grammar School, Orville Wright Junior High School and Westchester High School.
Trivia
- Anissa is pronounced "Ah-NEES-ah" (rhyming with Lisa not Melissa) and in Arabic means "little friend".
Quotes
- "I can read...except for a very big word we sometimes have. Like the word philosopher. Do you know what a philosopher is? Well...it's a man that thinks a lot, but doesn't do anything much about it." (TV Radio Mirror, March 1967)
External links
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- Personal Website with Family Pictures of Anissa (http://members.tripod.com/maryanne2)