Who has passed away from The Waltons?

Ellen Corby (Grandma) 1999 age 87 natural causes in Woodland Hills, CA. Dorothy Stickney (Miss Emily) 1998 age 101 at her home in NYC. Cleavon Little (Hawthorne Dooley) 1992 age 53 of colon cancer in Sherman Oaks, CA. Woodrow Parfrey (Ike Godsey) 1984 at age 61 of a heart attack in LA.

How old is John-Boy now?

The actor, now 71, embraces his early stardom on “The Waltons.” (Julieta Cervantes | Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird National Tour) Atticus Finch (Richard Thomas) in the courtroom. | Sep. 5, 2022, 6:58 a.m.

Did any of The Waltons date each other?

The love stories carried over behind the scenes. Ma and Pa Walton — Ralph Waite and Michael Learned — quietly fell on love on set. And remember Jason and Toni, who we just mentioned in the prior paragraph? Well, actors Jon Walmsley and Lisa Harrison tied the knot in real life in 1979!

Is The Waltons a true story?

Real lives All of the Waltons were based on real people — Hamner’s family, his grandfather and grandmother, his father and mother, and his brothers and sisters, of whom there were seven in the show but eight in real life.