Classic TV Character Has Walla Walla Roots

Hope Summers from Walla Walla was on The Andy Griffith Show, a popular TV show in the 1960s.  She played the part of Clara, one of the towns people. 

Hope's father also represented the Walla Walla area in congress.   She had previously played  Hattie Denton in The Rifleman and was later the voice in commercials of Miss Butterworth. 

Hope Summers is buried in Walla Walla's Mountain View Cemetery.

Annie Charnley Eveland of the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin wrote this feature on Summers in the paper, click here.