Anissa Jones

At 18 years old, Anissa Jones has this physical status:

Mary Anissa Jones (March 11, 1958 – August 28, 1976) was an American child actress known for her appearances on CBS' Family Affair, which ran from 1966 to 1971.

At the age of 18, she died as a result of mixed drug intoxication.

Early life

Jones was born in Lafayette, Indiana. Jones' maternal grandparents were Lebanese, and Arabic means "Little Friend."

At the time of her birth, Jones' father John Paul Jones was an engineering student and faculty board member at Purdue University, where her mother Mary Paula Jones (née Tweel) was a zoology undergraduate. The family returned to Playa Del Rey, California, where John Paul Jones, Sr., worked in aerospace engineering, and later Orville Wright Junior High School, shortly after Anissa's brother John Paul Jones, Jr.'s birth (called "Paul" by the family).

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Career

On the CBS sitcom Family Affair (1966), Jones was eight years old when she was cast as Ava Elizabeth "Buffy" Patterson-Davis. Buffy, her twin brother Jody (Johnny Whitaker), and older sister Cissy (Kathy Garver) are sent to live with Uncle Bill (Brian Keith) and his vain boss Mr. French (Sebastian Cabot) a year after the children's parents died in a car crash (the DVD collection notes incorrectly state "plane crash"). Jones became a hit on July 1969 and the series was a hit, and Jones became a well-known child celebrity.

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