For a lot of followers rising up with The Andy Griffith Present, Andy Griffith was the quintessential “TV Dad.” However when the filming was completed, Andy was a father to not the tens of millions of youngsters watching at residence, however to the 2 kids that he and his spouse, fellow performer Barbara Edwards, adopted: daughter Dixie and son Sam.
Andy was “fun-loving, lively, introspective, a perfectionist, decisive, so many issues,” Dixie recalled when talking with The Cheatham County Trade in 2024. She described her father as “larger than life in some ways,” and a “very sophisticated particular person” who liked animals, gardening and his vintage automotive assortment.