Pat Woodell, who played one of the three original Bradley sisters on the 1960s CBS sitcom Petticoat Junction, died Sept. 29 at her home in Fallbrook, Calif., after a two-decade battle with cancer, the Los Angeles Times reported. She was 71.
Woodell portrayed the clever brunette Bobbie Jo opposite Linda Kaye Henning (redhead tomboy Betty Jo) and Jeannine Riley (blonde, boy-crazy gal Billie Jo), all daughters of Kate Bradley (Bea Benaderet), the owner of the Shady Rest Hotel near the town of Hooterville.
Petticoat Junction, which was created by Henning's parents, Paul and Ruth Henning, debuted in September 1963. Woodell departed after season two — "I was going nowhere with it,” she told the Chicago Tribune in 1971 — and was replaced by Lori Saunders. The show lasted until April 1970.
