Floyd has at least two sons. Many have mentioned Norman (mentioned in "The Jinx"), who plays little league baseball, but this is not the same boy we see playing the saxophone in "Those Gossipin' Men." If you listen closely to the end of that scene, you will hear Floyd say, "Hear that, Wendell? That means a lot, coming from a man like Mr. Finch." It may be Randall instead of Wendell; take a listen and see what you think.
Floyd's wife is named Melba (or maybe Melva); he mentions her in "Quiet Sam" in the scene where he talks to Barney on the phone (Barney tells Floyd to bring a gun, but Floyd says he doesn't have one, but maybe he could bring the heavy walking stick that Melba uses to prop open the cellar door). A couple of years later, by the time of "Floyd, the Gay Deceiver," he is a lonely widower, so obviously Melba passed away shortly after the events in "Quiet Sam." Floyd also has one sister that we know of (he describes his nephew Warren as "the image of my sister"), and in an episode of Gomer Pyle - USMC, we're told that after Floyd retired from cutting hair, he moved to Mt. Pilot to live with his daughter. --Paul _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
