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Mrs. Beasley
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This memory was added on: September 19, 2008
I never got a Mrs. Beasley doll. But I do remember watching Family Affair and Buffy's doll. One time I went to visit relatives out in the country and I saw a little girl with a Mrs. Beasley. Boy, was I jealous! I never got one, and now that I'm much older I can't afford one. I wanted to post here to write down the phrases (I don't think this is all of them) she said to help all of you who had her to remember: (I got the info from an ebay auction).
"You May call me Mrs. Beasley, would you like to play?"
"Long ago I was a little girl just like you!"
"Speak a little louder dear, so Mrs. Beasley can hear you"
"Do You want to know a secret? I know one"
"If you could have three wishes,what would you wish for?"
"Would You like to try on my glasses? You may if you wish"
"It would be such fun to play jump rope, don't you think?"
"Gracious me your getting to be such a big girl"
"I do think You're the nicest little friend I ever had"
"If you were a little smaller I could rock you to sleep"
- Lori
Long Island, NY
This memory was added on: September 19, 2008
Growing up I had spent a lot of time in and out of hospitals because of a heart condition and my parents were always fighting about something. I remember one year getting a Mrs. Beasley doll from Santa, well she became my best friend and went every where with me, we were inseparable.
A few weeks ago my father and his new wife were over for a visit. He mentioned a time when I was little and very ill that he would get mad at my mother for her not making me wear a hat out in the cold. While telling this story he laughed and said that because of the fighting I would where this blue polka dot handkerchief on my head to make them happy and to end the fighting.
You see he wasn’t the greatest father and while he told this story it saddened me. I hated to wear hats and still do to this day, it wasn’t my mothers fault that wearing them makes me feel confined. But one thing that made me laugh was when he had mentioned the blue polka dot handkerchief I wore on my head for what it was, was not a handkerchief but Mrs. Beasley’s apron that I wore on my head to stop the fighting.
Today I was at a flea market my town and there sitting was Mrs. Beasley . I took off her apron and put it on my head, my husband just looked at me strangely and as I explained the story to him an elder woman stood listening with a smile.
I still might go back to purchase my old time friend, even though I am older I didn’t realize how much I missed her until the story and then I saw her again. However her glasses are missing and her voice box no longer works.
Sheryl
1969
This memory was added on: August 2, 2008
I received my Mrs. Beasley doll for Christmas 1969. I was 7 years old and had just lost my Mom to cancer. It was difficult for my Dad to keep my teenage brother and sister under control, much less worry about me so I was packed off to “visit” various family members and friends. Mrs. Beasley was my constant companion. She was with me on many, many nights when I cried myself to sleep from being homesick. One family friend had three little girls close to my age and I spent a great deal of time at their house. At night, the girls would put their pillows over their heads and tell me to shut up, stop crying and go to sleep – but I didn’t care. I had Mrs. Beasley and I was good with that. Later on my Dad remarried and my brother and step-brother decided they wanted to know what made Mrs. Beasley talk and performed a little exploratory surgery on her. She never spoke again after that “operation”. I eventually lost her apron, collar and glasses. When I was a teenager, I changed bedrooms and Mrs. Beasley was lost somewhere in the shuffle, never to be found again. In later years, a co-worker and I where sharing Mrs. Beasley stories. The next day, she brought me her Mrs. Beasley and told me she wanted me to have it – it was one of the most thoughtful and caring gifts I’ve ever received. She now sits in a rocking chair in my bedroom. I loved Mrs. Beasley and she was truly a blessing to me in my time of need as a child.
P.C.
Science Hill, KY
This memory was added on: August 2, 2008
When I was little I loved my Mrs. Beasly. Everywhere I went she went. We moved when I was 7. Mrs. Beasly didn't make it to the new house. I wanted my father to call the moving company so badly but he didn't. To this day I am convinced that the moving men stole her.
Conne
1969
This memory was added on: July 6, 2008
Oh how I loved her! My two friends and I all had her and we'd pretend she was our daughter from John Gage on Emergency! We fought about who got to be his wife. Then my friend found out I shared Randolph Mantooth's (he played Gage) birthday, and she hid my skirt and glasses. I never found them. She lost her ability to talk when my dirt phobic mom washed her. Years later my mom found Mrs. Beasley and I brought her home. My son who was three then was terrified of her so I stashed her in my closet. Whenever he was naughty I'd say "Do I have to get out Mrs. Beasley?" and he'd straighten up right away.
Dar
This memory was added on: June 4, 2008
I loved the show Family Affair, it was my favorite. I never got a Mrs. Beasley doll. I wanted one but we couldn’t afford it. My Mom took me to see Buffy, in person. She had a line of dresses that she was promoting. She was at a local department store by where we lived. My Mom didn’t tell me where we were going or what we were doing. I walked in to the store and there was Buffy and Mrs. Beasley. I was so excited I couldn’t stand it. That is the best surprise I ever had from my Mom.
LuAnn
This memory was added on: April 12, 2008
I remember the Christmas of 1970. I wanted a Mrs. Beasley like all the other little girls. Mom said she got me a doll that pooped
and peed. I was so upset. But then Christmas morning there she was. Somehow she got lost in a move and when my grandmother died
I found a photo of me and my siblings and cousins that Christmas day, and there she was in the photo. It made me very sad, I hope
if I bug my husband enough he will find one for me because love will make you do anything for the person you love.
TJS
This memory was added on: March 19, 2008
Oh my God I was telling a co-worker about my Ms.Beasley doll. I loved the TV show and I wanted the doll and I think I was 7 and it was Christmas morning my brothers and sister ran down stairs and I was right behind them. There was so much under that tree, I mean there were sit and spins, a Barbie doll house, cars, trucks, and I saw her in the box. It was like the huge bulbs on the Christmas tree you guys know what I mean the bulbs were huge and the tree was silver. She sat there with my name on her. I loved her to death she went everywhere when my siblings and I would go down south to spend the summer with my Great Granny Ms.Beasley went. My dad after some time was nerved wrecked because she talked. I loved her she also had glasses I had to wear glasses and she made me feel safe when I was sick which was often she was in the hospital with me don’t know what happened to her but sometimes I wish I could have her again man I would not change that Christmas for anything
April
This memory was added on: January 11, 2007
I have the most wonderful story about my Mrs. Beasley. i came from a very disfunctional home when i was growing up my father was a very verbally abusive person when i was just maybe 4 or 5 i wanted her for Christmas my mother told me that i sent my letter to Santa too late which was code for she couldn't afford it. on Christmas i woke up and there she was!!!! happiest kid on earth that Christmas for sure! i took her with me everywhere! she was my best friend , when things got too much for me to bear i would rush to the basement and pull her string and she would talk kindly to me, i told her everything! and she somehow made me feel so much better. years passed and i remember at about 14 yrs old she one day just disappeared but i never ever forgot about her. i grew up and got married had my own kids (3) but told my husband the story about her so much i think he got sick of it....lol. in 2004 i woke up one Christmas morning to find a box that i hadn't wrapped with a beautiful blue bow with my name on it. i started to open the package and under the partially ripped tissue paper i saw the blue with white polka dots , and knew in an instant my friend had found her way back to me! my husband had found her at a doll store right up the street from my home. don't know if she is the same one .....but it is to me ...i treasure her and she means more to me now than she ever did!!!!
thanks for the memories,
Lisa Whitworth
This memory was added on: January 11, 2007
I can't even remember how old I was when I recieved Mrs. Beasley, But my parents said if I took good care of her, the next christmas, I would get the stroller for her. I can not tell you how much I loved this doll, I took such care for her she was in perfect condition the next christmas as I antisapated finally getting her stroller, when my cousin and family got to our house christmas morning, she asked if she could play with her, and because I had always been taught to share, I let her hold her, she broke her string right away. I'm sure she didn't mean to, but man was I upset... I guess in my frustration I hurt my aunt and uncles feelings, and they got my cousins in there car to leave, when my parents made me go outside and apologize to them. I have carried this memory with me my whole life, I have always wondered why would a little girl have to apologize for someone else breaking her beloved Mrs. Beasley, Well I am 40 years old now and married, I guess I must have told this story more then once to my husband, who just this christmas went on line and found me a beautiful new Mrs. Beasley doll!! Man was I ever crying and touched. All he had to say was "I heard you". What a husband!! What a doll. It is so nice to read just how much she touched other people. I loved reading your stories...I hope everyone is as happy as I am!!
Melissa
This memory was added on: November 4, 2007
I received Mrs. Beasley when I was 6 years old. She was, I'm sure, an expensive Christmas gift from my grandparents and I still
have her to this day. Her original outfit is gone, her glasses missing, her hair is a matted mess, but inspite of much needed repair,
she is much more loved. She is my only true "non-hand-me-down" doll. My daughters never understood my affection for her. I now
have 6 grandchildren and I hope to be loved in my old age by my dear ones as much and more than I have loved my dear
Mrs. Beasley.
Carla
This memory was added on: June 6, 2007
I am an African American women. I will be turning forty five soon. I deeply love Mrs. Beasley. She means so much to me. When I get buried I want Mrs. Beasley in the casket with me. This is how much I love her. Mrs. Beasley is my childhood friend. She helped me through the horrible years of living in the projects. She helped me through my heart surgery and the many changes of life. Mrs. Beasley always had an encouraging word for me each and every day. To this day I think of Mrs. Beasley and I just cry tears of love for my doll. I miss her so much and I wish that I could bring her back into my life and into my arms of love for her.
Lovingly yours, Cathy
cathy
This memory was added on: June 5, 2007
I had a Mrs. Beasley doll growing up and don't know what ever happened to her. 4 yrs. ago I had asked my mom and grandmother what ever happened to her and they could not remember, that Christmas they found a replica of it in a magazine and sent for it that was one of the best Christmas gifts I could have recieved
Mia
1964
This memory was added on: June 4, 2007
i received my doll for christmas when i was about 5 years old....it was all i wanted and i kept it until my kids were small...they were not as careful as i was....i still miss her.
Valerie
1967
This memory was added on: May 29, 2007
I had this doll as a little girl and just loved it. My mom always said i had her with me where ever we went. This just gave me great big smile.
annette
1963
This memory was added on: May 13, 2007
I received her as a birthday present when I was 6 or 7 yrs old. My mom left her on the front door and rang There were big footsteps all around her. My dad I guess rang the door bell and low and behold a big box with my name on it was at the front door with a sticker that said To Wendy do not open until Christmas Love Santa.
She "slept" on my bed every morning when I went to school. When I got home we played together every day. We talked for hours, her voice box was in tact with her orignal clothes and glasses. Unfortunately my parents divorced and I didn't get to keep her.
I told my mom that if she ever found another one to buy her.
Mrs Beasley came home about 5 yrs ago as a Christmas gift and I cried. This one doesn't talk and her clothes are different but I still have those wonderful memories that I'll cherish forever.
Wendy
1963
This memory was added on: May 10, 2007
I got Mrs. Beasley when I was 4 years old and I could not go anywhere without her . My parents forgot her at my grams house 4 hours away and when we got home I cried and cried and could not go to bed so we drove back to get her and as soon as she was in my hands I feel asleep. She was carried around so much she had to visit the doll hospital (my other grandma) numerous times when my grandmother passed my cousin stole Mrs. Beasley and I have not talked to her since this was in 1978 but Mrs Beasley is still alive in my heart as well as my grandma. I just bought a new one sure she isn't the same one she was a classic but at least it can help relive old memories. Mrs. Beasley is the most wonderful doll ever created.
Laura B.
1970
This memory was added on: May 10, 2007
My younger brother, Danny, and I loved my Mrs. Beasley. She came into our lives when we were around 3-4 years old. We toted her everywhere and pulled her string so much that she soon stopped talking. It was a delight for us to see her on the screen in Family Affair, our favorite show. We had our Mrs. Beasley convinced that we were the real Jody and Buffy. I still have Mrs. Beasley on the top shelf of my closet and will never part with such a dear childhood friend.
Robin from Alabama
1967
This memory was added on: May 9, 2007
I remember when I was I kid I would play with miss beasly all the time.
Cindy
1976
This memory was added on: May 8, 2007
I wasn't much into dolls as a little girl EXCEPT for Mrs. Beasley. I took her everywhere, including for rides on my bike. I 'll never forget one day when my best friend and I were riding bikes. Her glasses fell off and he ran over them. I cried for hours. I loved her just the same for a long time. I think she got tossed out a few years ago. Her head was falling off. I wish I had it sewed back on and kept her.
Lisa
1966
This memory was added on: May 5, 2007
I got my Mrs. Beasley doll when I was five years old. I would really miss her if I didn't still have her. I played with her so much that she was worn out. My older sister took her to the doll hospital and had her fixed so she was good as new. I miss watching Family Affair.
Kathy
1959
This memory was added on: April 19, 2007
I had a Mrs. beasely doll with a mini Mrs. Beasely doll rubberbanded to her wrist. I loved that doll. I was probably 6 or 7 . One day my family was going to the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA. I was leaning out the camper window on the freeway holding my mini Beasely doll and the wing caught her and out she flew. I was sooo distraught. I'm sitting here with my 8 year old daughter right now and I just wanted to show her what Mrs. Beasely looked like. It made her crack up! I loved that doll:)
Monique
1964
This memory was added on: April 18, 2007
I remember when I got my Mrs. Beasley doll. i carried that doll everywhere until my older brother ripped her head off. I cried for a whole week.
Angela Beasley
1974
This memory was added on: April 15, 2007
My mom grew up with Mrs Beasley (who now sits in a doll chair in my room wearing floral flannel pajamas) and received her when she was nine. The always said the only reason she got a mrs beasley is because her sister asked for one ... you know, the whole lets get all the girls the same doll routine. Mrs Beasley was the mothers best pal and mom even took her to college. she said her classmates used to make mrs beasley into the big joke of the campus... steal her and set her up with empty beercans. really made ol' beas into a real swinger.
Jen
1989
This memory was added on: April 9, 2007
Oh where Oh where has my Mrs. Beasley gone? I loved that doll. The dispair! I wish I still had her!
susan
1963
This memory was added on: April 6, 2007
What can i say? I absolutely loved Family Affair and Mrs Beasley was one of my favorite dolls. I feel so warm and fuzzy just talking about her...LOL
Rhonda Smith
1962
This memory was added on: March 21, 2007
I am now 40 years old, and I had a Mrs. Beasley doll when I was a little girl. I can remember being three or four years old when I got her for christmas and I just absolutely "loved" her. I think I had two Mrs. Beasley dolls. I got the second one after I lost my first one a trip to North Dakota. Sometime after we got back from our trip someone had found her at the hotel where we stayed and they mailed her back to me. I was so surprised to get her back until I discovered that she no longer had a voice box and she was stiched up where the voice box was taken out. I don't know what happened to those two dolls, but as I got older I often thought of my Mrs. Beasley dolls. A few years ago I saw one advertised in a magazine and I considered buying one but for some reason I didn't. Well, just last weekend my older sister found an original Mrs. Beasley doll at a second hand store, and surprised me with it. It's in really great condition, but the voice box doesn't work, and that is OK with me, I have a Mrs. Beasley again! I am sooo lucky!!!I will forever cherish it and the memories too! Mrs. Beasley is a major part of my childhood memories!! Thank you to my sister for bringing that back to me!
Jacquie
1966
This memory was added on: March 19, 2007
I was three years old in 1971 when I got my Mrs. Beasley doll. The first thing I did was take a pen and scribble all over her face. Why? I don't know. My parents recall hearing a voice in the middle of the night coming from my bedroom. "My, my, you're getting to be such a big girl." "Would you like to try on my glasses, you may if you wish!"
I still have the doll. One of her legs is missing and she is in bad shape....but I still have her in the attic.!!
Teresa
1968
This memory was added on: March 16, 2007
I remember getting my Mrs Beasley stolen from my the buggie in front of my house it was devistating.
Maribeth
1966
This memory was added on: March 16, 2007
When I was a little girl (in the 70s), I took my Mrs. Beasley doll everywhere. Today I received a package in the mail from my parents. It was a new Mrs. Beasley doll for the daughter I am expecting in a couple of months. Seeing her brought tears to my eyes.
Carri
1977
This memory was added on: March 15, 2007
I was given my first mrs. beasley when I was 4, 1971, my father insisted that I get one since it was the only thing I had asked for. The day before xmas he and my mother searched high and low for one and finally found one. She was my favorite doll and I have several pics with me holding her as a child. My mother gave her away when I was about ten to my twin cousins and I cried for days but never got her back. My mother felt so guilty she started buying me Mrs. Beasley's. I have five now, some with different clothes some original and also the latest new one. I have told her she can stop now. I am saving all my mrs. beasleys for my daughter who will turn 2 this year and I promise never to give them away.
Elizabeth
1967
This memory was added on: March 13, 2007
I've had my Mrs. Beasley since I was a small child. I still have her and she's in great shape. The only things missing are her glasses and collar.
Suprenna
1966
This memory was added on: March 5, 2007
Oh man how I loved my Mrs. Beasley doll. She went everywhere I did. My Mom has this story she likes to tell. We had gone on vacation and I guess I must have left her at home because the first thing I did when we got home was go to get her and she was no where to be found. I came out of my room yelling where is Mrs. Beasley? Our friends next door had used our house for thier guest and while she was changing the bed sheets her little girl saw Mrs. Beasley and didn't think I would miss her. Guess she was wrong. Some how on one of our military moves I lost her also. This may sound weird but it has always made me sad that she got lost.
Leanda
1965
This memory was added on: March 4, 2007
My younger sister Glenda was absolutely in love with her Mrs. Beasley doll and carried it around with her everywhere and it is the only toy that i know of that she ever felt this way about, In 1971 my mother found her a doll for Christmas, and believe me, they were such a hot item then that this proved to be very difficult. The only doll that my mother could find was one that had, had the glasses removed, so she bought that one. It didn't matter about the glasses, as long as she could talk, and my sister was so excited by that doll. Sadly, my dear sister passed away in 1997 of cancer and I am doing a family photo history and want to include pictures and stories about this most beloved doll,so I am on the hunt for pictures and ads about the beloved Mrs. Beasley and what a phenomenon she was in the late sixties and seventies.
donna
1958
This memory was added on: February 24, 2007
I had the mrs. bealsey storybooks and a little girl at our church acts just like her so I call her mrs. beasley, but her parents need more information about "Mrs. Beasley" so they can understand why I call their little girl Mrs. Beasley! Great stories!
yolanda stewart
This memory was added on: February 18, 2007
I got Mrs. Beasley from "Santa" when I was about 5 or 6. I literally screamed when I opened the present! She was my favorite doll and when I lost her glasses and she lost her voice eventually, it bummed me out. I still have her in my guest bedroom though guests sometimes say she appears a bit scarey. You wanna know a secret? She isn't!
Ms_PS
'63
This memory was added on: February 16, 2007
I loved Mrs.Beasley!!! except when I drew on her face with magic marker around her eyes and cut her already short hair my parents put her in the basement and I was so scared to go down there because I had made her look evil(almost like chuckie)poor Mrs.Beasley that was the end of my family affair with her ha! ha! ha!
sydney
1966
This memory was added on: February 16, 2007
Mrs. Beasley was one of my favorite dolls of all times. I screamed when "Santa" brought her to me one Christmas. I must have been about 6 years old.
Mrs. Beasley died at an early age when my older brother Charles did a below the knee amputation on her with a Swiss Army knife. My Mom never learned to sew thus Mrs. Beasley was thrown out in the garbage can.
I am saving my money to buy another Mrs. Beasley from EBAY.
Charmaine
1963
This memory was added on: February 13, 2007
When I was a young girl I had a Mrs Beasley whom I absolutely loved. When I was in my early teens my mom's friends daughter was in the hospital with cancer so I gave her my Mrs Beasley to help her through it. When I was around 40 my husband and I were in a collectible store and there on the shelf was Mrs Beasley. My husband said he had never seen my face light up so much. He went back and purchased her for my birthday. I was ecstatic. She is not the original one I had but I love her just the same. She sits in a custom made glass case in my home.
Gail M
1959
This memory was added on: January 22, 2007
I loved my Mrs. Beasley doll. Both my sister and I had one. As the years progressed her voice got slower and slower. Towards the end it was pretty downright scary. I remember, "If you were a little bit older, I would rock you to sleep." Or something to that effect. Memory is failing me now. I'm 38 and 6 months pregnant with my first child. I wish I had Mrs. Beasley to give her.
Angela
1968
This memory was added on: January 22, 2007
I loved my Mrs. Beasley which I believe my mother may have sold at a garage sale. I have been looking for a replacement one forever. My Grandma gave me Mrs. Beasley for Christmas one year. I also had a doll named Poor Pitiful Pearl, does anyone remember her?
Traci
1974
This memory was added on: January 10, 2007
What can I say? To this day if it weren't for Mrs. Beasley who knows I might still believe in Santa Claus (not really). I found Mrs. Beasley in my sister's closet as I recall back in December of probably 1968 or 1969 clueing me in that there really wasn't a Santa Claus. I have probably told that story to just about everyone I know.
Kelly
1961
This memory was added on: January 5, 2007
I don't remember reciieving my Ms. Beasley, but I must have been around 4 or 5 years old (that would be around 1970?). I remember having her in Kindergarten and I loved her and carried her everywhere. I couldn't remember her talking until I heard the voice on the website saying, "Do you want to hear a secret?" That's the only phrase I remember, but I had forgotten it until now. I don't know what happened to my Mrs. Beasley-It was probably lost in one of our 'military moves'. I've often thought of that doll and wished I had it still.
Donna
1965
This memory was added on: January 2, 2007
I got my first doll when i was three, my second doll when i was nine and then i lost her and never found another one until i went xmas shopping, i didnt have the money to buy her so after xmas i was going to get her, but then my mom got her for me for xmas that year. I Cried
cindy
1962
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