Ann B. Davis, famous for her role as housekeeper Alice Nelson on “The Brady Bunch,” died Sunday. She was 88.
According to her close friend Bishop William Frey, Davis fell and hit her head early Saturday morning in her bathroom. She suffered a subdural hematoma and never regained consciousness.
Davis played the housekeeper Alice Nelson for the entire original run of “The Brady Bunch” from 1969 to 1974, appearing in her trademark light blue maid’s uniform with a white apron,. She also filled the role for countless other TV movies and reunions. She was known for her cheeful humor and witty one-liners, and was a much-loved ‘Brady’ character!
Davis mostly retired from show business in the late 1970s to settle down in an Episcopal community.
“I’m convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we’ll never know what it is to be whole,” she told People Magazine in 1992.