- Wrote several episodes of Mama's Family (1983).
- Ken Berry and Dorothy Van both were from the same hometown, Moline, Illinois, and appeared on Mama's Family (1983).
- She was friends with actress Shirley Temple.
- Was good friends with Vicki Lawrence and Ken Berry.
- She was an advocate for PETA and rights for senior citizens.
- She was of German descent.
- Her father was a post office worker and her mother a housewife.
- Before she worked on TV she did years of stagework in such plays as "The Shifting Heart", "The Mousetrap", "The Maids", "The Skin of our Teeth", and "The Heiress". She even had a short stint as a chorus girl upon arrival to New York City in 1946, age 18.
- Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes returned to her family.
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