Rest in Peace, Barbara Billingsley (June Cleaver)
There was a time in America, where men were proper and women knew their place.
Children did not clamor for attention in the classroom, for at home their fathers provided sturdy discipline and loving oversight. Mothers did not neglect their innate, natural duty to provide a safe and warm home for their husband’s children.
Kitchens were no stranger to homecooked meals, the scent of dinner only interrupted by the floral smell of fresh linens mother spread out to protect the dining table from stray crumbs and frosted glasses.
Contrast that today, where children are unruly. It is common for rapes and murders to happen in high school and even middle school courtyards; the root of the problem being broken homes where lazy fathers abandon their urban families, leaving their sons with anger issues and their daughters with psychological issues, their insecurities vacuously filled by the most pithy and dirty of a strange,opportunistic man’s carnal lust.
Still, there is a root to this problem and it starts with the matriarch of the family, the mother.
It takes a good woman to keep a man happy, so it stands to reason that so many homes are broken today with husbands who have gone astray. Women of the modern world are selfish, focused on themselves and how to get that next promotion, while they betray their marital and somatic vows to remain loyal to the needs of the husband and the whilms of the children.
We see obese kids on playgrounds, struggling to throw dodgeballs from Cheetos-stained hands because they are raised on McDonald’s sandwiches and the empty parenting of modern sitcom television. Mothers are absentee, trying to balance out a ‘career’ with finding time to hang-out with her equally selfish and wandering female friends,living out the wild nighlife post-work hours until 7 pm or even 8 pm in the evening.
Who is left at home to tuck the children into bed, with a story and perhaps a plate of warmed dessert pastries?
It is a wonder today’s society can function, with these modern feminist women making even the coarse Susan B. Anthony look as warm and inviting as an ardent sunlight gently kissing one’s forehead in a crisp, fall meadow.
Such tenderness is not the bonnet of today’s women; instead, today’s woman marks her conquest in terms of how many secret affairs she can brag about to her girlfriends, topped by what she did to the boss to ‘earn’ that next promotion. Women today are not loyal and will do whatever it takes to please their little social circles and clicks, aggravating and tearing apart their families and wrecking others in the process.
There is one woman, however, who stands in contrast to all this. Her name, Barbara Billingsley.
Billingsley will be eternally known as June Cleaver, the title mother of 1950s family show Leave it To Beaver.
Every day, Billingsley set an example for the mothers of America. She would wake up every day, adorning her neck with a string of pearls and placing a nice apron over her dress, so the scents and stains of preparing breakfast would not sully her husband’s clothing as he took off for work.
EVery meal was balanced and every shirt and towel folded, so her children started each and every day with healthy mind and healthy heart, all flowing with the satisfaction of a true mother’s love.
Hugh Downs, colloquially known as Ward Cleaver, did an excellent job in showing the stability and comfort a good, proper American woman can have on her family when she fully gives herself to her duty and profession for life: a loving mother to her family.
The 1950s were a good time for America. Children respected their elders and each other. Women were loyal and men were ever encouraged to eagerly go to work and come home, where he knew a warm supper would be sitting on his table and his children, full to the brim with the love of a proper, stable home, would share a love for him only second to that of Mom herself.
June Cleaver, our dear Barbara Billingsley, passed away today. She was blessed with 94 years.
And as sweet Barbara has indeed joined the heavenly hosts, I thank this woman who showed exactly how women should raise a family. She is the ideal mother and the ideal wife. Now, and forever, we will hold the lessons and sweet smile of Barbara Billingsley not only in our heart, but forever in our national concious and memories, passed on to each and every generation.
The art of being a proper female is not lost; it is not forgotten. It has been forever captured in the essence of Barbara Billingsley, and in every episode of Leave it To Beaver.
Let us take a look at a special episode, and relish in the sweetness of this woman who was a true gift from Heaven. Thank you, Barbara Billingsley. Your light will forever warm the heart of America.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbL0BbSYf0o&feature=related
- Sinful
- Suspicious
- Scared
- Sad
- Amused
- Laughing Out Loud
Author: Derek Van Buren
6:24 am
What a good woman. Rest in peace and may angels lead you in, Barbara Billingsley.
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8:08 am
She was a true role model to the very best of womankind. I loved her, even dream of her being my own mother from time to time, “laughing out loud!” No relation, however, though are last names are close. I was sad, but truly she lived a long, beautiful life.
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Rest in Peace, Barbara! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
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9:45 am
“No relation, however, though are last names are close”
That’s “our”, Mr. “Journalist”.
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7:08 pm
Please show some respect once in a while. Okay?
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8:07 pm
“Please show some respect once in a while. Okay?”
Respect is earned. Okay?
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9:42 am
“Mothers did not neglect their innate, natural duty to provide a safe and warm home for their husband’s children.”
“their husband’s children”? Um…I’m pretty sure that those children are the mother’s, too…
“Still, there is a root to this problem and it starts with the matriarch of the family, the mother.”
Yes, of course, everything is the fault of women. The father leaves? Oh, well obviously it’s the mother’s fault. The children are behaving badly? Oh, it’s the mother’s fault. The apocalypse happens? Naturally, it’s the fault of women. You Christian men on this site have absolutely no spine, constantly blaming the troubles of men on women. How about you men take responsibility for yourselves for once?
“Women of the modern world are selfish, focused on themselves and how to get that next promotion, while they betray their marital and somatic vows to remain loyal to the needs of the husband and the whilms of the children.”
There’s nothing selfish about wanting to do something in life other than pop out kids and toil for hours on end in the home. This is the 21st Century, DEAL WITH IT.
“Mothers are absentee, trying to balance out a ‘career’ with finding time to hang-out with her equally selfish and wandering female friends,living out the wild nighlife post-work hours until 7 pm or even 8 pm in the evening.”
Proof?
“Who is left at home to tuck the children into bed, with a story and perhaps a plate of warmed dessert pastries?”
So, one minute you’re bitching about how kids are obese, the next you’re implying that an entire plate of dessert pastries is an appropriate bedtime snack? Oh, and the answer to your question: the father.
“instead, today’s woman marks her conquest in terms of how many secret affairs she can brag about to her girlfriends, topped by what she did to the boss to ‘earn’ that next promotion.”
Bullshit. I’m a woman, and I’m marking my conquest in terms of how well I’m doing in school and how much experience I’ve gleaned so far in the field of animal care.
“Women today are not loyal and will do whatever it takes to please their little social circles and clicks”
Dumbass, that’s “cliques”.
“Hugh Downs, colloquially known as Ward Cleaver”
Um…I thought his name was Hugh Beaumont…Are you confusing him with Tony Dow?
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10:08 am
stop taking everything so seriously…this site is a parody, everyone is a troll…..TROLLZZZZ
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2:59 pm
ust mentioning a Point that the Vows In marriage has “nothing to do about staying in kitchen” but the Vows are actually to respect each other and loving each other, even in church marriage seriously some people didnt even been married it’s seems
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3:27 am
@Claire Very well said in all you have said!!!! these morons need to look in the mirror and re-read their own words to see whats wrong with society today.
Van Buren has his own moral issues with women that im afraid his rantings is all hes got. The moral decay of America lies in the hands of lawmakers and politicians, If you discipline a child today you stand to be judged as a criminal!! Back OFF the woman bashing! You idiots are a disgrace and you cry about crap that is the fault of men more than women! KUDOS Claire for standing your ground
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10:36 am
I agree. I tried to get my wife to suck my balls last night whilst fellating me and she refused. The nerve of this broad! Don’t worry, I struck her a few times before we retired to our beds.
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4:28 pm
Claire, I don’t know why you go so harsh on someone’s obituary. It’s rather impolite and unseemly, don’t you think? This should be a place of respect, an area where we share thoughts and prayers. This is not some end zone where you go on the attack. Inappropriate, my friend.
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4:46 pm
“Claire, I don’t know why you go so harsh on someone’s obituary. It’s rather impolite and unseemly, don’t you think? This should be a place of respect, an area where we share thoughts and prayers. This is not some end zone where you go on the attack.”
And yet it’s perfectly fine for Van Buren to use this woman’s death as a vehicle to rant about “rebellious” women and everything else that he deems a societal ill?
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7:07 pm
Don’t you piss on the graves of people you don’t like? Why do you then attack someone who was talking about how the OP was being sexist? That’s right, you believe women should only have their place in the kitchen, not the real world.
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7:10 pm
There you go again with your crazy paranoid fantasies. Why do you always go off the handle at the slighest provocation? You know nothing of decorum (and stop kissing up to Claire, it’s not appropriate, particularly in the middle of an obit.)
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8:15 pm
“There you go again with your crazy paranoid fantasies.”
You’re aware that the majority of your “articles” are nothing but paranoid rants, right? You practically think that Betty White, Bill Murray, homosexuals, and the cast of “Glee” are out to take over the world.
“Why do you always go off the handle at the slighest provocation?”
Hey Billings, does this sound familiar? “CALM DOWN CALM DOWN!” THAT is flying off the handle. Or this: “I AM SICK OF ALL THESE CRAZY TOWNS FREAKING FREAKING OUT!”
“and stop kissing up to Claire”
He’s not “kissing up” to me, idiot.
“it’s not appropriate, particularly in the middle of an obit.”
This is not an obit. This is the exploitation of a woman’s death in order to push an agenda of oppression.
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8:22 pm
I’m surprised you didn’t fill that post with a dozen links to your youtube cats. Can you get any more off topic?
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7:44 pm
Claire, how dare you vilify Barbara Billingsley. It’s already low enough to speak ill of such a beautiful woman, but you do it literally a day after she was laid to rest. This is a place to celebrate her life and her contributions to our society. This woman was truly an angel.
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9:04 pm
Show me where in my post I vilified (there’s one l, by the way) Billingsley. I was speaking out against van Buren’s views on women, not against Barbara Billingsley.
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9:48 pm
Lemme guess, she was an angel because she cooked and cleaned and didn’t do shit to her husband unless he demanded it, amirite?
You’re also one to talk about being ‘villainous’, you’ve claimed many, many times that the rest of the world should be nuked because of your psychotic fear towards them, regardless of what that country’s status is (you’ve said many times that our own allies, politically speaking, should be nuked off the face of the Earth, and you seem to think only American Christians are worth a damn, and only if they’re rich and white).
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12:32 pm
Yes that is why she’s an angel. A women is genetically built to raise children and cook/clean. The most successful families are those run by a man in a suit, and tended to by a women with an apron. PROVE ME WRONG!
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4:33 pm
“Yes that is why she’s an angel. A woman is genetically built to raise children and cook/clean. The most successful families are those run by a man in a suit, and tended to by a women with an apron. PROVE ME WRONG!”
1. A woman’s body may be designed to carry children, but last I checked, men can cook and clean just as well as women. Women don’t have any special body parts (read: extra hands) or superpowers that allow them to stir food in a pot while simultaneously sweeping a floor.
2. How do you define successful? By how much income is brought into the home? By how well behaved the children are? No matter what it is, I don’t think a home’s success has anything to do with what Mom and Dad wear during the day.
3. My mom is a CPA, and she works from home. She can’t really cook. She owns no aprons. My dad, however, is an architect, and he doesn’t always wear a suit to work. He is the main chef of the house, cooking dinner or supervising the cooking of dinner. He also makes awesome pies. He wears an apron while baking pies. Now that you know that stuff about my parents, I’ll tell you that they provide a good living for themselves, my little brother, and me. I’m an A student at a good university (and my brother makes good grades at his middle school) We are all healthy, responsible members of society.
The point I’m trying to make is that you should think before you generalize.
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8:33 pm
“I’m surprised you didn’t fill that post with a dozen links to your youtube cats. Can you get any more off topic?”
Off topic? You called Comedian paranoid, and I rebutted by saying that YOU are the paranoid one. I then finished up by saying that he was not “kissing up” to me, as you claimed, and that this article was also not an obit, as obits do not exploit deaths in order to push an agenda. Will you please explain to me how those things were off topic?
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11:48 pm
Ward was played by Hugh Beaumont, not Hugh Downs. Just sayin’.
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12:27 pm
I sought to read about Barbara and try to find out anything about her being a known Christian, after seeing her picture on one of those lists of celebrities who passed on in 2010. Her’s was one of the few with what appeared to be a countenance, and peace, about her face. Her look just about brought tears to my eyes, after seeing so many of the others and hearing about the tragedies and mistakes and even for some of them their participation in anti-Christ aims in their lives.
Leave it to Beaver was replaced by the creations of men seeking to socially engineer society in their anti-Christ and humanist image and likeness. Barbara, was replaced by “the dingbat” on All In The Family. Accompanying were “A Family Affair” in which two men raised twin children in a household, one ostensibly the housekeeper. And then there was “The Odd Couple”, with a somewhat effeminate neat man living with a slobby but masculine man. The Partridge Family and the Brady bunch as good as many things in them were, promoted divorce and blended families. Along with other shows the lesson was supposed to be “Gee a family is any group of people living together, what do you know?”
The drab life of the dingbat was the backdrop for girls and young women watching Mary Tyler Moore (she’s got her glamorous career, is not married and she’s on the ‘pill’), not to mention Charlie’s Angels, beauty, brains, and agility, versus being a homemaker for a chauvinist ignorant husband. “Oh Mighty Isis”, and “Wonder Woman”, also for the girls. “Three’s Company” introduced the imagery of men and women living together unmarried, even two women and one man. I don’t remember the name of it, but there was also the 80′s series with the high-powered advertising exec mom and her Brooklyn boxer Italian housekeeper, together raising his daughter. All these shows at the time were surrounded by and followed by shows with most of the main characters fornicating or committing adultery with everyone else. Leading little ones astray.
The latest big hit is “Two Men Raising A Boy”, that’s what I call that show, in which if you turn the sound down, and if you didn’t know anything about the show, would see that very imagery, which is the main purpose of the show. The secondary purpose is visible in the characters of every female in the show: the lumberjack coarse (and looking) and unfeminine housekeeper, the crazy next door stalker neighbor, the constant sex partner girlfriends of the masculine man of the house, the unfaithful ‘mother’ of the boy and ‘ex-wife’ of the effeminate man of the house.
This says nothing about the phenomenon starting in the 90′s of movie scenes in which there always seem to be incidences of men falling down on top of men, and then lying there for a few seconds, no doubt the token demands and feather’s-in-the-cap of homosexual advisers to producers and writers.
Hollywood must be a focal point of activity for demonic angels, because it is highly productive for their dragging down to hell of Americans and the world. Overreaction, some might say? Well, I graduated high school in the early 80′s. I remember discussing with a couple other kids in advanced chemistry class, the coming of cable tv to our small town. I lamented it and predicted it would be a bad, because I could imagine what the immorality in cable tv would do to the kids of the town in the future. I had a cousin who told me what was on his family’s cable tv, in a bigger town that got cable sooner, about 30 miles to the north. One chemistry friend said change is good, without change things get stagnant.
That assumed change is always in a positive direction. With the cable tv it was not, it was in a negative moral direction. It was worse than stagnant, it was toxic and destructive. So much so that within merely 6 or 7 years, most girls in the school were having sex, not the few percent there always had been who had a reputation. So much so that in 1991 a church singles class leader who taught choir in a public school, told of some of her students being harassed and hounded and peer-pressured to lose their virginity like everyone else. Kind of reminds one of the story of the two angels visiting Lot in Sodom, doesn’t it, only on a school, rather than a town, scale.
Another cousin who graduated from a big city high school in the mid-90′s told of how everyone he knew had only one thing on their mind, all the time, sex, and not just on their mind, but pursuing and engaging in it all the time.
All this Hollywood pouring of gasoline on desires that are already there has had its effect on society and the nation. If you are one who needs to have the statistics quoted, you truly are a fool in your folly and I will not argue with you. Righteousness exalts a nation and sin is a reproach to any people. 52 civilizations have gone down the path to hell before us, none ever pulling up out of the death spiral. When the family breaks down, then society does, then government does, then the economy does, then the military sooner or later does, and the enemies of the people get special advantages. Life becomes bad for everyone and even the basics we take for granted have a tendency to disappear.
I remember one girl I dated for a short while in 1991. The way she talked about things, a husband and a child (one child mind you) were like accessories to a career. I can think of two others who thought nothing of sticking their child when they someday had one (one mind you), into daycare. One girl I dated did a couple years later get married, had her one child, had her career, sticking that child in daycare at less than 3 months. “Oh she’s really good with kids,” is what I heard her say once about the full time ‘babysitter’. Then there was my last girlfriend, a divorced career woman, whose idea of a good home meal was ordered out pizza, because at age 43 she did not know how to cook well enough to make a meal at home.
Who did this to our country and culture? I know demons are involved, and some rich athiests, but how did they do such a thorough job? I assume McCarthy was right. Yuri Bezmenov confirmed it.
If there is not some concerted prayer effort for Hollywood and the movers and shakers in our society, our nation is history.
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6:14 pm
Okay, did NO one get the joke of this show??? I mean “Beaver Cleaver”???? The people who WROTE the show were June Cleaver you idiots… She read a script and played her role. Anything you read into it beyond that would require some sort of proof, which of course you don’t have. This was a show that was produced in the 50′s and 60′s that was made during a time of tremendous censorship of every television program. You MIGHT try reading your history books, the 50′s weren’t exactly like they have been portrayed in TV SHOWS…. idiots..
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