Our “Thelma Lou,” as she liked to be called by her family, was an amazing wife, mother, grandmother, farmer’s daughter, and a baker of krautburgers like no other could be. Thelma was quietly ...

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. — Betty Lynn, the film and television actor who was best known for her role as Barney Fife’s sweetheart Thelma Lou on “The Andy Griffith Show,” has died. She was 95.