1979), an employee of Lucille Wexler's real estate business, immediate supervisor of Eve Stapleton McFerren's while she worked for Lucille, tried to spark some romance with Eve but Eve refused, but Whitney's attempt Ben McFerren would walk in on which would prompt him to get drunk and have a one-night stand with Diane Ballard, written out. Neil Blake (Patrick Horgan, March 1979 until end of decade), Alan Spaulding's personal attorney who replaced the deceased Dean Blackford District Attorney Clarence Bailey (Philip Bosco, 1979) Lydia Singer (Lydia Mahan, March 1979 to May 1979), nurse at Cedars who was in competition for Dr. Mark Hamilton against Katie, Katie tried to use her brother Floyd to distract Lydia from Mark, ceased appearing Floyd Parker (Tom Nielson, April 26, 1979, until end of decade), Katie's younger brother Dr. Gonzalo Moreno (Gonzalo Madurga, June 1979 until end of decade) Clara Jones (Anna Marie Horsford, June 1979 to November 1979), Holly's cellmate, written out Carter Bowden (Alan Austin, July 1979 until end of decade), Alex Bowden and Doris Crandall's son, gallery owner who exhibited Ben's work. Dr. Greg Fairbanks (David Greenan, August 1979 until end of decade), introduced as Rita Bauer's high school boyfriend from West Virginia, who'd relocated to Springfield, had affairs with Rita and Diane Ballard, started dating Eve Stapleton despite finding out that Rita was pregnant and perhaps with his child Dr. Margaret Sedwick (Margaret Gwenver, September 1979 until end of decade), Cedars OB-GYN Dr. Renee DuBois (Deborah May, October 1979 until end of decade), a Paris plastic surgeon whom Roger Thorpe hired to change his face when other people thought he was dead Plot development As the new year of 1970 began, what Dr. Sara McIntyre Gantry was experiencing at her husband Lee Gantry's farmhouse would start out the new decade with a bang, literally. The sounds that Sara continued to hear up on the roof continued with Lee and Miss Mildred Foss continuing to chalk them up to squirrels on the roof. One night in January 1970 with there being a lot of thunderstorms, while Lee was out of town, the sounds on the roof were particularly frightening to Sara and so she decided to go upstairs to the attic to investigate taking her gun with her. When Sara walked into the attic she saw a shadowy figure by the bay window and took a shot at it. The figure fell,