The Dukes of Hazzard, Quantum Leap, Night Court, Taxi, Baywatch, and The Commish. Personal life Fran's first husband, Walter Kenneth Wayne (whom she married in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1949), died in a plane crash, in a plane he was piloting in January 1951, while Fran was pregnant with their first and only child. She gave birth to their son, Christopher, in April 1951. Fran remarried in January 1953 to Howard Schafer. Howard, too, perished in a plane crash in Oregon in May 1953 in a plane he was piloting. The wreckage of Howard's plane was not discovered until 15 years later in November 1968. The remains of Howard and his passengers were never found. All that was found at the crash site was a woman's shoe, four combs, and two pair of eyeglasses. Death Ryan died on January 15, 2000, at age 83. She was cremated and her ashes buried in 2004 in the family plot, alongside her mother Mary, at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Hayward, California. Filmography Film Television References External links The Wizard Official Fansite & Definitive Cyberhome 1916 births 2000 deaths 20th-century American actresses Actresses from Los Angeles American film actresses Catholics from California American soap opera actresses American television actresses American voice actresses Burials in Alameda County, California