1968 episodes of the CBS sitcom Petticoat Junction as Kate Bradley's sister, Helen, filling in as a temporary replacement for the ailing Bea Benaderet as the mother figure to Bradley's three daughters. DeCamp appeared in 2 episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies as Mrs Priscilla Rolfe Smith-Standish, a famous expert on antiquities who befriended the Clampetts. DeCamp made several appearances as the mother of Shirley Partridge in The Partridge Family from 1970–1973. She also played The Fairy Godmother in the 1980s TV show, The Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother. DeCamp played Buck Rogers' mother in flashback scenes of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "The Guardians" (1981). On July 7, 1946, her Beverly Hills home was damaged when struck by a wing after the experimental XF-11 piloted by Howard Hughes (re-created in the 2004 movie, The Aviator) crashed nearby. Although a piece of the wing and a part of the neighbor's roof landed in DeCamp's bedroom (where she and her husband were sleeping) they sustained no injuries. Personal life and death DeCamp was married to Inglewood Municipal Judge John Ashton Shidler for 57 years from 1941 until his death in 1998. The Shidlers raised four daughters: Margaret, Martha, Valerie, and Nita. Outliving most of her contemporaries, DeCamp died of pneumonia in 2001, age 90. She was cremated and her ashes given to her daughter. DeCamp was the author of a children's book, Here, Duke! The Adventures of an Irish Setter, which was published by the David McKay Company, in 1962. In 2009, an autobiographical book of her life in film and television titled Rosemary De Camp: Tigers in My Lap was published posthumously. DeCamp was an active Democrat in California. Filmography Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) as Minna Fields Hold Back the Dawn (1941) as Berta Kurz Jungle Book (1942) as Messua Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) as Nellie Cohan Smith of Minnesota (1942) as Mrs. Smith Eyes in the Night (1942) as Vera Hoffman Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) as Hilma Arnesen City Without Men (1943) as Mrs. Slade This Is the Army (1943) as Ethel Jones The Merry Monahans (1944) as Lillian Miles Bowery to Broadway (1944) as Bessie Kirby Practically Yours (1944) as Ellen Macy Blood on the Sun (1945) as Edith Miller Rhapsody in Blue (1945) as Rose Gershwin Pride of the Marines (1945) as Virginia Pfeiffer Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) as Anna Danger Signal