that film in the following year: with Paul Newman in WUSA and with Robert Redford in Little Fauss and Big Halsy. Benson played Mrs. Elrod in the 1981 John Carpenter horror movie Halloween II. Death Benson died on February 17, 1984, in a hospital in Scottsboro, Alabama, aged 69, from liver cancer. She was cremated and her remains are buried under a modest bronze headstone, at Cedar Hill Cemetery, in her hometown of Scottsboro. Filmography The Fugitive Kind (1960) - Beulah Binnings WUSA (1970) - Second Matron Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970) - 'Mom' Fauss Women in Chains (1972) - Billie Escape (1971) - Trudy Duel (1971) - Lady at Snakerama Cactus in the Snow (1971) - Mrs. Sawyer Delphi Bureau (1972) - Mrs. Loveless Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) - Billy's Mother Private Parts (1972) - Aunt Martha The Devil's Daughter (1972) - Janet Poole Tom Sawyer (1973) - Widow Douglas The Blue Knight (1973) - Elmira Gooch Mame (1974) - Mother Burnside Huckleberry Finn (1974) - Widow Douglas The Day the Earth Moved (1974) - Miss Virginia Porter Reflections of Murder (1974) - Mrs. Turner Betrayal (1974) - Eunice Russell Collision Course (1976) - Bess Truman Silver Streak (1976) - Rita Babtree The Greatest (1977) - Mrs. Fairlie Black Market Baby (1977) - Mrs. Krieg Charleston (1979) - Miss Fay Ebony, Ivory and Jade (1979) - Mrs. Stone Concrete Cowboys (1979) - Peg the Madam 1941 (1979) - Gas Mama (Eloise) Amy (1981) - Rose Metcalf Halloween II (1981) - Mrs. Elrod When Your Lover Leaves (1983) - Greta Moon Face (released after her death in 1984) Television appearances The New Andy Griffith Show (1971) - Mrs. Gaddis Cannon (1971) - Proprietress Bonanza (1972) - Mrs. Melody Mannix (1972-1974) - Myra / Ida Emergency! (1973-1976) - Annie / Martha The Day the Earth Moved (1974 TV movie) - Miss Virginia Porter Police Woman (1976) - Aunt Benjamin The Waltons (1976) - Tilly Shanks Petrocelli (1974-1976) - Lucille Davis / Madge Briar / Lucille Field / Angie Crawford Nashville 99 (1977) - Birdie Huff The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (1978) - Flo Eight Is Enough (1978) How the West Was Won (1978-1979) - Miss Agnes / Miss Walker Trapper John, M.D. (1979) - Clarissa Mae Purcell Little House on the Prairie (1979) - Miss Trimble The Ropers (1979-1980) - Mother The Dukes of Hazzard (1980) - Mama Coltrane Bosom Buddies