However, your heart and your spirit, always a major thing. It co-starred Whitaker playing the role of an orphaned boy named Jody Davis, living in a high-rise apartment in New York City with his twin sister Buffy ( Anissa Jones ) and older sister Cissy ( Kathy Garver ), his bachelor uncle Bill Davis (Brian Keith), and Bill's gentleman's gentleman , Mr. French . Try our quiz and enter to win $500!Click below to check the trivia questionRemember Anissa Jones? She stepped into showbiz with a breakfast cereal ad marking her first television feature when she was just six years old. It's unfortunate that sometimes something that's very tragic can bring people together, but he was very supportive. All the bedroom shots, all of the kitchen shots, all of the living room shots. At legal age, Anissas US Savings Bonds from her Family Affair earnings would become available to her in the amount of $177,800. Tragic Details Found In Anissa Jones' Autopsy Report - YouTube Kathy Garver today. However, she went on to attain success in both her personal and professional life. In her early teen years, as reported by Outsider, she started shoplifting and often skipped school. Meanwhile, her personal life started getting disturbed with her parents going for an awful divorce in 1965. He loved his wife and his children. You know, there was a whole episode of Hollywood Palace [in 1967] built around Anissa and Jimmy Durante. It was a great combo. So the whole season would have to be written beforehand; they didnt do them one at a time. Two years later, she would go on to star in the hit sitcom, "Family Affair.". Now, she stated, those pressures are permanently, tragically over. Tragically, Anissa Jones wasnt the only Family Affair cast member to suffer an untimely death. That's my clearest memory of him. Anissa is in the sixth grade at Paseo del Rey Grammar School when not filming Family Affair or making personal appearances. Said Patty at the time, She is always ready to say, Please call me Anissa when people refer to her as Buffy, her name on the show. After being released, she was sent to live with her mother. And if the two Buffys have anything at all in common, its that both battled demons, one metaphorical and the other quite real.