In the pilot episode it is mentioned that Opies mother died when he was "just the least speck of a baby". We learned Barney was the best man at the wedding and Andy was very much in love with his wife. We never learn her name or much more history. We also know Barney is Opies godfather. Some have specualted that maybe she died during Opies birth but their was never proof of that info in the series.
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He never had one as Andy Taylor (his dad) was a widower. He did however, have two mother figures in his life. The first being Rose who went off and married her beau which brought Aunt Bea into the picture. She then became a regular who also brought up Andy as a child.
******************* Opie didn't have a mother on the show. His father Andy was a widower.
The Taylors had the standard dial phone in black, standard Bell phones owned by the company.
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yes they were cousins
Andy Griffith was 86 when he died on July 3, 2012.
I don't think it was ever brought up, but at the beginning Andy talks of losing his wife (Opie's mom), which why Aunt Bea lives with them.