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Bill Myrick moved his wife, Laverne S. Myrick (born 1930), and toddler daughter Bellinda Myrick (born 1948) to Odessa, the county seat of Ector County, on the advice on Myrick's friend Hank Williams.
Her first television appearance was in an episode of I Dream of Jeannie ("Jeannie the Matchmaker") as a dating service clerk named Laverne Sadelko who sets herself up with Roger Healy.
It is parodied as "How many miles to Babyland?" on Lenny and the Squigtones- a comedy album by the characters Lenny and Squiggy from the 1970s sitcom "Laverne & Shirley".
JoAnn Hardin, the oldest of child of four children of Don and Laverne Hardin, was born in Huntsville, Alabama on December 4, 1940 near where her father was stationed as an U.S. Army pilot at Redstone Arsenal during World War Two.
Born Laverne Scott in Chicago, she started her career in 1978 as a member of the famed Negro Ensemble Company, making her Broadway debut two years later in the Tony Award nominated play Home.
Laverne reminds Winnie that Tuesday is "French Day", when the two of them only speak in French – the idea being that after Laverne's second child, Jericho Alexander Samson is born, the three of them will start a new life in Martinique, birthplace of Laverne's parents.