Mary Anissa Jones (March 11, 1958 – August 28, 1976) was an American child actress best remembered as "Buffy" on CBS's Family Affair. She died of a drug overdose at the age of 18.
On August 28, 1976 after partying all night in the beach town of Oceanside, California Jones was found dead in the bedroom of a friend's house.
The coroner's report listed her death as an accidental drug overdose. Cocaine, PCP, methaqualone and Seconal were found in her system during an autopsy. The coroner who examined Jones reported that she had died from one of the most severe drug overdoses he had ever seen.
She left $63,000 in cash and more than $100,000 in savings bonds when she died.
Jones had no funeral and no grave marker because she had not wanted her grave to become a tourist attraction. Her body was cremated and her ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean on September 1, 1976.
In 1984 her brother Paul Jones also died of a drug overdose.
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Anissa Jones tragic story
