| Addie Horton | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Patricia Barry as Addie Horton | |||||||||||||||||||
| Days of our Lives | |||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Patricia Huston (1965-1966) Patricia Barry (1971-1974) |
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| Duration | 1965–1966, 1971–1974 | ||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | November 1965 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | June 28, 1974 (death) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Created by | Irna Phillips Ted Corday Betty Corday |
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| Gender | Female | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cause of death | Died after being hit by a car | ||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Housewife | ||||||||||||||||||
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Adelaide "Addie" Williams (née Horton, previously Olson) is a fictional character on the television soap opera Days of our Lives. The role has been portrayed by actresses Patricia Huston (1965 to 1966) and Patricia Barry from 1971 to 1974.
Addie Williams was the daughter of Tom and Alice Horton. She had four other siblings. Her fraternal twin brother, Tommy; and Mickey, Bill and Marie Horton. She was first married to wealthy banker Ben Olson and had two children with him, Steve and Julie Williams. Ben later died and Addie was free to date, later become engaged and late become married to her lover, Douglas "Doug" Williams.
Once Addie married Doug she soon discovered that she was ill with Leukumia and that she was pregnant. Despite her doctors warnings she decided to keep her baby and let the cancer take its course instead of fighting it and harming the baby.
Addie soon gave birth to her and Doug's first and only child together, a baby girl named Hope. Soon afterwards though Addie was deathly ill and soon realized that she wouldn't live long. So as she was taking a walk one day with her daughter, a car spun out towards them. Addie pushed her daughter's stroller to safety and let the car hit her so her daughter would survive, while Addie was instantly killed.
| “ | Addie died when Days was only nine years old, and of those nine years she'd only appeared in five of them, and yet, a full thirty-six years later, Addie's legacy remains and she's still one of the most oft-mentioned deceased characters. As the only child of Tom and Alice's that died young, Addie was always an inherently emotional subject. Every Christmas at the Horton ornament hanging you could count on a tender moment where someone, usually one of her kids, would hang up Addie's ornament wistfully. Even while other long-gone members of the Horton clan get pruned off the family tree (Steven, David, Scotty, even Tommy) Addie remains a central part of it.
The reason, of course, is an obvious one. Though the effect Addie herself had on the show is minimal, both of her daughters were such rampantly important characters that Addie's place in Days history could never be anything but significant. For the first twenty years this show essentially belonged to Julie, and for the next twenty years it belonged to Hope. And because Julie and Hope are so important, everyone that's important to them is also important - and that's Addie.[1] |
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