Ward drives a Plymouth throughout most of the series-usually a top-of-the-line four-door hardtop sedan-and plays golf at a country club. Though Ward speaks of his father and siblings when recalling his childhood, viewers only meet his globe-trotting Uncle Billy. Co-worker Fred Rutherford is also his friend and the two men socialize outside the workplace. He was an engineer in the Seabees during World War II, and during the show's run he works in an unspecified white collar office job.

It's never stated Ward went to the same prep school as June, but it is established that they dated in high school and he majored in Philosophy at college. He is a farmer's son who grew up on a farm near Shaker Heights, near Mayfield.

Ward Cleaver ( Hugh Beaumont) is June's husband and the father of Wally and Beaver.

Throughout the series' run, she wore either a necklace or a dress with a high collar, jabot, or scarf to hide a surgery-inflicted hollow in her neck which would have caused on-screen shadows. Actress Barbara Billingsley appeared in the pilot, every episode of the series, and in the show's spin-offs. Manners' teen daughter Margie (who becomes a romantic interest for Wally), and other unnamed women.

Manners (Beaver says she smells like gingerbread), Mrs. June has several housekeepers including Minerva, Mrs. Many of the later episodes feature brief 'after-school scenes' in which Wally breezes through the back door and regales his mother with a short teen-speak recital of his school day, the camera zooms in on June's amusingly-mystified countenance as Wally trots away with a snack in his hand. Her outside interests include social events such as weddings and her sons' school events. When the show opens, she is a full-time homemaker and mother, often seen tidying the house, preparing meals in the kitchen, or tending her family. When Beaver asks her about her life, she doesn't mention holding down any full-time jobs she merely indicates that she had a part-time job she was dismissed from when she messed up her books too badly. She grew up in the Mayfield area and spent summers in Riverside, a community a few hours away, with her Aunt Martha Bronson, whom she says 'practically raised her.' June attended boarding school, dated Ward in her teens, and attended college.

June Evelyn Bronson Cleaver ( Barbara Billingsley) is the wife of Ward Cleaver and the mother of two sons, Wallace (Wally) and Theodore (Beaver, the series' main character).

The Cleavers-from left: Hugh Beaumont (Ward), Tony Dow (Wally), Barbara Billingsley (June), Jerry Mathers (Theodore AKA 'Beaver').

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