Flo Ayres

Flo Ayres (born Florence Aaranson, 1923-2022) was a Baltimore voice actress who supplied the voice of Sissy the skunk in Jim Henson's clay animated "Sam the Snake" segment,Baltimore Sun - "Whatever Happened to... Flo `Granny Packer' Ayres?" June 16, 2007. Archived version which first appeared in the premiere of Sesame Street. 
Ayres began her show business career in local radio in the 1940s, heard on local series (often through WBAL) and in the 1952 NBC tie-in special Baltimore 1090, dramatizing historical highlights of the city. She became in demand for character voices, especially in commercials, and often worked with Walt Teas. By 1960, she headed her own advertising agency. One of her longest running Baltimore campaigns was for Ford dealer Al Packer, as the radio voice of Granny Packer. 
Ayres narrated educational filmstrips, often dealing with issues of gender roles and women's employment, and public service shorts. In the 1980s, she co-hosted the cardiac-focused health radio series The Heart of the Matter. She supplied character voices (along with Jim Thurman) for John Canemaker animated segments in the National Geographic video Survivors of the Past: Living Fossils (1996) and was heard, with Teas, in the 1997 computer game Callahan's Crosstime Saloon. She continued to do political radio spots in her later years and narrated audio tours for the White House and for a SeaWorld shark exhibit.Washington Examiner. "Veteran voice-over actress and lifelong Baltimorean still thrives." May 17 2008.
==Sources==
==External links==
*Voices.com demos
*In Memoriam - Flo Ayres, Media Maven. Tribute blog entry by Janet Fricke Combs.
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Category:Animated Voice Actors