Joe Conley

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Joe Conley (March 3, 1928 – July 7, 2013) was an American actor best known for playing Ike Godsey, the storekeeper on The Waltons. He was born in Buffalo, New York, and served in the Korean War. After his military service, he began acting. By the early 1970s he also ran three real estate agencies in the San Fernando Valley, and his real estate work helped him become wealthy.

Conley appeared in many small television roles and worked on an AT&T educational film, How to Lose Your Best Customer Without Really Trying, with Pat Harrington. He was eventually cast as Ike Godsey on The Waltons, opposite Ronnie Claire Edwards as his on-screen wife Corabeth; the couple married on the show in 1975.

In 2009 he published his autobiography, Ike Godsey of Walton's Mountain. Conley was married twice, to Jacqueline Stakes (around 1962) and later to Louise Teechen (1969–2013). He had four children: Kevin (born 1960), Julie (1961), Erin Elizabeth (1971) and Jana Lynne (1974). He died on July 7, 2013, in Newbury Park, California, from complications of dementia, aged 85. He is survived by his wife, three daughters, and a son.