Overview

• Her death on June 13, 2025, in Bakersfield, California, was confirmed by longtime friend Bob Satterfield.
• She joined the Our Gang Comedies at age 6 in 1935, portraying Effie alongside Alfalfa until 1938.
• Gay appeared in over 40 feature films, including Tom Sawyer, A Day at the Circus and Mystery Plane.
• She claimed the California State Yodeling Championship in both 1945 and 1946 and toured with Stuart Hamblen’s Lucky Stars and Tex Williams’s band.
• After marrying Thomas Cashen in 1954 and raising five children, she remained active in radio, television and Little Rascals reunions into the 2010s.