Former child actor Stanley Fafara, who played Beaver's pal Whitey on the idyllic family sitcom "Leave It to Beaver" but descended into a real-life adulthood of drugs, alcohol and petty crime, has died at age 53, friends said Friday.
Fafara died in a Portland, Oregon, hospital on Saturday, Sept. 20, of complications from surgery he underwent last month to repair a constricted intestine caused by a hernia, according to Tom Hallman Jr., a reporter for the Portland Oregonian who knew him.http://channels.netscape.com/ns/tv/story.jsp?floc=FF-RTO-reuvf&idq=/ff/story/0002%2F20030926%2F161007665.htm&sc=reuvfThis kid sure had a messed up life. I hope he is at peace now.