Wesley Marie Tackitt was born on November 4, 1926 in Clinton, Oklahoma, USA. She moved with her family to Southern California during the Great Depression. She caught the acting bug, performing on stage, on radio, and in puppet theater throughout her high school and college years at U.C. Santa Barbara. As a professional actress, she is best known for The Wild and the Innocent (1959) and playing Margie's mother in the Margie TV series (1961). She died on November 14, 2015 in Leesburg, Virginia, USA.