I am certain there is at least one ep where Ward's name is said to be Ward Cleaver, Jr.; which would mean his dad's name was Ward. Neither Ward nor June ever talks about their parents as still being alive, so the assumption appears to be they are all deceased. In "Wally's Orchid," when Beaver goes into the flower shop and says, "I've never seen this many flowers in one place before without somebody being dead," I think that is probably meant to refer to a grandparent. Beaver was only supposed to be 9 or 10 at that stage, and for whom, besides close family, does a kid younger than that go to a funeral?
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