Career
She is best known for playing Betty Johnson on the television series Punky Brewster. Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1929, she sang jazz at clubs in the city. She starred in such plays as Dark of the Moon and Shakin" the Mess Out of Misery, and had a small part in the 1989 film Wicked Stepmother.
Aside from Punky Brewster, she has guest starred on The Twilight Zone, My Three Sons, and her sister"s Marla Gibbs television series The Jeffersons and 227.
Garrett died of cancer at Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan, on May 24, 2002, aged 72. She is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery.
