Florida Friebus (October 10, 1909 " May 27, 1988) was an American writer and actress of stage, film, and television. Friebus's best-known roles were Winifred "Winnie" Gillis, the sympathetic mother of Dwayne Hickman's character Dobie Gillis on the CBS sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and as Mrs. Lillian Bakerman on CBS's The Bob Newhart Show.