In 1986, she reprised the role of Thelma Lou in the reunion television movie "Return to Mayberry", in which Thelma Lou and Barney Fife are finally married. In 2006, Lynn retired from acting and relocated to Mount Airy, North Carolina, the home town of Andy Griffith and the town on which Mayberry is believed to have been based despite Griffith's claims to the contrary. Lynn herself has commented, "The longer I live here, the more I see things took from his hometown."