 Melissa "Missy" Palmer (Roux) and Bill Matthews (Joseph Gallison) were a young couple in love, but in true soap opera fashion, their road to happiness had numerous hurdles, many the result of the interference of Bill's conniving mother Liz Matthews (Audra Lindley).The two were finally married and the characters left town.But their happiness was short-lived, as Bill was later drowned in a boating accident off screen.