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'Davy Crockett' Star Fess Parker Dies
2010-03-18
Parker -- who also starred in "Old Yeller" -- owned the DoubleTree Resort in Santa Barbara and the Wine Country Inn & Spa in Los Olivos, CA.

Parker married Marcella Rinehart in 1960. They had two kids.

He was 85.
Posted by: Anonymoose

#5  AWWWWWW, RIP, that Show + others from that period in GUAM, USA were so cool.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-03-18 23:53  

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Posted by: Snash Sforza6070   2010-03-18 20:01  

#3  Deacon - and Davey's grandparents were killed by Indians and are buried only a few miles from where you live.
Posted by: Glenmore   2010-03-18 19:20  

#2  Fess Parker played the role well. Davey Crocket wasn't born on a mountaintop. He was born in a cabin alongside a creek in a valley that was airable.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2010-03-18 19:07  

#1  "Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee, greenest state in the land of the free..."

RIP and I wish I'd kept my coonskin cap!
Posted by: borgboy   2010-03-18 16:56  

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