LOS ANGELES - Actor Fess Parker, who became every baby boomer's idol in the 1950s and launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85.

While he wasn’t born here, Fess Parker got here as fast as he could, or as fast as his family could, moving to San Angelo three months after his Aug. 16, 1924, birth in Fort Worth. He attended Austin ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — Fort Concho will host the second annual Fess Parker Fess-tival on Aug. 16 in honor of Parker’s 101st birthday. Parker was born in Fort Worth on August 16, ...