Not unexpected, but still sad.
Fawcett was voted “most beautiful” her sophomore, junior and senior years at Ray High School [in Corpus Christi]. Her freshman year at the University of Texas, where she was majoring in microbiology and minoring in art, Fawcett was voted one of the university’s 10 most beautiful coeds.
Back then, to local attorney and former state Rep. Bill Harrison and his group of friends, Farrah was just another girl hanging out with Harrison’s younger sister Kathy.
“We called her ‘Drippy (Fawcett),’” Harrison recalled. “She was just another little punk coming over to my sister’s house.”
When Fawcett was a sophomore and Harrison and his friends were seniors the boys took real notice.
Harrison introduced Fawcett to his best friend Gary Roberts, the guy she dated all the way through high school and into college.
Fawcett’s father thought that Roberts and his daughter were getting too serious so it was up to Bill Harrison to pick Fawcett up for dates, he said.
“He liked me because I was the son of a minister,” Bill Harrison recalled. “Gary would be sitting next to my date and I’d go pick up Farrah. And we’d go around the corner and Farrah would jump in the back with Gary and my date would get in the front.”
Roberts, now a Kerrville banker watched Fawcett evolve from a Catholic school girl into one of the world’s most renowned beauties.
She was more than that, of course. Her performance in The Burning Bed and Extremities proved she had acting chops. I’m not sure what happened to her career-wise after that, but whatever it was, she deserved better. Texas Monthly has more from their archives. Rest in peace, Farrah Fawcett.
I feel sorry for her father – parents never expect to bury their children and now he will have buried both of his.
Certainly an odd day. Before anyone could react to Farrah’s passing away the media frenzy started about Michael Jackson.
RIP Farrah, you certainly were a beautiful lady and it’s sad to see you leave.
Cancer is a devestating illness and although you know the time is coming it isn’t by any means easier.
I hope your loved ones’ find comfort in knowing you are now at peace.