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Ten
Things You Should Know About
Texan Dan
Blocker
AKA "Hoss" Cartwright
by John
Troesser |
Ten small facts
about everyone's favorite Cartwright.
1.
His birth name was Bobby Don Blocker.
2. Born in DeKalb, Texas
- he was raised in O'Donnell
from age six.
3. At 14 pounds - he was the
largest baby ever born in Bowie County.
4. He was sent to military school in San
Antonio at the age of 12.
5. He once taught school for a few years in Sonora,
Texas.
6. He was an Infantry sergeant during the Korean War.
7. He had a Master's Degree in Drama from Sul Ross in Alpine,
Texas.
8. He married his college sweetheart, Dolphia Lee Parker.
9. He was a part owner in the Bonanza Restaurant Chain.
10. He died of complications from an operation in 1972. |
Chuck Miklos
and Dan
Blocker
Photo courtesy of Frank Miklos |
More on Dan
Blocker:
Mighty
Hoss by Archie McDonald, Ph.D
("All Things Historical" Column)
Dec.10,
1928 Cartoon
by Roger T. Moore
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Dan
Blocker's
grave in the Woodsmen Cemetery,
near downtown DeKalb.
Photo courtesy of John DeBusk |
Mary A. Blocker
tombstone
Photo courtesy of John DeBusk |
First
published June 2001
Gleaned from The Handbook of Texas Online.
Our special thanks to John DeBusk, Frank Miklos and Ken Rudine for
supplying the above photographs.
Dan Blocker
Forum
Dan Blocker
was in the Korean war with my father. I have attached a photo of
Dan and three other men from their company. My dad and Dan met a
number of years later when Dan was in Pittsburgh on a promotional
tour for Bonanza. - Frank Miklos, November 01, 2002
I went to Sul
Ross College and was in many classes, and out of class, with Dan
and he was a very dear friend and beer drinking buddy of mine. I
was also a classmate of his wife Dolphia's sister Elaine Parker
all thru grade and high school. TOP PEOPLE!! I never get enough
hearing or reading of them. Keep it up. Sincerely, J. Frank Woodward,
Alpine, Texas. Now of El Paso, Texas, June 05, 2001
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