b'Farrah Fawcett was a through-and-through Corpus Christi girlbeautiful and tanned from long afternoons on the beach, and sweet and smart. She attended St. Patricks School and graduated from Ray High School, named the most beautiful girl in class all four years. She attracted simi-lar attention while attending U. T. as a microbiology-turned-art major, when she was enticed by a Hollywood talent agent to make the move to Los Angeles. For the first couple of years, Farrah did TV commercials and took walk-on parts on various shows including The Six Million Dollar Man, starring the biggest TV star of the time, Lee Majors, her husband. 1976, us old fogies will remember, was a very big year as America celebrated its Bicentennial anniversary, and in show business, it was the Year of Farrah. In March, Charlies Angels debuted as a TV movie starring Farrah as Jill Munroe, which would continue as a TV series that fall on ABC. At the same time, one of most famous photographs of any human was taken of Farrah in a one-piece red bathing suit, that would adorn the wall of almost every male teenager in the world, as the best-selling poster ever printed. Over the following three decades, she would divorce Lee Majors and famously enter into a relationship with actor Ryan ONeal. Farrah starred in a handful of films, including The Burning Bed, which brought attention to domestic violence in America, but largely chose to live outside the Hollywood limelight. ONeal would by her side through her three-year battle with cancer that the couple recorded for later broadcast. Tragi-cally, Farrah died at 62 on June 25, 2009, in Santa Monica, California.100 THE COASTAL BEND TOUR+RELO+BUILD GUIDE TheCoastalBend.com'