Steve and his daughter, Terry, at Santa Paula Airport in 1979. He had just taken her up in one of his Stearman planes. With the onset of the flu, which turned into pneumonia and finally what doctors surmised to be valley fever after innumerable tests, he was told to leave the damp beach environment and move inland where there was a gentler climate. He bought a 15-acre ranch in Santa Paula in July of 1979. There, he starting building a house while collecting all sorts of antique airplanes, antique toys, juke boxes, dolls and anything his heart desired. He looked happy there. He had just finished Tom Horn and was getting ready to film what would be his last movie, The Hunter. Eventually, after the film, he was advised to move away from the pesticides that permeated the air in agricultural Santa Paula. He passed away before he got the chance to celebrate Christmas with all of the family together in Sun Valley, where he had a new log cabin
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:59:01 +0000
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