* Clark Fulks; Retired Disc Jockey
Clark Fulks, a retired disc jockey who wrote for radio and television, has died at a Thousand Oaks hospital. He was 82.
Fulks, who moved to Thousand Oaks from Van Nuys six months ago, died of complications of a brain hemorrhage, said his wife, Mozelle Fulks.
Born in Paris, Tex., Fulks was a radio producer in New York before coming to California in the early 1940s. Fulks, who also used the name Cottonseed Clark, was master of ceremonies and writer for a weekly CBS radio show called “Cottonseed Clark’s Hollywood Barn Dance” and later wrote radio skits for Gene Autry and the Andrews Sisters.
In 1952, he moved to Northern California to be a disc jockey at KEEN-AM in San Jose. Fulks also created, produced and wrote for the “California Hay Ride” television show in San Francisco during the 1950s.
He retired from radio in 1985 and moved to Van Nuys.
In addition to his wife of 61 years, Fulks is survived by a daughter, Jane Hilton of Westlake Village; a sister, Eva Jim Smith of Oklahoma City, Okla.; four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Private services have been held. Pierce Brothers Griffin Mortuary in Thousand Oaks handled the arrangements.
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