Ferlin Husky honored with renamed Missouri street

Country Music Hall of Famer Ferlin Husky is a hometown hero back in Leadwood, Mo.

Leadwood officials recently renamed a street for Husky, 84, who was actually raised a few miles from
Leadwood, in a town that was then known as Flat River and is now Park Hills. Some of his
memorabilia will soon be displayed at a schoolhouse in the town, and Missouri Rep. Linda Black
Fischer has plans to rename a highway “Ferlin Husky Parkway Drive.”

“That’s in January, and she has to get through the November election,” said Johnny Hartley, who is
spearheading efforts to honor Husky. “But even if she loses, the other guy says he’ll carry it through
to the statehouse.”

Husky’s “Gone” helped usher in the uptown “Nashville Sound” when it became a 10-week No. 1
country record in 1957. A dynamic live performer, he also starred in movies and brought country to
new audiences.

“There were a lot of years when nobody in the business could follow Ferlin Husky,” Merle Haggard
said earlier this year. “He was the big live act of the day. A great entertainer.”


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