Andy Griffith's Daughter Remembers Her Late Dad — "He Wasn't the Typical Hollywood Type"

Posted May 25, 2016
Summer residents of Roanoke Island, N.C., became accustomed to the sight of a familiar-looking man running errands to the hardware store barefoot, or sometimes without a shirt. “He was not the typical Hollywood type,” Andy Griffith’s daughter, Dixie, tells Closer, adding that her father, who passed away in 2012 at 86, was “gracious” to fans and “felt free” in his home state of North Carolina. (Closer Weekly)

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