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Fred Pfister, former editor of Ozarks Mountaineer and beloved Branson writer, dead at 75 Gregory J. Holman, Springfield News-Leader Fred Pfister, a Branson writer, editor, professor and civic volunteer who for many years taught English at College of the Ozarks and then afterward for 13 years edited a legendary but now-defunct culture magazine, The Ozarks Mountaineer, died Friday, Feb. 26 at Cox South hospital in Springfield. He was 75. Camille Dautrich, a friend since 1974, said Pfister passed away after a recent surgery, having lived with heart problems for a long time. "He w...

Fred Pfister, a Branson writer, editor, professor and civic volunteer who for many years taught English at College of the Ozarks and then afterward for 13 years edited a legendary but now-defunct culture magazine, The Ozarks Mountaineer, died Friday, Feb. 26 at Cox South hospital in Springfield. He was 75. Camille Dautrich, a friend since 1974, said Pfister passed away after a recent surgery, having lived with heart problems for a long time. "He was a Renaissance man," said Judy Domeny Bowen, an Ozarks folk musician, storyteller and teacher living in Rogersville who knew Pfister through the...