Civic leader and wife of the founder of the landmark Gaido's Seafood Restaurant in Galveston. Former president of UT-Austin 1967 to 1970 and Rice University 1970 to 1985; respected chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project; member National Academy of the Sciences. El Campo native, country songwriter ("It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels"). Called "Voice of San Antonio"; broadcaster known for knowledge of city's history; first Hispanic announcer to use his own name when he joined WOAI in 1939; bridged cultures with "Good night y muy buenas noches" sign-off. With McBrayer (see McBrayer obit) developed the first offset newspaper press. In every Texas Almanac since 1996, we include short obituaries for people who had passed away in the previous two years that had made an impact in the state. Businessman and political power broker in San Antonio; supported Henry B. Gonzalez, Frank Tejeda, Henry Cisneros; friend of Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn. Her execution for the pickax slayings of two persons became an international news event. Littlefield native was part of country music's outlaw movement, had 16 No. Waco native was former Texas Court of Criminal Appeals judge; among his clients when he was a defense attorney were Madalyn Murray O'Hair and Jack Ruby. Alice oilman and philanthropist; former mayor; served on Texas Aeronautics Commission and Texas Economic Development Commission. Rabbi at Temple Shalom in Dallas for 20 years, catalyst for Jewish-Christian dialogue in city. Musician with Light Crust Doughboys and Texas Playboys. San Antonio high school athlete, former SMU All-American and NFL star of the 1950s, playing with the New York Giants; sports broadcaster in the 1960s and 1970s. The 6-foot-1 co-captain of the Texas Western (now the University of Texas at El Paso) basketball team; in 1966 they were the first team of African-American starters to win the NCAA national championship, defeating the University of Kentucky; the story was portrayed in the 2006 film Glory Road; born in Gary, Ind., where he had a long career as a police detective. Hall of fame basketball coach who led the University of Houston team for 30 years including the Phi Slama Jama teams of the early 1980s; his teams were in 14 NCAA tournaments; among the players he coached were Clyde Drexler, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Elvin Hayes; native of Arp, attended Rice University and U. of H. where he played on the inaugural team in 1946. Crime writer, native of Fort Worth; in Locarno. Dallas native, wife of Methodist minister, was mother of 16 sons and four daughters, left 700 descendants. Part of 1930 through 1932 UT Longhorn football teams with 22-7-1 record; played five years in major league baseball beginning with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Chief architect of NASA's Mercury capsule and contributor to the design of other spacecraft. Architectural historian and Dallas native, wrote A Field Guide to American Houses, which was named in the top ten outstanding reference books in 1984 by the American Library Association; helped found Preservation Dallas to conserve historic buildings and areas in the city. State legislator, Tarrant County commissioner and mayor of Keller; advocate of UT-Arlington as four-year school. Known as the face of Jamail's grocery, which was Houston's premier purveyor of fine food; his grandfather Najeeb "Jim" Jamail, a Lebanese immigrant, began the grocery business in 1907; died from a heart attack. Obituaries can vary in the amount of information they contain, but many of them are genealogical goldmines, including information such as: names, dates, place of birth and death . Basketball player who was the first black athlete at Texas Western (UTEP) a decade before the Glory Road 1966 championship team; became school administrator in San Francisco. Oscar- and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter of works including Tender Mercies, Trip to Bountiful; born in Wharton where he maintained a home; died in Hartford, Conn., while working on adapting a play. Clarksville native wrote best-selling Home from the Hill and twelve other books. Credited with inventing the margarita in Ciudad Juarez in 1942. Founding member of the American Women in Radio and Television in Houston; credited with helping Tejano music onto the airwaves in 1980s. Susanna, born Josephine Cottle in Bloomington, raised in Houston where she performed in the drama club at San Jacinto High School. Epitome of the Dallas business and civic leader of the 1950s and '60s, led renovation of State Fair Music Hall. Polling pioneer who in 1940 founded the Texas Poll, the first statewide opinion survey in the country and a model for others that followed; born Jos Belden to Mexican parents in Eagle Pass; worked in Austin and Dallas. Secretary to Martin Luther King Jr. at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; later served as urban planner and community affairs manager for Fort Worth. Brooklyn native, son of Jewish immigrants from Europe, became city council member in Arlington and from 19992012 conservative GOP legislator from Tyler. Directed UT-Austin alumni organization for 20 years; historian. The energy mogul who brought the NFL back to Houston in 1999 when he was awarded the franchise that would become the Texans; raised in North Carolina, moved to Houston in 1960 where his philanthropic contributions included $100 million to Baylor College of Medicine and $1 million each for relief after hurricanes Katrina and Harvey. National park ranger known as "Mr. Guadalupe Mountains," first employee there beginning in 1964, years before the national park was opened to the public in 1972, served until retiring in 1998. Hispanic political leader in East Austin; influenced the careers of many prominent Austin Democrats. Matriarch of San Antonio banking family and benefactor of the University of the Incarnate Word. Dallas Cowboys quarterback whose charm and wit brought fame as commentator for Monday Night Football where he always acknowledged his parents, Jeff and Hazel, back in Mount Vernon. He was 70. Baseball and basketball star at Texas A&M University 1949-1950; Arkansas native was National League rookie of the year for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1954, helped lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to World Series titles in 1959, 1963, and 1965; retired to Bryan. He was born on . Began teaching music at Prairie View A&M University in 1978, five years later started the "Marching Storm," the marching band and dance troupe he directed until his death. Allan Shivers; she served on the board of regents of Pan American University from 1965 to 1978. South Texas political activist in the 1960s and 70s, former state chairman of La Raza Unida Party; lecturer in Mexican-American studies at several colleges. Mayor of Brenham, chancellor and former president of Blinn College when it grew from 3,500 in 1984 to 9,000, also served two terms as state legislator. Democratic state senator from Galveston from 1960 until 1981, where he was leader of liberal causes; championed environmental protections and public access to Texas beaches; graduate of Galveston Ball High School, Texas A&M University, and UT law school. Renowned Texas writer of long-form journalism, much of his storytelling was for Texas Monthly from 1973 to 2010; Dallas native grew up in the West Texas town of Royalty; attended Arlington State College and the University of Texas at Austin before getting his bachelor's degree from Texas Christian University; worked at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Dallas Morning News. Longtime employee of The Dallas Morning News; worked on the Texas Almanac from 1941 to 1986 where she was associate editor. Known as "the blue-collar intellectual"; raised in Houston; was state senator from Dallas from 1967 until his election in 1986 to the Texas Supreme Court; Democrat was member of the "Killer Bees" reform bloc in 1979. TV's Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, actor was born in Fort Worth and grew up in San Angelo. Actor born in Temple; Taylor (Tx.) Left her job at a Dallas A&P after Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941 to join the WACs, was the nation's oldest woman veteran when she died. All had spent time training in Texas and were seen as Texas' own; two had strong Texas ties, Rick Husband to Amarillo and William McCool to Lubbock; shuttle broke apart over Texas. Loraine native served as federal judge for 30 years; oversaw desegregation of Fort Worth schools and ruled that Dallas city council at-large districts diluted minority voting power. Local obituaries for Dallas, Texas 10,293 Results Saturday, January 14, 2023 Add Photos Add a Memory Cindi Adler ADLER, Cindi Cindi Box Adler Cindi was born on November 18, 1956 in Elmhurst,. Carole Ogden, passed away on Thursday, November 3, 2022. A visitation will be Sunday November 22, 2020, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Wiley Submit An Obituary Houston oilman prominent in Republican politics, U.S. secretary of commerce for longtime friend President George H.W. Soft-drink delivery-truck driver starting in 1935 who eventually became CEO of Dr Pepper Co., chairman emeritus at his death. Wichita Falls native who played family matriarch Alice Horton on the soap opera Days of Our Lives for more than 40 years. Professor of English at Texas Christian University for 30 years; community leader in Fort Worth's Ryan Place neighborhood. Scientist at Dallas' University of Texas Southwestern Medical School who won the 1994 Nobel Prize in medicine for cell research; became UT Southwestern's pharmacology chairman in 1981 and dean of the medical school in 2004; noted for resigning from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas in 2009, citing concerns about business-interests influence over scientific research. Native of San Saba County served as Texas House Speaker 195155, in 1941 co-sponsor of bill establishing M.D. Nationally prominent patron of the arts and renowned art collector. Public-address announcer for Texas Relays, Rice Owls and at the Astrodome where he started heralding "Jose Cruuuz.". John Connally. Hillister native, attended school in Woodville, Prairie View A&M basketball star who left the NBA in 1970 to lead the Utah Stars to the ABA championship. Reporter for the Alice Daily Echo whose coverage of Duval County political boss George Parr earned her a Pulitzer Prize in 1955. Actress in some 75 movies and TV shows including as Oma in John Huston's 1971 Fat City, for which she received an Oscar nomination. Test pilot was one of the Mercury 13, a shadow group of women, privately financed, who in the 1960s went through astronaut testing to see if they had the "right stuff," received media attention when Clare Boothe Luce criticized NASA in a Life article for excluding women while the Soviets had already sent women into space. Farm reporter whose programs were broadcast from Dallas for more than 30 years. Democrat represented the Rio Grande Valley in the Texas House 1960 to 1973; state senate 1973 to 1981; district judge in Hidalgo County 1981 to 1994. Nationally known as one of the Geezinslaw Brothers (with Dewayne Smith) from gigs starting on Arthur Godfrey's radio program to later appearances on late-night television talk shows; Austin humorist, country singer, and a deejay for more than 30 years; Austin native. Tributes.com is working to bring you the most complete obituary information available. Top country music journalist for Rolling Stone; Sam Houston State and UT-Austin grad; grew up in Fort Worth. Former Austin mayor and city council member who in the 1960s pushed construction of MoPac Boulevard, Loop 1, a major city thoroughfare. The astronaut who was the first man to walk on the moon in 1969, lived most of the 1960s at El Lago while working at NASA. Five-term mayor of Houston from 1963 to 1973 after four terms on the city council beginning in 1949, led city's chamber of commerce after leaving political office. Founded Al's Formal Wear which outfitted men for weddings and proms starting in 1952, expanding to several states. Jerry L. Allen . Vernon native was CEO of GTE Corp. in 1991 when he brought the domestic headquarters of the company (now Verizon) to North Texas. Known as "Dr. Cleo," delivered 10,000 babies, civic leader and sister of civil rights leaders Hector and Xico Garcia, 75, who died April 28. Organized Women's Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II, secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in Eisenhower Cabinet and led media empire that included The Houston Post. President and general manager for 29 years of the Dallas Cowboys, making them into "America's Team," University of Texas journalism graduate. Born Marijohn Melson in Kemp; was Nashville Hall of Fame songwriter, including "The Long Black Veil"; prominent Music Row publisher. Farmer/rancher who founded one of the state's most beloved swimming holes Krause Springs near Spicewood, opened in 1962. Aeronautical engineer who helped create NASA; Waco native earlier was assistant to then Sen. Lyndon Johnson. Popular columnist beginning in 1980 for The Dallas Morning News, began as a reporter there in 1966. Democratic legislator for 22 years, leader on Hispanic and public education issues. Led the University of Texas law library as director beginning in 1965, making it one of the best in the nation, veteran of Battle of the Bulge. Mark Boyd officiating. Restaurateur who helped make the puffy taco a staple of the San Antonio food scene; he put it on the menu after he acquired Ray's Drive Inn in the mid-1960s, the first to give the fried food its lasting name. Won 1990 Nobel Prize for discovering that transplanting bone marrow could save cancer patients, Mart native and UT-Austin grad. On Wednesday, October 26, 2022, Deborah Jean (Newman) Narvaiz passed away at age 71. Clarendon native married into Dallas family with ice cream business, came up with the idea for chocolate nut bar for vendors at the State Fair of Texas, evolved into the "Drumstick.". Speechwriter for Lyndon B. Johnson for the last two years of his presidency; director of the LBJ presidential library for more than three decades, and from 2004 to 2013 taught a class about the Johnson years at the University of Texas at Austin; credited with persuading Lady Bird Johnson to release in 1990 LBJ's secretly recorded White House tapes. Philanthropist who championed human rights and environmental protection. Republican leader, was president of the Texas independent oilmen's association and former U.S. ambassador to South Africa. Showing 10 of 40050 obituaries SORTED BY MOST RECENT FIRST Sunday Arredondo 09/21/1972 - 01/11/2023 Sunday Arredondo, age 50, of Garland, Texas passed away on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. Longtime political reporter and bureau chief in Austin for the Houston Chronicle. Oilfield-supply businessman was owner of MLB Texas Rangers 19741980 with four winning seasons, had four managers in one year, 1977. First black man to lead the United Methodist Church as bishop in North Texas. Dallas surgeon revered as the godfather of Hispanic politics in the city. One of Austin's first black real estate agents, political science professor at Huston-Tillotson College and political power broker; was national director for minority affairs for Lyndon Johnson's presidential campaign. Houston Rockets legend who played both in the ABA and NBA where he was three-time MVP; led Rockets to the 1981 NBA finals. Show entries Showing 1 to 10 of 1,367 entries Previous 1 2 3 4 5 137 Next Proud to call TX home? You can search by first or last name, state and publication date. One of the nation's longest-tenured sports anchors serving for more than 40 years, beginning at Houston's KTRK Channel 13 in 1974 and moving to KHOU Channel 11 in 2013; covered Oilers, Astros and Rockets; grew up in West University Place, attended Houston Westbury High School and Stephen F. Austin State University. President of Angelo State University in San Angelo since 1967. 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