THE CEMETERY LADY From the Dallas Historical Society Frances James’ passion was the protection of the historic cemeteries in Dallas County, including compiling historic information into several volumes of books. She became known as “The Cemetery Lady.” However, she also actively supported the preservation of buildings, historic sites and history in Dallas, Dallas County and […]
Theater visionary, artist, founding artistic director of Dallas’s Undermain Theatre and Texas Woman of distinction Katherine Owens has died after a five-month prolonged illness. She was 61 and lived in Dallas with her husband and artistic partner Bruce DuBose. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1957, Katherine was raised in Odessa, Texas by her […]
Betty Lou Calvert Williams of Dallas/Mesquite/Houston, passed away peacefully in her room at Holly Hall Retirement Community in Houston on May 27, 2019. She was born in November 1927 to George and Maude Calvert in Oklahoma City. Betty is a true Oklahoman. Her father, George Calvert, first arrived in Oklahoma in 1889 as a child […]
Story courtesy of KRLD Radio A Texas Broadcasting legend is dead. Roger Emrich, a member of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame and a long-time sportscaster and reporter for 1080 KRLD and the Texas State Network, died Saturday night, April 27. He was 62. Emrich’s son Ted, a network sportscaster in his own right, announced the […]
December 7, 1945 – March 24, 2019 Thomas Randall “Randy” Black died Sunday, March 24 after a brave, three-year battle to survive following a massive stroke. Black was born on Dec. 7, 1945 in Fort Worth, Texas. He was raised in Dallas and graduated from Highland Park High School in the class of 1965 as […]
Allyne Frances (Ford) Cheek passed away on February 19 at the age of 92. She was born in Galena, Kansas in 1926 to parents Alfred “Red” Hob Ford and Iva Keyes Ford. She was preceded in death by her parents; by brother Jack Richard Ford; by sisters Marjorie Merrill Watkins, Fern Morey and Rayma […]
John Allen Steger, age 70, passed away on Monday, September 10, 2018 in Dallas, Texas. Born January 26, 1948 in Dallas to Hugh Lynn and Maxine Wilson Steger, he graduated from Hillcrest High School and received his Bachelors in Forest Science from Colorado State University. After graduation John went to work at Weyerhaeuser Company in […]
April 5, 1920 — Aug. 11, 2018 Audrey Jewel (Covey) Secrest passed Saturday morning August 11, 2018, at the age of 98 in Carrollton, Dallas County, TX. She is reunited with her beloved husband, Jesse Athol Secrest, who predeceased her in 2013. From their first meeting in Corpus Christi, they shared a joy for life […]
August 16, 1927 – June 27, 2018 Charlotte Hazle was born to Robert and Anna Ita Bloch on August 16, 1927 in Germany and passed away on June 27, 2018. Charlotte was in the Mind, Body and Spirit care for 30 years. She is survived by her husband, King R. and daughter, Roma Buchanan. A […]
November 14, 1948 – April 19, 2016 Camden (Annie) Richman (Hillcrest High School Class of ’66) died in Oakland in the care of her partner Tom Dannenberg, family and friends. She was born in Berkeley, California, to Chaim and Betty Richman and earned a B.A. in art from the University of California, Berkeley. After performing […]