Texas Press Association

Floyd Clay Boen, 77, died Jan. 10, 2006, in Longview. He spent his long newspaper career in other states and at the Marshall News Messenger before retiring in December 1995.

Phyllis Cvitanovich

Phyllis Cvitanovich died Feb. 3, 2006, in Fort Worth. She supervised hundreds of youthful Greenville Herald-Banner carriers in the circulation department and was circulation manager until retirement in 1994.

Betty Hanna

Betty Hanna, 84, died Feb. 2, 2006, in Breckenridge. Hanna wrote feature stories about longtime Stephens County residents in the Breckenridge American for nearly 30 years.

Robert Jameson Jr.

Robert Olen “Bob” Jameson Jr., 87, died Feb. 7, 2006, of complications of Alzheimer’s disease at a Dallas hospice.

Between joining The Dallas Morning News in September 1953 and his May 1983 retirement, Jameson was chief copy editor, news wire editor, Page 1 layout editor, copy chief on the features desk and assistant metropolitan editor.

Jameson began his professional career at the El Paso Herald Post.

Garth Jones

Garth Jones, 88, died Jan. 18, 2006, of pneumonia in an Austin hospital after a lengthy illness. His career began at the Abilene Reporter-News in 1938 and ended in 1987 after a 40-year career with The Associated Press.

J. Louis Mohle

J. Louis Mohle, 81, died Feb. 1, 2006. Mohle was editor and publisher of the Lockhart Post-Register. He purchased an interest in the paper in the late 1940s. His family ran the Post-Register until selling it in 1979. He continued to cover sports and write columns several years after the sale.

James Moore

James Allen “Jim” Moore, 54, died Feb. 12, 2006, of a heart attack after playing in a weekly basketball game.

He was a graphic designer in the marketing department of the San Antonio Express-News, which he joined eight years ago, and handled a variety of tasks including multimedia projects.

Bobby Richardson

Bobby Richardson, 67, died Jan. 13, 2006, in a head-on collision near his home in Nobility, about seven miles west of Leonard on State Highway 78.

Richardson was a stringer for the Leonard Graphic, Greenville Herald-Banner, Sherman Herald-Democrat and The Dallas Morning News, covering the Leonard Tigers during football season for the past several years.

Patricia “Patsy” Peck Swank, 86, died Feb. 7, 2006, of complications of Alzheimer’s disease. She began her career as a Dallas Morning News reporter in the early 1940s as Patsy Peck.

During World War II, she was a journalist with the American Red Cross. She also worked in broadcast in the newsroom at Dallas’ KERA-TV.