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Gene Blessing
Shirley Gene Swart Blessing, 70, died Dec. 7, 2009, at home following a short battle with cancer.
Born at Littlefield in 1939, she graduated from Littlefield High School in 1958.
Two days after graduation she married John Edd “Jedd” Blessing. He preceded her in death in 2005.
Gene Blessing attended Texas Tech University and was a commercial artist and mixed media artist.
She worked in various areas of publishing, following a pattern that began at age 15 when she joined the annual staff at Littlefield High School.
In 1980, she formed B&B Publishing Inc., which published four weekly newspapers, the Everman Times, Kennedale News, Forest Hill News and South County News, all in the Fort Worth area. The company added a printing plant that printed several other area publications.
She was honored with two resolutions from the Texas House of Representatives during her tenure as a publisher.
Sandra Cason
Sandra Cason, 61, died of cancer Nov. 20, 2009.
She was a reporter for The Marshall News Messenger and a journalist for 39 years. She started her career at the Nassau (Bahamas) Daily Tribune in 1970. She went on to work as a reporter and editor for the Longview News Journal, the Hallsville Herald and the Marshall News Messenger. She was an alumna of East Texas Baptist University. She won many journalism awards, including awards from Texas AP Managing Editors and Cox Newspapers.
Margaret Bingham Galloway
Margaret Bingham Galloway, 93, died of natural causes Dec. 21, 2009.
A longtime resident of Arlington and Grand Prairie, she was born Nov. 10, 1916, in Mayfield, Ky., the daughter of George Daniel Bingham, former publisher of the Mayfield Messenger, and Ellie Bingham.
She attended the University of Kentucky and upon graduation from Murray State University, began a long career in the newspaper business, starting at her hometown newspaper.
A Texas resident for nearly six decades, Galloway worked many years as a woman’s editor at the Arlington Citizen Journal, and also was a writer/editor for The Dallas Morning News and the Grand Prairie Daily News. Other media accomplishments include being publisher of her own book “Ancestors and Appetites” in 1978, and the monthly magazine, The Arlington Woman.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 40 years, Parker Randolph Galloway, in 1982, and son, Greg, in 1997. Her son, Randy Galloway, is a sports columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Sarah Nell Feltman Parsons
Sarah Nell Feltman Parsons, 74, died of a massive stroke on Nov. 29, 2009.
She and her husband, Hank Feltman, founded the Springtown Epigraph in 1972. They sold the newspaper to Roberts Publishing Group in 1976.
“Sarah was born Jan. 20, 1934, to Bill and Nadine Fletcher. The oldest of seven children, she acquired the ability to take charge at an early age,” the Springtown Epigraph reported in the obituary published Dec. 2.
“At a time when a woman’s role was primarily domestic, she took college courses to self ensure her own future. She was a woman who truly lived her life. Whether as a swimsuit model for Vogue magazine or as editor of the newspaper she started in Springtown, Sarah was a force to be reckoned with.”
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