Jim Baldwin

Jimmie “Jim” Baldwin, 74, died June 8, 2002 of a heart attack at his Mineola home. He was a printer for The Dallas Morning News from 1964 until 1990 and before that worked as a printer in Mineola.

Wanda Bray

Wanda Bray, 59, died June 13, 2002 after a lengthy battle with cancer. She began working for the Clarksville Times in 1987 in circulation but before long she switched over to taking photographs and recording local events for the newspaper. The staff wrote that she was the “heart and soul” of the Times. Eventually she became assistant editor, a position she held until November 2001.

Tom Clinton Dillard

Tom Clinton Dillard, 87, died May 21, 2002 of a heart attack at his Albuquerque home. For more than 30 years he was head of The Dallas Morning News photo department and shot many compelling story, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He started his newspaper career in 1929 at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Kenneth W. Dulaney

Kenneth W. Dulaney, 60, died June 9, 2002 following a brief illness. He was publisher of the Big Spring Herald.

He began his newspaper career at the Borger News Herald in 1965. He worked at newspapers in Richardson, Garland, Pecos, Tulsa, Pampa and Seguin before coming to Big Spring first as an advertising sales rep in 1992.

He left Texas in 1996 to become publisher of a daily in Idaho and later was publisher at Indiana and Kansas newspapers before returning to Big Spring in that role in April 2001.

Candise A. Foster

Candise A. Foster, 43, died May 30, 2002. She was a reporter for the Panola Watchman in Carthage before moving to California.

June Gardner

June Heffington Gardner, 88, died June 5, 2002 at her Kilgore home. She was longtime woman’s editor and office manager at the Kilgore News Herald. She also worked for the Denton Record Chronicle and began her newspaper career at the Mount Vernon Optic Herald.

Lowell P. Hunt

Lowell P. Hunt, 77, died June 29, 2002. He started his newspaper career at the Brownwood Bulletin as a floorman, Linotype operator and machinist.

He became so good at the trade that he traveled through Central Texas as one of the best Linotype repairmen in the state.

In 1957, he became publisher of the Lamesa Reporter and Brownwood Bulletin and at 34 was then the youngest publisher in the group.

In 1966, he was named publisher of the Alice Echo-News. In the late ’80s he was named publisher of the Stephenville Empire-Tribune and newspapers in Hico and Dublin. He retired in 1988 when the newspapers sold.

Jewel Morris

Jewel Hurley Morris, 84, died June 1, 2002. She was owner and publisher of the Park Cities News.

Latryl Ohendalski

Latryl Layton Ohendalski, 71, died June 30, 2002 at her Fort Worth home.

She was the women’s editor and columnist for the Fort Worth Press from 1952-1966. She had a breakfast interview with Jaqueline Kennedy the day the president was killed. She freelanced for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The New York Times and other papers. She taught journalism workshops at Texas Christian University.

James T. Packer

James T. Packer, 81, died May 31, 2002 at Kindred Hospital of complications of a fall.

He joined the retail advertising department of The Dallas Morning News in 1951 and retired as manager of special features in 1985.

Joseph Orlando Stanco

Joseph Orlando Stanco, 81, died June 9, 2002. He was a printer for The Dallas Morning News from 1946 until 1966.

Geneva Stephens

Geneva Stallings Stephens, 87, died June 17, 2002. She was women’s editor for 20 years at the Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel and Redland Herald.

Juanita Winchell-Pieri

Juanita Sue “Nita” Winchell-Pieri, 44, died May 16 of bladder cancer at her Costa Mesa, Calif. home.

She was an advertising rep for The Dallas Morning News from 1981 until 1984 when she moved to California to work for an Orange Coast newspaper.

Howard Woodall

Howard Leon “Woody” Woodall, 77, died June 17, 2002.

Woodall owned and operated the Grand Saline Sun and Edgewood Enterprise from 1973 until 1986. They also owned the Van Progress, Tri-County News in Mabank and Wood County Democrat.

Woodall started as an advertising account executive for the Jacksonville Daily Progress in 1963 and worked there until buying the Edgewood and Grand Saline newspapers.

He was mayor of Grand Saline for two terms from 1987 until 1991. He was a director for both Texas Press Association and North and East Texas Press Association.