Martha Altwegg

Martha Malone Altwegg, 86, wife of retired The Dallas Morning News business editor C. Albert Altwegg Jr., died May 2 of complications of a stroke at an Arlington nursing facility.

She donated her body to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. During her career, Altwegg wrote articles on society, fashion and lifestyle for The Decatur Herald and Review and was an advertising representative for the Arlington Journal, the weekly newspaper she and her husband owned from 1950-56.

Evelyn Behrent

Evelyn Nilson Behrent, 86, died May 11 in Baltimore, Md.

She and husband Howard owned the Falfurrias Facts and she ran it for many years while he was serving in the Navy during World War II. She became editor in 1983 and served as society columnist. She had moved to Baltimore last year to live with family.

Clyde Crews

Clyde C. Crews, former editor and publisher of the Alvord News, died on April 28 in Decatur.

Crews was a third-generation newspaper publisher. His grandfather C.C. Crews began one of the first newspapers in Hico. His grandfather, Guy Mingus Crews, and his father, Guy Mingus Crews, purchased the News in 1925. Clyde Crews became the owner and publisher in 1970 and continued until retiring in 1982.

Henry Conley

Former Fort Worth Business publisher Henry Conley died April 25 in Euless.

He was 58. Conley was publisher of the Fort Worth Business Press for eight and a half months before opting out of the newspaper business and taking a marketing job with the Fort Worth-based American Paint Horse Association.

Charlie H. Joyce

Union newspaper pressman Charlie H. Joyce Sr., 91, died May 14. Joyce worked for the Austin American-Statesman for 25 years before retiring from the Houston Chronicle in 1975.

James H. Russell

James Russell, 86, died May 12. He was known for his column Russelling Around, which he wrote from 1947 until 2000.

His family owned The Belton Journal from 1927-73 but he continued to write the column even after the newspaper was sold six more times. He was a private practice attorney in Belton, Dallas and Washington, D.C.

Flo Sullivan

Flo Sullivan, 93, died May 12 in Beverly Hills, Calif. She wrote a column for the Highlands Star & Crosby Courier for more than 20 years. She started at the newspaper under publisher Alton Neatherlin.