Charles Gene Bielss

Charles Gene Bielss, 54, died suddenly and unexpectedly on July 20, 2004 at Scott and White Hospital in Temple.

He was co-owner of the Bartlett Tribune-Progress with wife Gayle and covered local meetings and school sporting events for 18 years.

Bielss also was a teacher in Jarrell for 17 years and this past year taught calculus, pre-calculus and video technology and coached University Interscholastic League math events at Granger High School.

Effie Davis

Effie Lucille Russell Davis, 92, died Saturday, October 9, 2004. She was a contributing columnist for the Whitesboro News-Record.

Lee Roy Griffin, Jr.

Lee Roy Griffin Jr., 67, died Sept. 15, 2004. He owned and published the York

Pearl Johnson

Pearl Johnson, 62, died Sept. 15, 2004 in her Canyon Lake home after a 10-year battle with cancer.

Johnson was co-owner and co-publisher of the Canyon Lake Times Guardian with husband Don Johnson. The couple bought the newspaper in July 2003.

Johnson had been in the newspaper industry for 40 years and partnered with her husband to publish five weekly newspapers — two in Nebraska, two in Iowa and one in Texas.

Mark Mounger

Mark Alan Mounger, 48, died Oct. 5, 2004 at a San Antonio hospital several hours after an insulin reaction that dropped his blood sugar and triggered what is believed to have been a heart attack.

He was a copy editor on the news desk at the San Antonio Express-News. Mounger came to the Express-News in October 1993 from The Bryan-College Station Eagle, where he was a news editor for five years.

Bob Sablatura

Bob Sablatura, 52, died Oct. 21, 2004.

His investigative reporting for the Houston Chronicle won many awards, He wrote for the Houston Business Journal before coming to the Chronicle in 1988. Sablatura left the Chronicle in 1999.

Jack Tinsley

Jack Tinsley, a longtime newsman who guided the Fort Worth Star-Telegram to two Pulitzer Prizes as executive editor in the 1980s, died Oct. 12, 2004 at a Fort Worth hospital. He was 69.

Tinsley started as a reporter at the Star-Telegram in 1959. He retired in December 2000 as vice president for community affairs.

Tinsley worked at the Star-Telegram from 1959 to 2000, except for a 15-month stint as editor of an in-house publication for Southwestern Bell. Tinsley covered the Kennedy assassination in 1963.

He won the National Education Writers Association’s top award in 1965 for a series on academic freedom

Carter Snooks

Carter Snooks, 93, past president of the South Texas Press Association, died Oct. 18, 2004 in Kenedy. Snooks served as STPA president in 1952-53. He also attended the 75th anniversary convention in San Antonio.

Julia Reed

Julia Scott Reed, 87, died Oct. 19, 2004 of complications from surgery.

She one of the first blacks to work in the newsroom of a major daily newspaper in the South. Reed wrote the column “The Open Line” for The Dallas Morning News for 11 years beginning in 1967. A stroke ended her career in 1978

Merwin W. Walker

Merwin “Mickey” W. Walker, 93, died Sept. 20, 2004 at Texoma Medical Center.

In 1937 he joined the staff of the Denison Press. He also worked for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Sherman Democrat and Denison Herald.