Fern Chick

Fern Chick, 71, died Sept. 1, 2002 of respiratory failure. She was a columnist, assistant city editor and copy editor with the San Antonio Light.

William Cunningham

William Burt Cunningham, Jr., 82, died Aug. 15, 2002 after an extended illness.

Cunningham began his journalism career in 1941 in Cuero. In 1950 he became managing editor of The Paris News. He returned to San Antonio in March 1951 to begin a 35-year career with the San Antonio Express-News where his primary duty was farm and ranch editor.

James Daniel Jr.

James Roy Daniel, Jr., 72, died Aug. 7, 2002. He had a 40-year career with the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and eventually became director of operations.

Selma Engel

Selma Engel, 83, died July 18, 2002. She was a reporter for The Houston Post and joined the Friendswood Journal when it was established in the 1970s. She took over editorial coverage for the Pearland Journal when it was established.

Bill Feather

Bill Feather, 74, died Aug. 18, 2002 from complications of lung cancer. His newspaper stints included reporting for the Amarillo Globe-News, El Paso Times, Fort Worth Star-Telegram and papers in New Mexico before joining the Associated Press where he had a 30-year career.

Robert W. Finklea Jr.

Robert W. Finklea, Jr., 88, died Aug. 18, 2002 of a heart attack at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas.

He was a well-known country lawyer but started out as a journalist working for the Dallas Journal, an afternoon newspaper then owned by The Dallas Morning News. He later was a political and courts reporter for the News and taught journalism at Southern Methodist University.

Emma Jo Harrison

Emma Jo Harrison, 77, died Aug. 20, 2002 in Wimberley. She and husband Howard published the San Saba News & Star for almost 30 years. She was a journalist and moved to Hays County after her husband’s death in 1999.

Doris Jacoby

Doris Jacoby, 75, died Aug. 28, 2002 of cancer at an Arlington retirement center.

She was one of the nation’s first woman press photographers and worked for The Dallas Morning News.

She was covering the Kennedy visit to Dallas the day the former president was assassinated. One of her photos from the event still is on display at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.

J. Lee Johnson III

J. Lee Johnson III, 84, died Aug. 18, 2002 in Fort Worth. From 1961-68 he was chief executive of Carter Publications, then parent company of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He was the former son-in-law of Star-Telegram founder Amon G. Carter Sr.

Lawrence Jolidon

Lawrence Jolidon, 64, died Aug. 20, 2002 of an apparent heart attack in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina where he was serving as director of communications for the NATO-led peacekeeping force. He was a former editor for the Dallas Times Herald in the mid-1970s. He was a correspondent in the Mexico City bureau before joining USA Today. He also worked for the Texas Observer and Austin American-Statesman.

 Vincent Lockhart

Col. Vincent McCutcheon Lockhart, 87, died Aug. 10, 2002 in Alamagordo, N.M.

He worked for Texas newspapers and once published The Canadian Record. He entered the Texas National Guard in 1940 and was in active duty in World War II. In 1952 he was recruited for the Central Intelligence Agency and was assistant to the director.

Allen Myerson

Allen Myerson, 47, died Aug. 22, 2002 after falling from the 11th floor of The New York Times building and landing on the roof of a parking garage.

He was assistant business editor/weekends for the Times. Police said the death was an apparent suicide. Myerson joined the Times in 1989. Before that he was a reporter for several years at The Dallas Morning News.

Ella Osborne

Ella Osborne, 93, died Aug. 26, 2002 in Cleburne. She was a correspondent for 20 years for the Glen Rose Reporter and wrote the weekly happenings of Brazos Point and Eulogy before retiring in 1994.

Emmett H. Whitehead

Rusk Mayor Emmett H. Whitehead, 76, died Aug. 13, 2002 at East Texas Medical Center in Tyler after an extended illness.

Whitehead was a longtime newspaper publisher and was honored by Texas Press Association in 1998 with the Golden 50 Award marking his 50 years of service.

He purchased the Rusk Cherokeean in 1950 at age 24, and later he established radio stations KTLU/KWRW, purchased E-Z Vision Cable Co. and the Alto Herald. He also operated a farm, raising Hereford cattle.

His public service included Chamber of Commerce president, mayor of Rusk for 14 years, county judge for four years and a member of the Texas House of Representatives for eight years. Whitehead was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Rusk and a World War II veteran.

His record of service to the Rusk State Hospital, securing Texas Department of Criminal Justice facilities in Rusk and the establishment of the Texas State Railroad head a long list of accomplishments during his lifetime. The most recent was reflected in last month’s announcement that the East Texas Regional Health Care System will build a $4 million facility north of Rusk on U.S. Highway 69.

He worked at the newspaper along side wife Marie who also received the TPA Golden 50 Award in 2000.