Obituaries

Philip Cole Jr.

Philip Samuel Cole Jr., 77, died Aug. 1, 2006, at St. David’s Georgetown Healthcare System.

He lived in Madison, Ind., the first 32 years of his life. He was the sports editor for The Madison (Ind.) Courier for many years and wrote a weekly column “Remember When” until his death. He also wrote for the Williamson County Sun.

Betty Hudman

Betty Jean Wilke Cox Hudman, 77, died Aug. 28, 2006, in Austin at her residence after a long struggle with congestive heart failure.

A writer-editor and retired Austin American-Statesman Neighbor staffer and newspaper librarian, she was the daughter of longtime Texas newspaper editor and writer L.A. Wilke, who was city editor of the Fort Worth Press.

She began her career as a newspaper reporter, working for the Nolan County News and Sweetwater Reporter in the late 1940s. While on the staff of the Reporter in 1947, she met Bill G. Cox, a reporter from

Carroll Lee Eggleston

Carroll Lee Eggleston, 68, died July 20, 2006, at an Odessa hospital. He was a sports writer for the Wink Bulletin for several years and a teacher and coach.

Linda Formet-Heath

Linda Formet-Heath, 57, died Aug. 22, 2006, at Brazosport Regional Health System from complications of a liver transplant she received in early 2000.

She was a society columnist and a writer for The Facts in Clute. Glenn Heath, Formet-Heath’s husband and a former Facts editor, still sits on the paper’s editorial board.

Troy Martin

Troy Franklin Martin, 82, died Aug. 18, 2006.

Martin was a longtime Canyon booster and former publisher of The Canyon News.

He started his newspaper career as a police reporter at The Borger News-Herald and later worked as sports editor for the Lawton (Okla.) Morning Press. He worked at the Amarillo Globe-News from 1948-52.

In 1952, he bought the Olton Enterprise. He acquired The Canyon News in 1960 and was publisher until 1984, when he sold the newspaper and retired.

He was a past president of Panhandle Press Association and a board member of Texas Press Association. He was named to the PPA Hall of Fame in 1995.

Lawrence McNamee

Dr. Lawrence Frances McNamee, 89, died July 17, 2006.

He was a longtime professor at East Texas State University (now Texas A&M University-Commerce) and a prolific writer about boxing.

He co-wrote the “A Few Words” column with Kent Biffle for The Dallas Morning News for about 20 years.

Robert Jean Osborne

Robert Jean Osborne, 89, died Aug. 12, 2006, of pneumonia after a broken hip. He was a longtime newspaper photographer for 40 years, first with the San Antonio Express, where he worked before and after World War II, and then with the San Antonio Light.

Fred Pass

Fred Robert Pass, 87, died Aug. 6, 2006, of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at Presbyterian Village in Dallas.

After World War II Pass began his newspaper career with the Temple Daily Telegraph. In 1947, he began a lifelong association with The Dallas Morning News. He was named farm editor in 1955 and chief of the newspaper’s East Texas bureau in 1961. In 1965, he was named a special writer in Dallas. He left in 1969 but returned in 1973 as editor of the Texas Almanac until his 1981 retirement.