Obituaries published in the May 2019 edition of the Texas Press Messenger.

Obituaries published in the April 2019 edition of the Texas Press Messenger.

NOVEMBER 2008

Lillian Cannon
Lillian Cannon, 91, died Nov. 17, 2008, in Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas after complication from surgery.
She began writing a column for the Quinlan Tawakoni News when the publication first started in 1963. She also worked for the Quinlan Post for 30 years.

DECEMBER 2008

JANUARY 2009

Clarence Gentry
Clarence Henry "Scoop" Gentry, 93, died Jan. 3, 2009, of complications from Alzheimer's disease at Grand Prairie Healthcare Center.
Gentry was a pioneering black journalist. In 1948, he was one of the first black reporters in Jim Wells County.
He wrote for the Dallas Express, Dallas Post Tribune and Houston Informer and worked for 60 years in newspapers. He delivered The Dallas Morning News and Dallas Times Herald in his youth.

JANUARY 2014

JANUARY 2013

JANUARY 2012

Deaths reported by the Texas Press Messenger in 2011.

JANUARY

Deaths reported by the Texas Press Messenger in 2010.

JANUARY

The following obituaries were published in the March 2019 edition of the Texas Press Messenger.