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Adair died in Houston in 2004 at the age of 89. [3] He is buried in a crypt at Forest Park Lawndale in Houston. [8] Family. He was survived by his wife, a son and a ...
Blyden was born to Adolph and Marian (née Davidson) Blieden in Houston, Texas, [1] [2] and raised in the Jewish faith. [3] As a child, he attended Wharton Elementary School and Sidney Lanier Junior High School. [2] His neighbor Elmore Torn also became an actor, Rip Torn. The Blieden and Torn families were friends; the Blieden family name was ...
Oscar Fitzallen Holcombe (December 31, 1888 – June 18, 1968) was an American businessman who served as the mayor of Houston, Texas, for 22 years, in 11 non-consecutive terms. Biography [ edit ]
Hopkins died of esophageal cancer in Houston on January 30, 1982, at the age of 69. [10] His obituary in the New York Times described him as "one of the great country blues singers and perhaps the greatest single influence on rock guitar players". [13] Hopkins is buried at Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery in Houston, Texas. [14]
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
Ronald Clark O'Bryan (October 19, 1944 – March 31, 1984), nicknamed The Candy Man, The Man Who Killed Halloween and The Pixy Stix Killer, was an American man convicted of killing his eight-year-old son Timothy (April 5, 1966 – October 31, 1974) on Halloween 1974 with a potassium cyanide-laced Pixy Stix that was ostensibly collected during a trick or treat outing.
More than 100 are in the "Houston Heights" neighborhood whose borders are, approximately, Highway I-10 on the South, I-610 on the North, 45 on the East and Durham on the West. The "inner Harris County" area is defined as the rest of the area within the Interstate 610 loop; "outer Harris County" is defined as the rest of Harris County.
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. (February 11, 1921 – May 23, 2006) was an American politician who was a four-term U.S. Senator (1971–1993) from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for vice president in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket.