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He died on October 15, 2004, in Houston, Texas, at the age of 84. He was buried in Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery. [ 5 ] In 2008, Midwest Aero Restorations Ltd. finished work on P-51D-30-NA serial number 44-74452, returning it to airworthy status and marking it as Ilfrey's "Happy Jack's Go Buggy".
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 ...
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 ...
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]
His memorial service was held on May 30 at the First Presbyterian Church of Houston, where Bentsen and his wife had been members for many years, and was presided over by his then-pastor, William Vanderbloemen. [38] He is interred in Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery. Former president Clinton delivered a eulogy. [39]
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]
Joe Henry Eagle (January 23, 1870 – January 10, 1963) was a U.S. Representative from Texas. [1]Born in Tompkinsville, Kentucky, Eagle was graduated from the local high school in 1883 and obtained a teacher's certificate in 1884.
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.