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Here are some of the stories the Avalanche-Journal shared about people who died in 2023 but whose impact in the Lubbock community and beyond will be felt for years to come.
He was born in Littlefield, Texas, but his family moved to Lubbock soon after. He attended Texas Tech University where he drew cartoons for The University Daily student newspaper. [1] He appeared as "Uncle Dirk" on a local children's program for three years while heading up his advertising agency, West Advertising.
Chief of urological surgery at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Bernhard Theodore Mittemeyer (October 30, 1930 – January 25, 2023) was a United States Army lieutenant general who served as Surgeon General of the United States Army between 1981 and 1985.
Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1956. "Book Notes", West Texas Historical Association Yearbook 69 (1993). William Holden obituary, Dallas Morning News, April 24, 1993. William Holden obituary, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, April 22, 25, 1993. Jane Gilmore Rushing and Kline A. Knall, Evolution of a University: Texas Tech's First Fifty Years. Austin ...
Robert R. Bruno Jr. (January 30, 1945 – December 9, 2008) was an American artist, inventor, and businessman. [1] In 1982, he designed and created one of the first solar-powered surge irrigation systems for row crops and founded P&R Surge Systems with his wife Patricia Mills.
Goodacre's father, Homer Glen Maxey, was a Lubbock, TX, builder, developer and civic leader. [citation needed] A graduate of Texas Tech University in 1931, he was the first president of the Red Raider Club. [3] He served on the Lubbock City Council from 1956 to 1960. [4]
Vaughn Ross (September 4, 1971 – July 18, 2013) was a Texas murderer. He was a graduate student at Texas Tech University before being convicted for the January 31, 2001, murders of Douglas Birdsall, 53, and Viola Ross McVade, 18, in Lubbock County , Texas .
The son of John and Nina Milner, Jay Dunston Milner was born on October 30, 1926, near Muleshoe, Texas. He moved with his family among small towns near cotton farms in West Texas. They moved to Lubbock, Texas when Jay was in the second grade. Milner played football for his local high school team, and was part of a state champion football team ...