April 29 (UPI) -- An Australian tourist facing possible flogging after being accused of going on a drunken nude rampage in the Indonesian province of Ache says he felt "almost possessed" at the time. Prepare a personalized obituary for someone you loved.. June 5, 1941 - You may find Dallas old-money heirs elusive, but rest assured that they know who they are. Ballard Burgher. But mostly she wasknown as Caroline in her hometown of 50 years. But not one of them will carry on their fathers work. Obadiah Knight. Youngest president of the Texas Bar; son Tom was an associate justice of the Supreme Court; grandson Ramsey was U.S. attorney general in 1967. Hunt's first job at the family oil business was in the mailroom of Hunt Oil. Caroline Rose Hunt in 2009 at the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas, a luxury hotel that was part of her vast business empire. Her eye for excellence and beauty and her ability to deliver on both created the magic of the Rosewood brand.". SCHOELLKOPF - Jacob Frederick V Passed away peacefully on August 23, 2013 after a brave fight with cancer. The regions blueberry industry, which he pioneered, is now well established in both Texas and Louisiana. In this little town southwest of Fort Worth, the Higginbothams launched a variety of businesses from dry goods to undertaking. Carolyn Carpenter Williams recalls that her brother Ben was always happiest at the ranch. What kind of arrangement is appropriate, where should you send it, and when should you send an alternative? Hilliard Memorials . Born June 22, 1921 in Houston, Texas to Georgia Buck and Thomas Jewel Arnold. A board member once remarked to a newcomer in town, You have to watch for hidden Hig-ginbothams around Hockaday. Owned the 400-acre tract of land that eventually became fashionable East Dallas. He died in 2006. 750 North St.Paul St. The oldest money in Dallas belongs to a family whose name few 0people recognize. She lost two sons, David Sands and John Bunker Sands, to cancer. More Old Money The store was sold in the Sixties, but Richard Marcus, Stanleys son, remains the chairman and chief operating officer. Mr Chandler was such a pleasent and friendly person. In response to a letter that included the sons report card and a batch of newspaper clippings detailing his sports triumphs, Judge Aldredge wrote back: Feet seem fine. Oil heiress Caroline Rose Hunt, daughter of legendary wildcatter H.L. Harrison saidthat tradition will live on. (One condition of the offer was that First Executives chairman, Fred Carr, would have to resign from the company.) If she has had any influence on the management of her enormous wealth, The New York Times reported in 1986, it has been to instill a certain ethos among the people in charge an insistence on integrity and propriety that has been markedly absent from her brothers affairs.. Buddy Schoellkopf, whose wife, Caroline (a Hunt), bought the Mansion and brought the 21 Club to Dallas, is Hugo's son. Shes not a part of making those decisions, said Charles Tusa, a senior vice president of Rosewood. J. Fred and Bess, who incidentally and ironically were born in the same East Dallas house, had two sons-Wilson and J. Fred Jr.-both now retired. John W. was a natural empire builder, and his entrepreneurial instincts helped shape the future of utilities, insurance and steel in Texas. Then young Alexander was shot in the back on Main Street by a town deputy who owed him $200 and, presumably, didnt want to pay. 'Business is cyclical. They were scheduled to arrive at an airport in Addison, a Dallas suburb, at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Isaac, the eldest, migrated to Texas in 1857 or 1858, and with some assistance from a New York merchant, opened a store in McKinney. She had planned to attend aDallas CASA event before she was felled by thestroke on Halloween, according to Dallas book agentand close friend Dedie Leahy, who had been working with Hunt on hermemoir for several years. He was born May 11, 1921, in Oklahoma to the late Sidney and Annie Dale Chandler. After H.L. Become a business insider with the latest news. The wells were finally plugged years later when the minerals clogged the pipes. He was civically active for more than fifty years, heading a number of leading Dallas charitable institutions. She was something else.. Years later they emerged from bankruptcy as millionaires, though no longer fabulously wealthy. Caroline Hunt's Soured Investment - Los Angeles Times They too were later divorced. The philanthropist,hotelier,author, world traveler, gourmet, entrepreneur, mother of five, grandmother of 19 and great-grandmother of 23 was 95. The couple had five children before they divorced in 1973 and she married Buddy Schoellkopf, who came from a prominent Dallas family. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. That was followed in quick order by another sale to Japanese investors the secluded luxury resort Hana-Maui Hotel in Hawaii and surrounding 4,500 acres for a reported $200 million. The judge and his wife raised three sons in Dallas. Hunt; Hugo III was born to Schoellkopf and his first wife, Lockett said. Charles McKamy. These families cared deeply about Dallas, and they gave generously to every avenue of its development. Thats probably because the Aldredges were central to shaping Dallas. Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Peter Schoellkopf of Weston, Connecticut, who passed away at the age of 56, on March 17, 2023. (Bill) Mele, J. Frederick (Sandy) Schoellkopf VI, Kristin (Buddy) Borowiak and Abby Schoellkopf; loving great grandmother of Jacob . WESTON, CT Peter Schoellkopf, 56, of Weston, died unexpectedly on Friday, Mar. "The Mighty, Mighty Hands of Mayor Tom Leppert". The rest is history. She was a trustee of Mary Baldwin College for 20 years, and with her sister financed the restoration of Hilltop, an 1810 campus building on the National Register of Historic Places. The Dignity Memorial brand name is used to identify a network of licensed funeral, cremation and cemetery providers that include affiliates of Service Corporation International, 1929 Allen Parkway, Houston, Texas. It's impossible to know just how much Caroline Hunt was worth when she died. They drew up a lengthy petition asking the state Legislature to deny Sarahs franchise request. She took something that was historicaland made it useful and beautiful. If theres a thread that runs through the Aldredge family, its a sense of Dallas history and an interest in preserving it. Cattleman and philanthropist, for years the largest taxpayer in the state; gave more than half a million dollars to build what is now Baylor Medical College. He never made it home. We'll help you find the right words to comfort your family member or loved one during this difficult time. We are sad to announce that on December 30, 2021, at the age of 80, Barbara A. Schoellkopf (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) passed away. Before that, Sawnie was the second-youngest man to be elected mayor of Dallas, and it was his administration that hired the first city planner and drove the Ku Klux Klan out of town. She told her husband that she wouldnt budge until the mortgage had been paid on the old Dublin Baptist Church. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Dallas, Texas 75201. Knight descendants abound and are interwoven through marriage with Hughes, Cochran and Field families. 17, 2023. Wealthy cattleman and banker; builder of earliest surviving skyscraper in Dallas-the Wilson Building. He was named attorney for Dallas County in 1875, and in 1878, he became a district judge. He is survived by his wife, Nancy of 39 years, and his In August 1989, Hunt stunned the hotel world whenRosewood Hotels and Resortssold its Hotel Bel-Air in Beverly Hillsto a Japanese companyfor $110 million, or a record $1.2 million per room. Hunt had in the past left most of the dealings of the trust to others, but the hotel business seemed to attract her interest. Both the Bel-Air and the Hana-Maui hotels were sold last year for staggering profits, and the Remington was disposed of in 1985. He was 80 years old. At the age of 73 he served five months overseas in Kuwait with the American Red Cross in service to the Armed Forces at U.S. base Arifjan. Suite 2100 A $300-million (minimum) gondola to Dodger Stadium? In time, he grew through the ranks, eventually becoming the Vice President of Administration. Those descendants that remain in Dallas-and there are few that bear the name-were honored in 1976 by the placement of a historical marker at the site of the Cockrell homestead downtown. Gottlieb stayed in Dallas and established the G.H. He said that two dozen aircraft were involved in the official search today, along with several unauthorized planes piloted by people who may have known the men aboard the missing plane. Susan SURDAM Obituary (1919 - 2017) - Buffalo, NY - Buffalo News The consummate Dallas showmanship of Stanley Marcus has given way to the national managerial scope of his son, Richard. The Schoellkopfs money dates back to 1869, when Gottlieb Heinrich Schoellkopf was sent to Texas to carry buffalo hides back to Buffalo, New York. Family will receive friends 6-8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Hunt graduated from the Hockaday School in 1939 and attended Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va., during her freshman and sophomore years. First Executives stock plunged last month after the company announced that it would take a $515-million charge against earnings to account for the declining value of its junk bond portfolio. Albert & Ben Linz. By signing up you agree to ourTerms of ServiceandPrivacy Policy. Forbes magazine last year estimated her worth at $800 million, including the assets of the trust. This site is provided as a service of SCI Shared Resources, LLC. Does anyone know anything about vintage gun cases? Louise Mosely Smith, a great-granddaughter, heads the theater division of the Arts Magnet School. https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/01/us/montana-aircraft-crashes-in-canyon.html. Her great-great-grandfather, James A. Smith, who built the first cotton gin in town, was a contemporary of John Neely Bryan. Tenison. The Marcus boys were born on South Boulevard, but in the Twenties they moved to East Dallas. For $7,000, the Cockrells had purchased Dallas unsold building lots and the ferry concession from John Neely Bryan. Then they moved to Highland Park. Caroline Hunt and Margaret Hunt Hill took measures to preserve their fortunes by insulating themselves from their flamboyant brothers financial liabilities. To her granddaughters, Laura Trim and Mary Jane Wilson, who live in Dallas today, it seems incredible that the lady of the house would have so little say in its development. Hospitals, schools, parks, transportation systems, the state fair-all were conceived and supported by these early Dallasites. No expense was spared. In the early Seventies the two brothers-in-law gave birth to a dream of their own planned community with the multifunctions and amenities of a full-blown urban center. Ms. Hunts philanthropies included many organizations in Dallas, where she lived all her life: the Dallas Opera, the Dallas Symphony, the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas and the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas. Several years ago, the Higginbothams published a cookbook of family recipes for their friends, entitled This Little Higgy Went To Market. The families moved from South Dallas, and the houses were left to decay. We had both a business and personal relationship, but I think of her first of all as a dear friend, he said. Harold Volk. Early pioneer merchant and the first to locate a downtown store in a suburban shopping village. In Texas, which prided itself on larger-than-life stories, the eccentricities of the Hunt family the oilman H. L. Hunt fathered 15 children with three women over 35 years had been a high-stakes soap opera for decades. The offer expired this week without a response from First Executive, but another offer is widely expected. In her interview last year, Hunt reflected on how she nearly burned down the family house in Tyler when she was little by leaving her toy electric range turned on in the attic, and how she flipped her Chevy into White Rock Lake when she was 16. He married Rena Munger, daughter of the wealthy cotton-gin genius and developer of ritzy Munger Place in East Dallas. Robert D. Zimmerman, who was in charge of the trusts hotel management branch for 10 years before leaving last year to form his own company, said, She lets her companies run themselves with her people, including family members, in on the decision making.. April 28 (UPI) -- A British piercing enthusiast broke his own Guinness World Record when the number of flesh tunnels in his face increased to 17. When Harrison, 62,executive director atRosewood Corp.,asked her mom why she'd agreed to sell the family's crown jewels, shereceived one of her mother's well-honed pieces of business advice.