Long-time community leader Jerdy Gary died last week at the age of 87.
Raymnod Jerdy Gary was born in Madill, Oklahoma in 1933 to Raymond and Emma Gary. He came to Denison in late1950s to run a petroleum company Sooner Oil Company. In addition to being a businessman, Gary shined as a community leader with posts on a group of local organizations too long to list including, a 20-year stint as Chairman of Texoma Medical Center
He was also appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry to chair Grayson County s Regional Mobility Authority in 2008. He left that spot in 2010.
In 2006, Gary was recognized for his long term service to Texoma Medical Center. He has served on the THCS Board of Directors, currently including two terms as chairman for a second time. He was a founding member of the TMC Foundation, serving 14 years as its chairman. During his time as foundation chairman, country music singer and actress, Reba McEntire, joined Gary in supporting the foundation. Through he
When the Political Gets Personal
Veteran Austin journalist Bill Minutaglio’s latest book is a crowd-pleasing account of heated political battles in Texas over the past 150 years. But does it get the big picture right?
Illustration by Katherine Lam
Texans take a singular pride in their state’s politics. Where else can one find such entertaining grandiosity, unpredictability, and sprawling variety in one place? Pretty much nowhere, as the veteran Austin journalist Bill Minutaglio knows. His tenth and latest book
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A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles: A History of Politics and Race in Texas (University of Texas Press, May 4), leans hard perhaps too hard into the crowd-pleasing nature of Texas public life. This latest installment in UT Press’s Texas Bookshelf series Stephen Harrigan’s 2019 history of Texas,