Son of Conroe businessman reminisces about his dad’s flair and sense of adventure

Had death granted my father a few more years I might have understood then what an adventurous, even oddball, Conroeite this affable and popular man was. In the summer of 1966, however, he was whisked away at age 48 in a car-train collision – a suitably flamboyant, if tragic, end – that left his youngest, 13-year-old son with only a few memories of his life and ambitions.

from Houston Chronicle
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