EL CAMPO - Frederick Vincent Barbee Jr. died Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007, in El Campo, at the age of 78. Mr. Barbee was born Oct. 28, 1928, in Cleburne, to Fred V. and Berdye Hoffman Barbee. He graduated from Brownwood High School and The University of Texas at Austin where he earned a bachelor of business administration degree in 1950.
After graduating from college, Mr. Barbee was hired by C.C. Woodson, publisher of the Brownwood Bulletin and many other newspapers, to work in advertising at his newspaper in Miami, Okla. He soon moved to Lamesa, where at the age of 23, he became the youngest publisher in history of Texas daily newspapers, the Lamesa Daily Reporter.
After a successful stint in Lamesa, he and Woodson became partners in the Seminole Sentinel and Radio Station KSML, later renamed KTFO, from 1957-1968.
In 1968, Mr. Barbee and his wife, Eleanor, a 1949 UT journalism major who worked with him in the newspaper business until her death in October 1980, and Woodson, partnered with Barbee's college roommate, Dick Elam, to purchase the El Campo Leader-News and Radio Station KULP. They later purchased the Wharton Journal-Specator in December 1976, the Edna Herald and the Ganado Tribune. They sold the latter two in 1982.
Barbee served as president of the Texas Press Association (1979), West Texas Press Association (1967-68), Texas Gulf Coast Press Association (1975-76) and South Texas Press Association (1985-86).
Serving his alma mater, he joined the Advisory Council of the College of Communication Foundation at UT-Austin from 1980-87 (with a one year hiatus) and served as chairman in 1984-85.
In community service, he served several years on the governing board of El Campo Memorial Hospital as secretary, had 38 years perfect attendance and the Paul Harris Fellow Award of the El Campo Rotary Club, was a director of the Wharton County Historical Museum and volunteered for several other local boards.
He was named El Campo's "Citizen of the Year" in 1991.
Mr. Barbee is survived by his wife of 26 years, Peggy Barbee of El Campo; sons and daughters-in-law, Chris Barbee and wife Carol of El Campo, David Barbee and wife Kathy of Houston; daughter and son-in-law, Karon Barbee and Larren Elliott of Dripping Springs; stepdaughter, Kelly Porterfield of Austin; grandchildren, Jonathan and Julie Barbee of Houston and Ashley and Airen Targonski of Dripping Springs. He was preceded in death by his parents, and his first wife, Eleanor.
Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. today, with the family receiving friends from 5-7 p.m., at Triska Funeral Home.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 4 at First United Methodist Church of El Campo with the Rev. Joyce McCormick, FUMC pastor, and the Rev. Dick Gould, pastor of First Presbyterian Church and a fellow Rotarian, officiating.
Interment will be at Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, 2800 Hancock Dr.
Pallbearers will be Dick Elam, Randy Clapp, Irvin Foytik, Steve Gularte, Bob Melanson, Billy Rioux, Mike Appling, and Jim Bouligny.
Honorary pallbearers are employees of the El Campo Leader-News, Wharton Journal-Spectator and East Bernard Express, members of the El Campo Rotary Club, and West Wharton County Hospital District Board of Directors.
The family recommends the following El Campo organizations be considered for memorial donations: Boys & Girls Club of El Campo, The Blessing Cup, First United Methodist Church, or the Rotary Club of El Campo Pool Project.
Triska Funeral Home, El Campo, 979-543-3681.
After graduating from college, Mr. Barbee was hired by C.C. Woodson, publisher of the Brownwood Bulletin and many other newspapers, to work in advertising at his newspaper in Miami, Okla. He soon moved to Lamesa, where at the age of 23, he became the youngest publisher in history of Texas daily newspapers, the Lamesa Daily Reporter.
After a successful stint in Lamesa, he and Woodson became partners in the Seminole Sentinel and Radio Station KSML, later renamed KTFO, from 1957-1968.
In 1968, Mr. Barbee and his wife, Eleanor, a 1949 UT journalism major who worked with him in the newspaper business until her death in October 1980, and Woodson, partnered with Barbee's college roommate, Dick Elam, to purchase the El Campo Leader-News and Radio Station KULP. They later purchased the Wharton Journal-Specator in December 1976, the Edna Herald and the Ganado Tribune. They sold the latter two in 1982.
Barbee served as president of the Texas Press Association (1979), West Texas Press Association (1967-68), Texas Gulf Coast Press Association (1975-76) and South Texas Press Association (1985-86).
Serving his alma mater, he joined the Advisory Council of the College of Communication Foundation at UT-Austin from 1980-87 (with a one year hiatus) and served as chairman in 1984-85.
In community service, he served several years on the governing board of El Campo Memorial Hospital as secretary, had 38 years perfect attendance and the Paul Harris Fellow Award of the El Campo Rotary Club, was a director of the Wharton County Historical Museum and volunteered for several other local boards.
He was named El Campo's "Citizen of the Year" in 1991.
Mr. Barbee is survived by his wife of 26 years, Peggy Barbee of El Campo; sons and daughters-in-law, Chris Barbee and wife Carol of El Campo, David Barbee and wife Kathy of Houston; daughter and son-in-law, Karon Barbee and Larren Elliott of Dripping Springs; stepdaughter, Kelly Porterfield of Austin; grandchildren, Jonathan and Julie Barbee of Houston and Ashley and Airen Targonski of Dripping Springs. He was preceded in death by his parents, and his first wife, Eleanor.
Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. today, with the family receiving friends from 5-7 p.m., at Triska Funeral Home.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 4 at First United Methodist Church of El Campo with the Rev. Joyce McCormick, FUMC pastor, and the Rev. Dick Gould, pastor of First Presbyterian Church and a fellow Rotarian, officiating.
Interment will be at Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, 2800 Hancock Dr.
Pallbearers will be Dick Elam, Randy Clapp, Irvin Foytik, Steve Gularte, Bob Melanson, Billy Rioux, Mike Appling, and Jim Bouligny.
Honorary pallbearers are employees of the El Campo Leader-News, Wharton Journal-Spectator and East Bernard Express, members of the El Campo Rotary Club, and West Wharton County Hospital District Board of Directors.
The family recommends the following El Campo organizations be considered for memorial donations: Boys & Girls Club of El Campo, The Blessing Cup, First United Methodist Church, or the Rotary Club of El Campo Pool Project.
Triska Funeral Home, El Campo, 979-543-3681.
EL CAMPO - Frederick Vincent Barbee Jr. died Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007, in El Campo, at the age of 78. Mr. Barbee was born Oct. 28, 1928, in Cleburne, to Fred V. and Berdye Hoffman Barbee. He graduated from Brownwood High School and The University of Texas at Austin where he earned a bachelor of business administration degree in 1950.
After graduating from college, Mr. Barbee was hired by C.C. Woodson, publisher of the Brownwood Bulletin and many other newspapers, to work in advertising at his newspaper in Miami, Okla. He soon moved to Lamesa, where at the age of 23, he became the youngest publisher in history of Texas daily newspapers, the Lamesa Daily Reporter.
After a successful stint in Lamesa, he and Woodson became partners in the Seminole Sentinel and Radio Station KSML, later renamed KTFO, from 1957-1968.
In 1968, Mr. Barbee and his wife, Eleanor, a 1949 UT journalism major who worked with him in the newspaper business until her death in October 1980, and Woodson, partnered with Barbee's college roommate, Dick Elam, to purchase the El Campo Leader-News and Radio Station KULP. They later purchased the Wharton Journal-Specator in December 1976, the Edna Herald and the Ganado Tribune. They sold the latter two in 1982.
Barbee served as president of the Texas Press Association (1979), West Texas Press Association (1967-68), Texas Gulf Coast Press Association (1975-76) and South Texas Press Association (1985-86).
Serving his alma mater, he joined the Advisory Council of the College of Communication Foundation at UT-Austin from 1980-87 (with a one year hiatus) and served as chairman in 1984-85.
In community service, he served several years on the governing board of El Campo Memorial Hospital as secretary, had 38 years perfect attendance and the Paul Harris Fellow Award of the El Campo Rotary Club, was a director of the Wharton County Historical Museum and volunteered for several other local boards.
He was named El Campo's "Citizen of the Year" in 1991.
Mr. Barbee is survived by his wife of 26 years, Peggy Barbee of El Campo; sons and daughters-in-law, Chris Barbee and wife Carol of El Campo, David Barbee and wife Kathy of Houston; daughter and son-in-law, Karon Barbee and Larren Elliott of Dripping Springs; stepdaughter, Kelly Porterfield of Austin; grandchildren, Jonathan and Julie Barbee of Houston and Ashley and Airen Targonski of Dripping Springs. He was preceded in death by his parents, and his first wife, Eleanor.
Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. today, with the family receiving friends from 5-7 p.m., at Triska Funeral Home.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 4 at First United Methodist Church of El Campo with the Rev. Joyce McCormick, FUMC pastor, and the Rev. Dick Gould, pastor of First Presbyterian Church and a fellow Rotarian, officiating.
Interment will be at Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, 2800 Hancock Dr.
Pallbearers will be Dick Elam, Randy Clapp, Irvin Foytik, Steve Gularte, Bob Melanson, Billy Rioux, Mike Appling, and Jim Bouligny.
Honorary pallbearers are employees of the El Campo Leader-News, Wharton Journal-Spectator and East Bernard Express, members of the El Campo Rotary Club, and West Wharton County Hospital District Board of Directors.
The family recommends the following El Campo organizations be considered for memorial donations: Boys & Girls Club of El Campo, The Blessing Cup, First United Methodist Church, or the Rotary Club of El Campo Pool Project.
Triska Funeral Home, El Campo, 979-543-3681.
After graduating from college, Mr. Barbee was hired by C.C. Woodson, publisher of the Brownwood Bulletin and many other newspapers, to work in advertising at his newspaper in Miami, Okla. He soon moved to Lamesa, where at the age of 23, he became the youngest publisher in history of Texas daily newspapers, the Lamesa Daily Reporter.
After a successful stint in Lamesa, he and Woodson became partners in the Seminole Sentinel and Radio Station KSML, later renamed KTFO, from 1957-1968.
In 1968, Mr. Barbee and his wife, Eleanor, a 1949 UT journalism major who worked with him in the newspaper business until her death in October 1980, and Woodson, partnered with Barbee's college roommate, Dick Elam, to purchase the El Campo Leader-News and Radio Station KULP. They later purchased the Wharton Journal-Specator in December 1976, the Edna Herald and the Ganado Tribune. They sold the latter two in 1982.
Barbee served as president of the Texas Press Association (1979), West Texas Press Association (1967-68), Texas Gulf Coast Press Association (1975-76) and South Texas Press Association (1985-86).
Serving his alma mater, he joined the Advisory Council of the College of Communication Foundation at UT-Austin from 1980-87 (with a one year hiatus) and served as chairman in 1984-85.
In community service, he served several years on the governing board of El Campo Memorial Hospital as secretary, had 38 years perfect attendance and the Paul Harris Fellow Award of the El Campo Rotary Club, was a director of the Wharton County Historical Museum and volunteered for several other local boards.
He was named El Campo's "Citizen of the Year" in 1991.
Mr. Barbee is survived by his wife of 26 years, Peggy Barbee of El Campo; sons and daughters-in-law, Chris Barbee and wife Carol of El Campo, David Barbee and wife Kathy of Houston; daughter and son-in-law, Karon Barbee and Larren Elliott of Dripping Springs; stepdaughter, Kelly Porterfield of Austin; grandchildren, Jonathan and Julie Barbee of Houston and Ashley and Airen Targonski of Dripping Springs. He was preceded in death by his parents, and his first wife, Eleanor.
Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. today, with the family receiving friends from 5-7 p.m., at Triska Funeral Home.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 4 at First United Methodist Church of El Campo with the Rev. Joyce McCormick, FUMC pastor, and the Rev. Dick Gould, pastor of First Presbyterian Church and a fellow Rotarian, officiating.
Interment will be at Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, 2800 Hancock Dr.
Pallbearers will be Dick Elam, Randy Clapp, Irvin Foytik, Steve Gularte, Bob Melanson, Billy Rioux, Mike Appling, and Jim Bouligny.
Honorary pallbearers are employees of the El Campo Leader-News, Wharton Journal-Spectator and East Bernard Express, members of the El Campo Rotary Club, and West Wharton County Hospital District Board of Directors.
The family recommends the following El Campo organizations be considered for memorial donations: Boys & Girls Club of El Campo, The Blessing Cup, First United Methodist Church, or the Rotary Club of El Campo Pool Project.
Triska Funeral Home, El Campo, 979-543-3681.
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