RIP
An icon of Dallas real estate has left us: Mary Frances Burleson, longtime president and CEO of the Ebby Halliday Companies. The Ebby Halliday Companies announced that Burleson, 87, died Sunday morning of natural causes. Burleson famously began as the secretary of Mrs. Ebby Halliday, the company’s namesake founder, and rose to become the company’s…
Chris Bright oversaw Bright Realty and Bright Industries, a company founded by his father more than 60 years ago. Chris Bright, CEO of Bright Realty and Bright Industries, died on July 11 in Plano at the age of 70. Bright oversaw Bright Realty, as well as its parent company, Bright Industries, as CEO. He led…
We have heavy hearts. We learned this week that Dotty Griffith, the trailblazing Texas food journalist, Daily Texan Hall of Fame honoree, cookbook author, and longtime restaurant critic at The Dallas Morning News, has passed. Pancreatic cancer claimed Dotty on Sept. 13. She died while surrounded by her dear family in her East Dallas home. She…
We received word that yet another grand dame of Dallas Real estate has left us, the beautiful Judy Goff Pittman, who died July 9. She was preceded in death by her husband, William Thomas (Bill) Pittman’s passing in August of 2020. The couple lived in a two-story penthouse at The Warrington that once belonged to…
Dallas has lost another real estate icon: Della Lively. I first met Della in 1980. We were brand new to Texas. We could not afford a pot to you-know-what in, and in fact, my husband did not even want us to buy a $65,000 starter home because of graduate school debt. But we had always…
