RIP
I met Kelly Logdson Rush the way so many people met her: she was my teacher at Champions School of Real Estate in 2010. She was also one of my dearest friends, a woman I grew close to over the last ten years. I don’t think I’ve ever known anyone with more friends, anyone more…
“Carol Reed was a woman who took every hand she was dealt, and played it well. She was bigger than life, had political skills second to none, a loyal friend, and deeply loved Dallas.” This came from her dear friend Chris Heinbaugh, vice president of external affairs at AT&T Performing Arts Center, a former reporter…
Self-made oil and gas billionaire T. Boone Pickens has died, according to multiple reports. Pickens, who founded Mesa Petroleum and BP Capital, was 91 at the time of his death. Pickens made a name for himself as a businessman and a philanthropist, and was often quoted that his purpose on earth was “to make money…
It saddens our hearts to report that Dallas, indeed the entire U.S., has lost one of its most significant architects: Cole Smith. Cole was born in 1926 and died August 25. He was married to interior designer extraordinaire Sherry Hayslip Smith, who rightfully called her beloved husband “a national treasure.” “Cole Smith’s life and…
Highly-respected Dallas architect Phillip W. Shepherd Sr. died Thursday, July 11, 2019, a longtime family friend confirmed to CandysDirt. He was 77. Reared in Graham, Shepherd graduated with a degree in architecture from Texas Tech University in the 1960s. He began his firm, PWS Architects, in 1963. When you look at the current landscape of…
