Remembering Joe Murray and the Pulitzer Prize

by Dan Eakin I have been rather sad for more than a week now, because Joe Murray, longtime editor and publisher of the Lufkin Daily News, passed away Sunday, June 25. His funeral was Wednesday afternoon, July 5, at the First Baptist Church of Lufkin. Joe had grown up in Lufkin and was associated with the Lufkin Daily News from childhood. He was a kind, generous man with a great sense of humor. …