BIO Psychologists argue about how much environment influences the development of the personality of a person. Gary Lewis Hagman was born the night of November 11, 1940 in Weatherford, Texas, the son of local attorney Benjamin Jack Hagman and his wife Juanita (Saul). For a time before his actual birth, the hospital was in a panic because there was an electrical outage, and if the city did not manage to provide some lights promptly, the Hagman baby was going to be "birthed by brail." The city did successfully manage to provide lights via a generator in time, but it can be argued that the panic prior to his birth may have had an effect on the personality of Gary.
His first few years were influenced by World War II as well. The war brought on shortages, rationing, depressing news, and fear on a daily basis as well as the absence of many fathers. As an Attorney, Ben Hagman was away serving in the Judge Advocate General's office during 1945 and 1956. But some father figure did make a sling shot for Gary, as well as teach him how to use it. Gary delighted in shooting rocks on the roof of the neighbor's house. That was not the bad part. The bad part was that the neighbor worked nights at the bomber plant in Fort Worth and slept days. Most nights Gary was asleep which left him time to shoot rocks during the day, making an unhappy neighbor.
Gary began first grade at T. W. Stanley Elementary School located on South Main Street September 1947. Mrs. May Belle DeBuford was his first-grade teacher. Along with his classmates who became lifelong friends, she had her hands full. Two events shaped Gary's life during his six years at T. W. Stanley. He acquired a four-legged best friend: a boxer originally named Junior but called Juney, and his half-brother, Larry Martin Hagman, eventually to be known as Major Nelson and later as the infamous J. R. Ewing, came to live with the Weatherford Hagmans until he graduated Weatherford High School (WHS) in 1949. Through the perseverance of all the Stanley teachers, Gary's class was graduated in May 1953, and they moved on to junior high school where they combined with the 1953 graduates of the other elementary schools. Gary and this class became the problem of another group of teachers, and he acquired additional lifelong friends.
A major life-changing experience that occurred in junior high was the coming of age activity of becoming a licensed driver as early as fourteen. When Gary got his driver's license, his dad bought him a set of wheels: a used vintage WWII jeep painted maroon. One semester Gary took vocational agriculture and raised a calf. Many remember seeing him drive around town in his jeep with the calf in the back seat and Juney the boxer riding shotgun.
Junior high was completed in May 1956, and then came senior high. Due to a childhood bout with rheumatic fever, Gary's heart was deemed not strong enough for him to play football. Not to be deterred, Gary became the defensive coordinator of the class of 1959's girls' football team with Reginal Reynolds who had graduated WHS in 1956 serving as head coach. For the first and only time in the history of WHS girls' football, the girls of the class of 1959 were undefeated, even if only two games were played: one game their junior year and one their senior year.
Gary joined every male-oriented club in high school, including The Footlight Club where he excelled as an actor. He was fairly good, but better still he could grow a beard. Therefore, he could play the part of any old man required by any script. His senior year Gary and the cast of "Joan of Lorraine" won second place in the state one-act play completion sponsored by the Interscholastic League. His reading skills were also superior; he could read Beowulf aloud so well that it actually made sense. In later years he excelled at extemporaneous speaking; he could tell a tale you would swear was true, even as you knew full well that there was no way it was true. There are those who think that Gary may have been responsible for some of the outrageous exploits the writers of "Dallas" invented for J. R.
While in high school, Gary organized the Bachelor Protective Association (BPA) for his group of lifelong friends. The club had dress ties which featured a wolf in formal attire. No one knows Gary's source, as the Internet was not even a vague idea, but he found it somewhere.
Gary's introduction to law enforcement came the night he and John Hall killed a bunch of bull frogs after an unsuccessful day of dove hunting. They had placed the frogs in the mail boxes of favorite teachers and were on their way home when Gary discovered one last frog. He tossed it into the open window of an approaching car. (This was before all cars were air conditioned.) The approaching car happened to be driven by Sherriff John Young. Needless to say, Sherriff Young turned his car around and escorted Gary and John directly to jail without letting them "pass GO or collect $200.00" where their parents were called. Part of their punishment was to retrieve all the frogs from all the mail boxes that night. It was rumored that Sherriff Young nearly needed stitches from biting his tongue so much to keep from laughing.
During the summers, Gary was the life guard at Live Oak County Club, operated the concession stand, and gave diving lessons. He taught more than one coed the inward pike.
After high school graduation in May 1959, Gary enrolled at The University of Texas (UT) in September 1959 where he pursued a bachelor's degree in Finance. His antics continued as several members of the BPA as well as other WHS classmates were also enrolled at UT. They enjoyed getting together for barbecue and beer on the weekends.
Before he graduated in June 1963, he had a blind date with an "Army brat" named Linda Jean Jarret who called Waco her hometown at that time. On that first date, he fashioned for her an engagement ring out of a pipe cleaner. He was smitten. He was in love. He was not going to let her get away. To insure she did not become involved with anyone else, he would stand guard every evening in the living room of her dorm. When her date for the evening arrived, he would yell, "Linda Jarrett, are we going to make mad passionate love…AGAIN?" This tended to ruin all possible relationships. She was not impressed. She was not that kind of a girl, and she did not want anyone to think that she was. She threw away the pipe cleaner engagement ring vowing never to see him again! A mutual friend, however, did manage to soothe her ruffled feathers and to persuade her to go out with him again. They dated all during law school and eventually the rest became history. In January 1965, before he graduated UT Law School that June they were married.
After passing the bar, Gary and Linda moved to Weatherford where following in his father's footsteps he established a law office. They welcomed their first child, a daughter named Tina Lee, in 1966. When the opportunity came to work as an assistant district attorney in the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Gary could not turn it down. He closed his practice in Weatherford, and the family moved to Washington D. C. where Gary prosecuted draft dodgers. A second daughter Dana Helen was born in Washington in 1972. As the Watergate Scandal grew, Gary realized that the fallout could be wide spread so he resigned from the DOJ. In 1973 the Hagmans moved to Tyler, Texas, where he joined a former collegemate in private law practice. In 1980 they returned to Weatherford where Gary practiced family law. He closed his practice in 1989 as a result of the well-publicized scandal. He worked in car sales and then retail, until he was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2006. His battle with the disease ended July 23, 2019.
Gary was preceded in death by his father in 1965, his mother in 1993, his daughter Tina Lee Hagman Smith in 2006, his wife in 2009, and his half-brother Larry Hagman in 2012. He is survived by his daughter Dana Helen Hagman of Weatherford, the children of Larry Hagman, cousins, and lifelong friends.
For the past two years, Gary resided at Holland Lake Nursing Center. A very special thank you is extended to the facility for the excellent care he received and to Nurse Beverly for her support and comfort at the end.
Contributor: S. G. Williams (46810763)
White's Funeral Home
His first few years were influenced by World War II as well. The war brought on shortages, rationing, depressing news, and fear on a daily basis as well as the absence of many fathers. As an Attorney, Ben Hagman was away serving in the Judge Advocate General's office during 1945 and 1956. But some father figure did make a sling shot for Gary, as well as teach him how to use it. Gary delighted in shooting rocks on the roof of the neighbor's house. That was not the bad part. The bad part was that the neighbor worked nights at the bomber plant in Fort Worth and slept days. Most nights Gary was asleep which left him time to shoot rocks during the day, making an unhappy neighbor.
Gary began first grade at T. W. Stanley Elementary School located on South Main Street September 1947. Mrs. May Belle DeBuford was his first-grade teacher. Along with his classmates who became lifelong friends, she had her hands full. Two events shaped Gary's life during his six years at T. W. Stanley. He acquired a four-legged best friend: a boxer originally named Junior but called Juney, and his half-brother, Larry Martin Hagman, eventually to be known as Major Nelson and later as the infamous J. R. Ewing, came to live with the Weatherford Hagmans until he graduated Weatherford High School (WHS) in 1949. Through the perseverance of all the Stanley teachers, Gary's class was graduated in May 1953, and they moved on to junior high school where they combined with the 1953 graduates of the other elementary schools. Gary and this class became the problem of another group of teachers, and he acquired additional lifelong friends.
A major life-changing experience that occurred in junior high was the coming of age activity of becoming a licensed driver as early as fourteen. When Gary got his driver's license, his dad bought him a set of wheels: a used vintage WWII jeep painted maroon. One semester Gary took vocational agriculture and raised a calf. Many remember seeing him drive around town in his jeep with the calf in the back seat and Juney the boxer riding shotgun.
Junior high was completed in May 1956, and then came senior high. Due to a childhood bout with rheumatic fever, Gary's heart was deemed not strong enough for him to play football. Not to be deterred, Gary became the defensive coordinator of the class of 1959's girls' football team with Reginal Reynolds who had graduated WHS in 1956 serving as head coach. For the first and only time in the history of WHS girls' football, the girls of the class of 1959 were undefeated, even if only two games were played: one game their junior year and one their senior year.
Gary joined every male-oriented club in high school, including The Footlight Club where he excelled as an actor. He was fairly good, but better still he could grow a beard. Therefore, he could play the part of any old man required by any script. His senior year Gary and the cast of "Joan of Lorraine" won second place in the state one-act play completion sponsored by the Interscholastic League. His reading skills were also superior; he could read Beowulf aloud so well that it actually made sense. In later years he excelled at extemporaneous speaking; he could tell a tale you would swear was true, even as you knew full well that there was no way it was true. There are those who think that Gary may have been responsible for some of the outrageous exploits the writers of "Dallas" invented for J. R.
While in high school, Gary organized the Bachelor Protective Association (BPA) for his group of lifelong friends. The club had dress ties which featured a wolf in formal attire. No one knows Gary's source, as the Internet was not even a vague idea, but he found it somewhere.
Gary's introduction to law enforcement came the night he and John Hall killed a bunch of bull frogs after an unsuccessful day of dove hunting. They had placed the frogs in the mail boxes of favorite teachers and were on their way home when Gary discovered one last frog. He tossed it into the open window of an approaching car. (This was before all cars were air conditioned.) The approaching car happened to be driven by Sherriff John Young. Needless to say, Sherriff Young turned his car around and escorted Gary and John directly to jail without letting them "pass GO or collect $200.00" where their parents were called. Part of their punishment was to retrieve all the frogs from all the mail boxes that night. It was rumored that Sherriff Young nearly needed stitches from biting his tongue so much to keep from laughing.
During the summers, Gary was the life guard at Live Oak County Club, operated the concession stand, and gave diving lessons. He taught more than one coed the inward pike.
After high school graduation in May 1959, Gary enrolled at The University of Texas (UT) in September 1959 where he pursued a bachelor's degree in Finance. His antics continued as several members of the BPA as well as other WHS classmates were also enrolled at UT. They enjoyed getting together for barbecue and beer on the weekends.
Before he graduated in June 1963, he had a blind date with an "Army brat" named Linda Jean Jarret who called Waco her hometown at that time. On that first date, he fashioned for her an engagement ring out of a pipe cleaner. He was smitten. He was in love. He was not going to let her get away. To insure she did not become involved with anyone else, he would stand guard every evening in the living room of her dorm. When her date for the evening arrived, he would yell, "Linda Jarrett, are we going to make mad passionate love…AGAIN?" This tended to ruin all possible relationships. She was not impressed. She was not that kind of a girl, and she did not want anyone to think that she was. She threw away the pipe cleaner engagement ring vowing never to see him again! A mutual friend, however, did manage to soothe her ruffled feathers and to persuade her to go out with him again. They dated all during law school and eventually the rest became history. In January 1965, before he graduated UT Law School that June they were married.
After passing the bar, Gary and Linda moved to Weatherford where following in his father's footsteps he established a law office. They welcomed their first child, a daughter named Tina Lee, in 1966. When the opportunity came to work as an assistant district attorney in the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Gary could not turn it down. He closed his practice in Weatherford, and the family moved to Washington D. C. where Gary prosecuted draft dodgers. A second daughter Dana Helen was born in Washington in 1972. As the Watergate Scandal grew, Gary realized that the fallout could be wide spread so he resigned from the DOJ. In 1973 the Hagmans moved to Tyler, Texas, where he joined a former collegemate in private law practice. In 1980 they returned to Weatherford where Gary practiced family law. He closed his practice in 1989 as a result of the well-publicized scandal. He worked in car sales and then retail, until he was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2006. His battle with the disease ended July 23, 2019.
Gary was preceded in death by his father in 1965, his mother in 1993, his daughter Tina Lee Hagman Smith in 2006, his wife in 2009, and his half-brother Larry Hagman in 2012. He is survived by his daughter Dana Helen Hagman of Weatherford, the children of Larry Hagman, cousins, and lifelong friends.
For the past two years, Gary resided at Holland Lake Nursing Center. A very special thank you is extended to the facility for the excellent care he received and to Nurse Beverly for her support and comfort at the end.
Contributor: S. G. Williams (46810763)
White's Funeral Home
BIO Psychologists argue about how much environment influences the development of the personality of a person. Gary Lewis Hagman was born the night of November 11, 1940 in Weatherford, Texas, the son of local attorney Benjamin Jack Hagman and his wife Juanita (Saul). For a time before his actual birth, the hospital was in a panic because there was an electrical outage, and if the city did not manage to provide some lights promptly, the Hagman baby was going to be "birthed by brail." The city did successfully manage to provide lights via a generator in time, but it can be argued that the panic prior to his birth may have had an effect on the personality of Gary.
His first few years were influenced by World War II as well. The war brought on shortages, rationing, depressing news, and fear on a daily basis as well as the absence of many fathers. As an Attorney, Ben Hagman was away serving in the Judge Advocate General's office during 1945 and 1956. But some father figure did make a sling shot for Gary, as well as teach him how to use it. Gary delighted in shooting rocks on the roof of the neighbor's house. That was not the bad part. The bad part was that the neighbor worked nights at the bomber plant in Fort Worth and slept days. Most nights Gary was asleep which left him time to shoot rocks during the day, making an unhappy neighbor.
Gary began first grade at T. W. Stanley Elementary School located on South Main Street September 1947. Mrs. May Belle DeBuford was his first-grade teacher. Along with his classmates who became lifelong friends, she had her hands full. Two events shaped Gary's life during his six years at T. W. Stanley. He acquired a four-legged best friend: a boxer originally named Junior but called Juney, and his half-brother, Larry Martin Hagman, eventually to be known as Major Nelson and later as the infamous J. R. Ewing, came to live with the Weatherford Hagmans until he graduated Weatherford High School (WHS) in 1949. Through the perseverance of all the Stanley teachers, Gary's class was graduated in May 1953, and they moved on to junior high school where they combined with the 1953 graduates of the other elementary schools. Gary and this class became the problem of another group of teachers, and he acquired additional lifelong friends.
A major life-changing experience that occurred in junior high was the coming of age activity of becoming a licensed driver as early as fourteen. When Gary got his driver's license, his dad bought him a set of wheels: a used vintage WWII jeep painted maroon. One semester Gary took vocational agriculture and raised a calf. Many remember seeing him drive around town in his jeep with the calf in the back seat and Juney the boxer riding shotgun.
Junior high was completed in May 1956, and then came senior high. Due to a childhood bout with rheumatic fever, Gary's heart was deemed not strong enough for him to play football. Not to be deterred, Gary became the defensive coordinator of the class of 1959's girls' football team with Reginal Reynolds who had graduated WHS in 1956 serving as head coach. For the first and only time in the history of WHS girls' football, the girls of the class of 1959 were undefeated, even if only two games were played: one game their junior year and one their senior year.
Gary joined every male-oriented club in high school, including The Footlight Club where he excelled as an actor. He was fairly good, but better still he could grow a beard. Therefore, he could play the part of any old man required by any script. His senior year Gary and the cast of "Joan of Lorraine" won second place in the state one-act play completion sponsored by the Interscholastic League. His reading skills were also superior; he could read Beowulf aloud so well that it actually made sense. In later years he excelled at extemporaneous speaking; he could tell a tale you would swear was true, even as you knew full well that there was no way it was true. There are those who think that Gary may have been responsible for some of the outrageous exploits the writers of "Dallas" invented for J. R.
While in high school, Gary organized the Bachelor Protective Association (BPA) for his group of lifelong friends. The club had dress ties which featured a wolf in formal attire. No one knows Gary's source, as the Internet was not even a vague idea, but he found it somewhere.
Gary's introduction to law enforcement came the night he and John Hall killed a bunch of bull frogs after an unsuccessful day of dove hunting. They had placed the frogs in the mail boxes of favorite teachers and were on their way home when Gary discovered one last frog. He tossed it into the open window of an approaching car. (This was before all cars were air conditioned.) The approaching car happened to be driven by Sherriff John Young. Needless to say, Sherriff Young turned his car around and escorted Gary and John directly to jail without letting them "pass GO or collect $200.00" where their parents were called. Part of their punishment was to retrieve all the frogs from all the mail boxes that night. It was rumored that Sherriff Young nearly needed stitches from biting his tongue so much to keep from laughing.
During the summers, Gary was the life guard at Live Oak County Club, operated the concession stand, and gave diving lessons. He taught more than one coed the inward pike.
After high school graduation in May 1959, Gary enrolled at The University of Texas (UT) in September 1959 where he pursued a bachelor's degree in Finance. His antics continued as several members of the BPA as well as other WHS classmates were also enrolled at UT. They enjoyed getting together for barbecue and beer on the weekends.
Before he graduated in June 1963, he had a blind date with an "Army brat" named Linda Jean Jarret who called Waco her hometown at that time. On that first date, he fashioned for her an engagement ring out of a pipe cleaner. He was smitten. He was in love. He was not going to let her get away. To insure she did not become involved with anyone else, he would stand guard every evening in the living room of her dorm. When her date for the evening arrived, he would yell, "Linda Jarrett, are we going to make mad passionate love…AGAIN?" This tended to ruin all possible relationships. She was not impressed. She was not that kind of a girl, and she did not want anyone to think that she was. She threw away the pipe cleaner engagement ring vowing never to see him again! A mutual friend, however, did manage to soothe her ruffled feathers and to persuade her to go out with him again. They dated all during law school and eventually the rest became history. In January 1965, before he graduated UT Law School that June they were married.
After passing the bar, Gary and Linda moved to Weatherford where following in his father's footsteps he established a law office. They welcomed their first child, a daughter named Tina Lee, in 1966. When the opportunity came to work as an assistant district attorney in the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Gary could not turn it down. He closed his practice in Weatherford, and the family moved to Washington D. C. where Gary prosecuted draft dodgers. A second daughter Dana Helen was born in Washington in 1972. As the Watergate Scandal grew, Gary realized that the fallout could be wide spread so he resigned from the DOJ. In 1973 the Hagmans moved to Tyler, Texas, where he joined a former collegemate in private law practice. In 1980 they returned to Weatherford where Gary practiced family law. He closed his practice in 1989 as a result of the well-publicized scandal. He worked in car sales and then retail, until he was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2006. His battle with the disease ended July 23, 2019.
Gary was preceded in death by his father in 1965, his mother in 1993, his daughter Tina Lee Hagman Smith in 2006, his wife in 2009, and his half-brother Larry Hagman in 2012. He is survived by his daughter Dana Helen Hagman of Weatherford, the children of Larry Hagman, cousins, and lifelong friends.
For the past two years, Gary resided at Holland Lake Nursing Center. A very special thank you is extended to the facility for the excellent care he received and to Nurse Beverly for her support and comfort at the end.
Contributor: S. G. Williams (46810763)
White's Funeral Home
His first few years were influenced by World War II as well. The war brought on shortages, rationing, depressing news, and fear on a daily basis as well as the absence of many fathers. As an Attorney, Ben Hagman was away serving in the Judge Advocate General's office during 1945 and 1956. But some father figure did make a sling shot for Gary, as well as teach him how to use it. Gary delighted in shooting rocks on the roof of the neighbor's house. That was not the bad part. The bad part was that the neighbor worked nights at the bomber plant in Fort Worth and slept days. Most nights Gary was asleep which left him time to shoot rocks during the day, making an unhappy neighbor.
Gary began first grade at T. W. Stanley Elementary School located on South Main Street September 1947. Mrs. May Belle DeBuford was his first-grade teacher. Along with his classmates who became lifelong friends, she had her hands full. Two events shaped Gary's life during his six years at T. W. Stanley. He acquired a four-legged best friend: a boxer originally named Junior but called Juney, and his half-brother, Larry Martin Hagman, eventually to be known as Major Nelson and later as the infamous J. R. Ewing, came to live with the Weatherford Hagmans until he graduated Weatherford High School (WHS) in 1949. Through the perseverance of all the Stanley teachers, Gary's class was graduated in May 1953, and they moved on to junior high school where they combined with the 1953 graduates of the other elementary schools. Gary and this class became the problem of another group of teachers, and he acquired additional lifelong friends.
A major life-changing experience that occurred in junior high was the coming of age activity of becoming a licensed driver as early as fourteen. When Gary got his driver's license, his dad bought him a set of wheels: a used vintage WWII jeep painted maroon. One semester Gary took vocational agriculture and raised a calf. Many remember seeing him drive around town in his jeep with the calf in the back seat and Juney the boxer riding shotgun.
Junior high was completed in May 1956, and then came senior high. Due to a childhood bout with rheumatic fever, Gary's heart was deemed not strong enough for him to play football. Not to be deterred, Gary became the defensive coordinator of the class of 1959's girls' football team with Reginal Reynolds who had graduated WHS in 1956 serving as head coach. For the first and only time in the history of WHS girls' football, the girls of the class of 1959 were undefeated, even if only two games were played: one game their junior year and one their senior year.
Gary joined every male-oriented club in high school, including The Footlight Club where he excelled as an actor. He was fairly good, but better still he could grow a beard. Therefore, he could play the part of any old man required by any script. His senior year Gary and the cast of "Joan of Lorraine" won second place in the state one-act play completion sponsored by the Interscholastic League. His reading skills were also superior; he could read Beowulf aloud so well that it actually made sense. In later years he excelled at extemporaneous speaking; he could tell a tale you would swear was true, even as you knew full well that there was no way it was true. There are those who think that Gary may have been responsible for some of the outrageous exploits the writers of "Dallas" invented for J. R.
While in high school, Gary organized the Bachelor Protective Association (BPA) for his group of lifelong friends. The club had dress ties which featured a wolf in formal attire. No one knows Gary's source, as the Internet was not even a vague idea, but he found it somewhere.
Gary's introduction to law enforcement came the night he and John Hall killed a bunch of bull frogs after an unsuccessful day of dove hunting. They had placed the frogs in the mail boxes of favorite teachers and were on their way home when Gary discovered one last frog. He tossed it into the open window of an approaching car. (This was before all cars were air conditioned.) The approaching car happened to be driven by Sherriff John Young. Needless to say, Sherriff Young turned his car around and escorted Gary and John directly to jail without letting them "pass GO or collect $200.00" where their parents were called. Part of their punishment was to retrieve all the frogs from all the mail boxes that night. It was rumored that Sherriff Young nearly needed stitches from biting his tongue so much to keep from laughing.
During the summers, Gary was the life guard at Live Oak County Club, operated the concession stand, and gave diving lessons. He taught more than one coed the inward pike.
After high school graduation in May 1959, Gary enrolled at The University of Texas (UT) in September 1959 where he pursued a bachelor's degree in Finance. His antics continued as several members of the BPA as well as other WHS classmates were also enrolled at UT. They enjoyed getting together for barbecue and beer on the weekends.
Before he graduated in June 1963, he had a blind date with an "Army brat" named Linda Jean Jarret who called Waco her hometown at that time. On that first date, he fashioned for her an engagement ring out of a pipe cleaner. He was smitten. He was in love. He was not going to let her get away. To insure she did not become involved with anyone else, he would stand guard every evening in the living room of her dorm. When her date for the evening arrived, he would yell, "Linda Jarrett, are we going to make mad passionate love…AGAIN?" This tended to ruin all possible relationships. She was not impressed. She was not that kind of a girl, and she did not want anyone to think that she was. She threw away the pipe cleaner engagement ring vowing never to see him again! A mutual friend, however, did manage to soothe her ruffled feathers and to persuade her to go out with him again. They dated all during law school and eventually the rest became history. In January 1965, before he graduated UT Law School that June they were married.
After passing the bar, Gary and Linda moved to Weatherford where following in his father's footsteps he established a law office. They welcomed their first child, a daughter named Tina Lee, in 1966. When the opportunity came to work as an assistant district attorney in the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Gary could not turn it down. He closed his practice in Weatherford, and the family moved to Washington D. C. where Gary prosecuted draft dodgers. A second daughter Dana Helen was born in Washington in 1972. As the Watergate Scandal grew, Gary realized that the fallout could be wide spread so he resigned from the DOJ. In 1973 the Hagmans moved to Tyler, Texas, where he joined a former collegemate in private law practice. In 1980 they returned to Weatherford where Gary practiced family law. He closed his practice in 1989 as a result of the well-publicized scandal. He worked in car sales and then retail, until he was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2006. His battle with the disease ended July 23, 2019.
Gary was preceded in death by his father in 1965, his mother in 1993, his daughter Tina Lee Hagman Smith in 2006, his wife in 2009, and his half-brother Larry Hagman in 2012. He is survived by his daughter Dana Helen Hagman of Weatherford, the children of Larry Hagman, cousins, and lifelong friends.
For the past two years, Gary resided at Holland Lake Nursing Center. A very special thank you is extended to the facility for the excellent care he received and to Nurse Beverly for her support and comfort at the end.
Contributor: S. G. Williams (46810763)
White's Funeral Home
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