1952-2025

A memorial service for Ruthanne Brockway, 73, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, October 11, at the College Mound United Methodist Church, located at 14490 FM 429, Terrell.

Ruthanne passed away Sept. 16, 2025. She was born June 2, 1952 in Terrell.

In June, 2025, she attended the Texas Press Association conference in Denton where she was presented with the Golden 50 Award for 50 years as a journalist.

In June, 1970, only a few days after graduating from Terrell High School, she joined the staff of the The Tyler Morning Telegraph as youth editor and reporter.

In high school, she had worked on the school newspaper and part time at the Terrell Tribune. She had a weekly broadcast on KTER, the local radio station.

She took courses at Tyler Junior College and later graduated from El Centro Junior College in Dallas. She then studied journalism and other subjects at the University of North Texas at Denton while working for the Denton Record-Chronicle.

In the 1980s she was a reporter with the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and the El Paso News and editor of the Grand Prairie Daily News and the Lewisville News.

She then spent more than two decades as a copy editor for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

A highlight of her journalistic career was teaching investigative reporting at UNT.

Until a few months ago, she had continued to live in the home she had purchased in Lewisville in the 1980s. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Lewisville.

Ruthanne was preceded in death by her parents, Olen and Erma Lou Brockway; two sisters, Margery Powell and Mary Louise Brockway; and two brothers, Marshall Ray Brockway and Mac Brockway.Abrotherin- law, Keith Carter of Georgetown, also passed away on Sept. 16, 2025.

Ruthanne is survived by a sister, Ghita Carter of Georgetown; two sisters-in-law, Nancy Brockway of Lumberton and Judie Brockway of New Braunfels; and a large number of nephews, nieces cousins and friends.