Deceased October 6, 2011
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In Memory
Tex Asche died Oct. 6, 2011, following a severe stroke. His father was of the Class of 1927. Tex came from Deerfield, where he played football, was All-American as a diver and was named as alternate to the 1948 U.S. Olympic Diving Team. At Amherst, he joined DKE fraternity, sang in the DQ and continued on the swim team. His freshman year he met a Smith girl, Jean Craig, and they were married after sophomore year, living in G.I. Village. After Amherst, he worked at Ling-Temco-Vought in Dallas and Hawaii; Tamarind Developments Ltd. in Freeport, Grand Bahamas; and in Frankfurt, Germany, where he focused on real estate in Europe and the Bahamas. When his father died, he returned to Texas to manage family cattle ranches, although he remained active in real estate with the Sea and Pines Corp. of Rehoboth Beach, Del.
He had three children with Jean Craig, but they were divorced after seven years. He had two children with his second wife, Barbara, but that marriage also ended in divorce, as did brief marriages to number three and four. In 1977, he married Sallie; this marriage lasted to the end.
In 1997, a first stroke left him wheelchair-bound, but his mind remained clear and he attended to business matters. These were so successful that he endowed a chair in ophthalmology and, in 2004, donated funds for a new wing for treatment of strokes and brain injuries at the Center for Brain Health, both at the University of Texas.
Tex had many interests. He organized a barber shop quartet that appeared on radio and TV. He raced cars for 10 years and helped found the Sebring twelve-hour Grand Prix of Endurance. While in the Bahamas, he helped found the Underworld Explorers Club. He had homes in Palm Beach, Fla., and Dallas.
Dick Snodgrass ’51