Obituaries by Molly Ivins

“My father and I had many bitter quarrels about the civil-rights movement and the Vietnam War. But I also remember how he made wonderful breakfasts every Sunday, and took us all on the Great American Vacation in the West. (“We’re off, like a dirty shirt!”)”

Read Online

Molly Ivins, in “An Elegy for Big Jim,” Texas Observer, May 8, 1998, accessed July 27, 2016, http://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1998/05/08#page=14.

Also Published In

Molly Ivins, “A Mighty Oak of a Man, Fallen in His Winter,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram April 26, 1998.

Molly Ivins, “A Mighty Oak of a Man, Fallen in His Winter,” in You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You (New York: Vintage Books, 1999), 246-9.