Former Houston newspaper editor's waterlogged 団体／死体 is 設立する in a sandpit two weeks after Harvey
- Jim Simmon's waterlogged 団体／死体 was 設立する Tuesday, 20 miles from his home
- He went 行方不明の on August 30 after he went out for a cup of coffee に引き続いて ハリケーン Harvey
- After six hours he called his son Luke to tell him he was lost and far from home
- Police believe the 63-year-old with dementia 溺死するd in the flood water?
Jim Simmon's waterlogged 団体／死体 was 設立する on in a sand 炭坑，オーケストラ席 more than 20 miles from his home. He was last seen wearing his Houston Astros Cap, pictured
The former editor of the Houston Chronicle was 設立する dead on Tuesday after going 行方不明の in the 影響 of ハリケーン Harvey two weeks ago.
Jim Simmon's waterlogged 団体／死体 was 設立する on in a sand 炭坑，オーケストラ席 more than 20 miles from his home.?
Police believed the 63-year-old, who was 診断するd last year with dementia, 溺死するd in the flood water, によれば the Chronicle.?
His 団体／死体 was 設立する by a man in Fort Bend 郡 who was out looking for cattle.
The father-of-two was last seen on August 30 when he left home in a Houston Astros cap to get a coffee at his favorite shop 負かす／撃墜する the street.
Six hours later he called his son Luke Simmon, who he lived with, and said he was lost and and at the Fort Bend Aquatic 中心 概略で 20 miles away from home.?
Luke told him to wait there, but by the time he arrived his father was nowhere to be 設立する.
< p class="mol-para-with-font">Jim's family searched for him for two weeks through 避難所s and online 会議s.
Police believed the 63-year-old, who was 診断するd last year with dementia, 溺死するd in the flood water
Once, his ex-wife Jamie Kaelin said they were called o the hospital to identify a man in the 集中的な care 部隊, but it turned out to be someone else.?
Kaelin said that even though they hadn't heard from him in weeks, the family didn't 推定する／予想する this 結果 as he was still an 熱心な 走者 and in perfect 形態／調整.?
'We had lead after lead,' Kaelin told the Chronicle.?
'I just kept thinking we were going to find him.'?
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After the news of his death spread his family, friends and former 同僚s all remembered him 情愛深く.?
'Jim Simmon, my friend, my former editor, fellow 製品 of 1954, fellow kayaker, an irascible blessing to Texas who could say a funny lot with a grunt and 令状 like a Hunter S Thompson of the 湾 Coast,' his longtime friend Alan Bernstein wrote online.?
He continued: '[Jim] is lost to us now on a 永久の basis, and, I hope, is enjoying perpetual roots music in another sphere.'?
The father-of-two was last seen on August 30 when he left home in a Houston Astros cap to get a coffee at his favorite shop 負かす／撃墜する the street. he is pictured lounging in a Hammock, years before his death
Jim got into Journalism after he finished his master's degree at Ameircan University in Washington, DC. His longtime friend Alan Bernstein 述べるd him as 'gruff and funny' and a 広大な／多数の／重要な editor?
Bernstein said that Jim, who is 初めは from Louisiana, was gruff and funny, and got into journalism after finishing his master's at American University in Washington, DC.?
He 述べるd his friend as a 'little big of James Dean, a little bit of Jack Kerouac.'
The Chronicle's 上級の Editor Tony Freemantle said everyone at the paper is saddened by the news of their former 同僚.?
'We remember him for his sharp wit, his かかわり合い to facts and the truth, and his dedication to 持つ／拘留するing those in 力／強力にする accountable,' Freemantle said.?
'He was a very good man. Our thoughts are with his family and his many friends.'?
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