August 30, 1998

Arkansas-born writer Douglas Clyde Jones died at his Fayetteville (Washington County) home from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). He was cremated, and his ashes were sprinkled over northern Arkansas’s Boston Mountains. His seventeenth novel, Sometimes There Were Heroes, which dramatizes early Texas history, was published posthumously in 2000.

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