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19 maj 2021 · Hugh “Sunny” Asa Fitzsimons III, a soft-spoken South Texas rancher whose love of the land and conservation, prehistory and history, and his own family’s unresolved tensions led to a searing 2018 family memoir, died at home May 16 after a battle with esophageal cancer.
24 maj 2021 · Fitzsimons, a third generation rancher born in 1954 in San Antonio, passed after a battle with esophageal cancer one month after his father, Hugh “Pappy” Asa Fitzsimons Jr., also died.
6 lis 2018 · Hugh Asa “Sunny” Fitzsimons III is a beekeeper and bison herder, a third-generation South Texas rancher both blessed and burdened by his family’s legacy of trying to tame the rich, harsh Brush Country, a landscape that inevitably tames those who choose to call it home.
17 lis 2018 · Hugh Fitzsimons’ grandfather bought it with profits from the sale of shares of stock he bought while working at Spindletop for the Texas Co., later known as Texaco.
What began for Hugh Fitzsimons as a mission to expose local ecological hazards from hydraulic fracking has turned into a lifelong ache to understand the more complicated story of how his...
19 maj 2021 · He is survived by his wife, Sarah, his sons, Asa Fitzsimons and Patrick Fitzsimons, his daughter, Evelyn Clark, and her husband, Matt Clark, and grandchildren Leo and Sarah Clark, stepmother...
The hope, as Hugh Asa Fitzsimons III makes clear in his engrossing and important new book, A Rock Between Two Rivers: Fracturing a Texas Family Ranch, is that the inheritors will keep the ranch going and pass it on again—along with their love for ranching—to the next generation.
