Obituary: Edward McClinton, veteran of Texas electrical industry

Edward McClinton, 79, of Nacogdoches, Texas, passed away Feb. 25. He spent his career in the electrical business and worked with Crouse-Hinds, Nunn Electric, and Warren Electric (Houston), where he retired. He was an avid hunter and fisherman and is ...
March 16, 2012
Edward McClinton, 79, of Nacogdoches, Texas, passed away Feb. 25. He spent his career in the electrical business and worked with Crouse-Hinds, Nunn Electric, and Warren Electric (Houston), where he retired. He was an avid hunter and fisherman and is survived by his wife of 59 years, Margaret McClinton of Nacogdoches; children, Cathy Stanton and husband John of Clarksville, Tennessee; Larry McClinton and wife Charlotte of Houston; Suzy Hall and husband Mark of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Gary McClinton of Nacogdoches; a sister, Shirley McDaniel and husband Bill of Kingwood; and many grandchildren.

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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.