Peppy Blount Dies

LONGVIEW — Funeral services are scheduled Friday for well known Longview attorney R. E. Peppy Blount. He died yesterday morning at his home at the age of 85.

Over the years Blount wore many hats. He played football for the Texas Longhorns on championship Cotton, Sugar, and Orange Bowl teams. He also lettered in basketball and baseball. He was the co-emcee for the East Texas segment of the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon for over three decades and he is the author of four books published by Eakin Press of Austin.

According to his obit at the Rader Funeral Home, in the General Election of 1962 Blount was elected Gregg County Judge on a write-in ballot, the highest elective office ever achieved in the State of Texas by a write-in ballot on voting machines.