{"id":356494,"date":"2015-05-23T19:13:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T00:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=356494"},"modified":"2015-05-25T13:15:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T18:15:30","slug":"former-state-representative-berman-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=356494","title":{"rendered":"Former State Representative Berman Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/Leo-Berman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/Leo-Berman-125x150.jpg\" alt=\"Leo Berman\" width=\"125\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-356495\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; After a long battle with lymphoma, former Texas state Representative Leo Berman died Saturday. He is survived by his wife, Lou Ann Berman, five children, seven grandchildren, three great-grandsons, one sister, and two brothers.  He is predeceased by wife, Cara Sue Hughey Berman. Funeral services are pending with Christ Episcopal Church.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The death of Berman brought the following comment from Tyler Congressman Louie Gohmert:<br \/>\n&#8220;Leo spent his entire adult life finding one way or another to serve his country. Til the moment his heart stopped, he loved America with all of his heart. Leo and his enthusiasm for the best in America will be sorely missed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Berman was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish immigrants from Latvia and Poland. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with Departmental Distinction from Southern Methodist University.  He graduated first in his class in the U.S. Army Field Artillery School Officer Candidate School and was inducted into the OCS Hall of Fame in 2008. <\/p>\n<p>Berman reached the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army with twenty-two years of service including duty assignments in Germany, two tours in Viet Nam and three years as a U.S. Army liaison to Congress.  He was awarded three Bronze Stars and nine Air Medals.  In 2009, he was promoted to colonel in the Texas State Guard and awarded the Lone Star Distinguished Service Medal.<\/p>\n<p>After retiring from the military, he settled in Texas. While residing in Arlington,Texas, he was a member of the city council 1979\u00e2\u20ac\u201c1985. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Berman was a retired public affairs executive for Sun Exploration and Production Company.<\/p>\n<p>Representing District 6, Mr. Berman served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1999-2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; After a long battle with lymphoma, former Texas state Representative Leo Berman died Saturday. He is survived by his wife, Lou Ann Berman, five children, seven grandchildren, three great-grandsons, one sister, and two brothers. He is predeceased by wife, Cara Sue Hughey Berman. Funeral services are pending with Christ Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":356495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 11:37:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356505,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356494\/revisions\/356505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/356495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}