Memorial services are still being planned for Winsor, 78, who was at St. David’s North Austin Medical Center in Texas at the time of his death, according to Cole Daugherty, the senior vice president of exhibitor marketing at the Dallas Market Center.
In 1994, recognizing the prospect of greater global growth, Winsor extended the Dallas Market Center’s marketing beyond Mexico to South America. “The demand for U.S. goods is heightened the farther you get from the U.S.,” he told WWD at that time.Born in Refugio, Tex., Winsor was a graduate of Southwest Texas State University with a bachelor of science degree in communications.
Off-the-clock, he was a noted historian, a collector of Civil War artifacts, an amateur archeologist and the author of two books, “Texas and the Confederacy,” and “Let’s Cross Before Dark: A History of the Ferries, Fords and River Crossings of Texas.” And Winsor’s interest in Napoleon Bonaparte was so strong that he did some digs on battlefields where Bonaparte had fought to excavate some artifacts, Morris said.