. On Dec. 7, 1941, he was an Army Air Corps enlistee at Hickam Field on the island of Oahu. After Bachman moved to San Antonio with his wife and son, few people were aware he was a survivor of the attack until in recent years. First responders from area police and fire departments paraded their vehicles by his modest Northwest Side house to salute him on his most recent birthday.
. He worked at the Hearst Corp. for 29 years and was publisher of the Beaumont Enterprise and the Midland Reporter-Telegram as well as the Light. Hearst closed the Light in 1993 to buy the rival Express-News from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Irish then led the Hearst Newspapers Group and two of the Hearst family’s philanthropic foundations. He supported local charities and civic works, including the San Antonio Symphony and the historic San Fernando Cathedral. He died on Sept. 13 at 78.
Lucky the elephant at the San Antonio Zoo in 2017. The Asian elephant was one of the oldest in the country.one of the oldest Asian elephants in the country, found a home at the San Antonio Zoo in 1962