On November 13, surrounded by family and listening to Guy Clark songs in the capital of the state on which he left such an enormous mark, David Richards left us at the age of 92.
How to capture the life of such a man in such a small space?
The obituary his daughter, Ellen Richards, wrote follows David and Ann Richards from law school in Austin to Dallas, where David joined the Mullinax & Wells law firm, then back to Austin, leaving behind what David would later describe as a right-wing hysteria that made Dallas “a scary place.”
