
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, August 17, 1995                   TAG: 9508170081
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
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WAC LEADER, EXECUTIVE DIES AT 90

Oveta Culp Hobby, the creator of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps in World War II; the first secretary of health, education and welfare; and a longtime executive at the recently closed Houston Post, died Wednesday at her home in Houston. She was 90.

Hobby, whose media holdings made her one of the nation's richest women, suffered a stroke in April, her family said.

``Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap,'' she once said. ``And nothing in my life would have been possible without Governor.''

``Governor'' was her husband, William P. Hobby, an easygoing newspaperman who was the top elected official in Texas from 1917 to 1921.

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