Kim Pease, Publisher & Editor Rotan Advance Roby Star Record 1971-1998 PHOTO COURTESY FROM DAUGHTER JULIE GRUBEN
REMEMBERING KIM PEASE
President Jimmy Carter shakes the hand of Kim Pease, who traveled to D.C. during the Tractorcade protest to lobby Congress for a new Farm Bill and improved crop prices in 1979.
Before becoming the nation’s 41st President of the United States, George Bush Sr. met up with Kim Pease during a Texas Rangers spring training camp which he attended every year.
The community of Rotan is mourning the loss of former Rotan Advance– Roby Star Record publisher Kim Pease, who passed away October 2 at the age of 83.
A Air Force veteran, pioneering newspaperman, and devoted man of faith, Pease’s influence continues to be felt in the lives he touched, the family he raised, and the newspaper legacy he left behind that continues to chronicle the community he loved.
