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- Martha Jane (Curry) Hohstadt
- Married Charles H. Hohstadt in 1876.
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- Martha T. "Randy" Brown
- "Martha T. "Randy" Brown, a keystone of the Harris County Recommended Video Republican Party and former columnist at the defunct Houston Press , died Oct. 23 at her home in Telluride, Colo. She was 80. Brown lived in Houston from 1959 to 1977 and was an ardent Republican "in the days when there weren't many of us around here," recalled Nancy Palm, who was chairman of the Harris County GOP from 1968 to 1975. Brown first worked in local campaigns, then went on to organize and run campaigns for Republican candidates. I worked with her on my very first campaign," a 1972 state Senate primary, said Al Davis, state projects director for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. "She taught me how to write a press release. I remember her getting me started," said Davis. Brown was the first editor of the Republican Banner, the party's newspaper in Harris County. "She was a very talented writer," Palm said. "She was no pussyfoot, either." Brown went on to write a column, "Randy at Random," for the old Houston Press, which went out of business in 1964, and the Houston Tribune. Brown opened her own political advertising company before leaving Houston for Colorado in 1977. "She was extremely important in building the Republican Party in Harris County," Palm said. "Even her leaving Houston left a big hole among those of us who built the party in Houston." --Taken from https://www.chron.com/news/houston-deaths/article/Deaths-Randy-Brown-GOP-pioneer-in-Harris-2123490.php Link accessed 1/25/19.