FORT WORTH — Longtime Fort Worth attorney Ronald Gary Knight died peacefully Wednesday, May 30, 2012, losing a long battle with cancer and the complications of a transplant. Memorial service: 2 p.m. Thursday, June 7, at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 917 Lamar St., Fort Worth, with the Very Rev. William McKeachie officiating. Interment: A graveside service will be held in Odessa at a time yet to be determined. Friends may call on the family at 1 p.m. Thursday. Memorials: The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to the Ronald G. Knight Memorial Fund for Bone Marrow Research and Transplant Patient Support, in care of Edward Agura, M.D., Baylor University Cancer Hospital, 3410 Worth St., Suite 300, Dallas, Texas 75246. Mr. Knight was born Nov. 26, 1947, in Odessa, the grandson of Odessa pioneers Guy and Ruth Anderson. He was a 1966 graduate of Permian High School. He received a B.A. in history and government in 1970 and a J.D. in 1973, both from the University of Texas at Austin. He was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity. Mr. Knight was a Christian who believed in living his faith in service to others. He served Texas in many capacities. Early in his career, he was an assistant district attorney in Tarrant County, where he assisted in the Cullen Davis trial. He also served in the Texas Attorney General’s Office as a deputy attorney general in the oil and gas division and then as chief of the consumer protection division. After years in private practice, Mr. Knight returned to pubic service in Tarrant County as an associate judge and then as an assistant district attorney working in the area of mental health. Ronnie was a devoted and loving father, brother and uncle. His passions were family, history, movies and, especially, Permian High School and Texas Longhorn football. He was a member of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Fort Worth. His parents, Lucille Anderson Templeton, Richard Garland Knight and Charles A. Templeton, preceded him in death. Survivors: Son, William Anderson Knight of Fort Worth; brothers, Richard Rush Knight and sister-in-law, Peggy Knight, of Missouri City, Joel Knight of Hampstead, N.C., and Charles A. Templeton II of Arlington; sister, Laurie Knight Belangia of Greenville, N.C.; and many nieces, nephews, cousins, colleagues and friends.
