Marshall Applewhite attended Brackenridge High School, and his family has longtime Bexar County ties
Applewhite Jr. was born in Spur, a small city 60 miles east of Lubbock. He attended Brackenridge High School in San Antonio in the mid-1940s and graduated from Corpus Christi High School in 1948, where he was president of the school's National Society chapter.
A patch made by the Heaven's Gate cult. The"away team" was a cheeky joke about how they would be leaving the planet.Shortly after the mass suicide, Applewhite Jr.'s older sister, Louise Winant, told reporters that he would likely be buried at the family plot in San Antonio. However, subsequent stories indicate that some families took issue with it. After the autopsies and the victims were identified by authorities, all the bodies were ordered to be cremated.
The Applewhite ranch, once encompassing more than 4,500 acres, led to the naming of Applewhite Road, a largely rural road that runs south from Texas 16 and ends about halfway to Poteet. Marshall Applewhite Jr., right, leads a rehearsal of the Festival Chorus shortly before its initial concert appearance on Nov 21, 1969, at Jones Hall in Houston.After graduating from Austin College and studying briefly at a theological seminary in Virginia, Applewhite Jr. married Ann Francis Pearce of Corpus Christi. They hadThose who knew Applewhite Jr.