Joe Patrick Bean, a public affairs specialist with the Texas State Teachers Association who formerly worked at the Victoria (Texas) Advocate, San Antonio Express-News and the Muskogee (Okla.) Daily Phoenix & Times-Democrat, died Thursday following a Dec. 17 fall. He was 51.
The Advocate, where Bean worked as editorial page editor for five years before leaving in 2007, reported Bean lost consciousness and fell about 15 feet from a parking garage onto concrete. He then had a heart attack and died Thursday in the hospital.
The Advocate said Bean was an editorial writer and columnist with the San Antonio Express-News and opinion page editor in Muskogee.











