Death
Welch died at the age of eighty-nine from lung cancer on January 27, 2008 in his north Harris County residence. He was survived by his wife, Helen, five children, and seventeen grandchildren, four stepchildren and four step-grandchildren. His first wife, Iola Faye Cure, died in 1991.
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