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==Surprise death==

==Surprise death==

Tower was first married to the former Joza "Lou" Bullington (1920-2001), who was five years his senior and a distant relative of former Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee Orville Bullington of Wichita Falls. The Towers resided in Wichita Falls in the early years of their marriage while she was their church pianist, and he was a political science professor at Midwestern State University. After he became senator, they relocated to Dallas. The couple had three daughters. Lou often campaigned with Tower in his the early races. In 1977, the year after his divorce from Lou, John Tower wed the former Lila Burt Cummings, from whom he was also divorced in a bitter split in 1986.

Tower was first married to the former Joza "Lou" Bullington (1920-2001), a [[California]] native who was five years his senior and a distant cousin of former Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee Orville Bullington of Wichita Falls. The Towers resided in Wichita Falls in the early years of their marriage while she was their church pianist and taught music, and he was a political science professor at Midwestern State University. After he became senator, they relocated to Dallas. The couple had three daughters. Lou campaigned vigorously for her husband in the elections of 1961, 1966, and 1972. In 1977, the year after his divorce from Lou, John Tower wed the former Lila Burt Cummings, from whom he was also divorced in a bitter split in 1987.

Tower died with his middle daughter, Marian, in the 1991 crash of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 in Brunswick, Georgia, while the two were on a promotional tour for Tower's ''Consequences: A Personal and Political Memoir'', published a few months before the crash.

Tower died with his middle daughter, Marian, in the 1991 crash of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 in Brunswick, Georgia, while the two were on a promotional tour for Tower's ''Consequences: A Personal and Political Memoir'', published a few months before the crash.