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==Surprise death==
==Surprise death==
Tower was first married to the former Joza "Lou" Bullington (1920-2001), a [[California]] native who was five years his senior and a music teacher and their church pianist. Lou was a distant cousin of the 1932 Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee, Orville Bullington, also of Wichita Falls. In the first part of their marriage, the Towers resided in Wichita Falls, at which 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 and was warmly received throughout the state. 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 was first married to the former Joza "Lou" Bullington (1920-2001), a [[California]] native who was five years his senior and a music teacher and their church pianist. Lou was a distant cousin of the 1932 Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee, [[Orville Bullington]], also of Wichita Falls. In the first part of their marriage, the Towers resided in Wichita Falls, at which 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 and was warmly received throughout the state. 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.