Col. Homer E. Carrico, 67, descendant of the designer of the Texas flag, died in Houston after a brain operation Saturday. He had lived in Dallas for many years and moved to Houston only five weeks ago.

   The retired Army officer was born in Moberly, Mo., as a great-great-nephew of Joanna Troutman, who designed the Lone star flag in the 1830's. He became a calvary officer and attended cavalry schools in Texas and Kansas.

   He was former president of the Dallas chapter of the Disabled American Veterens and of the Texas Sons of the American Revolution. He was a member of Dallas' First Baptist Church and of the Carrico Masonic Lodge at Stithon, Kentucky.

   Col. Carrico served as professor of military science and tactics at Dallas high schools and Texas A & M College.

   Survivors are his wife; a son, Homer E. Carrico Jr. of Houston; two brothers, I. B. Carrico of Elizabethtown, Ky., and Frank G. Carrico of New Orleans, La., and three grandchildren.

   Incomplete funeral arrangements call for services at 3:30 p.m. Monday at Sparkman-Brand Chaple, 2115 Ross, and burial at Greenwood Cemetery. 

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submitters note:

Homer Edwin Carrico was the author of The Carrico Family published in the Filson Club Quarterly, Vol. XXV (1951).