VAN ZANDT COUNTY, Texas — A Van Zandt County commissioner, who served in the Vietnam War as a U.S. Marine, died after a tree fell on his vehicle while he and his wife were driving. According to ...

As we walk the path of grief we celebrate that our lives were better because of Virgil Melton," The Van Zandt County Veterans Memorial said in a statement. His wife Janice, 73, who was in the ...

Van Zandt County Commissioner Virgil Melton Jr. was killed earlier this week when a tree fell on his truck during a severe thunderstorm.(Van Zandt County Veterans Memorial) Van Zandt County ...