'Falmouth Enterprise' Owner and Publisher Jack Hough Dead at 87

John Talcott Hough, who started at his family’s Falmouth (Mass.) Enterprise as a reporter and retired in 1991 after 15 years as its publisher, has died at age 87.

Hough, who was known as Jack, died May 23 of natural causes in Falmouth.

Hough was born into a newspaper family. His father George A. Hough Jr. was a managing editor of the New Bedford Evening Standard who bought the Enterprise in 1929. Hough, a World War II Marine veteran who saw action in Okinawa, began his journalism career as a reporter at the York (Pa.) Gazette and Daily. He joined the family newspaper in 1951.

He was predeceased by his wife, Mary, who died in 1987.