Roll Call Tribute

Blake Brenden McCrory 

September 5, 1965 - March 29, 2025 

Blake Brenden McCrory, 59, was born on September 5, 1965 to Pat Sullivan McCrory, Sr. and Sandra Sue Swanson in Houston, Texas. Blake passed away on March 29, 2025 of a heart attack after a brief battle with Stage 2 cancer.

He spent many summers as a boy in Leakey, Texas fishing and hunting with his family, cementing his ties to the hill country. He remained a lifelong outdoorsman, criss-crossing Texas on motorcycles, boating, and fishing along the way, leading to epic adventures in Big Bend National Park.

Blake attended Texas A&M University for 2 years before transferring to UCLA where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 1992. And yet, in his heart, Blake remained a lifelong Aggie as a regular attender of football games at Kyle Field, baseball games at Blue Bell Park, and basketball games at Reed Arena with his entire family. He developed a fun but fierce rivalry with University of Texas alumni friends, including his wife Lindsey McLeod McCrory. Blake and Lindsey met in 2008 through mutual friend, Shelley Grant Tarkington IV, and married in 2012 in a picturesque wedding in Rolling Hills, California. Professionally, he began his career in film production, on movie and commercial sets in Hollywood. Later, he started a creative marketing firm called Ideology with business partner and good friend Susan DeShazer Fichaud in Houston, Texas where he served as Brand and Campaign Director. He was a devoted father to both his children, Brady Sullivan McCrory and Sarah Blakely McCrory, the lights of his life.