<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/obituaries/ralph-cole-jr.html" dsn="news"><item_date>03/23/2015 1:30:00 pm</item_date><category_header>Obituary</category_header><image/><firstname>Ralph</firstname><middlename>L.</middlename><maidenname/><lastname>Cole Jr.</lastname><suffix/><graduation-Year>'55</graduation-Year><relationship-to-university>Alumni</relationship-to-university><degree-program-completed/><position-held-at-the-university/><title>Ralph Cole Jr.</title><author/><type>obituary</type><categories/><relationships><relationship>Alumni</relationship></relationships><main-content>Ralph L. ‘Buddy’ Cole Jr. (’55), Pilot Point. He was a member of Kappa Alpha at North Texas. He worked in banking, and served as a Denton County commissioner and judge. A hunter and fisher, he was a Texas Master Naturalist and wrote outdoors columns for the Denton Record-Chronicle and the Pilot Point Post Signal.</main-content></item>