Ned Morris Wells, Jr.

Mr. Wells was born on January 22, 1946 in San Antonio, Texas. He was preceded in death by his parents, Ned Morris Wells and Grace Louise Ryan Wells, and cousin Richard Wells.

He is survived by his wife, Harriett Wells of San Antonio; son Ned (Tres) Morris Wells III and wife Cyndi Wells; granddaughter Cate Wells and grandson Connor Wells, all of Charlottesville, VA; son Ryan Reynolds Wells and wife Eliza Wells, and grandson Eli Wells of Austin; cousin Andrea Villasenor of Waring.

Mr. Wells was a 1963 graduate of Alamo Heights High School. He earned a Bachelors and Masters Degree at Southern Methodist University. After one year of law school at SMU, he enlisted in the United States Army during the Viet Nam War Era. Upon his separation from military service, he finished law school at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, earning his Juris Doctorate in 1973. He retired from the practice of law in 2013.

He was well known as a avid reader with a large collection of books that he shelved in "lawyer's bookcases" that his father, also an attorney, had purchased during the Great Depression for 50 cents a piece. Many folks sought his book recommendations. He loved loaning books to friends and family. Ned read the newspaper every single day of his life from cover to cover. He read the obituaries, but more importantly, he read the comics.

He also had a passion for stamp collecting and joined the San Antonio Stamp Club as a young child and maintained that membership his entire life. He was also a lifetime member of the American Philatelic Society.

Ned was a runner and had many, many friends in the San Antonio RoadRunners. He was proud to have a "streak" of running every single day, rain or shine, for 15 years. He said that if he couldn't run fast, as least he could run steady. A resident of Terrill Hills most of his life, he had regular routes that he followed depending on how many miles he wanted to run that day. He kept running diaries recording the time of day, temperature, and humidity - and he would make notes of the neighbors he saw and spoke to on his run. For some residents who did not know him personally, he was simply "the running man".

He had an extensive knowledge of San Antonio history. Ned was a "Nix Hospital" baby and was fairly certain that he was conceived at the Menger Hotel upon his father's return from WWII. He always told folks that he was born the same year that the Margarita was invented and that Casa Rio Mexican Restaurant was founded on the Riverwalk.

In death, he was able to assist mankind through a Gift of Hope Brain Donation made to the Southwest Brain Bank.

The family expresses a very special thanks to the nurses from San Antonio Home Health and Hospice who assisted him through some very rough patches this past year.

The family will receive visitors at Porter Loring, 1101 McCullough Avenue, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 11.

Ned loved music of all kinds, especially jazz. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to KRTU Jazz 91.7, the non-profit radio station at Trinity University. He told his wife Harriett that at one point in his life, he listened to gospel music on his way home from work, claiming it was a great antidote to 5:00 traffic. He would want everyone reading this to take time to slow down and listen to the music.