Roy M. Huffington, who started his career as a geologist for Humble Oil and Refining Co. and went on to found Huffington Corp., which he sold in the early 1990s for about $600 million, before serving as ambassador to Austria under former President George Bush, has died at 90. Huffington founded the Huffington Foundation, which donated millions of dollars to Houston charities, and also served as the chairman of the New Yorkbased Asia Society for more than seven years in the 1980s. In 1956, he founded his own company, Huffco, and started exploring in Indonesia in the 1960s. The company made a major gas strike in Indonesia in 1972, earning millions in a two-decade partnership with the Indonesian government. He later received a master’s and Ph.D. in geology from Harvard University. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1945 on the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV- 12), receiving the Bronze Star, with Combat V, and the Presidential Unit Citation. He remained in the U.S. Naval Reserve until 1954. He and his wife, Phyllis, who died in 2003, established the Huffington Center on Aging at the Baylor College of Medicine. According to information from George H. Lewis and Sons funeral home, Huffington and his wife lived in New Mexico and Midland, Texas, in the early years of their marriage, when Huffington worked for Humble Oil and Refining. In 1951, they moved to Houston, where he founded the Huffington Corp.
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