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Fire at Giddings restaurant kills owner

The Lee County Sheriff's Office responded to a fire at Loebau Wagon Stop on Sunday where they found owner Ed Pampell dead.

GIDDINGS, Texas — The Lee County Sheriff's Office responded to a fire on Sunday at a restaurant in Giddings where they found a man dead.

Owner Ed Pampell of Loebau Wagon Stop in Giddings allegedly went into a burning structure at the restaurant and did not come back out.

According to deputies, Pampell's body was found after the Giddings Volunteer Fire Department extinguished the fire.

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The building that had caught fire was an outbuilding used for cooking.

The fire is under investigation by the State Fire Marshall's Office.

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