On May 27, Mike Kress, vice president of sales and marketing at Houston-based The Bayou Companies Inc., a subsidiary of Insituform Technologies Inc., died.

He was an active member of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America Foundation and the Southern Gas Association, where he served as chairman of the Associate Members’ Managing Committee and on the SGA Board of Directors for three terms.

His knowledge of Bayou and the energy and mining industry were invaluable to Bayou during Insituform’s acquisition of Bayou.

Kress was preceded in death by his son Kenneth Eugene Kress, and is survived by his wife of 46 years, Judy Duncan Kress, and daughter Pamela Kay Kress.

Mike Kress