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On August 4, 1971, Rhonda Johnson (born December 16, 1956, in Houston, Texas) and Sharon Shaw (born August 11, 1957, in Mobile, Alabama), both of Webster, Texas, spent the day on a Galveston beach, approximately one week before Shaw's fourteenth birthday. [1] [5] The girls were seen leaving the beach, but did not return home. [6]
Paskowitz was Jewish, and was born March 3, 1921, in Galveston, Texas. [8] He was one of three children born to Russian Jewish emigrants Louis and Rose Paskowitz. His sister is former actress Sonia Darrin. [9] He attended Point Loma High School, San Diego State, Stanford University, and graduated from Stanford Medical School in 1946. [10] [11] [12]
The Daily News, [2] formerly the Galveston County Daily News and Galveston Daily News, is a newspaper published in Galveston, Texas, United States. It was first published April 11, 1842, making it the oldest newspaper in the U.S. state of Texas. The newspaper founded The Dallas Morning News on October 1, 1885, as a sister publication. [3]
Get the Galveston, TX local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Of those, 8 to 13 are forecast to become hurricanes.” A car sits submerged underwater after Tropical Storm Alberto hits the Gulf Coast area. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Robert B. Hawley (1849–1921), U.S. Congressman from Texas's 10th congressional district; Louis (Blues Boy) Jones (1931–1984), R&B singer and songwriter; Sidney Sherman (1805–1873), cavalry commander in the Texas Revolution and the Republic of Texas; William H. Sinclair (1838–1897), state politician and Speaker of the Texas House from ...
The impact sent pieces of the bridge, which connects Galveston to Pelican Island, tumbling on top of the barge and shut down a stretch of waterway so crews could clean up the spill. The accident ...
William Lewis Moody Jr. (January 25, 1865 – July 21, 1954) [1] [2] [3] was an American financier and entrepreneur from Galveston, Texas, who founded a private bank, an insurance company, and one of the largest charitable foundations in the United States. [4]