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Rod Bockenfeld, 69, American politician, member of the Colorado House of Representatives (2019–2025). [245] Sukri Bommagowda, 88, Indian folk singer. [246] Edgerton Roland Clarke, 95, Jamaican Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Montego Bay (1967–1994) and archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica (1994–2004). [247]
David J. Porter, Republican, Texas Railroad Commission member, 2010–2016; Carol Schwartz, former member of the D.C. city council, raised in Midland; W. E. "Pete" Snelson, member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature from Midland; later an educational consultant in Austin; Clayton Williams, businessman and 1990 gubernatorial candidate
Barbara Green Culver (later Barbara Culver Clack; February 9, 1926 – September 12, 2016) was a justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Culver was born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Lawrence F. and Alice Bryson Green. [1] She graduated from Texas Tech University in 1947.
Later, Governor Greg Abbott presented his family with a posthumous Star of Texas, an award given to every Texas police officer shot in the line of duty, in a ceremony at the state capitol. [14] The section of Farm-to-Market Road 307 on which Midland police headquarters is located was named the Officer Hayden Heidelberg Memorial Highway since it ...
Sandstorm, 1894 Main Street, 1894. Midland was established in June 1881 as Midway Station, on the Texas and Pacific Railway.Its name came from its central location between Fort Worth and El Paso, but because there were already other towns in Texas named Midway, the city changed its name to Midland in January 1884 when it was granted its first post office.
Aug. 13—Costco, which operates a chain of membership-only big-box warehouse club retail stores, is coming to Midland. The Midland Development Corporation unanimously approved a performance ...
Stephens was born March 8, 1938, in De Leon, Texas, one of five children to Martin Elmore Stephens, a watermelon and peanut farmer, and Hazel Lila Stephens (née Johnson; 1905–2011). [5] [6] He earned his Bachelor of Science in 1961 and his Master of Science in 1962, both in Petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. [7]
Founded in 1885, the church was the first congregation organized in Midland. The church completed its first building at 100 N. Main in 1889 and moved to its current site at 300 N. Main in 1907. The current sanctuary was dedicated in 1968, and the Glass Memorial Chapel—the location of the Bush-Welch wedding—was completed in 1976.