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The Monitor is a newspaper in McAllen, Texas that covers Starr and Hidalgo counties. It was owned by Freedom Communications until 2012, when Freedom papers in Texas were sold to AIM Media Texas. [2] The Monitor's Spanish-language sister paper, La Frontera, shut down in 2009. [3] It shares content with the Valley Morning Star and The Brownsville ...
Location of Hidalgo County, Texas, near the US-Mexico border. Irene Garza was born in 1934. [1] Her parents, Nicolas and Josefina, owned a dry cleaning business in McAllen, Texas, a city located in the South Texas border region known as the Rio Grande Valley. By the time Garza was a teenager, her parents' business had become successful, and the ...
Catherine "Gerrie" Naughton (1942–2009) was a Roman Catholic nun of the Sisters of Mercy (RSM). In 1987 she founded ARISE Adelante to serve people, mostly women and children, living in the unincorporated colonias (low-income, informal communities sometimes called slums) of the Rio Grande Valley. [1]
History of the Texas Press and the Texas Press Association (Dallas: Harben-Spotts, 1929) Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Newspapers and Radio", Texas: A Guide to the Lone Star State, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House, pp. 120– 124, hdl:2027/mdp.39015002677667 – via HathiTrust; Works Progress Administration (1941).
Strohmeyer first played college football as a freshman for the Texas A&M Aggies. He then joined the United States Navy in 1943. He played football on several military bases, earning Service Football All-America honors in 1944 and 1945. [3] [4] Strohmeyer lettered for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish from 1946 to 1947. [5]
Charles Harrelson was born on July 23, 1938, in Lovelady, Texas, [3] the son of Alma Lee (née Sparks; 1907–2002) and Voyde Harrelson (1901–1976). He was married to Nancy Hillman Harrelson, Diane Lou Oswald, Jo Ann Harrelson, and Gina Adelle Foster. Harrelson worked as an encyclopedia salesman in California, and as a professional gambler.
Juanita García (February 14, 1943 — McAllen, Texas January 26, 2014) [2] was a Tejano singer. Career.
In 1964, de la Garza, a strong supporter of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, ran for the United States House of Representatives and won a seat in South Texas. From 1981 to 1994, he was the chairman of the Agriculture Committee , leading the way in passing bills that reorganized the agricultural lending system, the farm insurance system, the ...