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Nov. 8—ODESSA — James Ratliff "Buzz" Hurt was the grandson of Ector County ranching pioneers Sarah Jane "Miss Sallie" Whittenburg Ratliff and Harvey Stewart "Bud" Ratliff. Miss Sallie and Bud ...
Noël worked to establish the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, which opened in Odessa with barely a thousand students in 1973. [3] In 1974, Noël and his wife, the former Ellen Witwer (March 21, 1914 – May 1, 2008), [2] with an initial outlay of $245,525, endowed the Ellen and Bill Noël Scholarship Fund at UTPB.
Kiss and Kill" refers to the March 20, 1961 homicide of Betty Williams, a teenager from Odessa, Texas, United States. She was killed by her ex-boyfriend John Mack Herring (September 23, 1943 [ 1 ] – January 5, 2019) at her own request in Winkler County, Texas .
In 1958, he moved to Odessa in Ector County in West Texas to enter the oil and natural gas business with his brother-in-law, Morris Ford "Jake" Lawless (1903–1986). Within the next several years, Juedeman exerted a behind-the-scenes role in the development of the Permian Basin division of the Texas Republican Party and did not always receive proper recognition for his role as the original ...
Aug. 1—A 78-year-old Odessa, Washington, man died in a motorcycle crash Wednesday night. John D. Hardt was driving shortly before 5 p.m. on State Route 21 in Odessa when he went off the road and ...
Jonathan Pierce Hildreth, known professionally as Jonathan Pierce (November 15, 1967 – May 9, 2020), [1] [2] was an American CCM, gospel singer from Odessa, Texas and an interior designer in Nashville. Pierce used his first and middle name while omitting his last name for career purposes.
David Albert Dowler (born 1953) [1] is an American serial killer who poisoned three acquaintances in Odessa, Texas with chloroform and cyanide between 1983 and 1987. Convicted of a single murder, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988. [2]
John Hayden Fry (February 28, 1929 – December 17, 2019) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Southern Methodist University (SMU) from 1962 to 1972, North Texas State University—now known as the University of North Texas—from 1973 to 1978, and the University of Iowa from 1979 to 1998, compiling a career coaching record of 232–178–10.