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After Cross’ death in 1970, his wife, Vivian, led the Record-Chronicle until she retired in 1986, when Fred and Patsy Patterson took ownership. The Pattersons devoted their time and resources to supporting the arts and cultural communities in Denton, including leading the committee that raised $2 million to revive the Campus Theatre on Denton ...
Merrill Leroy Ellis (9 December 1916 Cleburne, Texas – 12 July 1981 Denton, Texas) was an American composer, performer, and experimental music researcher.He is most known for his work with electronic and intermedia compositions, new compositional techniques, development of new instruments, and exploration of new notation techniques for scoring and performance.
The Ellis Unit housed the State of Texas death row for men until 1999. Allan B. Polunsky Unit houses the State of Texas death row for men. Huntsville Unit, the location of the Texas state execution chamber. On April 29, 1994, a jury in Denton County convicted James Lee Clark of robbery and the murder and rape of Crews.
From 2009 to 2011, he coached at Denton Ryan High School. After, he spent six years as the head coach at Irving High School before returning to Denton Ryan to serve as a defensive coordinator ...
Airplanes began scanning the Denton area and motorboats were used to search ponds and lakes. Search parties searched the forest, [7] as well as tanks, storm drains, creeks, country roads and abandoned wells. The search went statewide as police checked out drivers of light-colored convertibles in Texarkana and Denton, but came up with nothing.
Gates was born to Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Gates, [3] in Dallas, Texas.She grew up in nearby Denton, and was described as "a child wonder." [4] A 1932 newspaper article about an Easter program at Robert E. Lee School noted, "Nancy Gates, presenting a soft-shoe number, will open the style show."
Bill Slack, Jr., Assistant Pastor of the First Methodist Church of Denton, who had visited the Summerlins while Mary Jo was near death in the hospital, had encouraged Summerlin to compose Requiem. Dr. Roger Ellwood Ortmayer (1916–1984), then of the Perkins School, commissioned the work. [3]
Afterwards doublewide trailers and recreational vehicles appeared in the city limits. Candace Carlisle of the Denton Record-Chronicle said that Corral City "prospered" for a decade, but after the early 1990s retirement of Geneva Helton's and the death of her husband, the town, in Carlisle's words, "began a slow decline. Soon, all that remained ...