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Original Ninfa's on Navigation Boulevard. Maria Ninfa Rodriguez Laurenzo [1] (nicknamed Mama Ninfa, [2] May 11, 1924 – June 17, 2001), born with the family name Rodriguez, [3] was an American restaurateur from Houston, Texas, who founded the restaurant Ninfa's.
It is unknown if she did carry James Morgan's surname, as was supposed, although this was the custom for indentured servants and slaves at the time. [1] Also, arriving coincidentally in Morgan's Point on board Morgan's schooner from New York was Emily West de Zavala, [1] the wife of the interim vice president of the Republic of Texas, Lorenzo de Zavala, and grandmother of Adina Emilia De ...
Lorenzo is a city in Crosby County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census , the city population was 964, [ 4 ] down from 1,147 in 2010 . [ 5 ] It is part of the Lubbock Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Ann Richards (1933–2006), second woman governor of Texas (1991–1995); state treasurer (1983–1991) Cecile Richards (1957–2025), liberal political activist, daughter of Ann Richards; Matt Rinaldi (born 1975), member of Texas House of Representatives from Dallas County since 2015; Roy R. Rubottom Jr. (1912–2010), diplomat
Olive was born the third of seven children to Royce Boise Oatman (1809-1851) and Mary Ann Sperry Oatman (1813-1851) in La Harpe, Hancock County, Illinois. [1] In 1839, her parents left the Methodist church and joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) under the leadership of Joseph Smith. [1]
In 2015, Lorenzo returned to her hometown of Austin, Texas. Lorenzo has been a board member of the special-effects software company The Foundry, the knowledge management company humanLearning, the Edmonton-based charitable facilitator The Network of Giving, the disaster housing business Reaction Housing (which was established by a former ...
Edith W. Locke (1902): [4] [5] First female admitted to practice law in Texas, though she did not exercise the right; Hortense Sparks Ward (1910): [6] [7] First female lawyer in Texas, as well as the first female admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court (1915) Florence Bates (1914): [8] One of the first female lawyers in Texas ...
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 ...