Pebble Hills was financed by a bond approved by voters in 1979 and in 1980 the Ysleta Independent School District opened the school at 11145 Edgemere Boulevard. A new addition was built to Pebble Hills in 1990 and the mascot is the bobcat. Walter Cross was the first principal. Cross taught at Marian Manor Elementary […]
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Drury Bird: El Paso’s defender of animals
Drury Bird was born in Clarksville, Texas and grew up in El Paso, she was a foster child, being the adopted daughter of the Cass Family. She was adopted by the Cass family after the death of her parents in a car accident. Bird was close to her adopted sister, Marie Cass and the two lived together at 2811 […]
Alice Holder: El Paso Pioneer Business Woman
Alice Holder was named Realtor of the Year in 1973 by the El Paso Realtor Board. Holder got in the real estate business after the death of her husband. Holder worked in a prominent El Paso real estate firm then opened her own reality firm in 1964. Holder first office was at the Executive Center […]
Curator Corner: Dedication of J.M. Hanks High School
While I was archiving some material into our Pass Perfect Archive Database, I found the Dedication and Open House program for J.M. Hanks High School on 2001 Lee Trevino Dr. The high school was established in 1978 and it started off as a junior high school. The first graduating class was in 1982. The actual building […]
2016 Hall of Honor Banquet
Here is a selection of photos from our 56th Annual Hall of Honor Banquet which honored Luis Jimenez, Michael Hudson, Holly Thurston Cox and Paco Jordan.
Early El Paso Women Fire Fighters
El Paso’s first woman firefighter was Karla Paige Bedell-Wingfield. She graduated from the El Paso Fire Academy in April of 1993. Wingfield was the first woman in the 100 history of the El Paso Fire Department to do so. Wingfield later went on to become a nurse practitioner, practicing in El Paso. Stephanie Hornbuckle joined Wingfield as a […]
J.J. Smith: Lower Valley Farmer and Politican
J.J. Smith came to El Paso with his family to from Illinois. Smith settled in Ysleta in the early 1900s where he founded the Ysleta Pear Packing Plant. He had two pear orchards on North Loop near Roseway in Ysleta. He also set up a residence for himself, his mother, sister and her husband, George Huffman, […]
Early El Paso Policewomen
In 1913 , Mrs. C.A. Hooper, Mrs. L.P. Jones, and Juliet Barlow were the earliest women to serve as city police officers in El Paso. Jones was superintendent of the local charity association, Barlow was a nurse for El Paso Baby District, and Jones was a visiting nurse with the local tubercular association. Their primary duties […]
Edna Scotten Ferris
Edna Elaine Scotten was born on March 30, 1884 in El Paso, in a house on 1019 N. Campbell. She was the first child of Frank “Union” Scotten and Mary Collins. Her grandfather, Gerome Collins, founded a float transfer hack and drayage firm in El Paso. Frank was involved in railroad and mining contraction and […]
Ruth Munro Augur and Other Women UTEP Pioneers
Ruth Munro Augur was born in Austin, Texas in 1886. She studied art in New York, trained under two well-known artist, Robert Henri and William Chase. Augur studied at Otis Art Institute and California School of Fine Arts. In 1911 she worked as a sports and society page editor for the El Paso Herald and […]