Funkhouser, Barbara
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Birthname | Barbara Christine Funkhouser | ||||
born on | 1 March 1930 at 10:06 (= 10:06 AM ) | ||||
Place | El Paso, Texas, 31n46, 106w29 | ||||
Timezone | MST h7w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American journalist, newspaper editor, and writer, who was the first woman to serve as editor of the El Paso Times, a position she held from 1980 until 1986. She remains the only female editor in the newspaper's history. She retired from the El Paso Times on 1 June 1990, after more than thirty years with the newspaper. She then joined the faculty of New Mexico State University and worked as a part-time editorial writer for the Las Cruces Sun-News. Funkhouser wrote and published her book, The Caregivers: El Paso's Medical History, 1898-1998. She owned and operated the Tatreault Vineyard, located on her family's farm in Fairacres, New Mexico, until her death on 15 August 2014, aged 84.
Events
Source Notes
Birth certificate submitted by Sy Scholfield.
Categories
- Vocation : Business : Business owner
- Vocation : Business : Top executive
- Vocation : Food and Beverage : Marketing/ Producer (Vintager)
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Historian
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor (Editor of the El Paso Times, 1980-1986)
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction (History)
Categories:
- 1930 births
- Birthday 1 March
- Birthplace El Paso, TX (US)
- Sun 10 Pisces
- Moon 23 Pisces
- Asc 23 Taurus
- 2014 deaths
- Vocation : Business : Business owner
- Vocation : Business : Top executive
- Vocation : Food and Beverage : Marketing/ Producer
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Historian
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction