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Thomas O. Hancock (March 25, 1929 [1] – January 1, 2020) was an American musician widely regarded as the godfather of West Texas music. Hancock was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas , and his grandmother had him classically trained in violin.
Wesley Wendell West (1906-1984) was the second son of James Marion West and younger brother of James Marion West, Jr. Like his brother and father before him, he was a noted Texas rancher, oilman, and philanthropist.
James Marion West Jr. (September 26, 1903 – December 18, 1957) was a Texas oilman. He was the son of James Marion West Sr., the businessman who created the West family fortune, and brother of Wesley West. He was nicknamed "Silver Dollar Jim", because of his habit of throwing silver dollar coins toward passersby on the street. [1]
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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
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Judy Alter is a past president of Western Writers of America and former secretary of the Texas Institute of Letters.She holds awards from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Hall of Fame, [4] the Texas Institute of Letters, [5] and Western Writers of America (WWA), including the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement, [6] and was inducted into the WWA Hall of Fame in June 2015 ...
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