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Noël worked to establish the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, which opened in Odessa with barely a thousand students in 1973. [3] In 1974, Noël and his wife, the former Ellen Witwer (March 21, 1914 – May 1, 2008), [2] with an initial outlay of $245,525, endowed the Ellen and Bill Noël Scholarship Fund at UTPB.
Odessa (/ ˌ oʊ ˈ d ɛ s ə /) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Ector County with portions extending into Midland County. [4]Odessa's population was 114,428 at the 2020 census, making it the 34th-largest city in Texas; it is the principal city of the Odessa metropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Ector County.
Gene Mayfield (January 31, 1928 – October 2, 2009) was a former American football coach in Texas high school football. [1]Mayfield played quarterback at West Texas State University (now West Texas A&M University), where he also met his future wife Mary Jean. [2]
In 1958, he moved to Odessa in Ector County in West Texas to enter the oil and natural gas business with his brother-in-law, Morris Ford "Jake" Lawless (1903–1986). Within the next several years, Juedeman exerted a behind-the-scenes role in the development of the Permian Basin division of the Texas Republican Party and did not always receive proper recognition for his role as the original ...
Oct. 22—An Odessa woman has been charged in connection to the September death of a DPS trooper in Ector County. Laura Lorena Rodriguez was booked into the Ector County Detention Center Tuesday ...
The Odessa American is a newspaper based in Odessa, Texas, that serves Odessa and the rest of Ector County. [ 2 ] The paper is particularly notable for its Pulitzer Prize -winning picture of Baby Jessica McClure when she was rescued from her well in neighboring Midland, Texas .
ODESSA, Texas (AP) — A small plane crashed in a West Texas neighborhood Tuesday, killing the pilot and a passenger and setting off a large fire on the ground that injured a woman, authorities said.
Its county seat is Odessa. [2] The county was founded in 1887 and organized in 1891. [3] It is named for Matthew Ector, [4] a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Ector County comprises the Odessa, Texas, metropolitan statistical area, which is included in the Midland–Odessa combined statistical area.