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The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Sweetwater, Texas. Pages in category "People from Sweetwater, Texas" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
Baugh was born on March 17, 1914, in Temple, Texas, [1] the second son of James, a worker on the Santa Fe Railroad, [2] and Lucy Baugh. His parents later divorced and his mother raised the three children. [2] When he was 16, the family then moved to Sweetwater, Texas, [1] and he attended Sweetwater High School. [3]
Libby Thompson continued running her Sweetwater brothel until she retired in 1921 at the age of 66. Although most of her sons had turned to crime and her daughters followed her into prostitution, she spent her elderly years living in Palmdale, California , among her various children's homes.
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Active in many business and civic organizations, McCoy has served on several councils and board of directors in the Omaha, Nebraska-area and on the national level. He has served two terms as the Air Force Association national president and two terms as its chairman of the board. [3] McCoy died on July 13, 2022, at the age of 91. [4]
James Emery Paster (January 30, 1945 – September 20, 1989) [1] and Stephen Albert McCoy (December 17, 1948 – May 24, 1989) [2] were American serial killers who murdered at least three people in Texas between 1980 and 1981. Both were sentenced to death and executed at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, via lethal injection.
McCoy McLemore Jr. [1] (April 3, 1942 – April 30, 2009) was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the 1960s and 1970s. He played college basketball at Drake University before being drafted by the San Francisco warriors in the 3rd round of the 1964 NBA draft .
Sweetwater is the center of the Western Hemisphere's leading wind power generation region and West Texas has more than 4,000 megawatts of operational wind energy. Nolan County alone would currently rank as the eighth-largest "nation" in terms of wind energy generation - with more than 1,500 MW installed.