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In 1985, the Dr. Héctor Pérez García Endowed Chair was created at Yale University. In 1988, the main branch of the Corpus Christi post office was renamed in his honor. In 1996, a nine-foot (2.7 m) statue of him was dedicated at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi.
He died in Corpus Christi in the spring of 2012 at the age of seventy-six. He is interred at Texas State Cemetery in Austin. [1] In December 2003, the Carlos Truan Natural Resources Building at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, a facility for which he had obtained funding a decade earlier, was named in his honor. [3]
His "funeral cortage was one of the largest ever seen in Corpus Christi" says his obituary, and businesses closed for the service. Felix Anton von Blucher (1819–1878) is the great-nephew of the Field Marshal von Blũcher who led German forces at the Battle of Waterloo .
There has been a newspaper in Corpus Christi for almost as long as there has been a town. In 1883, the Caller was started in a frame building at 310 North Chaparral, now the site of Green's Jewelers. Roy Miller was editor of the Caller 1907–1911, when it was an enterprise of the King Ranch; he sold his interest in it in 1929.
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A Honduras gang member who was illegally in the US “giggled” as he admitted kidnapping a young Texas woman at gunpoint and threatening to pimp her out and sell her organs, according to cops.
Wayne Osmond, one of the original members of the Osmonds sibling singing group, died Wednesday in Salt Lake City. He was 73. Merrill Osmond, one of Wayne Osmond’s brothers, shared on Facebook ...
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