Oral History Interview

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Delia Hooks was born in Mission, Texas during the 1920's.

Interview conducted in 1987 by Veronica Garcia. Digital transfer completed on 10 December 2013 from the analog cassette tape.

Scope and Contents Delia O. Ramirez Alaniz talks about: life as a child, family, education, religion, and funerals in Havana, Texas. She also talks about marriage and land grants. Additionally, she talks about how one of her teachers started a Tabasco school on fire, how Texas Rangers killed a Mexican, Patricio Perez and Senovia Perez, A.Y. Baker of Edinburg, how Juan Cortina is a relative of hers, Clay Henry Davis, Josefa De La Garza Perez, land title for Fort Ringgold, Porciones 70, 71, 72, 78, 80, 81, 88,...

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Dewitt Talmage Knight was born in 1920 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Interview conducted on 31 January 1990 by Robert E. Norton. Digital transfer completed on 17 December 2013 from the original analog cassette tape. Hidalgo County Historical Commission. Part 1 of 2.

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Didio Cecilio Rodriguez was born in 1917 in Rio Grande City, Texas.

Interview conducted in 1987 by Linda Pena. Digital transfer completed on 26 February 2014 from the original analog cassette tape.

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Dolores Tanguma was born in 1916 in Pharr, Texas.

Interview conducted in 1987 by Diana M. Tanguma. Digital transfer completed on 17 March 2014 from the original analog cassette tape.

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Interview conducted in 1987 by Maria Del Rosario Ybarra. Digital transfer completed on 26 February 2014 from the original analog cassette tape.

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Dominga T. Esparza talks about her experiences at school and her life style. She talks about her views on teenagers now as compared to then. Interview conducted in 1987 by Diana Barrientes. Digital transfer completed on 30 October 2013 from the original analog cassette tape.

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Domingo Alcazar covers his school years at an early age. He also talks about his job and about education. Interview conducted in Spanish by Jose Trinidad Molina in 1987. Digital transfer completed on 01 October 2013 from the original analog cassette tape. Poor quality recording.

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Dorothy Irene Hoekstra was born in 1910 in Rome, New York. She talks about education and politics.

Interview conducted in 1987 by Patricia Laura Pena. Digital transfer completed on 10 December 2013 from the original analog cassette tape.

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Dorothy Josephine Maples was born in 1909. She talks about the Rio Grande River, bandit raids, modern-day education and land sales.

Interview conducted on 1 November 1985 by Dawn Chatham. Digital transfer completed on 19 September 2013 from the original analog cassette tape.

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Eddie Clarence Hedges was born in 1921. He talks about his grandparents, parents, birth, and boyhood in Mission, Texas. He also relates his experiences in the Army Air Corps.

Interview conducted on 8 March 1990 by Robert E. Norton. Digital transfer completed on 3 December 2013 from the original analog cassette tape. Hidalgo County Historical Commission.

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Edilberto Flores talks about when he was a football coach, his work as an administrator, as well as what he learned from sports, and the sports community in the Rio Grande Valley.

Hometown Teams Oral Histories.

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Edna Doris Parks Dubois tells of her childhood in Colorado, her move to the Valley, stories of early Valley life and the telephone system. She was born 1 December 1897, in Longmount, Colorado.

Interview conducted on 18 July 1989 by Robert E. Norton. Digital transfer completed on 28 October 2013 from the analog cassette tape. Hidalgo County Historical Commission.