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Edelmira “Edie”  Salazar was born in El Paso in 1936 . She attended San Jacinto and Alamo Elementary schools and graduated from Bowie High School in 1955. Rubalcaba worked at Midland Specialty and J.C. Penny. She married Art Rubalcaba, and they raised two children together. Rubalcaba started a long career in the El Paso County District […]

Katherine “Kay” Deaver was born in Dayton, Ohio. She had no formal but was educated by a private tutor. She studied Math and Latin. Deaver moved to Cleveland where she worked in the fashion department of Halle Brother’s Department Store. She later became a buyer for the store, buying jewelry, neck ware, and other accessories […]

Julia Breck, a local club women and outspoken community leader, ran for mayor of El Paso in 1961. She was the first women to run for that position and the first women to run for any city office in decades. She had little money and organization but Breck was no token candidate, she give the […]

the article shown above is from Dec 27, 1974, El Paso Herald-Post Dr. Ann Brennan Damiani was born and raised in El Paso. She was the daughter of James and Lilian Brennan. Dr. Damiani graduated from the Texas Medical School in Galveston. Damiani became a neuropsychiatrist and was one of the handful and the first women psychiatrists […]

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Isabel Adbou Hatchett was organizer and the first president of the Miners Co-Ed Association, Women’s Division. The group met at what later became Cathedral High School. Her father was born in west Syria and opened a produce store in 1915. Hatchett was the first woman to graduate from the TWC’s  (now the University of Texas […]