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Deter, Dr. Russell

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Deter, Dr. Russell

August 20, 2026

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Dr. Russell L. Deter, a prominent El Paso physician and anti-drug campaigner, died on Nov. 12, 1996, at age 86. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1910 to Southern Baptist missionary parents, he came to the United States as a teenager, studied at Hardin-Simmons University and Baylor University, and…

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