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Hollenshead,Marvin

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Hollenshead,Marvin

August 20, 2026

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Marvin Hollenshead, director of the Physical Plant at U.T. El Paso, emerged from a hard-working farm family in Homer, Louisiana, where he was born in 1904 as one of ten children. As a boy he labored in the oil fields, became a construction superintendent at age 16 for Standard Oil, and completed…

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