Ivey, Ben
August 20, 2026
Ben Ivey, a prominent Lower Valley farmer, civic figure, and patriarch of one of El Paso’s best-known families, died at age 80 at the family’s adobe home after a long illness that included lung cancer and emphysema. Born in 1920 in a West Texas oil-field tent, he moved with his family to El Paso in…
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