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Light,John

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Light,John

August 20, 2026

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Col. (ret.) John C. Light, a longtime El Paso resident and state president of the Christian Men’s Fellowship, traced his family’s move to Texas to about 1907, when his father relocated from Missouri through New Mexico to El Paso. Raised in a Scotch-German family, Light chose the Army while still in…

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