Highlighting Texas Strong Women and Texas history
How does loss and grief become a blessing? I’ve said before that writing is how I heal. And never is the weight of grief more lifted than when I’m writing letters to my mom. As it turns out, being an Alzheimer’s daughter gave me a voice. Dear Mom, I don’t know if you can read my…
Dixie Dee Benton Stucky died June 22, 2013, a few months before her 60th birthday, at San Marcos Nursing & Rehab after fighting Alzheimer’s disease for more than 10 years. Dixie was born in Houston, Texas October 11, 1953. Dixie Benton Stucky (1953-2013) As a child “Dee Dee” loved riding her horses and helping her…
Remember the Alamo Today marks the 177th anniversary of the fall of the Alamo in the Texas Revolution. From the Texas State Historical Association: March 06, 1836 On this day in 1836, the chapel of San Antonio de Valero Mission, under siege for thirteen days by the Mexican army under General Antonio Lòpez de Santa Anna, was…
