She is the kind of woman I wish I had known – Donna Hooks Fletcher. A woman who wore pants, undoubtedly swore when no one was listening, raised cattle, and made a name for herself as a Valley rancher during a time when few women wore pants.
Donna Hooks Fletcher, of course, is the woman after whom the city of Donna, Texas, is named. There’s also a museum in town named after her.
She died in 1969 at the age of 90. Back in the 1980s, I knew a lot of people who would have known her – Andrew Champion, Henrietta Weaver,