Michael Foy Coggins, age 74, of Converse, Texas passed away on Thursday, February 1, 2024. Michael was born in Columbus, Georgia to Bennie Foy Coggins and Mary Frances Barton.
Veteran print journalist Gilbert Tagle, Jr., 68, most well-known as the former editor of the Edinburg Daily Review in the 1980s and 1990s, didn’t come up with the famous saying, “It’s a newspaper’s duty to print news and raise hell.”
Ten years ago this August, (the 15th), singer/songwriter Toby Keith landed in Pharr for the city’s annual Hub Phest. General admission tickets went on sale for $50; $85 for VIP seats. He was 53 at the time. This Monday at the age of 62, he would have turned 63 in July, the one-time country superstar passed away after battling stomach cancer for the past two-plus years.
Okay, 10 years may not sound like history in the real sense, but since I’ve now reached the age where I think in terms of decades, as in, what will the next decade portend, it still seems like a lot.
Hidalgo County has always had its fair share of colorful, outspoken characters, most of whom have proven to be thorns in the side of elected officials.
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