Barbara Funkhouser
American journalist, newspaper editor and writer
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- Bachelors Journalism Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Barbara Funkhouser was an American journalist, newspaper editor, and writer. Funkhouser was the first woman to serve as editor of the El Paso Times, a position she held from 1980 until 1986. Early life She was born on March 1, 1930, at the Hotel Dieu hospital in El Paso, Texas. She was raised on her family's farm in Fairacres, New Mexico, which her parents had purchased in 1924. Her father died when she was just six-years old, leaving her mother to run the family farm with hired farm workers. She graduated from Las Cruces Union High School in nearby Las Cruces, New Mexico, and received her bachelor's degree in 1952 from New Mexico State University. Following college, Funkhouser participated in six month exchange program in Belgium through 4-H. She then worked for 4-H, based in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, for five years before moving back to New Mexico.
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