Josephine Clardy Fox - El Paso, Texas

Josephine Clardy Fox - El Paso, Texas

Josephine Clardy Fox - El Paso, Texas

Area: Central / Clardy Fox

Source: UTEP Communications

Uploaded by: El Paso Museum of History

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Joe Olvera, "Clardy-Fox residents offer mixed views about area," El Paso Herald-Post, July 4, 1984, N1 and N2.

See Book 100 Years of Women at UTEP, Texas Western Press

More info available in Handbook of TX.

March is Women's History Month.

Josephine Clardy Fox, wealthy real estate investor turned philanthropist, left the bulk of her estate to UTEP when she passed away in 1970. Born in 1881,her family moved to El Paso, Texas in 1882. She married Eugene E. Fox in 1916. She traveled extensively and was a patron of the arts. Some of her furnishings are in Hoover House the residence of UTEP's president. The Fox Fine Arts Center on UTEP's campus honors her generosity to education.

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