Gloria Izaguirre

1918 - 2001  (82 years)

• Name	Gloria Izaguirre
  Birth	23 Jul 1918	Rio Grande City, Texas   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	7 Jul 2001	Austin, Texas   [1]
  Burial	Eagle Lake, Texas   [1]
  Person ID	I23765	Scudder
  Last Modified	6 Feb 2006

  
  

  Father	Lauro Izaguirre,   b. 18 May 1893, Camargo, Tamaulipas, Mexico d. 1965/6, McAllen, Texas (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Leslie Virginia Skidmore,   b. 11 Jun 1899, Laredo, Webb, Texas d. 1972 (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	1917  [1]
  Family ID	F8293	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	J.E. Stephen
  Children	1. V.L. Stephen   2. L.K. Stephen
  Family ID	F8310	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Gloria was educated at private schools in Brownsville and Los Angeles and was a graduate of the Little Flower Academy in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she learned French in addition to her native Spanish and English. She graduated from McAllen High School, where she was class salutatorian and a regional debating champion. Gloria was an honor graduate of the University of Texas, where she was among the University's first Plan II majors and a member of Omega Chapter of Alpha Phi International Fraternity. Her honors and awards there included receiving her sorority's 1939 Scholarship Award, being one of four students selected for an anthropological expedition to the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers, and playing championship intramural badminton. Gloria met her future husband, John Erle Stephen, in her first year at the University. After graduation in 1939, she taught Spanish at Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Consolidated High School in the Rio Grande Valley while he completed his law degree at the University of Texas.

  
  

• Sources

  [S741] RE: Scudder Family.