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    Twenty women who influenced Denton’s history

    By Annetta Ramsay For the Denton Record-Chronicle,

    2024-03-15
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    Buy Now Dan Black’s 2020 mural Foundation of Our History marks a main entrance to Southeast Denton, on the railroad bridge at Robertson Street and Bell Avenue. The mural depicts lifelong Denton residents Betty Kimble, Ruby Cole, Alice Alexander, Alma Clark and Dorothy Minter. Cristina Sandoval/For the DRC

    March is Women’s History Month. Here are 20 women who influenced Denton’s history:

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    In this colorized photo, Bianca Babb Bell, wearing a buffalo robe, sits with her grandson Daniel Crooks in 1945. The photo comes courtesy of Bell’s great-granddaughter Anna Crooks. Courtesy photo

    Bianca Babb Bell was 10 years old when Comanches captured her near present-day Decatur in 1866. She returned to Denton to marry and raise a family. Her account of the tender care she received from her captors is the only narrative of the daily life of female Plains Indians.

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    Buy Now Mayor Euline Brock stands on a section of the Denton landfill in a 2005 photo. Brock was one of just a few Texas mayors whose cities agreed to follow the Kyoto Protocol and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to less than 1990 levels by 2012. Jim Mahoney/Dallas Morning News file photo
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    Buy Now Lifelong Denton resident Betty Kimble stands by her likeness in the Foundation of Our History  mural on Robertson Street in 2021. Kimble helped bridge the eras of racial segregation and desegregation in Denton. Jeff Woo/DRC file photo

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