Kathleen Elizabeth Sawyer
Sissy Spacek, Norah Jones, Laura Bush, Janis Joplin, Dale Evans, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mary Kay Ash (Of Mary Kay cosmetics), Ann Richards Laura Bush writes about how west Texas shaped her. "You know, the landscape is so barren. There's no room for artifice. You have to be who you are." ***** Kathleen Elizabeth Sawyer was born on July 18th, 1921 in Hillsboro, Texas to Ferman and Laura Beulah Sawyer. Her family lived nearby in an even smaller town, Osceola, Texas, south of the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Kathleen was the second child, her sister, Fermanetta, had been born in 1918. Ferman was a school superintendent, Laura stayed at home. A few newspaper blurbs of the day mention Ferman. The Amarillo Globe Times, March 3, 1925 & Pampa Daily News, June 1, 1936 Kay grew up primarily in Canadian, Texas. Canadian, founded in 1908, served as the county seat and is located in the Eastern part of the Texas panhandle, near the Oklahoma border. It has bee