Alicia Landry, wife of longtime Dallas Cowboys football coach Tom Landry, died Thursday. She was 91.
As a teen, the then Alicia Wiggs attended both Hockaday and Highland Park High School before moving to Austin for college, where she met her future husband at the University of Texas.
“A sorority sister encouraged her to go on a blind date with a handsome UT football player named Tom Landry,” her obituary, published at Dignity Memorial’s website, said. “It was a match literally made in heaven.”
Landry led the Longhorns to an Orange Bowl win, then almost immediately afterward the two walked down the aisle, marrying in 1949.
Preston Hollow Capital LLC completed two required land sales of 9.86 acres to prepare the site of its $600 million The District for infrastructure and vertical construction on the Downtown Southbank.
Elements Development of Jacksonville, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Preston Hollow, sold 5.34 acres to The District’s Community Development District for roadway, sidewalks and other infrastructure, according to the development’s engineer, Kimley-Horn & Associates, and CDD management firm DPFG Management and Consulting LLC.
The District CDD was established in October 2018. It’s a state-regulated extension of city government that allows developers and communities to secure financing for constructing, acquiring, operating and maintaining public infrastructure improvements.
A look back at when a piece of Texas was brought to the inauguration
In honor of the inauguration day of Joseph R. Biden Jr., The Dallas Morning News remembers the inaugurations of Bush 41 and 43.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist delivers the oath of office as President George W. Bush is sworn in for a second term during his Inauguration at the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, Thursday morning, January 20, 2005. With the President, from left, are First Lady Laura Bush and twin daughters Barbara and Jenna Bush.(Smiley Pool / 82520)
George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush, led the country for a combined 12 years in office. Despite having been born in New England, the father-son duo left no impression that they were anything other than Texans, cementing this legacy by placing their presidential libraries on the Texas A&M and SMU campuses respectively.