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She is the youngest daughter of family physician Joseph Eltidge Thigpen (1920–2013), a native of Bay Springs, Mississippi, and homemaker Beunis Fay Ratliff Thigpen, originally from Haskell. Her parents met in Tyler , where Beunis was visiting relatives.
Oct 18, 2011 · Amarillo Globe-News. 0:04. 1:26. Long before Anita Perry became the first lady of Texas, she was Anita Thigpen, nursing student at West Texas State University. Long before she encouraged...
Oct 23, 2011 · Oct 23, 2011. Talk about meeting cute: Anita Thigpen first saw Rick Perry at a piano recital in Haskell, Texas, when she was 6 and he was 8. They began dating in high school and wed in 1982....
Sep 28, 2011 · Anita Thigpen was 14, a high school freshman from Haskell, Tx., and daughter of the local doctor, when she went on her first sort-of date with Perry, then a 16-year-old high school junior in...
May 18, 2022 · Throughout her term as the longest serving Texas First Lady, Anita Thigpen Perry worked tirelessly to promote initiatives benefiting Texans across the state. Over the years, she has developed a sterling reputation for selfless hard work, compassion and dedication.
Perry was born in Haskell, Texas. She is the youngest daughter of family physician Joseph Eltidge Thigpen (1920–2013), a native of Bay Springs, Mississippi, and homemaker Beunis Fay Ratliff Thigpen, originally from Haskell. Her parents met in Tyler, where Beunis was visiting relatives.
Anita Thigpen was born in Haskell, Texas on May 5, 1952 to Joseph Eltidge Thigpen, a family physician, and Beunis Ratliff. She began her college education at Texas Tech University and transferred to West Texas State University (now West Texas A & M University) in 1974 to earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
