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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.
Oct 18, 2011 · Long before Anita Perry became the first lady of Texas, she was Anita Thigpen, nursing student at West Texas State University.
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. Known as...
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.
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...
Oct 13, 2011 · Born in Haskell County in 1952, Anita Thigpen got her degree in nursing in 1974 from West Texas State University and married Perry in 1982 after a 15-year on-again, off-again courtship that...
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.