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Education. Texas Tech University. West Texas A&M University ( BS) UT Health San Antonio ( MS) Mary Anita Thigpen Perry (born May 5, 1952) is an American nurse who was the longest-serving First Lady of Texas, being in that role from 2000 to 2015. She is married to former Texas Governor Rick Perry.
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 18, 2011 · 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 her husband, Rick Perry, to run...
May 18, 2022 · Perry earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from West Texas State University, now West Texas A&M University, and a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.
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....
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.
Early life and education. 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.
