Hatch Daily Digest Monday, August 24, 2026
Ty's Take
Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez both passed this week, which means two more names coming down off the roster of people who knew this valley before the interstates got so busy, before the suburbs started creeping north from Las Cruces. That's how it goes in a farming town. You lose people who planted and harvested alongside your neighbors, who sat in the same church pews or gathered at the roasters during festival season, and you feel the quiet of it. The Hatch Valley's a smaller place this week than it was last week. That's just the honest fact.
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Las Cruces Bulletin
Carol Ann Knapp Foreman, a longtime Las Cruces resident and devoted homemaker, passed away peacefully on May 16, 2026, at the age of 88, surrounded by family. Born in Lovington, New Mexico in 1938, Foreman graduated from Clovis High School and Eastern New Mexico University before marrying Harold W....
Clarence "Clare" Villemez, a biochemistry professor at the University of Wyoming for three decades, died peacefully on January 9, 2026, in Las Cruces at age 87. After retiring in 2003, Villemez relocated to Las Cruces with his wife, Barbara, leaving behind two adult children and several...
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