Hatch Daily Digest Tuesday, September 01, 2026
Ty's Take
Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez both spent their years in this valley, and now both are gone, which is the kind of week that reminds you how small these communities really are. You see the names in the paper and you know the families, or you know somebody who does, and you think about all the work that got done here over the decades, the chile seasons that came and went, the water that moved down the Rio Grande the same as it always has. The Bulletin carries their notices down in Las Cruces where the bigger papers run, but around here it lands different. This is the cost of living in a place long enough to matter.
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Las Cruces Bulletin
Carol Ann Knapp Foreman, a longtime Las Cruces resident who helped establish Valley Transit Mix and Valley Leasing & Development with her husband, passed away peacefully on May 16, 2026, at age 88. Born in Lovington, New Mexico, and raised in Clovis before settling in Las Cruces in 1968, Foreman...
Clarence "Clare" Villemez, a biochemistry professor who spent 30 years at the University of Wyoming before retiring in 2003, died peacefully in his sleep on January 9, 2026, in Las Cruces at age 87. Villemez is survived by his wife Barbara, two adult children from a previous marriage, and three...
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