Las Cruces Daily Digest Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Ty's Take
Three good men from this valley in the paper today—Shannyn Caldwell, Timothy Joseph Hourigan, and George Douglas Jackson, who made it to 70. In a town that's growing as fast as Las Cruces is, where the orchards keep giving way to subdivisions and the old names don't show up in the newcomer directories, the obits remind us who held this place together. They were fathers and neighbors and the kind of people who knew the Rio Grande the way most folks know their own backyards. The Mesilla Valley doesn't have much use for monuments, but it remembers.
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Shannyn Caldwell, a pioneering radio personality and author who spent decades on air at WJNR starting at age 16, died January 8 after battling stage 4 inflammatory breast cancer. Known for breaking barriers for women in broadcasting, Caldwell continued working through her illness and passed...
Timothy Joseph Hourigan, a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel who served 26 years in Military Intelligence, died April 9 following a long battle with cancer. Beyond his military career, Hourigan was an accomplished marathoner, Ironman competitor, and skilled musician who shared his love of Irish...
George Douglas Jackson, an acclaimed educator for the Deaf who spent over 40 years innovating in Florida and Texas classrooms, died December 21 at age 70. After retirement, Jackson channeled his creativity into hot air ballooning, ceramics, and storytelling programs throughout Las Cruces, while...
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