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Hobby, Oveta Culp (1905–1995)
First director of the U.S. Women's Army Corps and first secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, whose influence grew out of politics and newspaper ownership in Texas. Pronunciation: OH-vet-uh HA-bee.
Colonel oveta culp hobby bio
Born Oveta Culp on January 19, 1905, in Killeen, Texas; died in Houston, Texas, on August 16, 1995, after suffering a stroke; daughter of Isaac William Culp (a lawyer and state legislator) and Emma Hoover Culp; attended public schools and Mary Hardin Baylor College; married William Pettus Hobby (former governor of Texas, newspaper publisher), on February 23, 1931; children: William Pettus Hobby, Jr.
(b. 1932); Jessica Oveta Hobby (b. 1937).
Appointed parliamentarian in the Texas House of Representatives (1926–31); was a newspaper columnist and editor for The Houston Post (1931–41); was chief of Women's Interest Section of the War Department's Bureau of Public Relations (1941); served as director of Women's Auxiliary Army Corp