From Legend To Reality: The Deberry-Navarro Story - Paperback

by Barbara L. Gingerich Rivas (Editor), Susan Daugherty Navarro (Illustrator), Susan Daugherty Navarro (Author)

In describing this brief history of the Deberry-Navarro family, Susan Daugherty Navarro wrote: "Four generations of a family with the surname Navarro have been aware that they had no relatives by the same name, but at the same time they had little knowledge of exactly how and when the name originated or was assumed. Only one man who actually took part in the name-changing incident survived until the twentieth century and he never told the story so far as the present generation can discover. What follows is a description of how part of a legend was clarified and documented. No attempt is made here to do more than hastily summarize the material."

Author Biography

Susan Pearl Daugherty Navarro was extremely gifted in many areas. She graduated from Oklahoma State University with a degree in Home Economics and in 1941 she also received her Master of Science degree there. She was not only a mother and wife, but an excellent cook, a talented artist and a creative writer. In addition, Sue worked alongside her husband, Mabry Earl Navarro, in their business in West Texas. She was an excellent researcher, writing various papers about the history and families of West Texas as well as working on her own family genealogy. Many of these papers include her own pen and ink sketches. She worked diligently to preserve the family history for later generations.