Just the Facts ... and Then Some

JUST THE FACTS ... & THEN SOME

by Caren Cowan, Publisher New Mexico Stockman

This is shaking out to be another one of “those” years. Hopefully someday soon the Lord will smile down with one that is just normal. Or maybe it is just the age I am coming to.

Please accept our sincere appreciation for all the flowers, donations, prayers, calls, texts, emails and cards on my mother’s passing in early July. She was 85 and she went quickly which is just what she had wanted. She filled to standing room only the small church in Tombstone that her grandfather had a hand in building.

We topped off the day with a gathering at her favorite dance hall, the Crystal Palace on Allen Street. She bought the first round and I know thoroughly enjoyed watching her friends and family dance on the floor where she had danced so many miles over the years. She would have pointed out that we forgot the corn starch. Her eulogy included words from Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels who had been a partner of hers when she was a detective with the County Sheriff’s Office. He told stories of her work that none of us had ever heard. And one came to mind when she helped a of mine friend from Texas. My friend had lost a son in a tragic truck accident. He had initially been identified as the driver of the truck.

The facts didn’t add up. He couldn’t have been the driver. The man driving the truck had taken off soon after the accident. He needed to be brought to justice for a life insurance policy to pay to the son’s young family.

When Mother learned of the story, she and her law enforcement friends went to work to find him if he was in Arizona which was suspected. It wasn’t very long until the real driver had been tracked down working on a big ranch in northern Arizona. Mother’s friend who was a judge had him brought to local county court house where Texas officials arrested him. Back in Texas he confessed to his crime.

Mother brought a lot of people to justice, especially if they had harmed children. She is missed. ▫

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