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May Case

May Case was inducted into the Clovis Hall of Fame in 1991. When she died at the age of 93 in 1967, it was believed she was the oldest working woman newspaper reporter in the country. Born in Texas, she moved to Oklahoma when she was young. It was there she developed an affection for the local native Americans and “interviewed” Chief Geronimo. She married Spurgeon Case, owner of the Purcell Register newspaper and Case learned how to set type in her husband’s shop. After traveling throughout the United States, Case and her husband settled in Clovis in 1919 and founded the Clovis Independent, later added the Clovis Tribune, and merged the two. May Case wrote society and travel columns for the newspaper. She would later be named Newspaper Girl of 1964 by the California Press Women.


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