Electra Info, found online, must be true

Here is an interesting tidbit:

"Electra Waggoner Biggs was born a Texas cattle and oil man’s daughter, but left the Lone Star State for Bryn Mawr, Columbia and the Sorbonne. Upon her return she became a revered sculptress, best known for her work “Into the Sunset,” memorializing cowboy actor Will Rogers. In 1959, the President of Buick (and Electra’s husband’s brother-in-law) named a flagship sedan after the middle aged Texan."

@nd source:

Electra Waggoner Biggs is a nationally known sculptress and passed away in 2001. Best known for her sculpture of Will Rogers on his horse "Soapsuds" called "Into the Sunset". Amon G. Carter commissioned Electra Biggs to create the work after Will Rogers' fatal airplane crash at Point Barrow, Alaska in 1935. Electra Biggs also had the honor of having an automobile named after her. In 1959, John Biggs' brother-in-law, Harlow H. 'Red' Curtice, President of Buick Motors, Division of General Motors, named one of their luxurious Buick models, Electra.

Bernie

It's true. Pete did an article on her in a prior issue of "The Bugle" (in the past 12 months?). There's also a town named "Electra", in the Wichita Falls region, but I think it might pre-date her a bit.

Enjoy!

NTX5467

Nice! I guess "the queen" fits in more ways than just one.

I have read she was named for the town. Also that she was named for a mythical goddess of that name. Who knows. It is a pretty name for a car or lady.

Ben

Do ya think she weighed 225 ?

Do ya think she weighed 225 ?

Never saw her or her picture, but I rather doubt it. Nor was she "225" inches high or around. By observation, from the life many in that region lived (or endured), to be that heavy would have meant a "mountain of a person" with a big frame and (lean) muscle power/"might" to match. Unless they might have exclusively lived in town and could afford an excess of food.

Regards,

NTX5467