When Dee Margo arrived in El Paso in 1977, he knew he was home at last. His paternal grandfather, Elias Margo, was from the borderlands, too. Elias was the seventh of ten children born on a ranch in Rio Grande City. After studying at UT Medical Branch, Galveston and becoming an orthopedic surgeon, Elias moved to Oklahoma City during the oil boom where there were broken bones to be set. Dee was born in Oklahoma City but did not stay long. His father, Donald Rupert, changed jobs often and moved the family every few years. Football was Dee’s ticket to belonging and while playing on a championship team in Alabama at Huntsville High, he received a full scholarship to Vanderbilt University. There he met Adair Wakefield, a third generation El Pasoan. They married three years later. After a year living in Nashville, Dee selling insurance while Adair taught school, they moved to El Paso, where Dee became the fifth employee of John D. Williams Insurance Company, founded by Adair’s maternal grandfather and run by her father. Dee and Adair have lived in El Paso ever since and have two granddaughters, Lilliana and Emma – 5th generation El Pasoans.
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