El Paso County, Texas - Obit for Pangman

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Submitted by: Don Brownlee
        Date: 19 July 2006
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7/8/2006  Los Angeles (CA) Times, p. B11

PANGMAN, Pearl Louise "Babe" Loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother passed 
away at her home in El Paso on July 6, 2006. Babe was born in El Paso, Texas, on 
April 20, 1915. She graduated from Austin High School, attended the University of Texas 
at El Paso and the University of Texas at Austin, where she was the university's first 
Homecoming Queen. In 1939, she married William John Pangman, MD, her husband for 
over 50 years; he preceded her in death in 1990. He was former head of the plastic surgery 
department at El Paso City Hospital and member of the surgery staff of Southwestern 
General Hospital, and Hotel Dieu Hospital. Their son William Wooldridge Pangman was born 
in El Paso in 1944. In 1947, when Bill was three, John was called to serve as a Navy 
surgeon at Oak Knoll Hospital. The family later settled in Southern California where 
Babe was active in Junior League and John had a plastic surgery practice at St. John's 
Hospital, West Hollywood Surgery Center, and in La Jolla. After Bill graduated from 
Occidental College and USC Law School, Babe and John returned to El Paso to be near her 
parents Henry and Hilda Wooldridge, El Paso pioneers. Bill is a Superior Court Judge in 
Sierra County, California. Babe is survived by her son and daughter-in-law Bill and Sheryl 
Pangman, grandchildren Shelley Pangman and Brandon Pangman, Brandon's wife Suzi, and 
great-grandchildren Mason and Tanner Pangman, all of whom reside in California.