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Photo of Jane Rust Perrenot |
Jane Rust Burges Perrenot, Jane Rust Burges, the
only daughter of Richard Fenner Burges and Ethel Petrie
Shelton, was born in July 19, 1900 in El Paso, Texas.
When Jane was twelve years old her mother died.
Jane
attended Sunset Heights School, El Paso School for Girls
(later Radford School), and Shipley School for Girls in
preparation for Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. At
Bryn Mawr she excelled in theatre. She graduated from
Bryn Mawr in 1922 and began studying law. In 1923 she
married Preston Rose Perrenot in El Paso. They had three
children: Richard Burges , Mary Austin ,
and Anne. |