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Elizabeth Sorrell
Elizabeth Nye Sorrell (February 4, 1909 - July 15, 2007) was a high school English teacher for nearly a half century before she launched a second 15-year career as a newspaper society columnist in Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas. Odie Arambula, the retired ''Laredo Morning Times'' editor, said of his former colleague: "In my opinion she will forever be a legend in this town because she taught thousands and thousands of students over the years. She was better known than anybody else." She called her popular column "Lines from Liz".
==Early years, family heritage, education==
Sorrell was born in Laredo to a prosperous onion farmer, but both of her parents died young in life. Their farm was on the site of the current Doctor's Hospital in north Laredo. She was descended from settlers aboard the ship which followed the ''Mayflower'' to Plymouth, Massachusetts. Her great-grandfather traveled from Massachusetts to Matagorda Bay on the Texas Gulf Coast and perished in a hurricane. His son, Thomas C. Nye, her paternal grandfather, fought for the Confederate States of America and was captured in the American Civil War. He escaped and went on to become the "Onion King of the Rio Grande," being the first to have planted that crop in the irrigated Laredo soil. Sorrell said that she acquired her love of learning from this grandfather.
While she attended the former Laredo High School, Sorrell covered football games for the local newspaper. She was paid a dime per column inch. In 1927, she graduated from high school and thereafter attended Rice University in Houston, where she lived with an aunt and an uncle and worked the switchboard at Methodist Hospital to help to cover the costs of her education. She returned to Laredo in 1931 to teach mathematics at a Laredo junior high school. She switched in 1933 to her real interest, English, which she taught at Laredo High School, which in 1937 was renamed Martin High School. There she stayed until her retirement in 1979. She also sponsored the school newspaper and yearbook. She later procured a master's degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Sorrell lived for many years at the family home on Farragut Street downtown and then on Victoria Street in a house, since demolished, within the St. Peter's Historical District. She married and had one child, Sterling Norman Sorrell (born May 2, 1938), a lawyer in Colorado Springs. He is married to Myrene Sorrell. Her husband, Norman W.A. Sorrell, who worked in a tax office, died of a heart attack in 1944. Sorrell was hence widowed at thirty-three and never remarried.
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