) She graduated from Waltrip High School and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Saint Thomas in Houston.

She has composed over 3, 000 songs, the best known of which include " I Will Always Love You " ( a two-time U. S. country chart-topper for Parton, as well as an international pop hit for Whitney Houston ), " Jolene ", " Coat of Many Colors ", " 9 to 5 ", and " My Tennessee Mountain Home ".

She then taught for three years at John F. Kennedy Elementary School, a Houston Independent School District school in Houston, until 1972.

She was soon employed as a librarian at the Kashmere Gardens Branch at the Houston Public Library.

She was the opening act in Dallas, Houston, Tampa, Miami, Atlanta, Charlotte, Philadelphia and Washington D. C.

She was born in Houston, Texas and raised in Waco, Texas.

She died, at age 31, in 1863 in Houston, Texas.

She and Billy separated in 1987 and she moved to Houston with one-year-old Daniel.

She was personally acquainted with prominent men and women of pioneer days and named one of her children after General Sam Houston in memory of his victory at San Jacinto.

She is also a cousin of the late Whitney Houston.

She was raised in Houston, and attended St. John's School there.

She moved on to Houston for KPRC-TV, and helped begin the " 2 On Your Side " Consumer Complaints Division as well as anchor a local midday newscast.

She also was inspired by fellow vocalist Whitney Houston, whom Dion has often been compared to.

She has been described as a reigning " Queen of Pop " for her influence over the record industry during the 1990s, alongside other female entertainers, including Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey .< ref name = diva >" If Ella Fitzgerald is the queen of jazz, Billie Holiday first lady of the blues, and Aretha Franklin the queen of soul, then who is the queen of pop?

She had a total of 21 number one hits on the U. S. country singles charts ( 17 solo, three with Jones, and one with Houston ).

She met Robert Angleton, a successful bookmaker, at a bar in the Houston West Loop when she was 28 years old.

She graduated from Milby High School, in Houston, Texas, in 1982.

She supported ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, presenting the amendment to the delegates of the National Women's Conference, held in Houston ( 1978 ).

She was the first African-American to be elected in a major position in Houston in the 20th Century.

She also worked as CAPCOM at the Mission Control Center in Houston for several years, including the return to flight mission STS-114.

She was buried at Woodlawn Garden of Memories Cemetery in Houston, Texas.

She subsequently testified in cases in Galveston and Houston, Texas, and New Orleans, Louisiana.

She worked as a Red Cross social worker in Houston for a year until she married Ted Strauss, Sr.

She lived by the rules, never compromising, never blinded or diverted by circumstance.

She was Ellen Aldridge, a widow of good repute who was employed by Gorton's wife and lived with the family.

She and her husband had formerly lived in New York, where she had many friends, but Mr. Flannagan thought the country would be safer in case of war.

She lived in an ultra-modern house whose decoration, appointments, paint, and even pets were chosen to complement her coloring ; ;

She knew that I lived at a good address on the Gold Coast, that I had once been a medical student and was thinking of returning to the university to finish my medical studies.

She lived alone in the older part of the city, in one of those renovated houses whose brick facade some early settler had constructed.

She lived and was given a name.

She lived on the Palatine Hill in Rome.

She lived as a virtual prisoner at Durham House in London.

She gave birth to a daughter on 10 November, but the child was weak and lived either only a few hours or at most a week.

She lived in Rome until her death in 1380.

According to Rachael Hanel, " She lived off her savings, interest income from a trust, money from her parents, and selling her simple, Rubenesque line drawings.

She was born on 5 July 1996 and she lived until the age of six, at which point she died from a progressive lung disease.

She has lived in California since 1982.

She sends letters, in Ahab's name, to the elders and nobles who lived near Naboth.

She lived until 1880.

She lived there in the 1960s with her boyfriend Country Joe McDonald.

She lived separately from Philby, settling with their children in Crowborough while he lived first in London and later in Beirut.

She has lived much of her life under the alias Sara Jane Olson, which is now her legal name.

" She has undertaken a signature personal element of traveling around the country and talking to women at hospital and community events featuring the experiences of women who live, or had lived, with the condition.

She traveled many times to Africa to photograph the Nuba tribes in Sudan, with whom she sporadically lived, learning about their culture so she could photograph them more easily.

She spent her last years in a close personal and professional collaboration with anthropologist Rhoda Metraux, with whom she lived from 1955 until her death in 1978. Letters between the two published in 2006 with the permission of Mead's daughter clearly express a romantic relationship.

She lived exclusively in the company of her German ladies-in-waiting and had difficulty in adapting herself to the Swedish people, countryside and climate.

She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.