Octavia Magoffin Glasgow  (1900-1986)

 Born on December 30, 1900 in the "New Orleans bed" at the Magoffin Home.  She may have entered a Catholic convent in Washington, D.C. but left after a conflict. She attended daily mass her entire adult life. She, like her sister, served as hostess for her brothers who were army officers because they were not married. Octavia was an exemplary hostess and frequently extended hospitality during her life tenure in the Magoffin Home. Her family knew her affectionately as “Tia.”

Octavia was an accomplished artist and an art teacher both at Bowie High School and at Radford, and she painted many of the portraits in the home. Her good friend Leona Freeman did her portrait. For twenty years she was a librarian at the Ft. Bliss Technical Library. Octavia lived in the Magoffin Home most of her life and never married. She was instrumental in the negotiations between the surviving children, Joseph and Edward and herself, to sell the Magoffin Home to the City of El Paso and the State of Texas in 1976. She was living in the home at the time and retained life tenancy. She died in the room which serves as the current park office on July 18, 1986 and was buried at Evergreen Cemetery.