Alexis Ramanjulu is KGUN 9's Cochise County reporter. Send your story ideas to Alexis at [email protected].
BENSON , Ariz. — The City of Benson is celebrating 100 years of being an independent city. Joyce Thompson has lived there for 70 of those years. She says she knew from the beginning she wasn't going to leave.Thompson moved to Benson in the 1950s with her husband and kids. She says a doctor recommended they leave Deming, New Mexico, to a place with cleaner air, to help her daughter's breathing problems.Thompson still lives in the same house for which she and her husband paid $7,000.
“Dad used to say, you and him would lay in bed saying, 'where in the hell we going to come up with the money?,'" Thompson's son Larry Thompson said.Little did she know, she’d have four generations of her family living close by.Having family close by means she can do what she loves most: cheering on the Benson High School Bobcats. She's had 39 family members graduate from the district.And she makes sure her great grand-kids can hear her from the stands.
“You sit by her at a wrestling match, I guarantee you, you'll get worn out," Larry said."She’ll put you in whatever hold them kids do.”“The only problem is we're just 35 miles from Willcox," Larry said."It's the only problem with Benson.”——- Alexis Ramanjulu is a reporter in Cochise County for KGUN 9. She began her journalism career reporting for the Herald/Review in Sierra Vista, which she also calls home. Share your story ideas with Alexis by emailing [email protected] or by connecting on Facebook.
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