George Strait and his wife Norma brought their first child, Jenifer, with a single ‘n,’ into the world on October 6, 1972. Strait was barely 20 years old then, having eloped with his high school love Norma Voss to Mexico the previous December.
He’d also enlisted in the US Army as an infantryman and had been sent to the Pacific to be stationed in Hawaii. Jenifer was born in this town.
Strait was born in the tiny hamlet of Poteet, Texas, south of San Antonio. After being discharged from the Army in 1975, he relocated to San Marcos to attend Southwest Texas State University, now known as Texas State University. This is also where he created his Ace in the Hole Band and began performing in surrounding places such as the Cheatham Street Warehouse and New Braunfels’ famed Gruene Hall.
