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Texans You Should Know is a series highlighting overlooked figures and events from Texas history. “I really believe that playing the accordion is why I’ve lived so long,” says Cleo Raymond at her retirement home in Duncanville, just southwest of Dallas. Vibrant and spry at 99, she arrives at the vaunted century mark on June 9. “Pumping air into those bellows for all those years pumped me up.”Asked to stroll back through those years, she opens the pages of her vintage scrapbook. The oversized volume has a 1950s look. Its meticulously placed photographs and yellowed clippings track a whirlwind career as a country and western artist in the 1940s, that golden-era decade when the genre’s modern sound was conjured from a peppy brew of hillbilly tunes…

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