SIMPSON HOTEL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- New Mexico State Engineer
No discussion of the Duncan area is complete without a deep bow to Hal Empie, Duncan's pharmacist in the mid-20th century and a renowned Western painter and cartoonist. Empie's influence still permeates the town, as many older residents have vivid memories of his warm welcomes in the drug store, his generosity with local children, his ability to paint in his drug store art studio in between waiting on customers, and his propensity for theatrical antics, many of which are contained in a DVD of Empie home movies sold at the Duncan Library as a fundraiser for the library (courtesy of the Empie family).