South Padre Island, Texas: Juana Maria Pinkerton, a Spanish language radio personality in the 1950's, died at 87 on Sunday afternoon at her home in South Padre Island. The cause of death was cancer. Her death was announced by her son, Robert N. Pinkerton, Jr., of South Padre Island. Throughout most of the 1950's, Mrs. Pinkerton was a radio personality for a chain of five Spanish language radio stations started by her husband, Robert N. Pinkerton and his partners. Her popular radio program, "Gira Comercial de Juana Maria", was broadcast along the Mexican border, in the Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio, and Austin, Texas. Throughout her career, her personal appearances throughout the listening region drew large numbers of enthusiastic fans. She was born Juana Maria Gonzalez in Laredo, Texas, the daughter of Jose Maria Gonzalez and Candelaria Gonzales Salinas. As a teenager, she and her sister were semi-professional dancers. She married her husband in 1942. They settled in Brownsville, Texas, establishing the first of their radio stations, XEO, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico in 1946, where she was responsible for sales and began her career as a radio personality. A second station, XEOR, was added in Reynosa in 1950, and others were added subsequently, XEMT in Matamoros in 1950, KUBO in San Antonio in 1955, and KTXN in Austin in 1956. Mrs. Pinkerton retired from radio in 1967. After her retirement from radio, Mrs. Pinkerton and her husband lived on Ambergris Caye in Belize, for a number of years before returning to San Antonio, Texas. In 2003, they moved to South Padre Island, Texas. She is survived by her loving husband, Robert N. Pinkerton of South Padre Island, Texas; her daughter, Sandra Pinkerton, of Plano, Texas and her son, Robert N. (Maria) Pinkerton, Jr. of South Padre Island, Texas; two grandchildren Robert (Veronica) Pinkerton III and Bryan (Jennifer) Pinkerton; and seven great-grand children. Memorial Services will be announced at a later date. Words of Comfort may be sent to the family of Juana Maria Pinkerton at www.thomaegarza.com Funeral arrangements entrusted to the care of Thomae-Garza Funeral Directors, 395 S. Sam Houston, San Benito, TX (956) 399-1331