Hageman, Rosemarie

Biography

A 1974 elementary education graduate and retired educator who lives in San Marcos, Rosemarie “Pixie” Dietel Hageman is the daughter of the late Norman Dietel, editor and publisher of the Fredericksburg Radio Post and friend of Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Mrs. Hageman has donated much of her father’s correspondence and photographs to the LBJ Museum Library in San Marcos, Texas.

LBJ100 Oral History Project

Rosemarie Dietel Hageman discusses her father’s relationship with Lyndon Johnson, which began when LBJ was a senator. The interview includes Hageman reading some of the correspondence between Normal Dietel and Lyndon Johnson, and some of her recollections of meeting Johnson and his family at various times during her life. She also talks about the Fredericksburg Radio Post, the newspaper that her father started, and which was the Dietel family business for many years.

As part of the interview, Mrs. Hageman provided copies of five documents in her collection:

• Copy of a letter from Norman Dietel to Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, dated May 26, 1957.
• Copy of three pages of a letter from Norman Dietel to Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, undated.
• Copy of a letter from Senator Lyndon B. Johnson to Norman J. Dietel, dated February 6, 1959.
• Copy of a telegram from Norman Dietel to Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, dated October 25, 1960.
• Copy of a letter from Lyndon B. Johnson to Norman J. Dietel, dated November 3, 1960.