By Robert Moore, El Paso Matters Estine Davis, a pioneering El Paso businesswoman and the barber to generations of Black boys and men in El Paso, died Monday night, her son Micheal Davis said. She was 92. “As long as I make a living from it, I’m going to cut hair,” she said in a 2020 interview with El Paso Matters, ahead of a community celebration to commemorate her birthday.

Davis moved to El Paso when she was 6 years old and was educated at Douglass School, El Paso’s school for Black children during segregation. Known as Miss Estine, she owned Estine Eastside Barber Shop from the mid-1960s – she long ago lost track of the year – until her retirement in 2021. The barbershop on Piedras Street near Alameda Avenue was the last remnant of a once-thriving area of Black-owned businesses in wha

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