{"id":175702,"date":"2026-02-22T19:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175702\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T19:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:40:07","slug":"fred-loya-sr-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175702\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Loya, Sr. has passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Respected community leader and Founder of Fred Loya Insurance Group, Fred Loya, Sr. has passed away on Feb. 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>After his success as a Farmers&#8217; Insurance agent in El Paso in the 1970&#8217;s, Loya decided to create his own business.<\/p>\n<p>He began Fred Loya Insurance in 1974 with the goal of benefiting underserved communities, but eventually passed his company over to his children in the early 2000&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>His insurance company grew to be the 18th-largest Hispanic Top 500 owned and operated company in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/in-a-world-of-quick-fixes-a-new-utep-concert-asks-what-if-we-focus-on-long-term-solutions-university-of-texas-at-el-paso-melissa-melpignano-director-of-theatre-and-dance?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In a world of quick fixes a new UTEP concert asks what if we focus on long-term solutions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Respected community leader and Founder of Fred Loya Insurance Group, Fred Loya, Sr.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-175702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}