Alpine figures. West Texas social notes and travels
A Panama vacationer notes an unusual meeting with Bill Fusselman during a Canal Zone train trip. Alpine residents and Alpine area visitors are described attending a barbecue at Billy and Mary Kay Meriwether’s ranch with 100 guests, plus updates on local families and summer plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. M. Barler
Panama
J. Roy Spence
A. F. Robinson
Alpine
Wade Reid
Fort Davis
Billy
Mary Kay Meriwether
Meriwethers
Kay Meriwether
Meriwether
St. Mary's Hall
San Antonio
Elsie Lou
Barbara Davis to Wed Harold Mason in Alpine
Alpine announce engagement and forthcoming marriage of Barbara Lynn Davis to Harold Wayne Mason. The couple will wed in the Presbyterian Church of Alpine at 3 p.m. September 6 with a reception to follow. Barbara is a 1963 Alpine High School graduate. Harold is a 1962 Post High School graduate. Both attend Sul Ross. They will reside in Alpine and continue to attend Sul Ross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Mason
Post
Presbyterian Church
Locals visit Mexican towns via new highway route
Mrs. Frank Young returned from Abilene after visiting her brother Dr. David F. Pugh a pediatric allergist. Recent visitors from Alpine, Marathon, and Marfa traveled through Ojinaga and Chihuahua City to Camargo and Boquillas Lake along the highway now under construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Young
David F. Pugh
Abilene
Dr. Pugh
Chihuahua
Camargo
Boquillas Lake
Mexico
Eddie Moore
David
Edith Rogers
J. E. Gray Jr
Alpine
Biddy Martin
Ann
Don
Marathon
Marlowe Wells
Marfa
Ojinaga
Chihuahua City
Families Return From Trips And Weddings Across States
Mr and Mrs Forrest Weston and relatives return from Trinidad Colorado. Dr and Mrs John W Pate and sons visit Jamaica. Haynes attend Jessica Clark and Jack Kamrath wedding in Houston with usher Joe and Jeff. Sara Ann Lines vacationing with aunts in New Orleans Beaumont and Houston. Morgan family visits Alpine. The world’s largest flowers grow on Mount Kinabalu in Borneo, a Rafflesia parasite produces blooms up to a yard wide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neville Haynes
Joe
Jeff
Houston
Haynes
Jessica Clark
Jack Kamrath
Episcopal Church of Saint John the Divine
Winnie
Jan Clark
Sara Ann Lines
Borneo
Mount
Kinabalu
Brides to Be Honored at Morning Coffee Gathering
Two brides to be Miss Earlene Anderau and Miss Marylyn Ann Briggs were named honorees at a morning coffee hosted by Mrs. Glenn F. Davis and other First Presbyterian Church members. Fifty-five guests attended from 9:30 to 11 a.m., with spring floral decorations, a bone china cup tea service, and a guest book presided over by Miss Jan Briggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earlene Anderau
Marylyn Ann Briggs
Glenn F. Davis
Knox Reid
Nellie Litchfield
First Presbyterian Church
Bertha Lentz
Mrs. Davis
Jan Briggs
Tom Karvonen
Carol Vogt
Hunley Sinking: Civil War Submarine Sinks Housatonic
National Geographic notes the H L Hunley sank the Housatonic off Charleston South Carolina on February 7 1864 the submarine was lost in the same engagement while marking the first sinking of a warship by a submarine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Geographic
H. L. Hunley
Housatonic
Charlestormy
South Carolina
Miss Anderau Feted At Lovely Gift Tea
A July 17 tea honored Miss Barrene Anderau, bride-elect of Nick Pike, in the Presbyterian Hospitality Room with over 200 guests. Hostesses included Mmes. Cooley, Kay, Nelon, Pate, Shearer, West, Vogt and Wotan. colors orange and white featured in decor and the gift display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrene Anderau
Nick Pike
Presbyterian
Mmes
J. C. Cooley
Marvin Kay
Grady Nelon
Jeanne Pate
Ernest Shearer
Billy West
Paul Vogt
Reginald Wotan
Spain
Miss Anderau
Earl Anderau
A. M. Turney
L. B. Pike
Gayle Pike
Andrews
Jan Briggs
Carol Vogt
Tom Karvonen
DRT Hosts Meeting at McIntyre Home in Alpine
The Daughters of the Republic of Texas gathered at Mrs. Vernon McIntyre’s home on July 12. Mrs. Robert McElroy noted by law changes approved at the Beaumont convention led by President General Miss Miltin Hill. The Alpine chapter will host parts of the 1965 Midland convention with Mrs. McIntyre named Alpine chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daughters of the Republic of Texas
Vernon McIntyre
Robert McElroy
Hally Bryan Perry
Alpine
Beaumont
Miltin Hill
Hugh Dallman
Midland
McElroy
McIntyre
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Warner’s
Barbara Davis
Harold Mason
Kimballs
Bonnie
W. John) Newell
Jeanne
Jack) Williams
Cross & Cross
Leroy Larsh
Frost
Jack Frost
Frank Snows
Helen
Forrest Weston
Trinidad
Colo
Mrs
O. D. Weston
John W. Pate
Mark, Peter
Ricky
Jamaica
Roscoe Morgan
Ray Morgan
el Paso
Mrs. Morgan
Ray Spence
DRT
Redeemer
Church Alpine, Texas
The
Episcopal Church
Pete D. Pedersen
Fort Stockton
Texas
Chanel
City Drug Store
and Professional PharMacy
Bow
Jack T. Bow
EAVE
Valerie
Fconomize
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