Paying a Christmas tribute at Brazoria and Matagorda cemeteries
The author and his two wives make their annual Christmas cemetery pilgrimage to honor their deceased parents in Brazoria and Matagorda counties. They stop at cemeteries, place plastic roses, say a prayer, and recall past homes in Bay City as they traverse about 251 miles for a low key, weather favorable observance with friends at the Brown mansion.
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Margie
Brazoria
Matagorda
Nannie
Bill
Gigi
J.P
Santa Claus
Baytown
Lake Jackson
J.J
Annette Brown
Brown
IRS
McDonald’s
Eighth Street
Bay City
Brad Pitt
Grace Street
Scott
Bayer donates holiday meat to Bay Area shelters
Bayer Baytown Industrial Park donated frozen meat and dinners to Bay Area Homeless Services, supplying steaks sausage bacon and ham from hurricane preparedness reserves. Executive Director Kathryn Higginbotham said the gift should sustain residents for about 90 days and fill empty freezers.
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Bayer
Kathryn Higginbotham
Sonic Holiday Festival at Sonic Restaurant Baytown
Sonic Restaurant at 7360 Garth Rd Baytown invites the community to a first Super Sonic Holiday Festival this Saturday from 1 to 6 pm. Partners Communities In Schools Baytown and local leaders highlight charitable activities, Santa photos, arts and crafts, and a military appreciation center.
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Sonic
Garth Rd
Baytown
John Key
Michael Wilson
Key
CIS
Wilson
Armed Forces
Santa
Mike Wilson
Community Calendar Highlights Local Activities and Events
A compact roundup lists line dancing and beginner lessons at Highlands Community Center, senior programs at J.D. Walker, art sessions at the Baytown Community Center, TOPS meetings, Toddler Story Time, and computer classes at Sterling Library. Also noted are bridge games, donations to GCCISD, Go Getters gatherings, church dances, theater at Baytown Little Theater, breakfast with Santa at Chick fil A, Santa photos at Baytown Shrine Club, Youth Bowling at Max Bowl East, a Santa visit at Dynamic Dental Solutions with a food drive, and a Christmas concert by Baytown Shrine Club. Events span morning to evening with multiple phone contacts for details.
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Highlands Community Center
Highlands Woods Drive
East Harris County
J.D. Walker Community Center
Wade Road
Crosby Community Center
West Chambers
Suellyn Melcher
Sterling Municipal Library
Market St
Highland Woods Drive
Lone Star Room
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
Bayway Drive
Bert Owens
Rolfe Wooten
Dynamic Dental Solutions
Cedar Bayou Road
Baytown
North Pruett Baytown Shrine Club
W. Main
Goodfellows Holiday Drive Details Baytown TX Fundraising
Goodfellows continues a 70 year Baytown holiday mission to ensure no child finds an empty stocking. Donations may be sent to PO Box 425 Baytown TX 77522 with checks made out to Goodfellows. Various memorials and contributions are listed, totaling 7516 so far toward a 30000 goal, alongside historical notes for December 14, 2007.
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Goodfellows
Baytown Area
Baytown
Baytown Annexes Acreage. Tubbs Speaks At Barbers Hill High
Historical notes recap Baytown annexing 42 acres along Highway 146 from FM 565 to I 10, affecting 70 homes. In 1975 Ernest Tubbs performed at Barbers Hill High School auditorium to aid the volunteer fire department.
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Baytown
Ernest Tubbs
Barbers Hill
Magnolia Street
Pine Street
Cypress Street
Shannon Trahan
Houston
Bates
Acoat
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Jim Finley
Bahs Exec
Daniel Matthews
Shelter
Carla Walker
Baytown Art League
Gary Wilson
ExxonMobil
Goose Creek Cisd
Robert E. Lee
Ross S. Sterling
LeRonda Smith
Gccisd
Robert Hoskins
Baytown Little Theater Presents
Kiss
Hugh Echols
San Jacinto Mall
Baytown Shrine Club
Wal- Mart
Garth
Ward Road
Call
Baytown Little Theater
Kathy Clausen
Ween
Ralph
Pauline Christensen
Allan Courtney
Jean Bailey
Laverne
Bob Matherne
Viola
Buck Johnson
Foxy & Gloria Matherne
Eeseescores
Charlie & Vera Cogburn
Ratliff & Jentho
CPA
Sandra McGee
Jim
Linda Taylor
Hayden Margaret Brown
James Randell
Karin Dickey
Koppel Steel Corp
United States
George Washington
Mount Vernon
Alabama
Dick Rutan
Jeana Yeager
Edwards Air Force Base
California
Iran
Mohammad Khatami
Satan
Atlantic Records
Ahmet Ertegun
New York
The
Associated Press
SUN History
Henry Lee
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