Growing up in Leger Addition in the Great Low Mood
Exxon retiree Dear Meadows recalls life in Leger Addition during the 1930s. He describes fields west of Maryland Street, hay fields, and boys racing to hay bales. The Point near Black Duck Bay offered swimming, with few houses nearby. Connor's Meat Market provided essentials at low prices. Ice wagons, ice boxes, and free summer cooling shaped daily life amid hardship.
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Exxon
Dear Meadows
Leger Addition
Maryland Street
Missouri Street
Missouri
Maryland
Black Duck Bay
Dean
Fred Hartman
Baytown
Connor
Carolina and
West Main
Old Pelly Road
Connor’s
Connor's
Students donate hair to caring PE teacher at Travis
Tears and pride filled Travis Elementary as second grader Leslie Jimenez and her sister Cassandra donated their hair to teacher Pat Nelson who lost hers to cancer. The girls cut their long hair to create a Wig for Nelson from Locks of Love in Houston.
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Travis Elementary
Leslie Jimenez
Cassandra
Pat Nelson
Jimenez
Miss Nelson
Nelson
Baytown
Brenda H. Genova
Travis
Yudith Jimenez
Leslie
Locks of Love
Houston
Baytown Sun
Tara Sullivan
Cassandra Yimenez
Leslie Yimenez
P.E
Community Calendar highlights Baytown events and meetings
The Baytown area calendar lists a Exxon Mobil Retiree Club meeting at 10 a.m. at the Baytown Civic Center with Gary Wilson as guest speaker. Also included are Texas Commission for the Blind support group at 1 30 p.m. Remington Place. a public reception for Judge Susan Criss at 5 7 p.m. on North Main. MS self help at 6 30 p.m. First Presbyterian. BANG at 7 30 a.m. Baytown Sun. and multiple other senior, library, and club activities across local centers, churches, and organizations through the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exxon Mobil
Baytown Civic Center
Gary Wilson
Call Dian Jones
Texas Commission For the Blind
Remington Place
W. Baker
Call
Craig Maessig
Susan Criss
Texas Supreme Court
Democratic Party
North Main
Baytown
First Presbyterian Church
Market St
History highlights for February 20 mark space adventures and policy actions
On this date John Glenn orbited Earth aboard Friendship 7 in 1962. Washington created the Post Office in 1792. The Supreme Court limited state power in 1809. Congress banned dueling in DC in 1839. Roosevelt signed an immigration act in 1907 excluding certain groups. Big Week raids began in 1944. Ranger 8 crashed on the Moon in 1965. A 1971 alert briefly shut US stations. Five years ago a Station nightclub fire killed 100. One year ago Guantanamo detainees could not sue in US courts.
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John Glenn
Washington
U.S. Post Office
Supreme Court
United States
Peters
Congress
District of Columbia
Theodore Roosevelt
U.S
National Emergency Warning Center
Colorado
Station
West Warwick
R.I
Bush
Guantanamo Bay
Associated Press
SUN HISTORY AND EVENTS IN CHAMBERS COUNTY
A digest of local items notes the Baytown Civic Museum Association's 155 volunteers on a 1951 membership drive, a 1976 I 10 frontage road closure for three weeks near Eagle Pointe, and Cedar Bayou Junior High eighth grader Eugene Ray Martin winning the Goose Creek district spelling bee for a second year. It also recalls a 2022 city administrator vote of no confidence in Anahuac, a 1980s hymn and scripture quotes, Chambers County early voting at the Anahuac courthouse, and Nancy Oliphint’s Scout Sunday stop at St. Mark's United Methodist Church on February 24 to honor the late Bishop Ben Oliphint.
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Baytown Civic Museum Association
Eagle Pointe
Eugene Ray Martin
Cedar Bayou
Goose Creek
Anahuac
Stephone Taylor
Nancy Oliphint
Ben Oliphint
St. Mark's United Methodist Church
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Wanda Orton
Leger
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Bay Area
B.A.N.G
Highlands Community Center
Riley Chambers
Barrett Station
Crosby High School
Linda Hudson-Smith
League City
Smith
Black Writer's Alliance
East Harris
J.D. Walker Community Center
Wade Road
Baytown Community Center
Decker Dr
Sterling Municipal Library
The
Exxon Mobil Baytown Toastmasters Club
ExxonMobil
Ralph Matthews
Highlands Woods Drive
St. John’s United Methodist Church
S. Alexander Drive
Ward Road
Market Street
Grace’s Kitchen
Grace United Methodist Church
N. Pruett
VFW
N. Main
Calvary Temple
Breda
SUN History
Sarah Bernhardt
Chambers County
Washington Avenue
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