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Readers Respond to Sun Columns on Wells and Local Memory
Sun readers write in about Henrietta Bell Wells, noting her role as a Denzel Washington film consultant and the audience reception to The Great Debaters. Letters recall Maxine Milligan on the Lyondell pool, Gene Harrison’s San Jacinto Inn memories, and Anselmo Olachia’s WWII ship loss with kin in Baytown.
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Sun
Henrietta Bell Wells
Katherine Norris
Louisiana
Henrietta Wells
St. James House
Baytown
Denzel Washington
Lyondell Swimming Pool
Maxine Milligan
San Jacinto Inn
Gene Harrison
Robert E. Lee High School
Highlands and Crosby
Gene
Anselmo Olachia
Zeke Olachia
Anna Marie Martinez Lopez
Anselmo
Zeke
Hortense Olachia Santillan
Houston
Anna Marie
Mexico
Ella Tyler
San Marcos
Nacogdoches
Lee County
Ella
Sheriff’s