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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1968
Page
8
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A devotional note invites readers to read Titus 3 1 8 and II Corinthians 5 17 about becoming new in Christ The message says the light of Christ will banish darkness when He is received as Lord and Savior credited to G W Bryant
The Apollo astronauts hosted their fifth in-space Christmas program featuring the first in-space turkey dinner. They described the Moon as a lonely, dead world while preparing for a Friday Earth landing and plotting midcourse corrections.
Luther Clinton Taylor longtime Sam Rayburn superintendent dies of heart attack at his Durant Oklahoma home December 23 1968. Funeral at First Baptist Durant with Dr J M Gaskin officiating. Interment Highland Cemetery Murray Funeral Home. Survivors include wife two sons three brothers three sisters and four grandchildren.
Gladys Bright Ray author and longtime Whitewright teacher died in Sherman hospital on Tuesday December 24 1968 after illness at home on West Main Street. Funeral services are pending arrival of her Navy nephew. She wrote Murder at the Four Corners and several regional histories, taught 26 years in Whitewright and later at Gainesville, and helped organize the ex students association and establish a scholarship and campus museum.
Funeral services for Mrs Winnie Merrell Keels 64 were at Cooper Sorrells chapel Honey Grove with Rev John Hawkins and Rev E M McCarter officiating. Burial at Oakwood Cemetery. She died December 24 1968 in Baylor Hospital Dallas after five weeks illness. Survived by son Kenneth Stepleton Fort Worth four daughters Lois McCurdy Barbara Smart C W Tillman Cretha Barrienter Fort Worth two brothers Harry Williams Irving Buck Williams Fort Worth four sisters Gladys Lloyd Bokchito Oklahoma Pauline Hamilton Gertie Tempie Sunnyvale California Maudine Williams Fort Worth 15 grandchildren eight great grandchildren. Member United Methodist Monks town.
Burton E. Spivy Sr. 85 of Dallas died December 25 1968 in a Dallas hospital after long illness. Funeral services at 1 30 p m Saturday at Wise Funeral chapel with Rev Paul Cardwell officiating. Interment Willow Wild. Survived by wife Maude Spivy Dallas a son Gen B E Spivy Jr NATO Brussels Belgium a daughter Emily S Lewis New York City a brother Reid Spivy Sr Bonham seven grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Funeral services for Army Pfc. Jerry M. White, 20, were conducted at Wise Funeral chapel with two pastors officiating. Interment in Fannin Memorial Gardens included full military rites, a 211 gun salute, flag presentation, and taps by an Army bugler. White, killed in action in Vietnam on December 13 after three weeks in the war zone, is survived by his mother, father, two brothers, and a sister.
Mrs. C A Dobbs 60 of Powderly Route 1 died in Stilwell Oklahoma on Tuesday December 24 1968 after years of ill health. Rites set for Friday at 2 30 p m at Forest Hill United Methodist Church officiated by Rev Joe Blackshear. Interment in Forest Hill Cemetery Cooper Sorrels directing. Born February 24 1908 in Jamestown Tennessee she married C A Dobbs February 8 1926 in Stilwell. Survivors include her husband of the home and three
The obituary notes Kenneth Dobbs of Fort Sill Oklahoma and Edward and Marvin Dobbs of Paris as well as a sister Ava Workmen of Evansville Arkansas. Also listed are two half brothers B. H. Smith and James Smith and two half sisters Jadine Price and Eddie Thomas all of Stilwell Oklahoma. Five grandchildren are named. The family will meet friends at the funeral home between 7 and 9 p.m. tonight.
Funeral services were held Monday in Pittsburg for Mrs. A V Tapp known to friends as Myrtle Stewart. Grace Garner attended the service for her sister and noted survivors include daughters Mrs. Stitts and Mrs. Frances Ooten of Pittsburgh, brothers Lester Stone of Commerce and J Sidney Stone of Dallas, five grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Des Moines police search snowy Interstate 80 for Robert Williams, a self styled minister, and 10 year old Pamela Powers abducted from the Des Moines YMCA Christmas Eve. A car linked to the abduction was found in Davenport and Williams is charged with child stealing.
In Marseille on Christmas Eve taxi driver Georges Daury shot and killed his wife and three daughters as they finished their dinner. Police arrested him after the gunfire sent bystanders scrambling for safety.
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