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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1966
Page
10
The 1966 Sunset area crops yielded well overall with some varieties lower and others normal. Heat in July harmed crops nearing maturity, but later plantings benefited from late August and September rains to produce normal quantity and quality. Diversified farming remains common and 1967 acreage and variety are expected similar.
The column lover contrasts modern anxieties with 1930s hardship. It recalls scarcity, self reliance, and neighborly aid, noting mothers knitting from sugar sacks and a neighborly Christmas gift of a hen. The author questions whether there was more love and community then.
Funeral rites for Ruben A. Richardson 63 were held December 20 at the First Baptist Church of Bowie with Rev. Johnny Cox and Rev. Hoyt Hutson officiating. Burial followed in Montague Cemetery. he died at Bowie Memorial Hospital from an apparent heart attack. He left a wife Aubry, a daughter Carol Turkett, a son Johnny Richardson, five sisters, three brothers, and three grandchildren. Pallbearers were Bunk Zahn, Charles Roberts, W A Cox, Roy Dunbar, Kent Henry, Louis Holland. Visiting relatives included Barbara Henderson and Milton King family over the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Reed Sr. hosted Christmas Eve dinner with guests from Bowie including Mr. and Mrs. Leon Reed and family, J. W. Reed Jr. and daughter of Fort Worth, Mr. and Mrs. James Reed and sons from Bowie, and Mr. and Mrs. Glen Reed and daughter from Bowie.
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