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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1944
Page
5
The Grammar High P T A will meet Wednesday afternoon May 10 at 4 o clock where officers will be installed. D M Major will speak. Junior-Senior banquet committee members urged to attend for final plans. A May 1 business session notes reports from delegates to the District Convention at Haskell. The rest of the program postponed to May 10 due to the stormy period.
Bowie Lodge No. 578 will meet in call session Saturday May 6 at 8 P M The Entered Apprentice and Fellow Craft degrees will be conferred A call meeting will be held Monday night at 8 P M The Master’s degree will be conferred All Master Masons invited to attend FE W Daley Jr W M CC O Garrett Secretary
The L. H. Prater Family expresses gratitude for courtesies and floral tributes shown during our father and grandfather's illness and death. Also notice of upcoming showings of The Fighting Seabees on May 7 8 at Bowie Majestic with Oklahoma Outlaws.
Jesse Wilbur Brandt 39 died after a lingering illness at his sister’s Bowie home on April 20. He worked as a Special Officer for the Chicago Northwestern Railroad from 1923 until ill health forced retirement five years prior. Born April 24 1904 in Scio Ohio he grew up in Shawnee Oklahoma and attended high school there. He was laid to rest in Fairview Cemetery Shawnee after services at Roesch Brothers Funeral Home. Funeral plans were delayed by a flooded Kansas and by the arrival of his brother from Elmhurst Illinois.
Mr and Mrs Ivan Johnson and children Donald Jerry and Luann left Wednesday evening for Duncan Oklahoma after a message said his mother was seriously ill at her home in Duncan Mrs Will A Medlen and Mrs Roy Jones were Fort Worth visitors Wednesday Mrs George Slaughter returned from an extended visit with her daughter Mrs Lyle Montgomery of Denton Mrs C S Henderson returned Monday night from Sherman where she had been the guest of Mr and Mrs Houston Hilburn Capt Howard Wright left Sunday night for Fort Bliss El Paso Texas after a week's visit with his parents Mr and Mrs T F Wright Sunday Capt Wright and his parents visited his sisters Misses Allene and Jane Wright of Fort Worth Mrs Walter Evans has returned from a ten day visit in Dallas with her daughter Mrs M C Martin and her sisters Mrs Raines and Mrs Lillie Russell Pvt Willis Heard of Camp Howze visited his parents Mr and Mrs E C Heard and brother Gordon Saturday and Sunday Seaman Second Class Billy Ray King left Tuesday for California after a week's leave spent with his wife and parents Mr and Mrs J W King and Mr and
The column lists survivors and relatives of residents including Harrison G. Brandt of Shawnee and Mary Brandt of Bowie, with extended mentions of Dixon Barker and Tucker. Furthers note Holley Prater of Healdton, Velva Jo Butler of Wichita Falls, and Shumates with Navy service, plus visits of J J Lawson and Lt. Black overseas. News Classified ads get results.
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