Bowie Junior High honors and upcoming events
The article details May exams the May 21 week and May 23 graduation with a post ceremony dance featuring New Light. It notes Spring Concert results with sixth grade first and honors for Debra Carnutte and drum section. Junior High Band honors Sheryl Carnutte Belinda Beasley Linda McLendon Melinda Guthrie. Top ten include valedictorian Barton Robinson salutatorian Nita Brown and others. It introduces seventh grade coach Coach Barnes, his background Timpson High Sam Houston State East Texas, and that he will supervise the swimming pool this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Light
Debra Carnutte
Sheryl Carnutte
Belinda Beasley
Linda McLendon
Melinda Guthrie
Barton Robinson
Nita Brown
Delores Pittman
Ray Carr
Jeff Taylor
Johnny Bell
Mark Sadler
Vicki Tomas
Beverly
Andreason
Sherry Wheeler
Barnes
Bowie
Timpson High
Texas
Sam Houston State Teachers College
East Texas State
Bowie News Letter Keeps In Touch With Readers
A reader thanks the Bowie News staff for two April 25 1968 issues and notes plans to visit Vashti to see sister and brother in law G O Duke. The letter is signed by Mrs J W Harvey Quitaque Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowie
Dee Campbell
E. L. Roberts
Vashti
G. O. Duke
J. W. Harvey Box
Quitaque
Texas
Community social notes from Belcherville district
A lengthy Belcherville region report lists visits and gatherings across Nocona, Montague, Wichita Falls and surrounding towns. Guests include Annie Sewell Albuquerque and several Reeves party members with stops in Montague and Stoneburg. Weather disrupted gardens and crops with 3 1/2 inches of rain.
Mother's Day visit by Anderson and Howard families
Mrs. J. D. Anderson celebrated Mother's Day with her children Mr. and Mrs. Os Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Howard and family at Mrs. Howard's home in Nocona. Gerald Vindel and family also joined. Vindel later visited his mother over the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Reeves
Annie Sewell
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Eula Hanks
Ella Ritchie
Catherine Thomas
Nocona
Bernice Buck
Reeves
Montague
Roxie Miles
Elma Jennings
Billy Miles
Elsie Hewitt
M. F. Chilcoat
Kent Stewart
Ronnie
Hal Howard
Cecil Johnson
Caldwell
Sid Vail
Chris Aselton
Donnie
Joe Pippin
Nocona Horizon Manor
Hannah Kirby
Henry Hannas
W. L. Howard
Jack Collier
Joyce
Seymour
Pippin
Fannie Kirby
Stevie Millers
Charlie Miller
Pippin’s
Homer Lewis
Wanda Short
Bobby
Jimmy
Stoneburg
Harold Spivey
Bowie
A. H. Lewis
Petrolia
Wayne Lewis
Cement
Oklahoma
L. C. Curnutte
Raymond Curnutte
Prairie Valley
Willie Curnutte
H. S. Hardin
Ora Hardin
Duncan
Cordie Ritchie
Zona Admire
Paula
Wayne Hutson
John Cunneen
Shanna
Lynton Hutson
Jennifer
Ada Hutson
Wichita Falls
Jack Crenshaw II
Caddy McCall OI
Jimmy Fitts
Jerry Johnson
LaJnie Hewitt
Euliss- Hurst
Jim Hillis
Mike
Jessie Hewitt
Sam Black
Gainesville
Irene Wallace
Billy
Fort Worth
Floyd Hewitt
Pete Skinner
Bill Rainbolt
St. Jo
Fleming
Howard Hudgens
Hubert Felderhoff
T. P. Skinner
Harold Skinner
Nocona High School
D. W. Cunningham
T. P. Skinner Jr
Harold
J. D. Anderson
Mrs. Os
Anderson
Harlan Howard
Gerald Vindel
Mrs. Howard
James Franklin Tucker 83 Succumbs After Illness
Bowie resident James Franklin Tucker 83 died after a brief illness in a Bowie hospital. Services were held at First Baptist Church with Rev. Ruel Conner and Rev. D. L. Payne officiating. Burial followed at Crafton under Owens and Brumley Funeral Home. He was born May 15, 1884, in Denton County and lived in Wichita Falls before moving to Bowie last December. Survived by wife Minnie Estelle, a son James Merrell, five stepsons, three stepdaughters, and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Franklin Tucker
Bowie
First Baptist Church
Ruel Conner
Freewill
Minnie Estelle
James Merrell
Gladewater
Elder Boyett
Silver City
N.M
Charlie Boyett
Garland
Lee Boyett
Uewell Boyett
Jewell Boyett
Wichita Falls
Willie Shurbet
Sunset
Geneva Brock
Denton
Leona Clark
Mrs Will Young Honored With Retirement Dinner
Mrs. Will Young was the guest of honor at a retirement party May 9 hosted by Miss Clara Hoeldtke and Mrs. Ramona Henry. The six o’clock dinner included a three course meal and gifts of an orchid corsage and a sterling silver friendship pin. The event highlighted decades of lunch club friendship among the former high school staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Young
Clara Hoeldtke
Ramona Henry
Waunita Schaffner
Willie Lee Dickerman
Young
Mildred Stinson Visits Bridgeport for Mother's Day
Mildred Stinson spent Mother's Day with her parents in Bridgeport this weekend. Wade Bond hosted guests including his cousins Mr and Mrs Hensley Hamner of Bakersfield California for a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Stinson
Bridgeport
Wade Bond
Hensley Hamner
Bakersfield
California
Local Social Notes From Montague Nods and Visits
Montague residents host and visit relatives across Oklahoma and Texas. Mrs. Bee Qualls of Mangum Oklahoma is buried in Bowie Oak Hill Cemetery. Numerous families including the Garvins Burgesses Prestwoods Hilburns and Elliots share visits dinners and weekend guests in Bowie Texarkana Ringgold Duncan and Fort Worth areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Garvin
Nocona
Jenks Swearington
Mattie Fenoglio
Bowie
F. O. Burgess
Daniel Shaffer
Rickey
Johnnie Cox
D. Webster
Ann Little
Bee Qualls
Mangum
Oklahoma
Ruby Berry
Oak Hill Cemetery
George Berry
Alma Richardson
Fort Worth
Bertie Goad
Texarkana
Joe Prestwood
Frank Allen
Ringgold
Nannie Harkey
Duncan
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Richardson Plumbing & Hardware
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J. W. Prestwood
A. E
Bud) Prestwood
Ringling
Joe McDonald
Okla
Rosa Simons
Terral
Nelson Gronow
Lora Hilburn
Z. D. Hilburn
David Epley
Kim
She
Ervin Ward
R. J. Lawrence
Tommy Elkins
Dallas
H. W. Beckman
Mathew Makie
P. A. Carminati Sr
S. D. Hoover
Helen Hightower
Gene Pollard
Nell Hickman
Vivian Hamilton
Cecil Adkins
Speedy Grocery
Bowie Manufacturing
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