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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1966
Page
4
Melvin TX reports Claude Turner dies at Brady Hospital with funeral at Eden Cemetery and burial in Eden. Out of town relatives attend Turner funeral from Creme Ward Porter Houston and San Angelo. Also mourns Mrs Abbie Cagle at Brady with services and burial at Lohn. relatives identified.
A long list details Fort Worth and surrounding area residents visiting kin in Arcadia Arlington Taubock Dallas Dallas area and Oklahoma. Notable mentions include Beverly Jenkins and Macky Kay Morrow visiting from USC Denton and San Angelo connections, plus a 4-H Honor Award recipient Sandra at the State Fair.
Odessa feature profiles Mrs. Bessye Cowden Ward widow of Jess C Ward longtime Fear Ranch owner since 1947. She plods along with Herefords, rides fences, leads Fetor County Sheriff’s Posse and Daughters of the American Revolution chapter, and collects history from the pastures with horseshoes crude tools and milk buckets.
The article argues for an areawide boll weevil control program in the Rolling Plains as harvest begins in 1966. It cites $10 million in damage this year and warns that 1967 will require a concentrated effort, including dessication, stalk destruction, and possible insecticide use, to sustain cotton yields and prices.
A son was born to Mrs. Bill Teller on Oct 12. Several locals visited relatives including Emzy Sutton and Mrs. Sutton, Y. Y. Middleton, Sr., and Emry Sutton. Fort Worth couple Billy Joe Ferris and son toured from San Angelo while Justine Johnson from Denton stayed with her father Joe Dale Johnson. Mary Riley of Abilene spent days here and in Eden with her mother Mrs. J. A. Able.
In a quiet room a rocking chair marks three generations of use beginning with her husband’s grandfather. A screened area displays saddles, chaps, branding irons and a first woman’s Midland saddle. Mrs. Ward speaks of her large clan and pride in her ranching legacy.
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