Longhorns to Start 1964 Workouts Monday Morning
Coach Cecil Toliver announces 1964 Bronze Longhorns will begin conditioning Monday with sessions at 6 AM and 6 PM. All district players hoping to join the Longhorn squad are expected to attend the first meeting Monday morning.
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Tey
Cecil Toliver
Toliver
Bronte Hospital
Bronte School
Longhorns
Eden
Jim Ned
Santa Anna
Jayton
Ozona
Hermleigh
Loraine
Trent
Robert, Lee
Last Rites Held For Mrs Richards Pioneer Woman
Mrs. Richards born July 18 1883 in Taylor County died and burial took place in Fort Chadbourne Cemetery. The family long ranched in Oak Creek community near Bronte and hosted annual charity dances raising funds for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Survivors include son Ralph Richards Bronte daughters Shaler Copeland Strawn and Claude Roland San Angelo plus sister Davie Williams Arenas Valley New Mexico and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Ards
Lester Vinson
First Baptist
Murrell Johns
Old Fort Chadbourne
Williams Funeral Home
Richards
Taylor County
Mr. Richards
Carlsbad
N. M
New Mexico
Divide and Blackwell
Oak Creek
Blackwell School Announces 1964-65 Faculty
Blackwell School plans fall term start at 8 30 a m Monday August 24 with a full faculty. New teachers include LaRue Brousard in language arts and music and possibly high school Spanish, George French for secondary math, and Nancy Hodges in commercial studies. Additional staff cover grades one through six and science, math, and social studies.
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Blackwell
LaRue Brousard
George French
Nancy Hodges
Bernice Corley
Nola Shedd
R. E. Johnson
Gladys’ Sims
Ernestine Harris
John Ben Sheppard to Attend Bronte Labor Day Event
Odessa native John Ben Sheppard accepted an invitation from the city council to appear on Bronte’s Labor Day celebration program for Coke County’s 75th anniversary. A former attorney general and president of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, Sheppard is active in the oil industry and leads the Texas Historical Survey Committee. Jaycees announce contests and party plans.
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John Ben Sheppard
Odessa
Bronte
Coke County
Sheppard
United States
Junior’ Chamber of Commerce
Texas Historical
Bronte Jaycees
John Boyles
Bronte Jaycee Chapter
Texas
Rites Held for A. J. Kirkpatrick Former Publisher
Adrian John Kirkpatrick born March 30 1893 in Pawnee City Nebraska died after a heart attack in West Coke County Hospital. He married Gail Owen in 1920 and Violet Eaton in 1955 both in Robert Lee. He was a longtime newspaperman in Iowa and Nebraska before moving to Robert Lee in 1946. Burial at Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens San Angelo followed funeral at First Methodist Church with Masonic rites by Hayrick Lodge. Williams Funeral Home arranged services.
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Robert “Lee
First Methodist Church
Robert Lee
Dempsey Salter
Bill Beaty
Robert Lee Baptist Church
Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens
San Angelo
Hayrick Lodge
Williams Funeral Home
Kirkpatrick
West Coke County
Adrian John Kirkpatrick
Pawnee City
Neb
Gail Marie Owen
Allison
Iowa
Violet Eaton
Nebraska
Jaycees to Sponsor Two Contests for Diamond Anniversary
Bronte Jaycees announce a queen mother selection and a Miss Bronte beauty contest for Coke County Diamond Anniversary celebrations on Labor Day. Nominations for queen mother due August 29 1964.
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Coke County
Jaycees
Jan Wilkins elected Coke County Farm Bureau Queen
Jan Wilkins of Bronte was chosen Coke County Farm Bureau Queen at Bronte School Auditorium Monday night. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Joe George Wilkins and will represent Coke County at the district contest. Other entrants in the senior division included Mandy Jo Harmon Roganne Boykin Susan Berry and Kay Berg. Entertainment featured Jo Alice Evans and Margie Oglesby with Ida Lee Parker, plus the Blaylock Gang.
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Jan . Wilkins
Bronte
Coke County
Farm Bueau
Bronte School
Jan. Is
Joe George Wilkins
Ae Ite
Conieat
Artell Roberts
Robert Lee
Joe Collyns
General Telephone Co
Farm Bureau
Ben Boykin
Mandy Jo Harmon
Roganne Boykin
Susan Berry
Kay Berg
Jo Alice Evans
Margie Oglesby
Ida Lee Parker
the Blaylock
Gang
Ida Lee Parker Wins Dress Revue For Second Year
Ida Lee Parker of Bronte repeated as District 7 representative for the State Dress Revue to be held in Dallas in October. Parker, daughter of the Parkers, earned Coca County and District 7 honors after modeling a cranberry wool shirt and coat from the June 4-H Clothing Workshop. Elaine Fikes of Robert Lee also won a blue ribbon, with a pink skirt and checked blouse.
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Ida Lee Parker
Bronte
Dallas
Coke County 4-H
San Angelo
Miss Parker
North
Coke County
District 7
Ida Lee
Elaine Fikes
Robert Lee
Elaine
Weldon Fikes
Willis Wayne Smith
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Mrs. Richards
Blackwell School
Charles Ragsdale
A. J. Kirkpatrick
Pate
Jaycee
Coke County Golf Association
Aubrey Denman
Denman
Bronze Enterprise
Miss Bronte
Jan Wilkins Coke
Dress Revue
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