17 Mar 1966
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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1966
Page
1
Local social notes record numerous visits and gatherings. Families including Brown, Holland, Florence, and Lee hosted relatives and friends from Abilene, Lubbock, San Angelo, Winters, and Winters area, with dinners, outings, and a hospital weekend at Carlsbad.
Albert Thomas Grace IV born March 11 in Wichita Falls weighing five pounds two ounces. Rickey Lee Stancill born March 8 in Abilene Hendricks Hospital weighing seven pounds three ounces with siblings and extended family listed. Terry Dale Turner born March 14 in Ballinger Memorial Hospital weighing seven pounds with listed relatives and great grandparents.
Funeral services for Mrs. Theodore Johnson 87 of Winters were held at Bronte Methodist Church with Rev. Robert Walker and Rev. Roy Crawford officiating. Burial followed in Fairview Cemetery Bronte under Spill Funeral Home Winters. Born Martha Louisa May October 19 1879 she married in 1896 and moved to Coke County Bronte then Robert Lee where her husband served as tax assessor until 1910. She then became Bronte tax assessor four years before returning to Bronte to run a drug store for over 30 years. She retired in 1947 and moved to Winters near her daughter. She was active in the Methodist church Sunday school official board and the Order of the Eastern Star. Survivors include her daughter Angie Glenn of Winters two grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Pallbearers listed.
Several families in Bronte have been looking for rental houses in recent days. Anyone with a house for rent should visit or call The Enterprise office to list the property at no charge.
Neil and Tony Landers of Dallas visited last week with their father Bill Landers and aunt Mrs Alva res Boge. The report highlights family connections and local ties observed during the visit.
Funeral services were held Sunday in Ballinger for I R Cole 80 of Ballinger who died Saturday in Abilene. Burial followed in Norton Cemetery under Allen Davis Funeral Home direction. A former Maverick resident and Church of Christ member, he survived by his wife two sons Leroy Abilene and Stanley Buffalo Gap a daughter Mrs Earl Bowden Abilene six grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Caperton and their Coleman children visited Sunday with his parents Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Caperton. Monday and Tuesday guests in the Caperton home were Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Fort of Lathbock.
Mrs S O Jackson visits Odessa to see daughter Marion Mitchell and family. Mrs Ora Groff of San Angelo and Mrs Jetta Baker of Denver tour Bronte with Mrs Mac Cotten and family. Ernest Seay home hosts Jim McKown Abilene and Mr and Mrs Jack Evatts Silver City NM. Evatts is Seay’s oldest daughter Clifford. Clark joined for lunch. Vernon Glenn Amarillo visits with Forman and Glenn families. Bill Grant family spend weekend in Lawn with H H Grant parents.
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