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Blackwell News Highlights Family Visits and Church Moves
Blackwell residents note numerous out of town guests for birthdays and gatherings. Rev. R. L. Cooksey resigns from the Baptist Church to lead Leander’s First Baptist Church with his family moving next week. A local baby girl is born as Pvt. Billy Magness visits on leave. Community reports rain, church events, and travel to Dallas and Snyder.
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R. L. Cooksey
The
Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
Leander
Cooksey
Blackwell
Cookseys
Robert Tubb
Young Hospital
Sweetwater
M. L. Barnes
J. B
Johnny
Jodie van Zandt
Bill McCurdy
Billy Magness
Winters Hospital
Magness
Massachusetts
C. L. Lofland
Jim Magness
Hylton
Pauline Wadley
San Antonio
Charles Wilson
Big Spring
Jim Wilson
J. W. Raney
Cy Odom
Killeen
W. A. Hazelwood
W. A. Hazlewood, Sr
H. C. Raney
Ruby
Fletch Pinkard
Charles Ragsdale
B. P. Ragsdale
Nolan County
PTA Council
Divide
Roy Sanderson
Bettye Sanderson
Jack Blanchard
Ross Blanchard
Snyder
Sanford
Wingate