Santa's Helper From Barker Community Workshop
Theodore Matzke of Barker Community runs a year round wood shop named Santa's workshop. He crafts doll houses play houses gates and small furniture while his wife Helena assists in sanding and handling pieces. A notable creation is a six inch by eight and three quarter inch miniature wooden church with five hundred parts. The most ambitious order was a 9 by 5 by 8 foot play house built on skids for Christmas Eve delivery.
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Theodore Matzke
Barker
Santa
Matzke Yard
Georgia
Matzke
Helena Groschke Matzke
Addicks
Young rider enjoys gearing up for holiday pony ride
Leroy Wilson, a young customer at Phillips Shoe Shop, had his riding gear adjusted for his Shetland pony on a Wednesday morning during the holidays. Ora Ford of Beaumont visits for Christmas with relatives and helps prepare dinner alongside Mrs. H. Seidel. Mrs. W. D. Mills spends Yale season in Houston with her sister. Frank Herbie Stallknecht works for his uncle Bob Avery while trying out a Christmas present, a hockey Shetland pony and cart.
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Phillips Shoe Shop
Leroy Wilson
Ora Ford
Beaumont
H. Seidel
W. D. Mills
Houston
Frank Herbie Stallknecht
Bob Avery
Katy Baptist Loyalty Class Christmas Social Notes
The Loyalty Class of Katy Baptist Sunday school held its annual Christmas social at the home of Mrs. Thames in the Production Camp on December 17. Twenty five members and guests enjoyed turkey supper with trimmings. Mrs. Troy Reynolds, class president, was ill. Mrs. Ray Southard led the evening. Gifts from the tree were distributed and a social followed. The class has twenty members enrolled.
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Katy Baptist Sunday School
Thames
Troy Reynolds
Ray Southard
Card of Thanks for J H Bennett
The family of J H Bennett thanks friends and relatives for kindness and sympathy during illness and after his passing.
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J. H. Bennett
Spanish Club Attends Christmas Party at Redus Home
Los Amigos Spanish Club members gathered December 16 at the Redus residence for a Spanish themed Christmas party hosted by Ann Wilkinson and Faye Joy Redus. They enjoyed tamales Spanish rice chili red kidney beans and more then played games and opened gifts culminating with breaking a piñata.
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Los Amigos
Redus
Ann Wilkinson
Faye Joy Redus
O. M. Redus
Carl Schlipf
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Addicks Methodist Church
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Eerybody
Ole Hitchin
Levine Bros
Sealy
Brookshire
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