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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1966
Page
2
The Royal Booster Club will hold a regular meeting Monday January 2 at 7 30 p m in the Royal High School Visual Aids Room. All members are urged to attend.
Williams M Simmons Jr of Rosenberg is named District Deputy Grand Master of Masonic District No 108, overseeing seven Lodges in Fort Bend and Waller Counties. He serves as chief inspector for Gulf States Tube Corporation, and is a Past Master of Rosenberg Lodge 881 active in other Masonic groups.
The piece traces Texas Christmas from early Spanish missions to immigrant communities. It notes the Margil Vine miracle at Mission San Antonio, 1770, and festive customs among Mexicans, French Texans, Stephen F. Austin settlers, Houston fortifications, and dances in Huntsville and Dallas. It highlights Texan hardships and evolving cultural blends, including German customs in New Braunfels Fredericksburg.
Johnny Washington family loses all when their Brookshire home on Fulshear Road burns December 28. Brookshire and Fulshear fire departments battle the blaze and save a nearby house now occupied by the Washingtons. Donations for seven children gathered at the fire station and delivered to the family.
The text profiles Ellis and family members with ties to Seabrook Spring Branch Brenham Brookshire Pattison Richmond and Houston. It details schooling from Texas A&M to Rice University, military service, careers in plumbing education law and biology, teaching posts, and multiple marriages and children across the extended family.
Mr and Mrs Johnnie Dolen spent three days in Waco for the 131st Grand Communication of the Grand Lodge of Texas AF and AM at the Memorial Grand Lodge Temple. Highlights included the Masonic School girls choir Mason airs and a Memorial Service for 1966 deaths with Mossah Temple Shrine Chanters. Grand Officer installation crowned J D Tomme Jr of Fort Worth as Grand Master.
The Katy Drilling Company sets up a drilling rig in Keller Texas about 15 miles north of Fort Worth under a contract to drill two wells about 1200 feet deep for Keller Water Supply Corp. The firm is completing a rice well for Roland Busch and one reserveist Lt is coaching at a Midland junior high while pursuing a Masters at Southwest Texas State. He is married to Beverly Bradberry a Texas Tech graduate employed by Humble Company.
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