Double Horn Reunion and Highland Lakes Meet Recap
A busy weekend with the Double Horn Reunion at the park and a large Highland Lakes Championship Meet drawing crowds from Lampasas Kingsland Burnet and Marble Falls. Burnet won the event while others faced wet tracks and travel weariness as families reconnect and adapt to Texas life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park
Lampasas
Kingsland
Burnet
Marble Falls
the Korner
Texas
Dallas
T.A.A.F
Padre Island
Moline
Illinois
Mage
Double Horn Homecoming Draws 169 Attendees
Approximately 169 people gathered for the Double Horn Homecoming at Johnson Park Marble Falls on Saturday July 26. The oldest attendee was 88 year old Lee Alderson Whitely of Odem and the Frasier family traveled the farthest from Napa California. The list of attendees includes numerous families from Marble Falls Austin Lampasas Spicewood San Antonio and other Texas towns along with guests from California and New Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson Park
Marble Falls
Sherman
Larry Gardner
Minnie Hayden
Luther Alderson
Bertha Whitman
Mary Wall
Ima Bowles
O. L. Simmons
Max
Lee Alderson Whitely
Odem
Kevin Frasier
Sidney Frasier
Houston
Carlos
Audrey
Melanie Frasier
Napa
California
Lillian Wall
Burnet
Esther Richter Weaver
Fredericksburg
Polly Aldison Davis
Little River
Leslie Sims
Tow
Woodrow
Juanita Chamberlain
Briggs
J. L
Dorothy Chamberlain
Jonestown
Nora Alderson Chamberlain
Pearsall
Roy
Wilma Whitely
Myrtle Jacob Mitchell
Clifton
Bill Prince
Dallas
Frank
Cleda Thomas
Port Lavaca
Phyliss Luckie Smith
Biloxi
Mississippi
Klemens
Mary Lous
Paula
Penny Szymanski
Eagle Lake
Lois
Craig
Tom Harrington
Ray
Nicki George
Sweeney
Mike Wall
Caddo
Oklahoma
Carlos, Audrey
Pearl Frasier Harrington
Alamogordo
New Mexico
Marble Falls youth visits Aransas Pass pair
Marble Falls resident Craig Magerkurth, youngest son of Mr and Mrs Merlin Magerkurth, is visiting Lane Hiller, son of Mr and Mrs Willi Hiller, at Aransas Pass near Corpus Christi for a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Craig Magerkurth
Merlin Magerkurth
Lane Hiller
Willi Hiller
Aransas Pass
Corpus Christi
Weather aids faster Lake Marble Falls refilling
Good weather and extra effort by LCRA workers sped up resurfacing of floodgate faces at Max Starcke Dam. Lake Marble Falls fell about 14 feet by July 7 to reach corroded areas for sandblasting and filling. Lake LBJ dropped about one foot and will return to normal level. Refilling expected to start August 11 about 18 days earlier than planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake
Marble Falls
Max Starcke
Lbj
Dick Whisenhunt
LCRA
Free Immunization Clinic for School Children in Barnet
A free immunization clinic at Shepperd Memorial Hospital Barnet, sponsored by the Texas State Health Department, will offer polio DPT measles rubella vaccines for students. Open the third Thursday each month from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. records must be validated by a physician or health clinic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shepperd Memorial Hospital
Barnet
Texas State Heath Department
Track Meets and Saunas
A spring track relay team from Marble Falls and Austin area athletes qualified for finals after prelims but faced a no show in finals causing a quirky substitution. The Dallas meet at Dallas Baptist College featured mud and heat with two vaulting accidents and a disqualification for a baton handoff. Tracy Doyal, Terri Doyal, and Ricky Huffman posted top finishes in Junior and Senior divisions as the season closed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keith Schnee
Marble Falls
Austin
Mississippi
Don Lee
University of Texas
Don
Brian Magerkurth
Grand Prairie
Dallas Baptist College
Hailey’s The Moneychangers Now Available At Library
Library notice promotes Arthur Hailey’s novel The Moneychangers highlighting bank corruption and power struggles at First Mercantile American Bank. It notes Alex Vander Voort and Roscoe Heyward as central figures, outlines themes of inflation, insider newsletters, and banking dangers, and invites readers to borrow the book plus other best sellers. It also covers memorial gifts to the library and the Summer Reading Club, urging use of the new east side parking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Mercantile American Bank
America
Ft. Knox
Arthur Hailey
Moneychangers
Roscoe Heyward
Alex Vandervoort
Celia
Margot Bracken
Alex
Hailey
Airsport
Lemon Sky
Jean Stover
Lynn Willises
Edyth Giesecke
Tom Lacys
Oran Trussells
Leroy Trussells
Malcolm Hollands
Max Tatum
Claud Thew
Verna
Dan Purvis
Waddell Northington
Gus Michels
Rush Rawlings
Dillon Frasiers
Connie Gupton
Marie Ebeling
General Fund
Also Mentioned on This Page
By Pat Magerkurth
Double Horn
Bertha Sims Whitman
Robert Naumann
Enola Wall
Eldon
Eunice Thurman
Lena Bailey
Willie Patton
Fritz
Bertha Mae Wagenfuhr
Craig Wagenfuhr
Louise Proffitt
Herman
Pauline Fuston
Tommy Eklund
Fred
Kathleen Heffington
Wim. H. Naumann
LeeRoy
Ethel Boultinghouse
Melvin Heine
C. F
Laura Wall
Ina Wall Atchison
Madelyn Frasier
J.H
Dorothy Frasier
George
Dessie Lyda
Lorena
Betty Barnes
Ima Sims
Loyd Bible
Malcolm
Louise Holland
Amiel Frasier
J.L. Lewis
Vance
Thelma Fox
Bill
Ida Mae Mobley
Lebran
Billie Joyce Hall
Minnie Bailey Haydon
Walter
Spicewood
Max Wall
Robert Wall
Marguerite Proffitt Fowler
San Antonio
Vernon Carroll
Dorothy Dear
Agnes Sims Short
Carl Kotara
Sidney
Carol
Arthur
Jeannette Sims Downs
Universal City
J. B. Wall
Bertram
Larry
Ola Proffitt Gardner
Liberty Hill
Anna Beachout Johnson
Kate Waugh Lehrer
Llanella
Fern Bingham
Stillman
Pete Gibbs
Justus McCalley
Scott Jackson
Texas A&m University
Marble Falls Rodeo Grounds
Sheila Sayers
Marie Graves
Joe Duke
Monica Denham
Majoe Denham
Sheila Graves
Leonard Meredith
Lonie Meredith
Billy Graves
Mike Shepperd
Carlos Frasier
Melanie
Kevin
By Elizabeth Schnelle
Keith Schnelle
Keith
Tracy Doyal
Ricky Huffman
Terri Doyal
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!