Local notes and life's events from Friendship area
Sorrow and resilience mark the community with stories of travelers, anniversaries, weddings, and local achievements. Charles narrowly avoided a Cuba bound hijack, Ernest Hodge hosts mark a 50th, Elaine Bales and Michael Ocker wed in Temple, and Tim Hawke of Buckholts earns high honors as an agriculture student at Texas A&M.
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Ernest Hodge
Elaine Bales
Temple
Michael Ray Ocker
Rosebud
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Ocker
J. W. Pope
Jim Bales
Tim Hawke
Texas A&m
Milam County Observes Farm Bureau Week Proclaimed
Milam County designates January 25 30 as Farm Bureau Week in Milam County Governor Preston Smith proclaims the same period as Farm Bureau Week in Texas Local president Edwin Lehmann Buckholts and membership chair H M Yager Cameron explain the need for organized producers The proclamation cites agriculture as vital to the economy and notes Farm Bureau is a non governmental organization of families uniting to address farm issues and solutions O B Harden Milam County Judge signs the proclamation January 20 1971
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O. B. Harden
H. M. Yager
Milam County
Preston Smith
Texas
Farm Bureau
Edwin Lehmann
Buckholts
County Farm Bureau
Cameron
Lehmann
Families United
I. O. B. Harden
Obituary for H A Patzke of Pleasant Grove near Rosebud
Henry A Patzke 76 of Pleasant Grove near Rosebud died Wednesday night after a long illness in a Rosebud hospital. He was a World War I veteran and Cedar Springs Baptist Church member. Funeral 2:30 p.m. Friday at Hoelscher Funeral Home Rosebud with burial at Powers Chapel Cemetery. Survived by wife Trudie, daughter Darden Farney of Golinda, brother Carl Patze of Rosebud, five sisters in Rosebud and Dimmit and Portersville California, plus two grandchildren.
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Henry A. Patzke
Pleasant Grove
Rosebud
Mr. Patzke
Milam County
Cedar Springs
Hoelscher Funeral Home
P. J. Brown
Garland Reeves
Powers Chapel
Trudie Patzke
Darden Farney
Golinda
Carl Patrke
Selma Good
Jack Withers
Clarence Maxwell
B. M. Nelson
Dimmit
Fred Armstrong
Portersville
Calif
Nigliazzo Named to Ag Board
John W. Nigliazzo of Hearne was named to the 20 member cotton board that administers a research and promotion program for upland cotton. The Department of Agriculture announced the appointment. Nigliazzo, a Robertson County farmer and businessman, will serve a three year term through December 31, 1973, on a board with five other appointees from across the United States under the Cotton Research and Promotion Act.
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John W. Nigliazzo
Hearne
Department of Agriculture
Nigliazzo
Robertson County
The
United States
Cotton Research and Promotion Act
George Fall Funeral Held in Caldwell
George Clarke Fall Sr a Caldwell resident and former newspaperman and school administrator died at home of an apparent heart attack. He served as principal of Caldwell Junior High and assistant superintendent of Caldwell Public Schools and earlier published the Caldwell News. Survived by one son one daughter and six grandchildren.
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Gerald W. Dockall
Naha AB
Okinawa
Rockdale High School
Dockall
Deetachment 18
20Th Weather Squadron
Laredo Afb
Mary
J. T. Downey
Cameron
US Air Force
George Clarke Fall
Caldwell
Caldwell Junior High School
Caldwell Public Schools
Waco
Caldwell News Fail
Cameron Country Club
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Sharp, Tracy
Friendship News
Charles
Houston
Pensacola
Cuba
Miami
White House
William Howard Taft
Baker Electric
National Geographic Society
Mrs. Leroy Guillote
Harry
Puerto Rico
Tracy Duncan
Rockdale
Cecil Plate
Tracy
Ruth Caffey
Louisiana
Mas. Clement Caffey
Texas Farm Bureau
General
Milam County Farm Bureau
Cameron Herald
East St
Obituarius
H.A. Patzke
Ag Board
George Fall
Milam
Green’s Grocery
Dutchtown Drug
Keith
Hickman’s Grocery
Lehnert’s
New Cameron Drug
Herald Stand
Zink’s Food Mart
Dusek Pharmacy
Newton Hospital
McLane Red & White
Lexan Cafe
Milam Motel
St. Edward Hospital
River’s Dairyland
Dairy Queen
Sheffield
Gause
Coat’s Grocery & Marke
Svetlik’s Cash Grocery
Hill’s Steak House
Lott
Cooper
Shepard’s Cafe
Milano
Hartley’s
A-Tote’s Food Store
Food
Yoakum’s Grocery
Minerva
Joe’s Grocery
Ben Arnold
Swanzy Grocery
Burlington
Roy’s Grocery & Meats
Dairy King
Zipperlen Drive-In Grocery
Rogers
Tuc
Thorndale
Schwab Mobil Station
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