Fredericksburg High to graduate 168 seniors in 1977 ceremony
Nearly 168 Fredericksburg High School seniors will receive diplomas Friday at FHS Stadium starting at 8 p.m. The second largest class in history follows last year’s 147 and trails the 170 graduates two years ago. The program features band processional, salutatory by Tami Strackbein, valedictory by Nina Nixon, 42 honor students, and diplomas presented by FISD President Robert Petermann.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredericksburg High School
FHS
Bill Brady
Tami Strackbein
Clarence Strackbeins
Nina Nixon
Victor Nixons Sr
Miss Nixon
Theo Lindig
Fredericksburg Independent School District Board of Trustees
FISD
Crandall Young
Rex Glover
Jerald Jenkins
Don Weinheimer
Roy Weinheimers
Mohr
Fredericksburg
James Heimann
Weather Rainfall and Temperature Summary
Rainfall this week and for May totals show 1 59 inches and 12 56 inches for the year. May temperature low 57 and high 88 recorded. Data notes include date alignment with the week.
Memorial Day Race Meet Opens at Gillespie County Fair Grounds
Fredericksburg hosts its first Memorial Day Race Meet at the Gillespie County Fair Grounds May 28 to 30. Twenty six races are scheduled with daily starts at 2 p.m. A festival weekend includes music and dancing with Pehl's Oldtime Band performing Saturday evening in the exhibition hall.
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Fredericksburg
Gillespie County Fair Grounds
Fair Association
Jim Riggs
Gillespie County
Beverly Harris
Marker Dedication Sunday At Harper Massacre Site
An official Texas Historical Marker at the McDonald Massacre site in Harper will be dedicated Sunday May 29 at 3 30 p m The Harper Lions Club sponsors the ceremony with speaker Jim Weatherby and representation from the Gillespie County Historical Society and Commission The marker location is 300 feet south of US 290 and FM 783 The inscription recounts 1864 Kiowa attack on the Taylor McDonald families and the aftermath including burial sites Continued on page 9 sec 1 The festival will include an Austin band on outdoor pavilion 9 30 p m to 1 30 a m and a Kitty Wells show the next Sunday night with Johnny and Bobby Wright Also food by Gillespie County Fair and Festivals Association and local groups plus horse racing events at Fredericksburg Memorial Day Derby and other races over the three day meet with barns housing 200 horses Residing judge Melton Keller race official Keith Keller and announcer Dudley Althaus are named with Werner Moehr handling photo finish Continued on page 9 Dec 1
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Texas
Harper
US 290
Harper Lions Club
Jim Weatherby
Gillespie County Historical Society and Commission
Harper Presbyterian Church
Floy Bode
Roy Roberts
Taylor
Matthew Taylor
Llano River
Pedernales River
Matthew
Jim
Llano
Eli McDonald
Caroline
Jim Taylor
Gill
Mahala
Becky Jane
Alice
James
Dorcas
Zed
Hannah
Harper Community Park
Monroe
Kitty Wells
Johnny
Bobby Wright
Gillespie County Fair and Festivals Association
Opa
Fredericksburg Kiwanis Club
Fredericksburg
CVAE
Fair Association
Melton Keller
Keith Keller
Dudley Althaus
Werner Moehr
Gillespie County Fair
Memorial Day Veterans Service at Memorial Presbyterian Church
A Memorial Day service for veterans is set for Sunday May 29 at 9 30 a m at Memorial Presbyterian Church. The program includes a flag ceremony a greetings by Rev Milton Bierschwab a hymn America a prayer by Barracks chaplain Donaldson Rector and introductions of leaders from American Legion VFW and Barracks. The Spirit of Memorial Services Lest We Forget leads to a roll of names of veterans who died since last Memorial Day and ends with morning worship before the veterans retire the flag and depart.
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Memorial Presbyterian Church
Milton Bierschwab
America
Donaldson
Norman Wilke
American Legion
Steve Borski
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Walt Schaeffer
Bierschwale
Valued German Emigrants Ship Lists Gifted to Gillespie Society
John and Dorothea Cotter of San Antonio and Fredericksburg donated a complete photographic copy of the ship lists of the first emigrants to the German colonies recorded by Adelsverein agent D H Klaener. The Gillespie County Historical Society will place the volume in local archives with use restrictions. The May 16 board meeting accepted the gift. Plans for the annual banquet and membership meeting were outlined by Mrs J Hardin Perry. The event is set for June 9 at 6:30 p.m. in Pioneer Pavilion Lady Bird Johnson Park with speaker Jack Maguire from the Institute of Texan Cultures. A nominating committee was appointed. six new directors will be named at the annual meeting and 1977-78 officers named. A letter will honor Werner Weber deceased. Marschall Meusebach heirs funds for Cherry Spring cemetery care were received with interest to aid maintenance. Helen Weirich will chair maintenance and assist with burial records.
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Klaener
Adelsverein
Society
J. Hardin Perry
Pioneer Pavilion
Lady Bird Johnson Park
Jack Maguire
Institute of Texan Cultures
San Antonio
Werner Weber
Marschall- Meusebach Heirs
Cherry Spring
Memorial Day Closings Affect Post Office and City
Public offices and many businesses will close Monday May 30 for Memorial Day. Fredericksburg Post Office and federal offices shut. mail deliveries halted except for Special Delivery and mail received. City garbage routes rescheduled. The Fredericksburg Standard stays open most of the day. readers urged to submit news by Saturday.
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Fredericksburg
Robert Pape
Pape
Nimitz Parkway
Fredericksburg Standard
Standard
Fredericksburg Jaycees Install Officers and Honor Members
Fredericksburg Jaycees held their Annual Distinguished Service Awards and Installation Banquet at Baron's Club with over 50 attendees. Rev. Lawrence Bathe was named Outstanding Young Man 1976, James Wahrmund won Outstanding Young Farmer, Rudolf Becker received the Outstanding Educator Award, and new officers were installed by Dwight Oestreich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredericksburg Jaycees
Lawrence Bade
Tony Jung
James Wahrmund
Rudolf
Rudy) Becker
Jaycees
Baron’s Club
Lawrence Bathe
Bethany Lutheran Church
Jaycee
Bill Bathe
Wayne Edwards
Fredericksburg Piggly Wiggly
Ray
Wahrmund
Douglas Zenner
Rudolf Becker
Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg Independent School
Crandall Young
Bothe
Lester Frantzen
Shannon Klein
Rick Wilson
Tim Dooley
Dooley
Also Mentioned on This Page
Charles Mohr
St. Peter Lutheran Church
Doss
Edgar Heimanns
Rose
Hubert Nixon
Bob Semmler
Earl Stobaugh
Lois Whitewood
Robert Gordons
Alien Hagels
Zion Lutheran Church
Robert L. Otterstad
Our Savior's Lutheran Church
College Station
Pehl
Exhibition Hall
Rex Sherry
Harper Massacre
Austin
Veterans Holding Service
Fairgrounds
John
Dorothea Cotter
Cotters
D.H
Helen Weirich
Frantzen
Dick Bristol
Dwight Oestreich
Robert Menking
Donald Schuch
Charles Richey
Mike Armstrong
Joe Cox
Clinton Feuge
Daniel Flores
Ray Geistweidt
Gary Loth
Tom Wallace
Oestreich
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