Christmas party honors and community notices in Gladewater
Local groups from the Eastern Star and Masonic lodges plan a Friday Christmas party at 7 p.m. in the N. Dean lodge hall with a covered dish supper and a Santa visit. Also mentions weather notes, a bank contest winner, Lions Club queen, a postponed wedding, hospital greetings, Santa letters, a Toronto entomology trip, and plans to study tropical diseases with insect specimens.
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Eastern Star
Masonic Lodges
N. Dean
Santa Claus
Toronto
Amazon Jungle
Ross Holliday
Holliday
Canada
Insect Pathology Research Institute
Federal Department of the Environment
Royal Ontario Museum
Gladewater
Gladewater Bears Dominate All-District Selections
Gladewater High School placed two players on the District 9-AAA first team and three on the second team. Henderson led with four on offense and four on defense after a quarterfinal playoff loss to Brenham. Jacksonville and Kilgore also earned multiple first team slots while Pine Tree Chapel Hill and Carthage notched several first team selections. Notable Gladewater honorees include fullback Charles Simmons and linebacker Keith Stokes on the first team offense, with Jay Edwards on the second team offense and Nathaniel Bynum and Chester Green on defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladewater High School Bears
Henderson
Brenham
Jacksonville
Kilgore
Pine Tree
Chapel Hill
Carthage
Gladewater
Charles Simmons
Keith Stokes
Jay Edwards
Nathaniel Bynum
Chester Green
Fred Thurmond
Chad Dean
Tony Nichols
Jimmy Summers
Lions
Kenneth Hand
William Miller
Joe Paul Paige
Paul Colley
Jackonsville
Tony Treadwell
Terry Thompson
Charles Gordon
Trey Hugman
Clarence Gage
Robbie Arrington
Jesse Cheeks
Bobby Harris
Longview
Janie Daniel
Armed pair robs A&M Package Store near Gladewater
Gregg County sheriff's deputies investigate an armed robbery at A&M Package Store on Hwy 80 east of Gladewater Saturday night. Two men wearing derby hats demanded cash, fired into the floor as they fled in a white 1963 Chevrolet with partial plate 961. The clerk, Mrs. A Allen, was revived after collapsing. No suspects yet. witness saw them depart.
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Gregg County Sheriff's Office
A&m
Gladewater
Hwy. 80
A. Allen
Mrs Wardie Stokes Dies After Illness at 83
Thelma Thelma Wardie Stokes, 83, died Wednesday in a Gladewater hospital after a lengthy illness. Funeral at 2 p.m. Thursday at Quitman and Center Streets Church of Christ. Burial in Rosedale Cemetery under Loyd Funeral Home guidance. Survived by three sons Jack Austin Norman Luling. one sister Emma Friddle. 11 grandchildren. seven great grandchildren.
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Wardie Thelma Stokes
Gladewater
Quitman and
Center Streets
Church of Christ
Rosedale Cemetery
Loyd Funeral Home
Gilmer
Stokes
Jack Stokes
Austin
Norman Stokes
Robert Stokes
Luling
Emma Friddle
Prayer for Today Opens Church Doors to World
A prayer asks God to guide the church to welcome all, grant wisdom to seize every opportunity to be an instrument of salvation, and to do so through Christ.
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Christ
John Ben Shepperd to address Kilgore service clubs
Kilgore Centennial climax features Odessa attorney and former Texas official John Ben Shepperd as keynote at an all service club luncheon on Wednesday December 13 at the Community Inn. He will dedicate the Texas State Historical marker on the World’s Richest Acre following the event.
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Kilgore
John Ben Shepperd
Gregg County
Odessa
Texas
United States Junior Chamber of Commerce
Community Inn
Shepperd
Gladewater
Crim
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Will Rogers
Oklahoma
North Pole
Mike Formby
Citizens National Bank of Dallas
Formby
CNB Park ‘N Lock
N. E Formby
Citizens National
Lions Club
Melanie McDowell
Harold McDowell
Melanie
Kilgore College
Larry Merritt
Jackie Johnson
Merritt
Danny Hamilton
Good Shepherd Hospital
the Mirror
P. O
Love
The
Amazon
Keith Storfs
Gladewater High School
Future Teachers of America
FTA
Larry Osborne
Church of the Nazarene
Oak Manor Nursing Home
Ons
Johnny Cace
Paul
United Fund
Edith’s Beauty Salon
Jack Earp
Marlena Terry
Gladewater Credit Bureau
Sylvester Tittle
Essick Hawley
Vernell Hawley
Janie Burns
Lillian Booty
Hewitt Feed Store
Rose
B. P. Dake
Gladewater Rotary Club
Pioneer No. 3
T. W. Lee
Batchelor
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