Area Service Members Return Aboard Piedmont and Columbus
Seaman Apprentice Clyde E. Fagegett and Seaman Apprentice William D. Parker return to San Diego aboard the destroyer tender Piedmont completing the ship’s sixteenth Far East deployment. Piedmont has repaired Seventh Fleet ships from Subic Bay to Yokosuka and logged over 10 000 jobs for about 350 vessels during the Vietnam era. Senior Chief Electronics Technician Roy A. Miller serves aboard the guided missile cruiser Columbus deployed with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean for five months, performing radar picket and air control duties as NATO exercises proceed. the crew recently visited Barcelona and toured Spain’s wine and ski regions.
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USS Piedmont
Clyde E. Fagegett
USN
Jessie Faggett
Longview
William D. Parker
A. W. Parker
Route 1
Gladewater
San Diego
Piedmont
Far East
Subic Bay
Yokosuka
Japan
Vietnam
USS Columbus
Roy A. Miller
Leo F. Miller
Billie J. Rolls
USS
Columbus
U. S. Sixth Fleet
Mediterranean
Barcelona
Spain
Rock Springs Cemetery Association Christmas Party
Members of the Rock Springs Cemetery Association plan their annual Christmas party Friday night at 7 30 p m in the school house. An invitation extends to all interested. a covered dish supper precedes a gift exchange, carol singing, and fellowship. Ladies bring gifts for exchange. men supply gifts for other men. parents provide gifts for children. A yearly highlight of the association.
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Rock Springs Cemetery Association
Kilgore College crafts harpsichord for Bach Magnificat
Acting director Melvin Marshall leads Kilgore College chorale grand chorus and orchestra for a Bach Magnificat Dec 14 in Dodson Auditorium. Facing instrument delays, members improvis e a harpsichord using a do it yourself kit cabinet made by J A Bronson and work by Jimmy Culp and Jerry Hale as Marshall nerves through the deadline.
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Kilgore College
Melvin Marshall
Dodson
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tyler
Kilgore College Fine Arts
Jimmy Culp
Inlaw
J. A. Bronson
Lawrence
Kansas
Longview
Jerry Hale
Ranger
Marshall
Dodson Auditorium
Brother Dies In Fire at Cypress Mill
Frank H. Herbst, 85, brother of Richard Herbst, died Wednesday while fighting a grass fire at his Cypress Mill general store yard. He suffocated after being overcome by smoke. Funeral services were held Saturday at Crofts Funeral Home in Johnson City with Masonic graveside rites in Cypress Mill Cemetery. He is survived by his wife, a son Felix C. of Boerne, a daughter Mrs Ned Agold, Fr. Davis, another brother Robert C. of Fredericksburg, a sister Mrs Adolph Hennings of Comfort, and seven grandchildren.
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Frank H. Herbst
Richard Herbst
Cypress Mill
Crofts Funeral Home
Johnson City
Powell R. Hewitt Rites Held In Gladewater Park
Powell R. Hewitt 69 of Big Sandy died Monday after a long illness. Services were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Gladewater Memorial Park with Richard Ames officiating. Arrangements by Malcolm Stone Funeral Home. Hewitt born Sept 16 1900 in Louisiana was a retired steam fitter. Survived by two sons, a daughter, one sister and many grandchildren.
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Powell R. Hewitt
Big Sandy
Gladewater Memorial Park
Richard Ames
Malcolm Stone
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Gaymode
Penn Paf
Cantrece
Towncraft
A. Kingdor
Kingdor
Dacron
Penn-Prest
C.kingjon
Rock Springs
Kilgore College Fine Arts Department
Bor
DuPont
Tricot
D&h
Jack Long Motors
West Marshall Longview
Texas
Adolph Hennings of
Comfort
Mrs. Herbst
Charlie
Barney
Linton
Marie Woods
Kilgore
Rosa Lee
Houston
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