Eye Opener: Memorial gifts to Glade Water Library
Brenda Chronister memory gifts list titles and donors. Notes Brenda as a Broadway School student and classmates’ praise. Includes a December portrait photographer remark and birth of Melanie Len Pyeatt at Longview Good Shepherd Hospital. Also reports Mrs. A I Shepperd illness and a Grand Jury panel from Gladewater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladewater Public Library
Brenda Sue
Taffy
Melissa Molasses
Haywood
Don Ear
Betty Erwin
Cliff Bowden
Jimmy
Hugh
United States
Canada
Ralph Preston
Homer Hanes
Pam
Scott
Lesyle Joslin
Clyde Merritt
Brenda
Broadway School
Me! Pyeatts
Melanie Len Pyeatt
Good Sheperd Hospital
Longview
Len Pyeatt
Refugio
Sidney King
Len Pyeatts
Melanie
Amy Lou
Pyeatts
David Grissom
Austin
Gladewater
Len
the Grissoms
Billy C. Holliman
Leslie Moore
B. C. Fall
Dewey Gray
Ben Earby
Don E. Brown
Harry S. Berntsen
Jerome L. Everhart
Charles H. Allen
Wiley Winegar
Leo B. Honea, Jr
G. Vincent Hudson
Louis Morgan
Kilgore
Richard D Stokely
Billy N. Speer
Bright Future Seen as Gladewater Booms Into 1970s
Gladewater enters 1970s with optimism and solid growth across sectors. Since 1963 the city issued about $4.89 million in building permits, including a 1969 record of $1.19 million. New homes, commercial builds, additions, and apartments fueled a decade of construction with three boat firms, two nursing homes, plants, and new retail. The year 1969 saw 23 new residences, 156 since 1963, while mortgage money tightened as interest rates rose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladewater
Quentin Abernathy
First State Bank
Honey Toys, Inc
Harold Victory
Gladewater Federal Savings & Loan Association
Oak Manor Nursing Home
Gladewater Arms
Oak Manor
Gregg Asphalt Company
Gladewater Boat Manufacturing Company
Longview Builders Supply
Goodyear
Serve Yourself
New City
Rites Held for Mrs. Faye Dunnavant of West Mountain
Funeral services were held Sunday for Mrs. Faye Dunnavant 50 of West Mountain who died December 27 in a Gladewater hospital. Last rites were conducted at 2 p.m. in the West Mountain Church of Christ. Interment followed in West Mountain Cemetery. Surviving are two sons James and Art Dunnavant of Longview two brothers Ira M. Orms and Billy Joe Orms of Longview three sisters Avis O Connor Rachel Smotherman and Virginia Ruth Adkins of Longview and four grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faye Dunnavant
West Mountain
Gladewater
Dunnavant
Carl Tyson
Aburey Tate
Ira M. Orms
Billy Joe Orms
Longview
Avis O’conner
New York City
Rachel Smotherman
Virginia Ruth Adkins
L. B. Orms
Mrs Georgia Young Dies After Lengthy Illness
Mrs Georgia Ann Young 64 died Tuesday after a long illness. Funeral services are set for Friday in Nowata Oklahoma with burial in Nowata cemetery. Survived by three sons, one daughter, four sisters and seven grandchildren. She had lived in Gladewater over 20 years and was preceded in death by husband Lloyd Dave Young. Burial, arrangements by Stone Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nowata
Okla
Georgia Ann Young
Gene Smith
Longview
Elaine Morris
Mt. Pleasant
Etta Davenport
Ollie Lee
Tulsa
Bessie Peters
Celbia Brown
Humboldt
Kansas
White Oak Band Wins Contest in Tournament of Roses
White Oak High School wins first in a taped NBC sponsored marching band contest in Los Angeles. Jerry Hantzen leads the group as they prepare for the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena with plans to tour Universal Studios and Marineland after the parade. The band will represent Texas as goodwill ambassadors after a weather-delayed, cross‑country trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
White Oak
NBC
Jerry Hantzen
California
Pasadena
Texas
Flagstaff
Ariz
Gallup
N.M
E. B. Carrington
Holiday Inn
Disneyland
Universal Studios
Marineland of the Pacific
Five Hospitalized After Five Car Pileup in Gladewater
Five Gladewater residents were hospitalized after a five car pileup on rainy U S Highway 271 near Durham's Grocery. The drivers and passengers were identified as Mrs. Jesse Mae Pynes and four others with multiple injuries. Pynes and Mrs. Lassiter remained under observation with varying conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mirror Peto
Gladewater Municipal Hospital
Gladewater Ambulance Service
Jesse Mae Pynes
Winnie Lassiter
Marjorie Barrow
Verlon Dooley
Helen Ridge
Gladewater
U.S. Highway 271
North Main Street
Durham
Charles Evans
David Russell
Pynes
Main
Brenda Chronister Dies In Two-Car Crash
A 10 year old Brenda Sue Chronister of 509 Post Street died in a two car collision near Atlanta on Sunday. The Rev Walter Buehrle conducted services at 2 p m in First Presbyterian Church with burial at Gladewater Memorial Park. The Chronister family and others were injured in the crash while en route to Texarkana. Memorials may be given to First Presbyterian Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brenda Sue Chronister
W. A. Chronister
Post Street
Atlanta
Walter Buehrle
First Presbyterian Church
Gladewater Memorial Park
Stone Funeral Home
Brenda
Chronister
Mark
Texarkana
Houston
Jaycees Plan DSA Banquet in Gladewater
The Gladewater Jaycees announce the 1970 Distinguished Service Award banquet set for January 20 at Don's Restaurant. Feature speaker C. Q. Abernathy, head of East Texas and Texas Chambers and First State Bank president, will be joined by awards and Jaycee of the Year honors. Tickets cost 3.50 with nominations open by letter to the Gladewater Chamber of Commerce for men aged 21 to 36.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladewater Jaycees
Gladewater
Don’s
C. Q. Abernathy
East Texas and Texas Chamber of Commerce
First State Bank
DSA
Gladewater Chamber of Commerce
P. O
Texas
Prayer For Today Use Jesus Example In Prayer
Great multitudes followed him as he descended the mountain. A prayer asks for guidance to walk in Jesus footsteps so others may know we are His. It asks for lives and words that invite others to follow Him and closes with the traditional Our Father.
Also Mentioned on This Page
A. I. Shepperd
John Ben
Odessa
Medical Center Hospital
Rodeo
Mrs
Georgia Young
Eleanor and
Center Streets
North Main
White Oak Band
Friends
Ridge
Gladen High School
C. A. Barrow
Hinkley
Ford
City
Aaron Johnson
Gilmer
Oscar Smith
Pittsburg
Brenda Chronister
George Thomas
Neal Clark
Wasil Steelman
Calvin Brannen
Glen Marrs
Travis Beavers
Jaycees Plan Dsa
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