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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1977
Page
1
The Chamber of Commerce offers business houses a rodeo window painting program with Gladewater High School art department. For a nominal $5, owners can have windows painted in a rodeo motif. Call the Chamber office 9 am to 4 pm weekdays to arrange. Bryant Willis leads the GHS art department.
The Gladewater Roundup Rodeo Association heats up preparations for the four night rodeo June 8 to 11 at Highway 80 West. A new seven foot forward roping and bulldogging chute, modeled after the National Rodeo finals, speeds official timing and reduces incidents.
The Railroad Transportation Section of the Safety Association launches Operation Lifesaver statewide to reduce grade crossing collisions. Texas reports 13,800 crossings, and Nebraska Kansas Illinois show safety gains after campaigns. The program uses talk slides and PSA materials to save lives.
Graveside rites for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. David McKinley were conducted Wednesday at 3 p.m. in Friendship Cemetery with Rev. Roy Alexander officiating. Malcolm Stone Funeral Home arranged services. The stillborn baby arrived Tuesday at 9 20 p.m. in a local hospital. Surviving grandparents include Mr. and Mrs. Cody Houston and Mr. and Mrs. McKinley of Jefferson.
Gladewater greets Ann Elrod moving from Houston to Ike Liddell apartments and notes she is city manager Tony Williams’s mother. New residents D B Pickens arrive on Vesta Drive former Gilmer miniature golf operator. Proclamation sets Friday May 27 as Poppy Day with George Martin American Legion selling flowers for hospitalized veterans.
Funeral services for Homer Edward Gentsch 79 were held at First Baptist Church Corsicana born in Corsicana he lived here since 1930 WWI veteran former Exxon gauger died May 24 at East Texas Chest Hospital Survivors include widow Lorene sons Donald Dwayne Wayne one sister one brother eight grandchildren and many nieces and nephews Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers named with Exxon employees listed
Eurocommunism, though not new, gains acceptance among socialist leaders in Portugal, Spain, France, and Italy after a Madrid meeting. They affirm human rights compatibility with detente and push for a broader EEC, signaling potential NATO realignment as communists gain perceived legitimacy.
Funeral services were conducted Monday at 4 p.m. for Oscar Stevenson 71 of Clarksville City at the Malcolm Stone Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Don Puckett officiating. Burial followed at Gladewater Memorial Park. He died Saturday afternoon after a lengthy illness. He was born June 12, 1905 in Greenville and lived in the area since 1951. Surviving are his widow Frances two sons C J and Jimmy Stevenson three daughters Barbara Lockwood Laveda Blalock and Laverne Hopkins sixteen grandchildren and one great grandchild. Pallbearers were Hooks Ronnie Free Smith Chesley Stevenson Stevenson and Jerry Succi.
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