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Newspaper
Grand Saline Sun
Location
Grand Saline, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1963
Page
9
Harvey Fisher 54 dies from accidental gunshot wound sustained while hunting near his Grand Saline area home. A Van Zandt County native born near Grand Saline in 1909 and a truck farmer, Fisher’s funeral services were held.
Sunday service at 3:00 pm at Main Street Baptist Church with Rev. Dick Moody and Rev. Edd Barrett officiating. Interment at Woodside Cemetery directed by Bartley Funeral Home. Surviving are wife Gladys Fisher Grand Saline mother Nora Fisher Grand Saline two daughters J D Yarbrough Grand Saline and James Dugger Irving one son Coy Gene Fisher Grand Saline six brothers John Jim Bill Wallace Harold Fisher Grand Saline Clyde Fisher Utica Miss eight sisters Mattie Pearson Ommie Thompson Grand Saline Tennie Bailey Carrie Taylor Dora B Bass Dallas Estell Sawyer Nettie Crawford Fort Worth Decia Fatherer Fort Sill Okla four grandchildren and several nephews and nieces. Pallbearers Forrest Bailey Hubert Fisher Chuck Thompson Jimmy Fisher Mozel Bailey Keith Fisher. Also noted are 1962 highway fatalities about 40 500 deaths and more than 3 345 000 injuries nationwide.
Meal plan for May 6 to May 10 lists daily options: Monday liver and onions or barbecue with corn rolls milk Pop eye salad cake. Tuesday salmon patties with rice and fruit. Wednesday pintos spinach rutas lunch with ice cream. Thursday kraut and weiners with macaroni and cheese and fruit jello. Friday beef on bun with beans or potatoes and cobbler pie.
County Savings Bonds report shows total sales of 57 269 dollars for January through March 1963 in Van Zandt County with 21 844 dollars sold in March. Texas first quarter sales reach 15 387 951 dollars or 26.7 percent of the state goal. Chairman C L Stanford urges families to buy at least one savings bond before July Fourth and to join payroll savings or bank purchases.
Corinth correspondent reports well attended church services with visitors from Grand Saline and a visiting minister. Numerous local exchanges include family visits in Jones Lola and Silver Lake, cattle herding after a 4.9 inch Saturday rain, health updates, a death in the community, and a note about the Homestake mine in Lead City South Dakota.
Terrell State Hospital invites the public to an open house on Sunday May 5 starting at 1 p.m. Tours cover the entire facility including the new ward building now in use for 450 patients. The Rehabilitation Center is under construction and staff will provide refreshments and information.
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