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Newspaper
Hearne Democrat
Location
Hearne, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1961
Page
4
A long Christmas weekend note details multiple households visiting Hearne and Dallas for a holiday gathering. The piece lists many families and relatives from Hearne, Austin, San Antonio, Bryan, Baytown, Fort Worth, and Cameron enjoying festive meals and traveling. It mentions Mrs Lillian needing surgery, Carla related damage, and Lisa Guillaume winning in a local contest.
Funeral services were held for five people killed in a Christmas Eve head on crash. Claude Ainsworth 26, Michael Eugene Cazey 20, and James Ray Cazey 23 died in New Baden while Billy Gene Tyler 22 of New Baden and Verge J. Jefferey 30 of San Antonio were also memorialized in Palestine and Franklin. The Ainsworth service was at New Baden Baptist Church with interment at Camp Creek Cemetery. Cazey siblings and Carey relatives are listed among survivors, with services at New Baden Church and Mt. Pleasant Cemetery respectively. Tyler’s service occurred at Franklin Church of Christ with burial in West Boone Cemetery. Survivors include parents, siblings, and extended family across New Baden, Houston, Hearne, Bryan, and San Antonio.
Carlsbad New Mexico visitors during the week included Mr and Mrs Homer Saevens with their son and other Texas kin. The T C Wilson Christmas visitors listed Elvis Wilson Larry and Garry from San Antonio Syl van Wilson Tom of Alamogordo and Vanice Stallings of Dallas. The Browders returned to Dallas with the Stallings to spend a few days. Houston and Hurst guests joined G R Warner and Allen Warner for Christmas. Herman and Nettie Lange hosted many relatives from Lubbock Rockdale Austin and local family members over the holidays.
Mr and Mrs Lara C Jones announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter Mary Alice to A 2C Jack Morris Andr eason Jr on Sunday December 31 at four oclock in Gause Methodist Church A reception will follow in the Dudley Warner Annex Martha is the granddaughter of Mrs Gerome Gaston.
Mrs. Jim Harlan reports Wiley Kirks hosted a buffet dinner Thursday night. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Roy Britt Mrs. Alice Cole Mrs. Sue Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cotropia Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Young and others.
Guests in the Jack Kelly home Tuesday included his sister and family, Captain and Mrs J H Thomas of Altus Oklahoma, and other visitors.
Guests enjoying the holidays with Mrs. F. W. Maxwell included Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Maxwell and children Mike and Ann, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Mitchell and sons Keith and Mark, Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Guet kust and son Bobby, Mr. and Mrs. Don Anders and son Mike, Mrs. Katherine Guet kust, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Jackson and Butch Boyd, Warren Longmire Jr. of Galveston, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Hoc kel and children Kathie and Ricky Marlin, Mrs. R. S. Smith and Mae Franklin, Mrs. Nita Peebles of Houston, and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Stubbs of Hearne.
Guests in the home of Mr and Mrs A C Browning during the holidays were their son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs Gerald Browning of Gainesville and another son Gene Browning a student at the University of Texas Austin.
S/Sgt. Edward Brady came back to Fort Polk Louisiana on Wednesday after spending Christmas with his wife and son Carl. The family also visited his parents Mr. and Mrs Chelies Brady in Cameron during the holidays.
Mr and Mrs Donald McLeroy hosted relatives for Christmas with out of town guests Mrs C B Pilgrim and family from Natalia and Mr and Mrs Maurice McLeroy and Mark from Gatesville. Also present was her mother Mrs M B Self.
Mrs. Molly Threadgill leaves Houston after several weeks with her children Mrs. Inez Bush and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hodges and family and plans to return to Hearne this weekend.
Mrs. R. W. Rowan and her son Bobby visited Deer Park on Christmas as guests of her daughter’s family, Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy A. Burke, and the Burkes’ parents Mr. and Mrs. Ancel Burke, with Charles S. German also present.
Mr and Mrs B B Thames visited their daughter Dr and Mrs Bruce Sanders and family Lynne Carol and Bill in Smyrna Tennessee for Christmas holidays.
Mr and Mrs J W Horlock arrived back Wednesday after spending holidays in Corpus Christi as guests of Mr and Mrs P H Jolly and Mr and Mrs R P Moore.
Holiday visitors included Mr and Mrs R R Pruett and their Ennis son, Mr and Mrs A L Stan field and Pasadena son, Mr and Mrs Terry Blackburn of Longview, Miss Billie Herod of Fort Worth, and Pvt and Mrs Richard Pruett of Fort Chaffee Arkansas.
Mrs. Jim Stanley hosted guests for Christmas including Mr. and Mrs. Marion Bishop and Lynette and Stanley of Baytown. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Davis and son Ronny of Roaring Springs. and Mrs. Roger Josey and son Richard of Kurten.
Miss Daphne Tanner hosted Christmas guests including her brothers Harvey Lee Tanner of San Antonio Glynn H Yi of Carthage and Burl H Tanner of Dallas and sister Olive Tanner Neleon of Linden.
Dr. Searcy a Des Moines University graduate who practiced in LaGrange and Hearne from 1937 except for WWII service. Active in First Baptist Church and Masonic groups, he was famed as a top diagnostician. Survived by wife Jessie Eveland, two children, a grandson, two brothers, three sisters.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Batson and sons Tim Jim Bobby and Billy visited Kilgore to stay with his sister Mrs Ralph Moree. They attended a festive Christmas Eve party at the Kilgore Community House and shared Christmas dinner the next day.
Christmas Day guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Tonn and children were their parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Nowlin and Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Tonn and Jake of Somerville. Thursday guests in the Town home were her parents and her brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Nowlin and son of Nederland.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack E. Stidham and their children visited their parents Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Stidham at Jones Prairie and Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Komar at Ben Arnold during the Christmas holidays.
Out of town guests visiting Mrs H P Moss included Mr and Mrs R H Moss and their Dallas family and Mr and Mrs H H Outlaw and their Houston children. The family joined relatives for a holiday dinner in the Moss home.
Ginger Campise hosted a gay Christmas party handing monogrammed mugs to guests. Edna Pharis seeks an owner who found a watch in Hearne. Jack Kelly praised for steady judgment under pressure amid Horns Cotton Bowl chatter. Betty Russ and Joe Wilson urge longhorn support while Chandler crowned Commodore of Hearne Yacht Club. Joe Smith, NTU student, aids Hearne High projects. Empire Geophysical Crowman bases in Hearne. National Guard men in Louisiana return for Christmas. Hearne families look to the new year with best wishes.
Mr and Mrs Woodrow Tidwell visited her father W L Scott and other relatives in Somerville during the holidays.
In Robertson County the Democratic Primary process in May 1963 set advance payment requirements for political announcements. State Federal Offices cost 25 dollars, District 20, County 16, Commissioner 12.50, and Justice of the Peace 10.00.
The crash left a body in the front seat and a headrest area damaged. Hodges cannot confirm the other car’s driver and occupants’ seating. He suspects Claude Douglas Ainsworth may have been driving, based on speedometer fragments and torn pocket. Police await Larry Ainsworth’s condition for final determination. Both cars were wrecked and towed to John Orts Motors in Hearne.
Houseguests this week are Mr and Mrs Archie Nelson Walker and sons of Orange. Mr Walker is City Manager of Orange and is vacationing while enjoying deer hunting in Robertson County.
Mr and Mrs William Sweet and son Bill visited in Ben Arnold Sunday and Monday as guests of his sister and family Mr and Mrs S T Burnett and
Mr and Mrs W T McWilliams welcomed as guests over the holidays their grandchildren Gwendolyn Gregory and Roger Gatz from Dallas.
Visiting Mrs. J. M. Schepp for Christmas were her sister and brother Mrs. Gladys Montgomery and C. C. Snodgrass of Mount Pleasant.
Mr and Mrs A W Klement spent the holidays with the Rev and Mrs Buford Harrell and family and Mr and Mrs J S Scaief in San Benito. John Klement of Dillon Montana is visiting his parents this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tuggle and their relatives Ann and Robert, A. J. Tuggle Jr. and son Rex, Ruth Brown of Houston, and R. G. Jenkins of Refugio were holiday guests of Mrs. A. J. Tuggle, detailing a family gathering across Texas locales.
Mr and Mrs W H Thomas hosted a large family group for Christmas dinner including their daughter and family Jim Gregory and Doyle of Pecos Wallace Thomas and children from Arlington Buddy Clark and daughter from Port Arthur Wayne Hensley and son from Mexia Carl Cotropia and daughters Caron and Carla joining the gathering for the holiday meal.
Mrs A J Brazelton visited her daughter and family Mr and Mrs Louis Gray and daughters in Mission over the Christmas holidays.
Dr and Mrs Bobby Allen and children Janet and Stephen from Garland spent the holidays with his parents Mr and Mrs J P Allen in Hearne and with her parents Mr and Mrs C T Rhodes in Waco, detailing family travel during the season.
Mr and Mrs Holland Sowma visited her mother Mrs R H Stellbauer in Bremond during a Christmastide family gathering.
Houseguests visiting Mr and Mrs W H Hoyt Jr included his sister Mrs J C Willis Mr Willis and a son of Giddings. Other guests on Christmas Day were Mr and Mrs Bill Kelly of Bryan.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dorrell hosted their son and family from Houston and Rosse with several relatives for the Christmas holidays. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Henry and their sons Mark and Scott of Gilmer arrived Wednesday for a short visit.
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