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Benchley News Notes Practical April Cheer and Community Ties
Mrs. Sam Rice reports a bright March 24 with sun and hopeful fruit blossoms amid sleet reports from Wharton. Benchley neighbors and relatives visit, with updates on flu, snow, and family health from Bryan, Lake Charles, Shreveport, and Houston. Birthday wishes, local friends, a 100th birthday plan for Benchley, and sympathy for Sam Ferguson’s father’s death frame a snapshot of small-town life in this period.
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Sam Rice
Brad Haygood
Bryan
Sammie Rambo
Peggie Murphy
Sammie
Effie Rambo
Wharton
Kenneth Hood
Dallas
Frank Fridel
Luther Peyton
Mark Mathews
E. L
Jiggs) Mathews
Hearne
Henry Haltom
Tim Whitten
Lynette Cheatham
C. B. McGown Jr
Gary Sweeten
Sue Steck
Bobbie Earl Seale
Rosalie Clexey
Wilson
Billy Rice
Irving
Ruth Serum Rice
Lake Charles
James H. Peyton
Giddings
Sara Peyton Long
Austin
Richard Peyton
Houston
Homer Collier
Gause
Callie Roberson Knight
Willie Roberson Blume
Donna Bertling
Doris Bertling
Cleveland
Johnny Peyton
Caldwell
Jeannie Rice
Maggie Staples
Montie Peyton
Miss Haltom
Forest
Ellen Haltom
Benchley
Henry Haltom Jr
Pasadena
Mrs
Forest Haltom
Henry
Del
Sam
Joyce
J. H. Horn
Marvin Horn
Coolidge
Marvin
Edith Cheatham
W. E. Henry
Leggett Memorial Hospital
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