Infant son of Neuner family passes away
The infant son of Mr and Mrs Jack A. Neuner Jr of La Marque died shortly after birth. Graveside rites were held at 10 a.m. Monday in Galveston Memorial Park Garden of the Innocent with Rev Wayne Elkins officiating. Burial by James Crowder Funeral Home. Survived by parents, paternal grandparents J A Neuner of La Marque, maternal grandfather Floyd Stapleton of Texas City, and maternal grandmother Mary Lou Stringer of Monroe, Louisiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Crowder
Otto Fehler
St John’s Lutheran Church
Alta Loma
Galveston Memorial Park
Hitchcock
Miss Grospiron
Texas City
Camp Circle
la Marque High School
Multiple Obituaries From La Marque Area
Obituaries note Brenda Grospiron 19 of La Marque died at Galveston County Memorial Hospital after a sudden illness. Funeral was held at James Crowder Funeral Home with burial in Galveston Memorial Park Hitchcock. Also listed are William C Meyer 82, E L Wall 76, Walter Deaver Whitmore 76, George Holmes 81, Leroy Bowie 69 and others with service details, birthplaces, residences, and survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William C. Meyer
Emken-Linton Funeral Home
la Marque
Galveston Memorial Park
Walter Deaver Whitmore
525 Elmo
J. Levy and Bros
Galveston
Grayson Glass
Hitchcock
Whitmore
Galveston County Memorial Hospital
Stubenville
Ohio
Leroy Bowie
Dickinson
School Lunch Menu and Community Obituary Blend
Week of November 8 1971 menu lists elementary and secondary meals with fried fish hamburgers beefy beans and more plus desserts and milk. The notice includes burial details for Bowie born March 13 1902 Willis TX survived by wife children siblings and many relatives.
Ak Troop 252 Travels to Hill Country
Troop 252 of La Marque sponsored by McKinney Memorial Baptist Church raised funds for a six day Hill Country Ranch campout. Scout master Arthur L. Thompson led 23 members through swimming hiking mountain climbing camp fire cooking and tenting. The unit completed two all day self planned hikes since September and lost a flag football game to Galveston Troop 109 on October 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinney Memorial Baptist Church
la Marque
Hill Country Ranch
Arthur L. Thompson
Galveston
Lamar PTA Open House Pie Supper and Membership Drive
Lamar PTA hosts annual open house and pie sale at the school on Monday evening with classrooms open at 7 p.m. and pies and coffee served at 7:30. Proceeds fund school equipment while membership has risen about 30 percent. First and third grade classes plus special education earn honors for membership sales and receive tokens for a class project. A Scout overnight camp at Camp Karankawa on Oct 23 featured hikes and football. Melvin Fifer and Donnail Jackson lead patrols awarded Order of the Arrow upcoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lamar Pta
Landers
McKinnis
Pemberton
Twin Lakes golf results and bond sales update report
Ina Pixley won first in a weekly women golfers event using irons to post 87 with a nine hole count. Margaret Blackburn second, Norma Holzaepfel third. A Scotch Foursome drew Sunday crowds with Estelle Leake and Neal Snow first at 51 net. Norma Holzaepfel and Tommy Watkins tied second. County Bond sales in September totaled 235286 with nine month 2064113 toward the 1971 goal. Scout troop 252 plans bigger projects and aluminum can drive for fundraising and ecology.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ina Pixley
Women’s Golf Association
Twin Lakes
Ina
Margaret Blackburn
Norma Holzaepfel
Billy
Slough
Estelle Leake
Neal Snow
Tommy Watkins
Ella Robinson
Carman Holzaepfel
Leona Lamb
Buddy Leake
Allen Herm
Marvin L. West
United States Savings
Galveston County
Treetop Villages Rise in Mindanao Forest Canopies
In Mindanao Philippines several tribal villages are built entirely in treehouses with thatched huts perched high above ground. They are connected by swaying cat walks and log bridges forming elevated communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mindanao
Philippines
Teacher Joins Two State Education Committees
College of the Mainland instructor Joe Capps of Texas City was named to the State Advisory Committee on Education by the Texas Education Agency in early September. In August he also became chairman of the audit committee for the Texas Junior College Management Educators Association, where he coordinates the mid management program offering cooperative studies in management skills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College of the Mainland
Joe Capps
Texas City
Texas Education Agency
State Advisory Committee On
Education Clubs of America
Capps
Texas Junior College Management Educators Association
Personal notices from Oklahoma to Texas and LA
Louis Linscomb of Oklahoma City visited his sister and family Mr and Mrs Willie Brooks at 2222 Edgar. R W Loutland family attended funeral for Mrs Louds sister in Houston Saturday. Greater New Hope Baptist Church sponsors a Green Leaf Tea Sunday 4 to 7 p.m. at Rey and Mrs Frank Celestine 226 Westward West Texas City. Donations $1. Mrs Percy West returned from Los Angeles. Mrs A L Shelton, Mrs Mary Pollitt and Mrs V L Buckingham dined with Mr and Mrs Kenneth Lee Jackson in Houston for Mr Jacksons birthday with guests from Lake Charles New Orleans Fort Worth and Houston. Tom Nell Sr and family attended funeral for Eva McCall in Thompson. Thanks for cards telegrams and kindness during bereavement. Special thanks to Masonic Lodge No. 373 F & A.M. of La Marque. The family of the late Mrs Elizabeth B. Jackson thanks friends for support during illness and death of their daughter and sister Clarice Bradley and sisters and brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Linscomb
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Willie Brooks
Edgar
Linscomb
R. W. Loutland
Loud
Houston
Greater New Hope Baptist Church
Rey
Frank Celestine
Westward
West Texas City
Lake Charles
New Orleans
Louisiana
Fort Worth
Tom Neil Sr
Eva McCall
Thompson
Masonic Lodge No
la Marque
Tom Nell, Sr
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Neuner
Jack A. Neuner Jr
Galves
Brenda Grospiron
Brenda Joyce Grospiron
E. L
Dick) Wall
Ray Wall
Austin
Cook - Waldern
Austin Memorial Park
Wall
Managin
Galveston New Tribune
Morning
Afterno
Houston Chronicle
Capitol
San Antonio Express News
Annye Wall
W. A. Weems
Homdo
Werner Wieboldt
Sabinal
W. L. Wall
Clark Anderson
Walter Whitmore
George Holmes
St Matthews Baptist Church
R. N. Davenport
Sun Light Baptist
Holmes
Highway 6
Mary Holmes
Sarah Riley
Georgia H. Brown
Bay City
Eliza Butler
Los Angeles
Bell Zion Baptist Church
Z. Phillips
Rising Star
Mainland Funeral Home
Bowie
Willis
Texas
Bessie Mae Bowie
Arthur Lee Bowie
Henry Bowie
Annie Mae Ferguson
W. M. Bowie
Minnie Tims
Troop 252
Avon Caldwell
Michael Johnson
Charles Davis
Michael Hubbard
Terry Caldwell
Kenneth Bibbs
Mark Jackson
David Bibbs
Wayne Haynes
Arthur Thompson
Joseph Williams
Donnail Jackson
Melvin Fifer
Clifford Walker
Hill Country
Camp
Karankawa
Panther
Flammin Arrow
Melvin
Donnail
Order of the Arrow
Iron Man
Gal
McKinney
AKINS
Cathy Tarpley
Frankie Hillman
Kathleen Triplett
Barbara Smith
Loyce Ray
Jackson Surgical and
Romilar III
Sinarest
Shulton
Ben-Gay
TRIND
Vaporub
Phillips Milk of
Magnesia
Cepacol
Visine
BAYER
Eiestrs
NyQuil
Oak St
Farmer Boy’s
Catfish
Palmer Ave
Elizabeth B. Jackson
Clarice Bradley
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