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Newspaper
La Marque Times
Location
La Marque, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1972
Page
4
La Marque High School will begin yearbook pictures for seniors and faculty on Monday Sept 18 during English classes. Senior boys wear a tie and coat. girls are draped. Cap and gown photos and later sophomore and junior photos on Oct 3.
A historic note explains that the daily evaporation of seawater requires energy equivalent to 100000 times the United States total electric generating capacity in 1970. This comparison highlights the vast scale of natural evaporation versus human power production.
A three week course begun Sept 1 trains newly hired nutrition aides for Galveston County. Overseen by UTMB nutritionists and local officials, the program covers basic nutrition and referral work. New aides will serve Galveston and Mainland areas, with offices in Galveston and Texas City available for inquiries at 744 8756 or 938 4131.
La Marque Garden Club meets Thursday September 14 at 9 30 a m at 202 N Noble Road hosted by president Mrs J M Partain. Program on Roses features artistic arrangements by Mrs M W Watson Mrs S A Sewell and Mrs Partain with rose specimens invited from members. Hostesses include Mrs H E Moen Mrs C H Pruett and Mrs N C Llewellyn. Plans for the year were reviewed at the board meeting at Mrs Sewell s home.
Funeral services for Elra Harris 71 a La Marque resident were held Wednesday Sept 13 at Greater Macedonia Baptist Church Texas City with Rev S A Anderson officiating Burial followed at Hope Well Cemetery Gay Hill under Mainland Funeral Home direction Harris died Sept 8 at his residence 111 Lake Road La Marque Born Oct 13 1901 in Brenham Survivors include daughter Katie Batiste of Los Angeles California three sisters and five brothers plus two grandchildren
Horace Skipper Winston 91 of 301 Edgar died Sept 8 after brief illness. Funeral Sept 11 at Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church with burial at Rising Star Cemetery under Mainland Funeral Home. Survivors include daughter Lille Mae Jackson and sister Lucy Mae McKinney. Elvin K Edwards Sr 68 of 504 Beech La Marque died Sept 8 in Galveston County Memorial Hospital. Funeral Sept 11 at James Crowder Funeral Home chapel with burial at Galveston Memorial Park. Survivors: wife May Almond Edwards, son E K Edwards Jr, sisters Edna Hart and Iva Biles, three grandchildren.
Wilbert James Kaper, 55, a machinist with Flame Sprayed Alloys Co. of Texas City, died Saturday from a gunshot wound at work. Funeral services were Sept. 13 at James Crowder Funeral Home in La Marque. Burial was in Galveston Memorial Park Cemetery. He was born in Hitchcock in 1916 and was a World War II veteran. Survived by his widow Mary Louise, a son Jim in the Navy, a daughter Karen Williamson, two stepchildren, two brothers, a sister, and a granddaughter.
Mrs Elmer Egan 82 of Galveston died Friday Sept 8 in St Marys Hospital Graveside services were Saturday Sept 9 at Galveston Memorial Park Cemetery in Hitchcock Rev Lamar Clark officiated James Crowder Funeral Home of La Marque handled arrangements She was born Dec 16 1889 in Garfield Arkansas and had lived in Galveston two years previously in Stewart Florida She lived at Moody House Survivors include husband son Glen Egan of La Marque two granddaughters and five great
Funeral services for Margaret G Martins 53 lifelong Galveston County resident were held at St Matthews Baptist Church Hitchcock with burial at Mainland Cemetery Hitchcock. She died Sept 8 after illness at John Sealy Hospital Galveston born March 30 1919 Galveston lived 6810 Park Ave North Survivors include three sons Antonio Jr Kenneth Walter Martins four daughters six brothers and six sisters and six grandchildren. Also noted is Rose Brown 72 dies Sept 11 with funeral at J Levy and Bro and burial at Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery. Burial service conducted by Rabbi Samuel Stahl.
A Josh Billings quip warns against predicting the future as forecasts vanish from memory if wrong yet persist if accurate. The apt remark comments on fame and forgetfulness tied to prophecies and surprises.
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