Buna News Highlights Local School Event and Community Notes
Buna School joined 23-AA competition at Kountze High School featuring debates poetry readings extemporaneous speaking typing shorthand and slide rule. Community updates cover visits family travels band concerts church events and a recent medical hospital stay in Buna and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buna
Kountze
Kirbyville
Newton
C. B. Whitmire
C. J. Mayeal
Kenneth Whitmire
J. J. Dryden
Evan Whitmire
Sam Wood
Dub William
Liberty
Bobby Jones
J. L. Jones
Highway 96
Local notes include baptisms surgeries and family visits
Community notices recount arrivals departures and events from Kirbyville Buna and Beaumont. Measles illness. Cecil Jones funeral in Kirbyville. families visiting kin in Victor Silsbee and Buna. Karen O Leary broke her arm in Beaumont and was treated at Baptist hospital. Hospitalization for Aunt Lonnie Jackson and multiple church members baptized at Cow Creek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deer Creek Baptist Church
Highway 96
Louise Hall
Walker
Rosie Jones
Scurlock Retirement Home
Scurlock Hotel
Currie Scurlock
Beaumont
Archie Farris
Merryville
Blanche Barton
Ralph Cole
Cecil Jones
Kirbyville
Joe O'Leary
Paul Kelley
Erma Whitmire
J. J. Bound
Paul Kelly
Frank Ray
Woodmen of the World Convention
Arkansas
Karen Jean O'Leary
The
Baptist Hospital
Sallie Whitmire
C. B. Simmons
Sarah Clark
Jimmie Walter
Micki
Alto Simmons
Sheffield Ferry
Delmar Rogers
Dan Jones
Houston
Victor Rogers
Dennie Ingram
Jim Hardin
Jim Hardin Sr
Parkwood Baptist Church
Buna
Bonami
Cow Creek
Lonnie Jackson
Dale
Virginia
Ronan
Milton Hare Joins Sea-Going Military Exercise at Port Aransas
Army Specialist Five Miles D. Hare, 26, of Silsbee Route 1, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hare, participates in a LOTS Exercise by the 349th Transportation Battalion at Port Aransas Texas. The program ends May 15 and uses tugboats and barges to move personnel and equipment to Mustang Island training areas. Hare, a cook with the 71st Transportation Company at Camp Leroy Johnson Louisiana, enlisted in June 1953. his wife Dolly resides in New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Five Miles D. Hare
Sam Hare
Silsbee
349Th Transportation Battalion
Port Aransas
Texas
Mustang Island
Gulf Beach
Hare
71St Transportation Company
Camp Leroy Johnson
Silsbee High School
Dolly
New Orleans
Waldo Mathews to present Easter program
Waldo Mathews Music Department will present the Annual Easter Program on Thursday at 9 15 in the auditorium Principal C A Johns invites patrons and friends The program titled The Passion Play consists of three acts Easter carols will be sung by the Junior High Singers
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waldo Mathews
Princ. C. A. Johns
Local visits and events span Silsbee Buna Port Arthur
Dale Landry visited the Lovelady home in Silsbee on Sunday after a Saturday trip to Port Arthur. The Spring Review variety program was held Friday night in Buna high school auditorium. Charlie Dickerson is hospitalized with a heart ailment. Buna hosted a volleyball district meet Monday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lance Goins
John R. Tomlin
Billy Tomlin
Clyde Harrison
Neches River
Gene Matthews
Fort Worth
Marc Gauthrie
Port Arthur
Jerome Bourque
Dale Ferguson
Beaumont
Floyd Cryer
Laura Beth Kellye
Billy Mike Bruce
Charles Fort
Buna
Mixon Memorial Clinic
Alice Scurlock
Laura Lynn Linscomb
Diane Sanford
Hilda Reddin
Theressa Crousby
Nacogdoches
Shreveport
Timpson
Ethel Fay Townsend
Jo. Faye Goins
Wayne Franklin
Baptist Hospital
Evadale
Leon Spell
Caney Head
Tom Spell
Primitive Baptist Church
Antioch
Joseph Abraham
Ole Abraham
Oshmael Spell
Armed Forces
Fort Riley
A. R. McClelland
Jimmy
Laverne Barclay
Crockett Dunn
Buna School
Bob Murphy
Buna Business and Professional Women’s Club
Buna Lions Club
Vivian McClelland
Delbert Ross
Will Reeves
Castor
Caroline Reeves
E. B. Reeves
Victor
Ruth Franklin
South Mill Creek Baptist Church
Highway 96
Norman Allen
Morse Cemetery
Broussard
C. J. Mayea
Guy Hargrove
M. Bennett
Blanche Barton
Blance Barton
Beth
Beacon Baptist Church
Beth Barton
Frank Barton
Tony Sealiss
Fae’s
Tony
Sealisi
Sealiisi
Bill Griffis
Audrey Day
Chester Holts
Orange
Thelma Leighton
Florence Service
Sandra Wilson
Silsbee
John Denton
Donna Carolyn
Dickerson Hospital
Lloyd Fuller
Pat
Minden
Linnie Fuller
Sammier
Carolyn
Baton Rouge
United Pentecostal Church of Circle
McGehee
Jasper
Amos J Gipson
Charles Gipson
Dale Landry
Huey Lovelady
Buna High School
Charlie Dickerson
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Buna, Gum Slough & Thicket News
Mrs. Nealy Griffis
Clarence Folsom
Louise Solly
Galveston Hospital
Leon Solly
Merlene Eason
Orange Band
PW Club
Buna Business and Professional Women's Club
Claud Davis
Faye Nell Burrell
Austin
Allen Goins
Veterans Hospital
Gene Goins
Donnie Ray
Ricky Gene
Nettie Tomlin
Jerry
Lula Broadway
Center
Tenna Page
Youth Fair
Kay Whitney
Dallas
New York
Ladies
Adc
Ironing Board
Silsbee, Texas
Rachel Terrell
Arnold Jackson
Ronan Dale
Pat Landry
Dean Garrett
Mae Landry
Rip Reeves
John Adams
J. B. Gunter
Bob Lyons
Roy Gunter
Milton Hare
Cope Advertisers Exchange
MU Et Rexall Merae Sc
Kinner, Pharmacists
Bacon
Ian
Bologna
King
Ib St
New Kountze Hwy
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