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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1975
Page
7
A group photo from April 24 1975 features Simmons Nathan Scott Carey Willingham and Terry Stanley with standing members Steve Hollyfield Paul Brown Kelvin Ridley Carlton Green Rodney Adams and John White. Wade Richardson is not pictured due to illness. Mrs Gene Hollyfield thanks Mr and Mrs David Stanley and Mr and Mrs Earl Willingham for aiding the trip to Bryan.
Marie Droddy a Silsbee cafe owner was found dead in her Route 4 home April 16. Justice of the Peace Bennie Como ruled the death a suicide. Funeral services were held April 18 at Farmer Funeral Home with burial in Resthaven Cemetery. Survivors include three daughters and nine grandchildren.
Leon Phillips III a senior psychology major from Silsbee is among 132 Stephen F. Austin State University students named to the all A honor roll this spring. Undergraduates needed at least 12 hours and graduates nine hours, with freshmen through graduates represented. The banquet honored the students with Dr Ralph W Steen presiding.
Alana Thompson thanks friends who assisted during the Miss Satsuma race and expresses gratitude for their support.
Mrs. Pete Tortoris of Lumberton is named chair of the special events campaign by John Morgan, president of the Texas Gulf Coast Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The drive funds research and care for children with lung-damaging diseases including cystic fibrosis severe asthma chronic bronchitis bronchiectasis and childhood emphysema.
First National Bank of Silsbee sponsors a hamburger sale to aid the Silsbee High School Junior Class. Proceeds fund the Junior-Senior Prom, with burgers and sides in the bank’s east parking lot from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at $1 each, aiming for a $500 goal.
Mrs. Clara Francis Wolcott 87 of Kountze died Sunday at Hardin Memorial Hospital. Funeral service held April 22 at Pace Funeral Home Chapel in Kountze with Rev. Wendell Pressley and Rev. A A. Drennan officiating. Burial in Holland Cemetery. Survivors include five sons C G L A L Wolcott of Kountze H R Wolcott of Lumberton R G Wolcott of DeRidder two daughters Mrs Willie Mae Parrott and Mrs Nora Zimmerman both of Kountze two brothers Jim Geldard of Kountze Albert Geldard of Vidor.
The Neches Valley Section of Assemblies of God holds a fellowship meeting Monday at 7 30 p.m. at Evergreen Assembly of God Church with guest speaker Rev Jack Fellers educational director of Southeast Texas District. A Sunday School training course is taught each night after Monday at 7 p.m. by Rev Fellers. The church sits at the intersection of Highways 1122 and
Funeral services for Eugene Brown 53 of Silsbee were held Tuesday at Farmer Funeral Home with burial at Knupple Cemetery. He died Saturday at Silsbee Doctors Hospital after a welding career with Kirby Lumber Corp. Survived by his wife Geneva and six children, plus his mother and two sisters.
Funeral services for Billy Joe Ritter 31 of Victor were held at 2 p.m. April 20 at Kelley Hixson Funeral Home with a Masonic graveside service and burial in Magnolia Cemetery Rev Jim Downey officiated He died Friday night in a Galveston hospital He was a private detective an Evadale native and had lived in Victor two years He is survived by his wife Lawell Ritter of New Orleans two daughters Becky Lynn and Shelley Ann Ritter of New Orleans two sons Billy Joe Ritter Jr and Ray Ritter also a sister Mrs Douglas Leveness of Lumberton and his parents Mr and Mrs T C Ritter of Victor
A retreat for scouts with a bi centennial theme of God and Country will be held September 27 28 at St. Vincent de Paul Seminary in Lumberton. The event is sponsored by the Catholic Committee on Scouting.
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