Water heater blast scars Lumberton girl and prompts fire reports
Nine year old Donna Jean Storm was critically burned in a water heater explosion at her Stringer Road home in Lumberton last Thursday at 6 p m She was taken by ambulance to Baptist Hospital then to John Sealy in Galveston Friends said her condition remained serious Saturday The Lumberton fire department with four trucks and eighteen men fought a wood lot fire near Kings Row Saturday night then another brush blaze on Longview threatening nearby homes Local social notes cover visits from Houston Dallas Groves Woodville and Ville Platte and a Week of Prayer for State Mission set for September 9 15 at Loeb First Baptist Church with a goal of 350 dollars
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Donna Jean Storm
Donald Storm
Stringer Rd
Lumberton
Baptist Hospital
John Sealy
Galveston
Friends Sunday
Lamberton
Kings
Row
Longview
Carolyn Henning
Sheila Kay
Houston
J. B. Fageard
Harry Martin
Annie Andrus
Beaumont
Faggard’s
Faggard
Bruce Fairchild
Janie
Leona Hager Hargraves
Happling
Louisiana
Evadale
Ola Loftin
Nina Gayle Bertrand
Children’s Hospital
Tom Blake
Arkansas
Eureka Springs
Buddy Hobbs
Lions Club
Walter Glenn
Central Baptist Church
Clarence Folsom
Viola
Mount Pleasant
Alvin Ramsey
Livingston
Pauline Turner
Jack
Keith Basham
Clute
Newton
J. A. Black
Local Family Notices Reflect Births and Visits
After the football game on September 7 a church fellowship meeting was planned. A daughter Jeanie Ellen weighed 7 lb 11 oz born Thursday at Women’s and Children’s Hospital to Kerry and family. Grandparents include C J Bendy. great grandmother Ellen Bendy. A son born Saturday at St Elizabeth Hospital to Donald Jaco phetic and wife. George Brady Jr and wife welcomed a son 8 lb in Women’s and Children’s. Ford Gremillion and visitors from New Rhodes La stayed with J C Fisher and family. Guests from Beaufort and La Place La joined in nursing. Pete Sharpe attended the funeral of Jake Nerton killed in a Tennessee crash. burial in Jonesville Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kerry Bendy
Women’s
Children’s
Jeanie Ellen
C. J. Bendy
Ellen Bendy
Donald Jacophettic
St. Elizabeth Hospital
George Bradey Jr
Ford Gremillion
New Rhodes
J. C. Fisher
Newton Thevenot
Beaumont
Fishers
Lon Kelly
la Place
Mike Plake
Glen Goodman
Jim Goodman
Pete Sharpe
Jake Nerton
Tennessee
Huntington
Jonesville
Mr. Sharpe
Beaumont area obituary and community notes
Gerald W. Sheffield 51 of Lumberton died at Baptist Hospital. Funeral at Carroll Wallace in Beau Mont with Rev James Bradford officiating. Burial in Forest Lawn. Survivors include wife Dale, children Wayne Bobby Cheryl all of Lumberton, mother Lee Sheffield of Beau Mont, sisters Lee Cohen Houston and Virginia McIntosh Beaumont. Community items note visits, weddings, surgeries, and church events in Evadale and Beaumont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald W. Sheffield
Lumberton
Baptist Hospital
Carroll-Wallace
Beaumont
James Bradford
Loeb First Baptist Church
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Halliburton Co
South Park High School
Pipefitters
Dale Sheffield
Wayne
Bobby Sheffield
Cheryl Sheffield
Lee Sheffield
Lee Cohen
Houston
Virginia MclIntosh
Kirby Lumbers Names C Ore Davis Jr to Relations Post
Kirby Lumber Corp President T M Orth announced C Ore Davis Jr will serve as director employee relations. a Satsuma Alabama native, he holds a bs in business and an mba from southern mississippi and comes from Exxon Chemical Co where he coordinated manpower resources. He will be based at Kirby headquarters in Houston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirby Lumber Corp
T. M. Orth
C. Ore Davis Jr
Davis
Satsuma
Ala
University of Southern Mississippi
Kirby
Exxon Chemical Co
Houston
M Sgt David Reeves Assigned To Aerospace Command
Master Sergeant David E. Reeves of Silsbee Texas is assigned at Ent AFB Colorado as a computer programming technician with the 4600th Air Base Wing. His unit earned the U S Air Force Outstanding Unit Award for providing support to major headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Reeves
Aerospace Command
Colorado Springs
Colo
David E.reeves
Amos Reeves
Bell St
Silsbee
Aerospace Defense Command
ADC
U.S .Air Force
Reeves
Ent Afb, Colo
4600Th Air Base Wing
Headquar
Local Soldier Highlighted for Air Defense Service Affiliation
A sergeant affiliated with Ent including ADC and the North American Air Defense Command will wear a distinctive service ribbon marking the one year period ending May 1972. He graduated from Lufkin High School in 1952. his wife Wanda lives in George Torbert, Diboll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ters
Ent
ADC
North American Air Defense Command
Lufkin High School
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Lumberton-Loeb
Dallas
D. A. Gibsons
J. M. Belk
Groves
George Mitchell’s
Dale Curl
Victor
Ivie Ervin
O. B. Roten
Anderson Clinic
Melvin Simoneaux
Florine Monic
Kirkland Park
Woodville
Thomas Bowden
John Kelly
Joe Peden
Johnnie Bell Dickerson
Daisy Simoneaux
Ville Platte
Frien
Dickerson
State Mission
Loeb First Baptist I Church
Wallace Lumber Company
Texas
Charles Grimes
Michael
Tulsa
Okla
Melvin Shane
Buelah Roark
C. F. Darden
David Hargrove
Jane Horn
Becky Hes
Henry Vernon
I. W. Vernon
Westwood Bible Church
Jack Dark
Birdie Beard
Schlesinger Ger
Evndale
Iathe
Neal Roten
Beard
Alvin Gidlow
Mimmie Gibson
Tommy Beard
Gibson
Sour Lake
Gidlow
W. A. Scarborough
Norma Woodward
Willis Cook
Lee Me ‘Neel
James Sparks
D. A. Gibson
Bromdell
Narcogdoches
Phelps
Oland Black
Mr. Black
George L Black
Indor
Jerry Black
Oland
A&m College
Silsbee State
Silsbee State Bank PO
Member
Tlolal Reserve System
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
H. E. Munden
North Sth
Hwy
A & L Club
Mi. E
Road Runners
Bobby Lott
Malcolm Parker
Patricia Lott
David Lott
His Wife
Wanda, Is
Mrs
George Torbert, Diboll
Register’s Bakery
North Fourth Street
Armstrong
Atmost
Shadowlawn
Denver
Bankamericard
Buck Jones
Silsbee, Texas
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