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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1970
Page
2
Editorial staff listed with Mrs Leona Whitman as Society and Personal Editor and Lee Kelly as Reporter Photographer. Doris Woolley noted as Secretary with the mechanical department including Harold Leigh and others in foreman operator roles.
David Whitman and the Vi Bray Shuns will entertain the Silsbee Lions Club at their regular noon luncheon Tuesday Dec 8 announced by Al Mashburn. Lions sponsor Toys for Toys with distribution set for Dec 21 and urge clean usable toys. donations may be taken to Etex Typewriter and Supply or the Chamber of Commerce office. At the Dec 1 business meeting the club invited Hardin County Commissioners Court members to attend Dec 8 and approved sponsorship to bring Merlin the Magician to Silsbee Feb 22 and 23 at the Junior High School auditorium.
Patricia Ann Stratton and Jeep Compton plan marriage Friday at 7 p.m. in Nome First Baptist Church. The couple will live in Beaumont where he works for the Credit Bureau. A reception will follow the ceremony with friends invited.
John Thomas Lindsey 79 of Port Arthur died after a seizure in a Beaumont downtown parking lot. He was a longtime Port Arthur lawyer of 41 years and a former state representative. Burial was at Greenlawn Memorial Park after services at Proctor Street Baptist Church. He was brother to the late R L Lindsey and a frequent visitor in Silsbee.
Paul F. McClinton of Waco former Silsbee resident was elected to the National Automatic Merchandising Association board for a three year term starting Jan 1 at NAMA’s Chicago convention. He is first vice president of the Texas Merchandise Vending Assoc and president of the Waco BBB and Texas Manufacturers Assoc. He is director of Specialty Foods Inc and the Waco Girls Club. He and his wife Carol Ann have two children.
Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie E. Jordan 87 of Spurger were held at 2 p m Monday at First Baptist Church Spurger with Rev R E Barclay Rev T E Huff and Rev W Becker officiating Burial followed in Turner Branch Cemetery Spurger Pallbearers included Melburn Minter and Jordan heirs Jordan family members survive including four sons and extended relatives
Handy Dandy Blue Birds met Tuesday at leader Mrs. Gary Woodson home with all members present. Officers elected for the fall include Angela De Laune president Sylvia Mitchell vice president Jeannie Couture secretary and treasurer and Michele Woodson reporter. They decorated a tree and doorknobs and planned a Christmas party for December 14 with Taskajuana Mathews serving refreshments.
Mr and Mrs Rueben Unruh marked forty years of marriage during Thanksgiving at their home 1005 North Sixth Street Silsbee Texas Out of town guests included Mr and Mrs Raymond Unruh and daughter Debra and Mr and Mrs Jerry Unruh of Moundridge Kansas Mrs Unruh the former Tena Reimer of Buhler Kansas They were united in marriage in Kansas on November 28 1930 Their children are Kathy Calloway Don Unruh Jerry Unruh and Srl Unruh They moved to Silsbee in August 1966 They attend the First Assembly of God Church
The Citizens' Committee for Hardin County reapportionment is ordered to meet before December 10 1970 at the Hardin County Courthouse. It will consider a plan compliant with one person one vote and Texas law, with public voting of individual committee and county commissioner votes. A December 15 hearing will review the committee's report and proposed precinct maps.
The Lumberton PTA will put on a Christmas program at 7 30 pm on Tuesday December 8 at the Elementary School. Rev Edwin Willis and Mrs Tony Landry will preside. Fourth to sixth graders perform under Lois Gary B F Hosak and Joel Lopez with Handel’s Messiah selections arranged for the event. Phillip Allen is elementary principal.
Jessie Wiess Whittington 77 a Port Arthur resident since 1917 died after a long illness. Funeral held Wednesday at Clayton-Thompson Chapel Port Arthur with Rev. A O Jenkins officiating. Burial Bumstead Cemetery Sils. She was native of Hooks Switch Hardin County and survived by two daughters and three sons including Rev. Richard Whittington pastor of Mt Olive Baptist Church in Fred.
North Hardin Baptist Church ten miles north of Silsbee on FM 92 designates December as a special month to honor Jesus Christ and reach the lost. Services run each Sunday in December starting December 6 with class goals and a dinner on December 27 featuring caroling and music. The church plans drives to aid needy families with Christmas provisions and invites the public to attend.
The Lumberton Band Boosters will open The Thrift Shop this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Silsbee Kountze area site. Music by area bands will accompany a sale of records bicycles furniture clothing cakes pies auto accessories plants stuffed animals and odds and ends. Richard Phillips is the club president. Proceeds fund Lumberton School Band expenses.
May our Lord's richest blessings be upon the Silsbee Doctors Hospital staff Silsbee Convalescent Center Dr Copeland Dr Tennison and my many friends who sat with me during my father's illness and death. Thanks for food flowers visits and other kind deeds. Mrs Don Hawthorne.
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