Christmas visits fill Votaw area with family and friends
Residents share holiday moments as relatives and neighbors gather. Aes neighbors Mrs. Sumrall and others welcome visitors, while families travel to Cleveland, Temple and Beaumont for medical checks and celebrations. Christmas plays, gifts, church attendance, and homecomings mark the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Bailey
Leggett Memorial Hospital
Cleveland
Marie Sumrall
Joyce Jones
Wilma _ Jackson
Joyce Dryden
Callvin W. Kirkland
Shepherd Afb
C. C. Kirkland
Gwinnie Cothran
Troy
Orange
R. L. Move
Votaw
W. E. Johnston
Temple
Mary Martin
Ella Mae Marcantell
Beaumont
J. L. Jackson
Bobby Glen
Evandale
Jessie Whitmire
John W. Eason
Elaine
P. O. Eason
Celesta
E. C. Collins
Kersting Hospital
Liberty
Esther Collins
Ebbie Emanuel of
Earl Walters
Everett
F. C. Eason
Kountze
Kelton Eason
John Wayne
Burkeville
Holy Thorn Tree Blooms Each Christmas Legend
Ancient Glastonbury and Washington Cathedral both report a Holy Thorn bloom around Christmas. The Glastonbury tree, tied to Saint Joseph of Arimathea and the Holy Grail, allegedly sprouts when the staff struck the ground. The Washington off shoot appears in December as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Washington, D. C
Glastonbury
Washington
Christ
St. Joseph of
Armathea
James Edward Pate Dies In Beaumont
James Edward Pate 76 of 1547 Broadway Beaumont died at 615 p m Saturday at St Elizabeth Hospital Beaumont after a heart attack. native of Tyler County retired lumber man lived in Beaumont 25 years survived by wife Hedda Pate of Woodville a son J B Pate and daughter Mrs Joe Beck both of Spurger four sisters and three brothers funeral 11 am Monday Edwards Funeral Home Chapel Woodville with Rev Ben Roper and Rev Charles Pickett officiating burial Magnolia Cemetery Woodville
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Edward Pate
Broadway
Beaumont
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Tyler County
Hedda Pate
Woodville
J. B. Pate
Joe Beck
Spurger
Cordie Broadway
Maybell Barclay
Houston
Ada Waldrop
Victor
Alice Safir
Village Mills
Sam Pate
Silsbee
Preston
Bill Pate
Edwards Funeral Home
Ben Roper
Spurger Methodist Church
Charles Pickett
First Christian Church of
Magnolia Cemetery
Dutch Christmas myth shifts from reindeer to Sleipner tale
In the Netherlands children believe a horse pulls St. Nicholas sleigh and fill wooden shoes with hay for Sleipner to power him. The article notes five men lived for a month in 1963 in a shelter 36 feet below the Red Sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dasher
Dancer
Prancer
Rudolph
Netherlands
St. Nick
Jevery House
Red Sea
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William Herschel
Savour
Clyde Haynes
Wotaw News
E. L. Teal
Gladys Graham
Betty Gore
Laura Rhodes
Joyce Tanton
Teal
Bartmess & Company
Home Builders
Insurance Agency
Bee
Ruel Jones
Marvin Dryden
A. A. Johnson
Jenifer
Romayor
Phil Eason
R. L. Moye
Watson Holladay
Dalsetta
Roger Garrett
Roger Vance
Opal Allamany
Ethel Graham
Saratoga
Roark
Mary Cecil Collins
McDonald
Jacksonville
BR. L.cook
Ronnie Waldrop
Robbin Jackson
Rickie Sumrall
Earl Jackson
Karen
Flo
Sandra
Hugh Brantley
Jean Hardy
Emma Knight
J. A. Folten
Tomball
A. J. Powers
McLaughlin Refrigeration Service
Roosevelt Drive
Rt. 1
Parsley
City Cleaners
Holland
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