Votaw News Delights Readers With Holiday Visits
The Votaw weekly notes holiday gatherings and travel. Airman Penny f Mo den of El Paso rejoined after flights refueling fighter planes and visiting Bermuda the Azores Hawaii and California. Families from Hartburg Buna Evadale and Wotaw shared Christmasday dinners and greetings with relatives scattered across Texas Louisiana and Oklahoma, including Teal Rhodes Jackson Beeson and Beeson kin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penny
Mobden
el Paso
Bermuda
Azores
Hawaii
California
Ss. F. Hidbden
Hartburg
Biggs Fur Force Base
Paso
W. ¥. Bailey
Archie Lottin
Kounize
J. T Dillon
Houston
Gene Townsend
New Bethel Church Plans Emancipation Program Friday
New Bethel Baptist Church at 420 South Tenth Street hosts the 102nd Emancipation Proclamation celebration on Friday with a slate of sermons by pastors from Silsbee Beaumont Kountze Orange and a closing address by B B Smith. Bernice King chairs the program and Rev H L Foster leads the church. Public invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bethel Baptist Church
South Tenth Street
George McCall
Presbyterian Church
Silsbee
Harold R. King
Live Oak Baptist Church
Beaumont
I. H. Johnson
Mount Olive Church
H. H. High
Ebenezer Baptist Church
H L. Foster
Big Thicket Association Plans First Annual Meet
A special meeting of the Big Thicket Association general membership was called by President Dempsie Stenley for Sunday at 2 30 p m in the First Methodist Church of Saratoga. The first annual meet is set to open at West Hardin Independent School Saturday January 9 with a noon barbecue. Tickets cost 150 for adults and 100 for children. The program begins at 2 with two hours of entertainment including an old time fiddlers contest inviting area fiddlers to participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Thicket Association
Dempsie Stenley
Saratoga
West Hardin Independent School
Silsbee Soldier Serves In Germany
Army Pvt. Calvin L Simmons of Silsbee participated in Exercise Gallant Sword in Germany a week long field training with the 3d Armored Division and German troops to test rapid joint reaction. He entered service in 1964 and arrived overseas last November after basic training at Fort Polk and is a 1964 Waldo Matthews High School graduate.
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Army
Calvin L. Simmons
Marsoile E. Simmons
Silsbee
Germany
3D Armored Division
Simmons
36Th Infantry
Kirch Gens
Fort Polk
Waldo Mathews High School
Loeb News Reaches Out in Christmas Notes and Tragedy
Local column reports travels and family visits for Williams Shawver and related families. It extends sympathy for deaths of Vernon McCruiston and T C Williams and notes a fatal car crash involving Frenchy Lalonde. Interment for Lalonde followed in Rooks Cemetery in Louisiana.
Funeral services held Sunday for W V McCuistion
Vernon V McCuistion 65 of Rt 3 Silsbee died Friday after a short illness at Baptist Hospital. Services were Sunday at 3 p m in Nacogdoches with burial in Nacogdoches Cemetery. He was a native of Nacogdoches and longtime resident of Chance Loeb. He retired from Mobil Oil Co refinery in Beau. Surviving: two sons James and Leon. two daughters Mrs Marvin Spradley and Mrs Gene Nelson. two brothers Olfin of Olustee OK and John of Nacogdoches. four sisters Mrs Janie Armstrong Mrs Lillian Castleberry Mrs Ollie Hill and Mrs Nettie Dee Appel.
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Comas Beeson
Pimence
Eddie Beeson
LaDenn Erckson
Shreveport
Benny Hobden
L. Teal
Archie Leftin
Kountze
Ada Rhodes
R. &. Jackson
Wotaw
Canton
Teddy Jackson
Tyler Hospital
Canton Cemetery
Texas
Waco
R. E. Jackson
Wotan
Don Jackson
Ben Wheller
Carry Jackson
Amarillo
Effie Blasingame
Leggett
W. L. Capps
Imo
Jessie Whit
Vernon V. McCuistion
Rt. 3
Silsbee
Baptist Hospital
Nacogdoches
McCuistion
Chance-Loeb
Mobil Oil Co
Beaumont
James McCuistion
Chance- Loeb
Leon McCuistion
Houston
Marvin Spradley
Gene Nelson
Olfin McCuistion
Olustee
Okla
John McCuistion
Janie Armstrong
Lillian Castleberry
Loth
Ollie Hill
Albany
Nettie Dee Appel
Christmas Dinner Guests and Family Visits In Buna Area
Family gathers for Christmas at multiple Buna homes. Mr. and Mrs. M Cole hosted guests including Duchamps and a Victor daughter from A&M University and Billy Caywood as Christmas visitors. Other relatives from Beaumont Orange and Vieux Beaumont share meals and attend church services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Killen
Beaumont
J. B. Faggard Jr
Albert Andrus
W. O. Figvives
Edison’s 35mm film perforations shaped motion picture standards
The passage notes that the core of Edison’s motion picture invention was the 35mm wide film with perforations for each picture, a format that became the standard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison
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E. L. Teal
Victoria and
Jerry Rhodes
Votaw
Miss Ira Jean Mils
Nuss
Jennifer Piselio
Mire
Buna
Evadale
Emma Knight
W. H. Tanton
Ronnie
C. C. Kirkland
Robert Allen
Wayne Hamilton
Bob Hardy
Tomball
J. A. Folten
Charles Ray Bailey
Rusk Hospital
Alice Thomas
Orange
LaDean_ Erickson
Tammy
Wesley
Nugent
Richard and
Bill
Orangefield
Edsar Stevens
Christine
Clyde Sumrall
Port Neches
Votan
Jack Jackson
W. T.copps
W. T. Copps
Emo
R. L. Moye
Wayne
Essie Kings
Ruth Lynn
LaPorte
Gene .Cothran
Troy
Pete Beeson
iCleveland
Florence
Eddie Neeson
Carl Collins
Livingston
D. H. Teal
Avenue A
Art Gietzen
Emma Ruth Rhodes
Jeff Davis
Bayton
Pentecostal Church
C. M. Rhodes
Deena
Jim Elliott
Denison
Thomas Rhodes
Huntsville
Jessie Jackson
Ellie Dettling
Morris Rhodes
Givings
Mississippi
Melvin and
Dorman Rhodes
Melvin Don Hinckley
Virginia
Glenda
Greg Dettling
Deloris Dettling
Nawton
Bob Bailey
Junior Williams
P. L. Williams
Magnolia
Laura Phodes
Earl Walters
Worlaw
H. E. Munden
Johnny’s Package Store
Silsbee Flower Shop
Buffy
Herbert Elmore
Elmore
Night Depository
Federal Reserve System
Federal Deposit Insurance
Silsbee State Bank
New Bethel Church
Loeb News
C. H. Shawver
B. C. Williams
Jd. W. Baird
H. C. Shawver
Shawver
Lynn Robinson
Vineland
J. L. Townsend
Vernon V. McCruistion
Frenchy Lalonde
Louisiana
W. V. McCuistion
Bartmess & CO
Beaumont Highway
Dear’s Paint & Body Shop
W. Ave
Surray
First Baptist Church of
Antioch Cemetery
G. O. Linsecomb
M. Cole
Myrtle’s
Charles Deir
Britton-Cravens Insurance Agency
Paul Georgas
North 4Th Street
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