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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1962
Page
2
Visitors fill the Blanton home and relatives travel from Beaumont Amelia Kerrville Houston Galveston Baton Rouge and Madisonville. Local officials vendors club notices church activities school programs and upcoming picnics plus a hospital patient and a birth announced.
Supt L J Garner attends a reading workshop in Stephen F Austin College and an administrator's course in Austin. Local guests from Woodville, Lafayette, Killeen, Beaumont, and Galveston visit Loeb area homes. Sympathy extended to Mrs L Gibson on Claude's death. Church groups meet and a pastor anniversary party held. School board set for Aug 2.
Sgt. W E Kessinger and family visit Lumberton as he heads to Little Rock Ark. Brenda Martin returns to Corpus Christi after a visit with Lumberton relatives. WMU First Baptist meets for 1962-63 officer report. Intermediate Girls Auxiliary meets after prayer. Alton Ray Williams visits from Orange. W C Mathews injured at work and hospitalized in Beaumont. Ed Lee and wife visit Tyler County Hospital. sister Katie Bass of Warren undergoing tests.
Gayle and Connie of LaMarque visited with his mother and brother. Mrs. E. E. Boyd and Quana from Waukegan visited Mrs. Arlie Boyd and the L. Livingston family. The Boyds and Steve Livingston visited Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Griffin in Kirbyville. Clyde Williams and Virgil Williams family went to the airport. Virgil left with the 28rd Rifle Co Marines for a two week summer camp at Coronado Beach, California. Clarence Jones was burned connecting an air conditioner and is at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont. Mrs. E. J. Hale reports her brother is improving in Jefferson Davis Hospital in Houston.
Claude J. Gibson 58 died Monday at U S Public Health Hospital Galveston. A merchant mariner he lived in Crosby. Funeral held 2 p m Friday at Farmer Funeral Home Chapel Silsbee with Rev Eugene Jonte officiating. Burial in Rest Haven Cemetery. Survived by two sons a mother three brothers four sisters and three grandchildren.
Suburban notices recount numerous visits and trips across cities and states. Mrs Elizabeth Stutts returns from heart surgery in Houston while Mrs Tom Singletary attends a garment workshop in Denton. Families from Longview Beau mont New Orleans and Silsbee visit or vacation with local residents and travel to Six Flags Seattle Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park.
A long list of birth notices notes several newborns across Texas and Hawaii. Joseph Anthony Rodriguez in Honolulu at Tripler General Hospital. Jon Ernest Stinnett in Fort Worth. Dorothy Marie Shutter in Winnie. Jay Wesley Battle in Besaumont Baptist Hospital. Sabrina Kay Callaway in Silsbee. Donna Sue Pender in Kountze. Mark Anthony Caraway in Silsbee. Donna Kay Franks in Chester. Donna Marie Emanuel in Kountze. David Russell Wotan in Sour Lake with parents named for each birth.
Pat Richardson, Silsbee High 1960 graduate and member of an Army Ordnance Company, served as Army liaison during the Melody Maids tour in Korea. He rode buses, explained points of interest, and helped arrange needs for the Beaumont singers, meeting Miss Ann Edmondson and earning praise from the group for community ties.
Mr and Mrs Tom Schofield visited with their children Kathy and Tom My and Jasper at the Tucker home over the weekend Kathy stayed longer Judy Tucker of Beaumont is visiting in the area.
Mrs. John E. Rawls returned home Thursday after a 23 day confinement at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont.
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