Avoca Residents Share Visitor News and Dinners
Avoca and nearby families are noted hosting relatives and guests from Dallas Hawley Breckenridge Stamford and Abilene over the weekend and into Monday. Various Driskill Rennels Dunklin and Humphrey households are mentioned with meals visits and telegrams from returning service members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Plumice
United States
John Driskill
Wayne Driskill
H. H. Dunklin
H. [Irvin
Mattie Byres
Henry “Aid
da “Uth
Jessie Maesi
Ada, Okla
Mes SrAf Ord
Dim R.jehubert
7. L. Rennels
G. H. Rennels
J. E Rennels
Norman Darby
Jan
Breckenridge
Finner
Frank Rennels
Abilene
Albert Driskill
John
Roswell
New
J. C. William
J. ©. Roges
Sadler Oi
Joyce Plumly
C. Phillips
E. C. Phillips
Stamford
Jimmy Fox
Dallas
Martha
Brothers in Navy Meet in Pacific By Lucky Accident
George F. Pierce boatswain mate second class and his brother Milton Pierce seaman first class met on May 27 in the Pacific theater. The reunion highlights perils and service of two brothers serving aboard U S Navy ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brothers In Navy
Pacife
George F. Pierce
Milton Pierce
Navy veteran Milton Pierce recalled in wartime reunion
The article recalls Milton Pierce’s naval service from joining in 1942 at age 18 to assignments in San Diego Seattle Dutch Harbor and the Aleutians. He served in raids on the Kurile Islands and later married Pearl Davis and settled with his mother on South McKinley Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ific
Essie Pierce
Milton
Navy
South Parifte
United States
Marriel
Miss Pearl B Davis
South McKinley Street
Brock
San Francisco
Seattl
San Diego
Dutch Harbor
Aleutians
North Pacific
Kurile Island
San Luis Obispo
South Pacific
Okinawa
Visitors and servicemen share summer kinship in Alpine
Mrs. G. D. Williams and children visit her parents the Block Boone family as she reunites with brother Wally Boone on leave from the Pacific. Local families host returning servicemen from New Mexico Texas and California during a busy summer season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. D. Williams
Alpine
William
Bob Boone
Wally Boone
Pacific
Wandene Hardy
Texas Tech
Lubbock
O. H. Hardy
Merchant Marine
Stamford area residents share news of visits and births
A flood of visitors and travelers arrives in Stamford as relatives from Liberal Kansas Minot North Dakota and Oklahoma City come and go. A newborn son Michael Dean Moore arrives at Stamford Sanitarium on June 11. Local residents travel to California Lubbock Hale Center and other places for vacations and family duties.
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William Duane Hermon Wa
FE. H Hermion, Jr
Sweetwater
Lois Dobbins
Stamford Sanitarium
Lubbock and Hale Center
Michael Dean Moore
Frank Moore, Jr
Lydia Rogers
Oklahoma City
Stamford
Ruth Hurt
Hurley
Rogers
Rolster Hospital
Lubbock
Stamford American Supplies for Office Needs
The Stamford American offers essential office supplies and materials for local businesses and homes. It highlights available products suitable for daily operations and workplace efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stamford American
Kilmer Swamp Root Urges Quick Kidney Relief
Advert says Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root cleanses kidneys to ease bladder irritation from excess urine acidity. Claims 16 herbs and roots, non-habit forming, promote urine flow. Free sample offer from Kilmer & Co. Box 55 Stamford Conn. Limited, druggists carry product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kilmer
Department A
Kilmer & Co., Inc
Box 55
Stamford
Conn
Southland Grows Insurance in Force and Assets
Dallas May 15 In releasing the thirty seventh annual statement of the Southland Life Insurance Company W C McCore president notes insurance in force at 206 579 117 an all time high Assets rose to 44 645 840 62 the highest ever and total paid policyholders and beneficiaries since organization was 46 569 000 In a field force message President McCord says growth is set for tremendous expansion and 1945 insurance volume already exceeds 1944 readings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Southland Life Insurance Company
W. C. McCore
McCord
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Avoca
Billie Griffith
Mary Griffth
Henry Rail
Mattie Dee
Ruth Dunklin Mises
Margie Driskill
Nell Bouwrden
Hawley
Nell
Marcie
George II
San Ant Gormis Christi
Frank Phillips
Fort Worth
L. C. Phillips
Henry Hanson
Wolson
Sai
J Monroe Johhnson
U.S. Office of Defense Transportation
Studebaker
Dodson Motor Co
Stamford, Texas
Miller-Nelson Machine Works
Monahans
Texas
Dering Col Ae
Firestone
Brace
Westfall Home & Auto Supply
B. Tillo Uson
White’s
Home & Auto Supply Leeders
Bill Lee
Carlsbad
New Mexico
J. B. Lee
Witchita Falls
St. Joseph, Mo
Lee
Stamford High School
California
Bob Lee
Kessler Field
Mississippi
Harvey Stegemoeller
Luthern Concordia College
Austin
Betty Louise Balzer
Texas Lutheran College
Seguin
Lagerton
Roy Balzer
Sea
Burl W. Brown
Galveston
Houston
San Antonio
Mr. Brown
Carl Maynard
Pfe. Ray Brown
Randolph Field
Reta Culbreath
Bobby Culbreath
Rochester, Minn
Manley Sikes
Mary Beth
Bangs
Sikes
Frank Heflin
Patti Quattlebaum
Rev
Dre. J. O. Quattlebaum
P. C. Owen
Euests
Marvin Owen
Robert
Rudolph Owen
Bob Burdick
Deming, N. M
R. P. Hines
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Calif
J. M. Carpenter
Doolittle
Patton
Witnesed
Leslie Larche
Dyersburg, Tennessee
Royce Lusk
Martha Beth Larche
Ted Miles
Ginger
Liberal
Kansas
Lieut
Miles
Victor Buie
Avice W. Hofto
Minot
N. D
Ike Hudson
Hofto
Hudson
W. H. Schultz
Eva Lee Taylor
Ernest Felton
George Black
Jerry Ottinger
M. FE. Wadzeck
T. N. Meador
Capt
Mrs
Paul Stanley
Lavada Adams
Tobe Kuenstler
Linnea McDonald
R. C. Thomas, Jr
Consolidated Vultee
R. C. Thomas
Joseph Allison Thomas
St. John’s Methodist Church
Cowboy
D&h
Marvin Hinds
H. L. Davis
West Side Square
Southland
W. C. McCord
Betty Reynolds
Bruce
Miss Reynold
Yates Drug Store
Ata
U.S. Treasury
America
Neil
Prey
West Texas Utilities Company
Mr. Hinds
Gay Young
D & H Department Store
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