VFW Auxiliary Installs Officers for New Year
The VFW Auxiliary installed officers led by Laverné Jones on Tuesday night June 4. Louise Howard became president with Wanda Jeffrey Sr vice president Treva Stallings Jr vice president Esta Glenn treasurer Thelma Curry chaplain Edna Rudy conductress Cheryl Anders guard Dorothy McGill Laverne Jones and Ina Brown as trustees. The group reviewed past activities and noted donations to veterans, hospitals, the Christmas fund and disaster and scholarship programs. Six new members joined in 1985.
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VFW
Laverné Jones
Louise Howard
Wanda Jeffrey
Treva Stallings, Jr
Esta Glenn
Thelma Curry
Edna Rudy
Cheryl Anders
Dorothy McGill
Laverne Jones
Ina Brown
Veterans Hospital
Amarillo
Community Action Center
National Home
Department For Disaster Fund
Nursing
Department Memorial
Thomas Nursing Center
Collingsworth General
Shreveport Woman Visits Kin Across West Texas
Mrs. Ruth Evelyn Stewart of Shreveport Louisiana arrives to visit aunts Mrs. G L Jones and Mrs. Lydabel Kannenberg and plans a first time tour to Matador Amarillo and Clarendon to see relatives including the Aaron families and other kin such as Mrs. Ruth Norman Dodson Howard and Marie Jones Joy Aaron Emmert. She may be remembered as Ruth Evelyn Corder daughter of Ruth Aaron Corder.
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Ruth Evelyn Stewart
Shreveport
G.L. Jones
Lydabel Kannenberg
Stewart
Matador
John Aaron
Amarillo
Cleo Aaron McQuary
Clarendon
Harvey Jones
Ruth Norman
Dodson
Howard
Marie Jones
Bill Hawkins
Velma Emmert
Joy Aaron Emmert
Ruth Evelyn Corder
Ruth Aaron Corder
Dodson Nazarene WM S Begins Mission Study for Year
The Dodson Nazarene World Missionary Society met May 8 at Mrs. Janet Huff's home with Mrs. Ellen Holder presiding. Denise Huff led singing, Wanda Cardwell taught Unit I Why Missions, and Richard Crow of Africa was announced to speak September 29 at Dodson Church of the Nazarene. A buffet dinner followed for members and guests.
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Dodson Nazarene World Missionary Society
Janet Huff
Kenyth Casses Honored On Wedding Anniversary
A Friona couple, Kenyth and Mary Lee Cass, observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a family dinner hosted by son Jerry Cass. The couple, married May 11, 1935 in Wellington, recently enjoyed a long celebratory trip through nine states, visiting Memphis, Nashville, Gatlinburg, and the Great Smoky Mountains, with grandkids Gay Price, George Price, Jerry Cass, and Karene Cass in attendance.
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Collingsworth County
Kenyth Cass
Friona
Jerry Cass
Gay
George Price
Midland
Jerry
Karene Cass
Laurie Price
College Station
Russell Price
Lubbock
John
Jennifer
Mary Frances Cass
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Tennessee
North Carolina
Alabama
Georgia
Mississippi
Memphis
Nashville
Gand Ole Opry
Sheraton Music City
Gatlinburg
Great Smoky Mountains
Wellington
Cass
Clyde Emmett
George Scott
Mary Lee Jones
T.M. Johnston
Family trip brings Wrights across three states
Mrs. Gary Wright and her daughter Alicia traveled to Waxahachie for Alicia to see orthodontist Dr. Stan Parker. In Vernon they joined Mrs. Wright's mother Mrs. Glen Taylor. They visited Glenna Barton and husband Wayne Barton in Decatur. On the return trip they stopped in Olustee Oklahoma to pick up Larry Wright with his father in wheat harvest.
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Gary Wright
Alicia
Waxahachie
Stan Parker
Vernon
Home Delivered Meals For The Homebound
A week of meals for homebound clients lists daily menus Monday through Friday. Each day features a hot main dish, vegetables, a bread option, a dessert, and milk, with June dates specified for June 17 to June 21.
Forests Forecast Tenfold Moisture Return and Rain Impact
New research reveals forested land returns ten times more moisture to the atmosphere than cleared land and supplies about half of the rainfall that occurs there, underscoring forests' key role in regional climate and weather patterns.
Jefferson Davis Day tea hosted by Sabine Pass UDC
Sabine Pass UDC Chapter 2459 held its Jefferson Davis Day tea in the Heritage Room on Sunday June 2 at 2 30 p m with Mrs B B Martin of Hollis as guest speaker recounting the life of Jefferson Davis senator and later president of the Southern Confederacy The program featured a Davis portrait and Confederate flags tea and cake were served Mrs George Porter led the event Attendees included Mrs Mary Nell Holton Mrs Willie Wells and several others Mrs Martin called Davis the most misunderstood man in history tracing his life from birth in 1808 parallels with Abraham Lincoln to his leadership of the Confederacy and his postwar imprisonment and release
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United Daughters of the Confederacy
Sabine Pass
Heritage Room
Jefferson Davis
Confederacy
B.B. Martin
Hollis
George Porter
Mary Nell Holton
Willie Wells
Marguerite Bartlett
Maudie Coffee
Kedron Mitchell
Florence DeArmond
Hattie D. Wells
Gertrude Mayhugh
Betty Riker
Jo Carson
Martin
Porter
Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Mississippi
Sara Knox Taylor
Zachary Taylor
U.S
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VFW Auxiliary
United States
Auxiliary
Viola Colson
Winnie Bell
Margaret Peeples
Lola Estes
Kathryn Barjenbruch
Dodson Nazarene Wms
Wanda Cardwell
FACIA
Alside Corporation
Society News
Wellington Lea
Thursda
MR. and
Mrs. Kenyth Cass
Kenyth Casses
Lucky Corner
Rose Mary Throne
Monthlu
Flute
Sno Bals
UDC
Jefferson
Varina Ann Howell
Natchez
Miss
Franklin Pierce
Robert E. Lee
West Point
Senate
Ft. Monroe
Bill
Ruby Harbin
First Federal Savings & Loan Asso. of Ware
Memphis & Wellington
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