Fifty Year Wedding Milestones Highlight Wellington Families
Judge and Mrs. Thomas renew their vows at First Christian Church as family celebrates their 50th anniversary. The event honors Zook and Leatha Thomas and John and Geneva Thomas with children, grandchildren, and relatives attending. World War II era wheat harvest memories and community ties are recalled alongside reception details in Burn Handley Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Guides
Heary
John Alf Thomas
Zook
Leatha Thomas
John
Geneva Thomas
Bill
Nancy Lindsey
Steve
LaVonda Thomas Hartman
White Deer
First Christian Church
Charles Waugh
Westview Christian Church
Amarillo
Truman Estes
Bill Anders
Bill Mack
Lindy
Steve Hartman
Bill Lindsey
DeJon
Diana
Danielle
Thomas
Jim Bennett
Gatlin
Donald Nicholson
Roberta Wilson
Burn Handley Community Center
Wellington area biographical tribute highlights civic service
Leatha Bennett and Thomas family members are profiled for civic work education and professional roles in Quail Wellington and nearby towns. The narrative notes Leatha’s clubs and library board service, John Alf Thomas’s varied careers in farming mortuary work teaching music and acting, Geneva White Thomas’s banking work, Nancy Lindsey’s cosmetology and savings association role, and the family’s church affiliations with Church of Christ and Eastern Star. The piece ends with mentions of Stephen as the youngest participant in the anniversary celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leatha Bennett
Ralls
American Bankers Association
Clarendon College
B&l Department Store
Belles Lettres Club
City Federation of Women’s Clubs
Quail Friendship Club
Wellington
B&pw Club
Thomas
First Christian Church
Order of Eastern Star
John Alf Thomas
Texas Department of Human Resources
Quail
Dallas Institute-Guptan College of Mortuary Science
Smith Hughes
Texas Tech
West Texas State
North Texas State
Collingsworth County Teachers Assocation
Quail Ex-Students
Wellington Cycle Club
Geneva White Thomas
Wellington State Bank
Gupton Jones Mortuary College
WTSU
America
Lillie Home Demonstration Club
Hedley
Lela
Church of Christ
Nancy Thomas Lindsey
Zook
Leatha Thomas
First Federal Savings and Loan Association
Nancy
Eastern Star
Billy Frank Lindsey
Bill
Quail High School
Masonic Lodge
DeJon
Diana
Danielle
Stephen
Nazarene World Missionary Society Meets June Ninth
The Nazarene World Missionary Society held its regular monthly meeting on Wednesday June 9 at 7 p m. Mrs Don Bland presided and introduced the June Emphasis LINKS Lov ing Interested Nazarene Knowing and Sharing. Don Bland led singing with prayers by Rodell Byers Herman Childress and Rev Thurman Emmert of Elkhart Kansas. Mrs Thurman Emmert gave the devotional and Mrs Joe Harris led a lesson Swaziland the beautiful little country where Nazarene missions began in Africa. Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nazarene World Missionary Society
Don Bland
Rodell Byers
Herman Childress
Thurman Emmert
Elkhart
Kansas
Joe Harris
Wellington High School Alumni Tie Knot in Dallas Ceremony
Saturday evening at St. Monica's Church Dallas witnessed the marriage of the Key and Gilles families. The bride daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Key of Grand Prairie wore her mother's imported silk wedding dress with pearl and sequin accents. The groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert J. Gilles of Midland, is an attorney with Cardere and Wynne in Dallas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Monica's Catholic Church
Dallas
Jack Key
Grand Prairie
Gilbert J. Gilles
Midland
Jeanne Jones
Wellington
Chas. B. Jones
Keri Key
Suzan Waskom
Anna Chavez
Los Angeles
Kathy Cox
Fort Worth
John Ochsner
Ken Cowling
Odessa
David Voltin
Irving
Scott McMillan
Houston
Kevin Key
Dan Brown
San Antonio
Frank Adams
Craig Strong
Key
Marriott Hotel
Oahu
Maui
Hawaii
Lubbock
John Jones
Frank Jones
Amarillo
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fope
Tom Sea
Thomas Bouquet
John Alf
Bennett
Joe Darden
Lorenzo
Clyde Stovall
Sandy Parsons
Walton
Cottonwood
American Banking Association
Texas A&m
C.G. Bowers Dry Goods
Wellington Leader
Ralls Banner
Memphis Production Credit Association
City State Bank
Wellington Cemetery Association
Panhandle Community Action Board
County Parole Board
Zook Thomas
NWAMS
John Alf Thomases
Wellington High School
Amarillo College
Collingsworth General Hospital
Hartman Airconditioning Service
Stephen Joseph Gilles
Seiko
Lenel
Cologne
West Side Square
Wellington, Texas
Mens & Boys
Bradford & Resistol
Cme
Entiti Enor
North Side Square
Texas
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