Salt Fork Samplers Visit Wellington Family News
City Councilman Arvil Wilson and his wife Elaine of Wellington Utah spent a night in Wellington Texas while en route to Plano for their grandson’s deacon ordination on Sunday October 1. The couple, retired coal miners with ten children and 23 grandchildren, observed the local businesses and noted family spread across Utah Dallas Idaho.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
Utah
Arvil Wilson
Elaine
Texas
Wilson
Sunside Coal Company
Plano
Dallas
Idaho
Wellington area memories and wartime notes from 1945 to 1980s
A collage of local recollections and events from Wellington in 1945 through 1980s. Tales include painting a war year 45 on a water tower, church memories, Bar-B-Qs at Ellison Park, a Pearl Harbor alert, WW II service figures, a near fatal gas incident, civic notes on FFA, local hometowm life, police and fire anecdotes, and notes on industry, education, and public works in Collingsworth County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Moore
Earl Jones
Water Town
Forrest
Red" Ryan
Ellison Park
Dick Wiley
J.M. Strong
Pearl Harbor
Joe Baumgardner
First Methodist Church
J. Porter Neal
First Baptist Church
Army Air Corp
Steve Owens
U.S. Army
Amarillo
Area Five
Collingsworth
Glenn Honeycutt
A. L. Honeycutt
Dozier
LeRoy Browning
J. D. Browning
Wellington
Ray Clark
H. J. Clark
Sumnerwood
Billy Thomas
J. R. Thomas
Ross Hardy Oatman
H. C. Oatman
Browning
Oatman
Clark
Southwestern Bell
Dallas
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Wellngton
Mursday
West Avenue
H. Deskins Wells
Virginia Robey
Henry Wells
Suzanne Maxwell
Priscilla Sullivan
Panhandle
Neil Wilbur
Betty Winslett
Ae S48
Asssociati
Janie Duncan
Collingsworth County
Wellington Leader
Nell Wilbur
Dick Ellis
Victor Williams
Floydada Street
Olivia Hill
Relief
Otc
Katy Tracks
Washington State
FFA
Quail
Kansas City
Clifton Hartman
James Slay
Thomas Kutch
Gene Peggram
Virgil Patterson
Hartman
Estelline
Plainview
Wellington Vocational Ag
Bennett Goodloe
Howard Blevins
Mr. Blevins
Blevins
Robert
Herman Moseley
D. L. Poston
State Predatory Control Board
C. C. Bishop
Lefors
Bishop Said
Commissioners Court
Poston
Wellington Livestock Commission
California
Thermal
Howard Brothers
Safeway
West Coast
Quail High School
Rural Music For
Lubbock
Lowell Wells
Monty Mitchell
Texas Water Development Board
St. Joseph's Hospital
Sister Perpetua
Mary Jude
Ada
St. Dominics Hospital
Jackson
Miss
Chicago
Atx
Roa
Jim Sikes
Nationa
Sikes
Texas Parks and Wildlife
Oklahoma
Wheeler and Collingsworth
Ruifs
Walter L. Clements
Perryton
Gasohol Project
Farmers Union
Brazil
Collingsworth County Hospital District
Dr. Baula
V.deweze
Com
Wheeler
Childress
Canadian
RAO
Clarendon
Barverwood
Podley
Clerendin
District Garnorneod
Northside
Ray
Panhandleea
Ellerton
Thane
Aati
Fanhandia
Ban Garver
Silverton
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