WMU Hosts Visit From Dallas Speaker and Local Guests
Mrs. Newman hosts WMU meeting at her home. Mrs. Adah Gillespie of Dallas spoke on church work there. Mrs. Preston Bennett of Osaka, Japan, and her husband on furlough in Sherman shared Japan work. Mrs. Nomura and Mrs. Paul Hunt attended as guests. Third Sunday singing planned at Kentuckytown on April 19, public invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist
WMU
B. W. Neweman
Adah Gillespie
Dallas
Preston Bennett
Osaka
Japan
Sherman
Nomura
Paul Hunt
Kentuckytown
First Place Beef Show and National Library Week Observance
First Baptist Church celebrates National Library Week April 12 18 with more than 1800 books in the church library plus 200 added this year. The library promotes reading listening and mission ministry with a record player in the children's department and ongoing programs led by Mrs B W Newman and Rev Herman Lancaster. The First Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Society met with seven members and one guest Mrs W D Allsman of Richardson and discussed prayer Africa and service projects led by Ruth Cox Mabel Sears and Mardell Pumphrey with the theme Feed My Sheep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Library of
First Baptist Church
America
Ministry of Missions
B. W. Newman
Herman Lancaster
Women’s Missionary Society of the
First Presbyterian Church
W. D. Allsman
Richardson
Ben
Sydney
Homer Sears
Meiss Ruth Cox
Mabel Sears
Africa
Mardell Pumphrey
First Baptist Whitewright to Observe 79th Anniversary Homecoming
The 1st Baptist Church in northeast Whitewright marks its 79th anniversary and Homecoming Sunday with a 3 30 p m program. Rev H W Windfield leads. Millie Ann Orr chairs homecoming. Thelma Jo Walker is secretary. Members are asked to give 5 cents per year. A 1 00 p m covered dish luncheon follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
1St Baptist Church
Whitewright
H. W. Windfield
Millie Ann Orr
Thelma Jo Walker
Mrs. Hardcastle Hosts Whitewright Home Demonstration Club
The Whitewright Home Demonstration Club met at the home of Mrs. G. C. Hardcastle with Edith Grider presiding. Members heard reports on a court house training meeting, decorating tips, and crafts demonstrations using bread wrappers. District convention plans and refreshments were noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright Home Demonstration Club
G. C. Hardcastle
Edith Grider
Velma Sadler
Court House
Carpenter
Clyde Robinson
Detroit
Brown
Wirt M. May 88 Dies in Nocona April 8
Wirt M. May aged 88 died April 8 at 9 15 p m in Nocona. He lived in Savoy and was a retired machinist formerly with Hardwick Etter. Services held Friday at Barnhart Chapel conducted by Church of Christ minister Allen Henderson. Burial Sunnyside Cemetery. Survived by son Ervin, three grandchildren, six great grandchildren and nieces and nephews including Mrs O L Jones of Whitewright. Pallbearers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wirt M. May
Nocona
Savoy
Barnheart Chapel
Allen Henderson
Church of Christ
Sunnyside Cemetery
Mr. May
Whitewright
J. M. May
Mary Agnes Wrenn
Ector
Hardwick - Etter
Shereman
May
Ervin
O. L. Jones
J. Baker
Coy Wrenn
Max Archerberry
Jack Morgan
David Co
Earnest McCollen
Local residents attend graveside service and family visits
Mr and Mrs Jim Meador of Irving and other local households visited friends Sunday. Willian Weir of Dallas, aged about 70, laid to rest at Owens Chapel with Rev Coy Weer officiating. Weir survived by his wife and two sons Arthur and James. Home Demonstration Club meeting set for Denton Tuesday. Many locals spent Sunday visiting relatives and touring homes in East Whitewright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Meador
Irving
Ralph Bond
Hildred Woodruff
P. D. Sikes
Laidback
Carlton Johnson
G. C. Marlow
Floyd Haliburton
Whiteweright
Jee Penny
Bells
Bob Dewey
Shereman
Owen's Chapel
Coy Weer
Dallas
Willian Wier
Weir
Arthur
James Wier
G.C. Marlow
Bonham
Fred Garner
Jim Grider
Carl May
Fae Vestal
Velma Saddler
Tom Brown
Denton Tueesday
C. K. Smith
Cynethia
Plano
James Vieneyard
Jimmie Anderson
Lubbock
Hobart Thrasher
J. T. Follis
Denison
Sam Taylor
Everett Watson
East Whitewright
Local Church Schedules and Pastors List
A schedule listing several churches with pastors and weekly services. Arvin United Methodist led by Rev. Leonard Lionlinson offers morning worship and Sunday school. First United Methodist and Church of Christ present morning and evening services, Bible study, and prayer meetings across the week with Rev. Cecil Watson noted for guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Lionlinson
First United Methodist
Leonard Fomlinson
Lonnie Stinson
Dallas
Cecil Watson
Janice Hall
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mrs. Newman
Moore’s Livestock
Mckinney
Hiway
Ben Ramsey
OF Texas
Pol
First Baptist
Presbyterian
U.S
First National Bank
Whitewright, Texas
F.D.I.C
1St Baptist
Styles
Hair
Edna Reeng Ong
W. L. Hatfield
Assembly of God Church
Durant
Okla
Messengers
Brent Reeves
Janes Reeves
Nederland
John Seeley Hospital
John Reeves
Earnheart
NEST
West Texas Telephone CO
Paul Spence
Mgr
Kerman Lancaster
Arvin United Methodist
William H. Baker, Jr
George Hight
Western Beauty Christian Methodist Church
First United Pentecostal
Enterprise Baptist
J.S. Tipton
Training Union
First Presbyterian
C.C. Dooley
Nursing Home Service
Harry Stanley
Beech
Baptist Church
H.W. Windfield
Kentuckytown Baptist
Lionel Lindley
Raining Union
Bethel Baptist Church
Charles Pierce
Assembly OF God
Nicely’s Mobil Station
Carl’s Sausage Company
OK Feed Mill
Dawson
Propane
Whitewright Nursing Home
Grayson
Collin Electric Co
Moore
Cox
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