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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1976
Page
2
In this 200 A.D. overview a pattern emerges of Christians meeting in homes due to persecution. It notes 15 to 20 local groups in a town the size of Whitewright, each claiming allegiance to Christ with distinct identities Paul, Apollo, and self righteous factions. The passage urges unity and voluntary restraint from internal decay.
Gayle Harmon marked her twelfth birthday on Sunday celebrated with a baseball themed cake baked by her grandmother. Her brothers Kelly and David helped blow out the candles. Daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Russ Harmon, she enjoys homemade ice cream and a family trip to Love Field Recreation Center for skating and movies.
Fire destroyed W N Johnson's home at Spruce and Blanton. Mrs A H Davis and daughter attended the Percy Davis and Earle Langston wedding in Fort Worth. Chesley Rutledge and others fished Choctaw Creek, bringing back a 334 pound catfish. Jury duty in Sherman for several men. Pioneering Tom Bean resident F P Thompson died. Epworth League members appeared on program. J H Waggoner at Texas Association convention in McAllen. Eunice Cook returned from Las Vegas NM after teaching. Ruth Montgomery at ETSTC summer school in Commerce. Whitewright youths home from school include many named. Marian Barbee at Denison summer school. Lawrence Burden announces birth of a son. Maurine May at Austin College Sherman. Sue Stephens hosts young men's class at new home. A C Keeling thresher outfit fire destroys shed. Flint Little visiting from San Bernardino. R A M Chapter offices elected. Walter H Bogle joins Devonport stores in Mineola. Dee Taylor and Irene McMillin wed in Durant OK.
The First Baptist Church of Tom Bean men’s trio How ard Starnes Jack Yowell and Johnny Gentry sang at Sunday services with piano accompaniment by Mrs. Diane Ashlock Attendance reached 56 Bible study was led by Rev Bot Bryan The nursing home notes list visitors new admissions and birthday celebrations including Belva Compton turning 91 and Mrs Compton’s long residency.
The Tom Bean Craft Club met in June at the home of Mrs. C S Teague with co hostess Mrs. R B Caraway. President Melba Grider opened the session, led the pledge and prayer, and members viewed an antique display led by Mrs. Virgie Moran.
Mrs. Florence T. Vincent, of Bells, died May 25 1976. Funeral services were May 27 at Mullican Little Funeral Home in Bells, with pastors James Rodgers and Harry Stanley officiating. Burial at Rose Hill Cemetery. Born June 2 1893 in Kentucky town, she married Walter L. Files in 1912 and had six children. Later married W S Vincent and had one son Alvin E Vincent. She had 22 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. Member of First Baptist Bells. Lived in Grayson and Fannin counties since 1918.
Services for Mrs. Juanita Norman 43 of Leonard were held Friday at Taylor Chapel with L R Fullerton presiding. Burial followed at Leonard Cemetery. She was born in Whitewright, daughter of Ike and (Mrs) Whisenhunt, married Joe K Norman March 26 1949 in Leonard, member of Church of Christ. Surviving: husband, father of Fort Worth, sons Michael Norman U S Navy and Paul Allen Norman Greenville, sister Bessie Fowler Fort Worth, brother Pete Whisenhunt Richton Miss, and two grandchildren.
The Texoma Swine Influenza Campaign targets 11 million Texans to be vaccinated between August and November. Volunteers private physicians and Public Health personnel will lead the effort starting with vaccines for the elderly and chronically ill in late July following a June 8 training in Denison Sherman Grayson Health Dept.
A devotional piece explains how one becomes a child of God and an heir with Christ. It contrasts earthly wealth and legal battles over a will with the spiritual inheritance offered by salvation, stressing belief, acceptance of Christ, and being born again as the path to eternal life.
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