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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1972
Page
6
Miss Myrtle Harris hosted the Kentuckytown Club with Mrs. Bertha Stepp leading a discussion Styles for Different Types and a social afterward. The Whitewright Masonic Lodge No. 167 planned an educational patriotic meeting for Master Masons and families.
Funeral services were held Thursday at Mullican-Little Funeral Chapel for J. B. Dickens Jr. 56 who died Tuesday night in a Sherman hospital after a brief illness. Burial was in Rose Hill Cemetery. Dickens, born March 15, 1916 in Van Alstyne, married to Werdell Watson since 1939, was a self employed auto mechanic for 39 years and lived in Bells most of his life. Survivors include his wife two sons Lyndon and Felton a daughter Becky Fuentes a sister Doris Mitchell and four grandchildren.
Rosalie Geers reports a week at the Whitewright nursing home with Sunday worship special music by Rev and Mrs Bill Grisham. The note lists numerous visitors from Dallas, Denison, Sherman, Bonham and other towns, patient moves, a Grayson County Singing Convention, a birthday party for October and November honorees, and a Cookies and Punch program by the Whitewright Home Demonstration Club.
The undefeated Eighth Grade team beat Bells 36 to 6 last Thursday. Willie Ballard scored four touchdowns with Steve Hodge throwing for three PATs and rushing for extra points. Stanley Smith added a 45 yard TD reception from Hodge. Bells scored a late fourth quarter TD. PAT failed.
The Youth of the First Baptist Church attended a Youth Rally at Fairview Baptist Church in Sherman. Roger Speers, Youth Director of the Grayson County association, led a Youth Revival at Eastern Heights Baptist Church in Muskogee Oklahoma. The Hands of God Youth Choir from Whitewright presented a 45 minute program.
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