Lonesome Louie to Return for Floresville Peanut Festival
Louis Whitehead known as Lonesome Louie, a 55 year old San Antonio native and Army veteran, will make his seventh Floresville Peanut Festival appearance. He performs as a one man band, playing country and various other genres, and travels from Eagle Pass to Corpus Christi.
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Lonesome Louie
Floresville
Arcadia Movie Theater
Charlie Pride
Louie
Peanut Capital of
San Antonio
Louis Whitehead
Hank Williams
Luke the Drifter
Hank
Roselane
Thelma
Charlie
Merle
Haggard
Conway
Twitty
Ft. Hood
Texas
American Federation of Musicians
Eagle Pass
Port Aransas
Waco
Corpus Christi
Eula Mae Deaver to ride in Peanut Festival Parade
Eula Mae Deaver, 94, will ride in a buggy on a flatbed trailer in Saturday's Peanut Festival Parade. She rode in the first parade in 1938, and her family recalls her Home Demonstration Club car. Deaver, now in Kerrville, stays active with sewing, volunteering, and family celebrations planned after the parade.
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Eula Mae Deaver
Deaver
Melvin Hughes
Frances Deaver Worley
Home
Charles Deaver
Floresville
Pleasanton Road
Worley
Senior Citizens Center
Charles, Jr
Maegene
Sharon Jackson
San Antonio
Denver
Peanut Festival 1938 Opens With Parade and Rodeo
Official program lists 1938 Peanut Festival events starting at 9:00 a.m. with a Floresville School Band concert on Courthouse Square, parade formation, exhibit halls, grand street parade, and opening by Judge Harry N. Graves. Activities include a threshing demonstration, rodeo by Akers & Sons, Valley Shows, carnival attractions, and a free street dance at Courthouse Square in the evening.
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Courthouse Square
Floresville
Texas
Harry N. Graves
Old Style Festival Opens With Rodeo Parade and Coronation
September events include livestock show, pet parade, and Pioneers Day at the courthouse. Judge Robert Lee Bobbitt delivers address The Old Pioneers. Fiddlers contest and old time music fill the day with a 2 PM rodeo and 8 PM coronation on the courthouse lawn. Night grand ball features Mack Rogers Orchestra.
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Robert Lee Bobbitt
Floresville Peanut Festival Parade Broadcast Planned
KWCB Radio will broadcast live from the Floresville Peanut Festival Parade on Saturday October 13 starting at 10 a.m. The event coverage features the station’s live reports as the parade proceeds through Floresville.
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Kwcb Radio
Floresville
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Pet and Children’s Parade
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Southwest
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District Court Room
Mack Rogers
Ron's Lock & Safe
Benny Cope Oil Company
Pam and
Homer Burkett
First Street
Bonham Radiator
Wayne Dodd Garbage Service
Trashbusters
Wilson County
Ichardson
Betty Ortmann Insurance Agency
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