Spill Bros. Firm in Winters Marks 50 Years of Service
Spill Bros. & Co., one of Winters earliest businesses, traces its origins to 1905 with Albert Spill and expanded with family members through the years. The firm grew into a large furniture and funeral service operation, remodeling and enlarging facilities to serve the West Texas town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Spill
John Gardner
Merrick
Bendena Deschamps
Ben Spill
C. B. Spill
Casa Grande
Ariz
Anderson to Speak to Farm Bureau on Blue Cross plan
Kenneth Anderson of the San Angelo Blue Cross-Blue Shield office will address the Farm Bureau on January thirteen at 7 30 p m in the District Court room Ballinger. He will discuss the Blue Cross-Blue Shield plan and an added five thousand dollar Cancer Polio and nine other dread disease endorsement. All Farm Bureau policy holders and anyone interested in Blue Cross are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Anderson
San Angelo
Blue Cross-Blue Shield
Farm Bureau Group
Ballinger
Anderson
Farm Bureau
Blue Cross
Truett Jones Joins Spill Funeral Staff In Winters
Truett Jones began work at Spill Funeral Home in 1952 after three years with Spill Bros. & Co. He came to Winters from Cross Plains, previously with an Abilene mortuary, and is a Dallas School of Mortuary Science graduate of 1934. He and his family, Merkel natives, are active in church and civic life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Jones
Dallas School of Mortuary Science
First Baptist Church
Masonic Lodge
Winters School
Jerry
Mrs. Jones
Merkel
Funeral Held for Rom Carter Former Pumphrey Resident
Mrs. W. P. Lloyd Ralph Lloyd and Mr and Mrs George Lloyd attended the funeral in Bryan for Rom Carter who died in Phoenix Arizona. Carter was a former resident of the Pumphrey community with additional attendees including Mr and Mrs Earl Buchanan of Denver Colorado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. P. Lloyd
Ralph Lloyd
George Lloyd
Bryan
Rom Carter
Phoenix
Ariz
Pumphrey
Earl Buchanan
Denver
Colo
Memorial Chapel Honors Founders of Spill Bros. in Winters
The Spill Memorial Chapel celebrates Albert Spill founder of one of Winters first business institutions begun in 1905 and his brother Ben who joined in 1906 forming Spill Bros. & Company. The piece recalls their 30 and 41 years in the mercantile and undertaking firms and their local ties in Runnels County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spill Bros
Winters
Albert Spill
Ben Spill
Spill Bros. & Company
Spill
South Main Street
Runnels County
Ben
Seguin
Texas
Claudia Hunter
Clara Voelker
Hatchel
Lutheran Band to Present Mid-Winter Concert at Seguin
Walter Thormeyer of Seguin and 57 fellow Texas Lutheran College band members will perform a mid winter concert on January 7 in the memorial gymnasium. It marks the band’s second formal appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Thormeyer
E. E. Thormeyer
Texas Lutheran College
Seguin
Memorial Gymnasium
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ben Spills
Albert ‘Afflerbach
Emma
Ernest Adams
Undertellng Busi
Truett Jones
Spill Funeral Home
Albert J. Spill
Eileen
Lutheran
Winters, Texas
Spill Furniture Co
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