PERSONALS AND OTHER ITEMS OF NEWS - Coke County TX - June 1960 Contributed by Jo Collier April 10,2006 *********************************************************************** The Observer, Robert Lee, Coke County, TX - June 23, 1960 SILVER NEWS Mr. and Mrs. GARY WHEELER left Tuesday on a vacation trip to Pensacola, FLa., where they will visit their brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. EDDIE GOTHARD. JOHN D. MUNFORD returned to his home in Tubb Camp Saturday from San Angelo where he submitted to surgery early in the week. Mr. and Mrs. BOB EDWARDS and daughters, Twila and Carroll, are enjoying a week's vacation at Henderson and other points in East Texas. ROSS CONE and family have returned from a two weeks' vacation in New Mexico and Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. JAMES C. FURR took their son, David, to Dallas last week and on Friday he underwent additional surgery at Scottish Rite Childrens Hospital. The recent operation was to correct a foot ailment. David, 7 years old, was crippled by polio when a small child. He has been helped greatly at the Dallas hospital. He attended the Silver school the past year and proved himself an excellent scholar. He walks with the aid of braces. L. K. MCKINNON is on vacation from his work at Sun Pipeline Co. He and Mrs. McKinnon are moving to Colorado City where they purchased a home. Rev. and Mrs. ALLEN CARTRITE and family are on vacation for a couple of weeks and will visit relatives in the Texas Panhandle and other points. Rev. RAY SPARKS preached at the Baptist Church last Sunday and a supply pastor will be present next Sunday. MELVIN HAIGOOD and son, DANNY, came from Premont for a weekend visit in the parental C. M. HAIGOOD home. Melvin's mother accompanied them to South Texas. She will visit her sister, Capt. FRANCES MCKINNEY at San Antonio, her son, ELVIN and his family at Rockport and with her brother, ROY TRACEY, at Alice. JEFFREY CHASE of Midland began work Monday as a summer roust-about for Sun production department. He is a recent high school graduate and will enroll next year at SMU in Dallas. UNION TEXAS NATURAL CAMP Mr. and Mrs. JAMES DEEN and little daughters returned his mother, Mrs. TOMMY DEEN to Gainesville, this weekend. Mrs. Deen had spent the past week with them. Mr. and Mrs. GLENN PARKER and family are spending a few days at Elkhart with her parents. Everyone out here extends their sympathy to the HEARN family, due to the loss of their loved one, J. L. HEARN. Mrs. and Mrs. HOMER BURWELL from Odessa are visiting their daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. MERTON DONLEY and MARY ALICE this weekend. Mr. and Mrs. GRIFF POWELL have returned home after spending one week visiting different points in Louisiana. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. WEATHERBEE made a trip to Rush Springs, Oklahoma this weekend to return his wife and children back home with him. They have spent the past two weeks visiting Mrs. WEATHERBEE's mother at Rush Springs. PERSONALS Mr and Mrs. FRED SMITH and sons have gone to Abilene for a summer stay while Mr. Smith is engaged in a highway brdige building project. They have an apartment at 1234 Anson Avenue. Mrs. J. E. QUISENBERRY, JR. returned to her home here Saturday from a San Angelo hospital where she recently underwent major surgery. Her condition is very satisfactory. Mrs. GEORGIA TURNER arrived Saturday from El Paso for a visit with her parents, Commissioner and Mrs. ED HICKMAN, and her sisters, Mrs. C. W. TRIMBLE and Mrs. R. H. RICHARDS. Mrs. TURNER will remain until after the HICKMAN family reunion over the 4th of July weekend. JOHNNY HICKMAN and his family of Levelland were also here over the past week-end, returning to their home Tuesday. HERVEY LATHAM returned early Tuesday to his summer studies at Texas Tech. He became ill at Lubbock last Friday and came home and went to the hospital for a few days. JAKE TUBB was admitted Monday to Veterans Hospital in Big Spring where he will undego examination and treatment. He entered Coke County Memorial Hospital last Thursday and indications were that he has a heart condition and other ailments. (The following were intended for last week) BILL LEDBETTER is a Midland this summer where he is employed by his uncle, H. L. LEDBETTER, a carpenter contractor. Mr. and Mrs. PETE DAVIS made a business trip to Killeen Monday and remained there over night. They stopped for a short visit with J. O. GREER at Copperas Cove. JERRY DALE SPARKS was a patient a few days last week in the Bronte hospital. She has returned to her home and is much improved. FAGAN PARKER and family and Mr. and Mrs. LENN ROBERTS left Tuesday of last week on a vacation trip to Idaho, California and other western states. Mr. and Mrs. DOUGLAS WAID returned recently from a week's vacation trip to Jasper, Ala., where they visited their parents. ATHA HALL is on leave from the army and is visiting kinfolks in Robert Lee and Midland. He is stationed at Ft. Lewis, Wash., with the Signal Corps. JO CLAWSON was promoted to assistant cashier by directors of the Robert Lee State Bank in their monthly meeting Tuesday. DON WEATHERS is employed this summer in the Salvato drug store at 29th and North Chadbourne in San Angelo. His mother, a registered pharmacist, owns the store with her husband. Don is a recent Robert Lee high school graduate and will attend McMurry College next year. Mr. and Mrs. LEWIS HEUVEL and daughters left Sunday for a visit with kinfolks at Brenham and other South Texas points. Mr. HEUVEL, a Sun pumper in the Millican field, is taking a three weeks' vacation. CHARLES MCDANIEL flew solo from Houston to San Angelo over the weekend and came on to Robert Lee to visit his parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. D. McDaniel. He is just about to complete his training for a pilot license. Charles is employed as a chemist for Shell Oil Co. and his wife is working in one of the big hospitals as a registered nurse. FREDDIE MCDANIEL will return to Hardin-Simmons University for summer work. He has completed his sophomore year. SAM ED SKIPWORTH recently won second in the state archery contest in Austin. He was sponsored by Bateman sporting goods store in San Angelo. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Skipworth, Sam Ed now resides in San Angelo. He attended San Angelo College the past year and has summer employment with the Bright air conditioning firm. Mr. and Mrs. DEE WALKER returned home over the weekend after visiting two weeks with their daughters and families at Amarillo, Lubbock and Big Spring. LINDA HARDIN, 9-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. BILL HARDIN of Amarillo, came home with her grandparents and will spend some time with them and the D. J. and RALPH WALKER families. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. BILBO left Thursday for Long Beach, Calif., where they will visit the former's twin brother, ALVIE, and family. Over the previous week-end Mrs. J. Q. BARNES of Hatch, N. Mex., had been a guest in the BILBO home. TOMMY WILLIAMS and family recently moved from Turkey to Stanton where the former is minister at the Church of Christ. In renewing her subscription, Mrs. AUGUSTA PUETT of Solomon, Ariz., says she don't want to miss a copy of The Observer. Mrs. JOHN ALLEN recently went to Corsicana where she is visiting a sister. PATRICIA DAVIS of Ballinger is a guest in the home of her aunt, Mrs. CORTEZ RUSSELL. *************************** Permission granted by The Observer/Enterprise for publication in the Coke County TXGenWeb and/or the Coke County Archives of the USGenWeb. Copyright. All rights reserved.