Willow Springs News

New Pastor And Family Move In Parsonage Here

By Lorna Newman
Jan 17 1956
Mrs. P. F. Trammell has been brought home from Wolfe-Duphorne Hospital where she received treatment for pneumonia. She is doing fairly well but has a severe cough and will be confined to her home for sometime.
Numerous others in the community are having severe colds, sinus trouble and related ills. Mrs. Andy Fuller is one who is on the list.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Trammell and children and Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Boyd visited Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Boyd of Dallas last week. Mrs. Boyd who has been hospitalized for weeks with a back injury had been taken to her home for a short while but was back in the hospital suffering with flu.
Sunday school and church attendance continue to improve with 91 in Sunday School and more than a hundred for church last Sunday. The pastor, Brother Cantrell, and his wife and son will move into the parsonage on Friday of this week. The son, Jimmy will enter Athens High School.
Mrs. Berti Trammell spent Friday and Saturday with Mrs. R. J. Trammell at Cross Roads.
Mrs. Lillian Boyd and her father, Henry Welch, visited Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Boyd last week.
Miss Edith Hines of Athens was a recent visitor in the home of her sister, Mrs. Byron Russell, and Mr. Russell. The Russells went to Mt. Pleasant a while back to visit her brother, Ted Hines, and family. The Ted Hines' are moving near Dallas where they have purchased a tourist court and cafe which they will begin operating at an early date.
Word has been received here that Mr. and Mrs. Alton Trammell who have been in West Texas since early fall, will return home in about two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Simmons had several of their children home last week end.
Irvin Mills, Sr. was able to attend church Sunday for the first time in quite a while. He and Mrs. Mills also had their children home for a visit recently.
Mrs. Taylor Stone of Kaufman visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Boyd this past week.
A group of women from this community are enrolling for the Red Cross Home Nursing course being taught in Athens.
Farmers are clearing fields and doing some plowing. We notice those who are burning weeds and trash are using every precaution to prevent spread of fire to pastures.

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