The 2007 Lufkin High School Band Reunion will be all day June 30 at the Lufkin Middle School Band Hall, and the concert will be that night at Carpenter's Way Baptist Church. Registration and horn check-out will be Friday, June 29, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Middle School Band Hall, and the day begins Saturday at 8 a.m. Band alumni from the 1930s all the way to this year's graduating class will come together for a day of fun and remininising. For more information, email Ernie Murray at LufkinBandReunion@yahoo.com.
Descendants of Andrew Jackson Jumper and Margaret McVay Jumper totaled 37 at the pavilion at Grace Dunn Richardson Park in Lufkin on Sunday, June 3, 2007. Norris Joe Dunn led prayer and mentioned several family members with medical problems. Just as dinner was served, 60mphwinds blew through and the temperature dropped 22 degrees. After the storm blew by, they enjoyed the great food, even though Patsy Jumper Hines was late with the dumplings. A business meeting followed. Everyone signed a card for Minnie Lee Jumper Skelton who was unable to attend on her 96th birthday. They visited, played badminton and basketball and took and looked at photos into the late afternoon. Frances Parks Farquhar and family from the Brenham area won the Jumper plaque for having the most family members in attendance.
The families representing Josephine Jumper Hibbard were: Marilyn and Jim Fulton. Representing the Helen Jumper Jumper Brausell family were: Karen Jumper and Shelly Jumper. Representing the Ola Jumper Parks family were: Donna Sue Parks and Earl Wayne Rhodes; Amy Goodwin; Khaled, Malek and Tarek Zaher; Kingston Goodwin; and Robert Bode. Representing the Charlie Walker Jumper family were: Bob and Betty Jumper; Edith Jumper; Phil Jumper; Alvin Anderson; Chuck Hines; Tommy and Patsy Jumper Hines. Representing the Ollie Jumper Parks family were: L.D. "Jack" and Frances L. Parks Farquhar; Doug and Pam Ballew Farquhar; John Douglas, Randi and Ethan Farquhar; Kay Donna and Bob Boling; Avery Layne Ward; Joel Lansing and Jennifer Farquhar; Chelsea Lanell Farquhar. Representing the Dee Jumper family were: Belinda Jumper Ross; Joe and Joyce Jumper Dunn; and Sarah Dunn.
The 11-year-old select baseball team the Texas Tide is playing a 50-inning baseball game on June 23 at their practice field on Farm Road 58. The team is going to Panama City, Fla. on June 30 to the Grand Slam World Series. The 50-inning game, starting at 10 a.m., is to help raise money for trip. Jennifer Cumbie is coaching one team and Kym Boozer from Nacogdoches is the other coach. All of the parents and siblings of the players are expected to play. Players get people to sponsor them per inning played or give a donation. Gentry Ford came by my house and I sponsored him. The players on the team going to Fla. are: Gage Belrose from Joaquin; Will Boozer, Brigham Hill and Kaleb Kirk from Nacogdoches; Justin Twine from Hemphill; Eric Dejesus from Diboll; Trey Cumbie, Gentry Ford, Mason McCarty, Cort McPherson, A.B. Rosales and Britton Stovall from Lufkin. Coaches: Rusty Ford - Lufkin; Beto Dejesus - Diboll; Brian McCarty - Lufkin; and Drew Stovall - Lufkin.
Blake Ford, son of Rusty and Amy Ford, is playing baseball in Topeka, KS this summer for the Golden Giants in the College Summer Mink League. He should be back sometime mid July. Blake attends North East Texas Community College in Mount Pleasant and will be a sophomore in the fall.
Amy Ford passed the Nuclear Registry exam in April that she had studied for a year before taking it. She is at Memorial Health Systems of East Texas.
Al Vinson sent me an email from Murphy Martin who had been in Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas for 8 days with chest congestion and a mild heart attack. He is home and trying to respond to his multitude of emails. Get to feeling better soon.
Thanks Texas Highway Department for mowing the right of way around the loop.
Mike Capps called me that his boss Francine Tieperman found a picture of the Junior High Letterman in 1951 at a garage sale. He thought I could identify them. I did know all but three, and my classmates came through and identified those.
Ellen Trout Zoo will celebrate its 40 th birthday on Saturday, June 16. Since 1967, the zoo has grown and has had over 3 million people to visit. Mr. Walter Trout's Christmas present of "Hippy" the Nile Hippopotamus in 1965 sparked the idea of the zoo. Today the zoo exhibits three Nile Hippos in the only Hippoquarium in the south between San Diego and central Florida. Thanks to the Trout Family for this wonderful spot for our community. It has taken many hours from concerned civic groups and the zoo personnel to make this the success that it is today.
I have a "health watch" tip. I was in the dentist's office a couple of weeks ago, and the hygienist was checking my medicines. I said Fosamax and she said that it affects the jaw and leads to bone decay. I asked Dr. Art Jordan later about it, and he said that the benefits of Fosamax for osteoporosis outweighed the bad side effects, but you need to tell your dentist if you are taking Fosamax so that they will be alerted that you can not have a tooth extracted.
Bill Trout brought me a picture that had my mother in it when she was teaching at Central Ward. It had his sister Mildred Trout in it. Now I am trying to remember what grade she taught. Harold Newsom found himself in the picture, so if you had my mother, Annie Jewel Mantooth Royle, as your teacher, let me know and we will see if you are in the picture.
Tommie Dean, Joyce Gray's mother, had a sneak peek at Don and Nancy Reily's Old Ivory dishes.
Charles and Beverly Kent's daughter, Amy Kent Gilbert, had surgery for breast cancer and writes in a journal on caringbridge.org/visit/amygilbert. She starts her chemo this week. She is in our prayers.
Happy Birthday: Brigettee Henderson, Brett McDaniel, Andrew Polk, Kevin Pope, Katy Arnold, Walter Lee Hill, Linda Mount, Terry Haney, Jacob Rhodes, Kimberlin Arnold, Will Griffin, Gwen Forrest Reynolds, Anita Jackson, Craig Teer, Linda Poland, Steve New, Bill Trout, Bettie Powell, John Ippolito, Loucille and "Sister" Henderson.
Happy Anniversary: Tommy and Patsy Hines, Dorothy and George Temple, Bonnie and Charles Robinson, Jim and Mary Ann Mewbourn, Sally and Keith Hanks, Kathy and David Burris, Taylor and Theresa McKewen, Dennis and Patsy Hopper, Wyatt and Sandra Leinart. Joyce and Glenn Wallace celebrated their 30th anniversary on June 10.
Susan Hicks Spencer is teaching summer school for the elementary grades at LHS this summer. She said that her mother Katherine Hicks had a cyst removed in minor eye lid surgery and her dad Bob Hicks was doing good. Katherine also is having rehab on her arm that was broken.
Sarah Austin, Don and Betty Lawrence, Karen and Todd Foley were having a small family reunion at Crown Colony one night last week.
Ward Burke and his assistant Ashley Sayers were enjoying the seafood buffet at the Crown Colony Grille.
I stopped by Linda Poland's Harmonies and saw Sarah Cheavens and Janis Stewart. Linda had help from granddaughter Claire McCusker. Sarah told me that son David Lindsey is in Plano and son Meredith is in Fairfield, where the peaches are wonderful. Sarah had just bought the tile mosaic by Lynn Courtney and Mark DeLaney entitled "Timberland Drive". I had to go next door to the First Street Arts Center and see these tile mosaics depicting the first week of integration in Lufkin after the signing of the Civil Rights Act. The "Timberland Drive" one had Read's Broilburger, Sadler's Smokehouse, Sharkey's Market, Sun 'n Pines, a Sinclair sign and an old car. Others were on display and were very unusual. Some artists that I knew with work exhibited were: Jetta Koch Westerholm, Florence Koch, Joey Koch, Margie Baker, Amos Lewis, Pablo Torres, Denise Stringer Davis, Joyce Renfrow, Floyd Marsellos, Joe Lowery, Melissa Ellington, Sarah Wallace, Barbara DuPree and Jeanelle McCall. There were others but names were not familiar to me. We have a talented community, and it shows there at the First Street Arts Center in downtown Lufkin.
Laverne Ferguson at Laverne's Farm Market has all of the fresh vegetables that you might want. I have had fresh green beans, new potatoes, squash, noonday onions, tomatoes, shelled pinto beans just to name a few. She has green tomatoes, okra, burpless cucumbers, plums, peaches, and watermelon. I tried a jar of Mrs. Renfro's green tomato pickles and they are wonderful.
Meggan Jones became the bride of Christopher Thompson on Saturday with her mother Jonna Jones walking her down the aisle and giving her away. I had a tear in my eye as did so many when we saw these two special people. The Rev. Douglas Tucker laughed when the best man dropped the rings and said something like "If the wedding is perfect, we have nothing to talk about after the ceremony". It was a special evening and we wish them the best. Then I find out that as the limousine was turning into Wisteria Hide-A-Way B & B with the newly weds after the reception, it was hit by a pick up and Meggan and Christopher were trapped in the back of the limo and had to crawl through the window up front. They were taken by ambulance to the hospital. The ER people said they had never treated a bride in her wedding dress. Needless to say they are bruised and ready for a rest on their honeymoon. More stories to remember this special event.
Bill Dobrec came home from the TLC (Trans Learning Center) in Galveston on Friday. Bill had a stroke on January 27 and went from Memorial Health Systems in Lufkin to TLC in Galveston on March 15. Friends have been wonderful and the continued prayers are working. Bill will be going to Wilson McKewen Treatment Center for more physical, occupational and speech therapy. He even scrambled his own eggs for breakfast and only has a brace on his leg. Val Dobrec will be working from home for Morgan Insurance Agency and said they are welcoming company, but she is not going to stop what she is doing and greet you at the back door: "knock and come on in".
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