Sheila's Potpourri
Sheila Scogin

Melva Wi1jj called and is excited about the Brush Arbor Meeting Highway Baptist Church will have later this month The meeting will be preaching Sunday night March 30 by Bro. Lamar Denby; Monday night March 31 Bro. Adrean Neal will bring the service .and Tuesday, April 1 preaching will be by Era. Keith Rose. Each service will begin at 7 p.m.

You are invited to the meeting each night which will be held across the street from the church which is on the corner of Main and south 1669.

Longtime friend E.B. Berry usually calls Beamon on his birthday with good wishes but he surprised us this year when he came for a visit. They drove for years for Keller and for Texas Foundries. E.B. shares the same week with Beamon when they advance in age.

Just a few of the March birthday people are Bob Forrest, Dee Russell and his daughter Syble Mangrum, Todd Swearingen, Trent Loper, Cody Massey, Sharon Berry, Jordon Young, Lane Lowery, Sarah Harris, Brandi Reid Lankford, Reba Clark and son Frank Clark and granddaughter Jill Young. Patsy Doran Crawford of Lewisville shares the same day as Beamon and his son Tim Scoggin of Colorado.

Sue Bridges was happy to get home after a visit to South Carolina with her son Tracy and his wife Nancy. Many times through the years when Wyman Bridges was a pilot in the Air Force Sue and their sons Tracy and Steve flew to base housing and she found a few differences in flying today and then.

This area lost a good friend when Chester Treadaway passed away. Keith Swearingen grew up down the Street from Chester and Miriam and he and their son David were the best of friends. He said he never knew whether he belonged at the Treadaway house or with his own parents Bill and the late Eleanor Swearingen. Keith had eaten many fantastic meals at his friend's table and no doubt most of. the food was cooked by Chester.

Back in 1984 I wrote a feature article about Chester and his luscious pies. He made two of those pies the day we went to Diboll to have his picture made for the article. The Free Press crew was certainly pleased to see the desserts. From being a butcher in the Ewing commissary Chester became a cook and baker when WW11 put him in the Navy. There were about 2500 sailors who needed three meals a day.

Never having baked a turkey he quickly learned how to bake lots of turkeys to fill hungry bellies. The number one preference of pies by the men on ship was lemon meringue with second choice of chocolate.

After that stint Chester spent 35 years as a salesman for Texas Farm Products. Retirement should have brought boredom but not for "the pie man". There's no way of knowing how much money he raised with all the good food he cooked for the Huntington Football Program, Mc- Mullen Memorial Library, Huntington City Park, our homecomings and scholarships for students in Lufkin High School. Chester will not only be missed by his family but by many friends. He stepped up to his stove many times to help make our area a better place to live.

Randy finally received his copy of this paper that had the item about 8.3. Brown seeing him at a cook-off and asking Randy if was from Texas and if he could remember Hank and Juanita Huggins and the Double H Band on KTRE long years ago. He sent B.J. the item from the paper and he called Randy so excited because I had written about him and East Texas; B. J. was from Livingston. B.J. is a deputy in the sheriff 's department and lives in Gallatin, Tennessee. You never know where you might find a Texan.

It was pleasing to see so many boys winning in the food categories in the recent County Show and also in the Huntington UIL contests. Boys and girls need to learn how to cook plus clean house, wash dishes and other domestic chores. If and when they leave home, many of those jobs will slap them in the face. Congratulations to all who entered any of the competitions.