Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Sierra Roberts ended her final day on the job the way she began her first. She was holding up a cell phone so a family could say their final goodbyes to a dying patient. Roberts, a Bridge City High School grad and Registered Nurse for Beaumont's Baptist Hospital, just returned to Texas after spending 21 straight days working 12-hour shifts at New York City's Coney Island Hospital. New York City has been the nation's No. 1 hotspot for the coronavirus and the deadly Covid-19...
Sharon Piggott Segura, 69, of Bridge City, passed away at home peacefully on May 13, 2020. Funeral services will be 11:30 a.m., Saturday, May 16, 2020, at First Baptist Church in Bridge City. Officiating will be Reverend Keith Royal. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Orange. Everyone is welcome in joining the family as they remember the beautiful life of Sharon. Visitation will begin at 10:00 a.m., prior to the service, at First Baptist Church in Bridge City....
Very seldom, if ever, will you run into anyone who doesn't like it when everything happens just right. Fishermen especially love it when they plan for a day on the water and everything from the weather to the fish ends up working in their favor. On occasion those types of trips happen and they help to erase the memory of the bad ones from the past. For many of the folks who fish with me the hope of catching just the right day is a high priority, especially the ones that...
John Montagne, Jr., left, and Walter Mullins III take their oath of service as Orange port commissioners from board attorney Scot Sheldon. The Orange County Navigation and Port District swore in two new board members Monday and they weren't exactly rookies. Walter Mullins III, was a four-term port commissioner toward the end of the 20th century and John Montagne, Jr. joined the board a couple of years ago, to fill an unexpired vacancy. Both filed to run unopposed for seats on...
Orange County Commissioners voted to accept the resignation of Precinct 2 Constable Mark Jones, effective June 1, and named Jeremiah Gunter his replacement. Jones did not stand for re-election and Gunter was the only candidate for the job to run in March's primaries. Also, commissioners voted extend the county's disaster declaration for the coronavirus pandemic for another 30 days – through June 9 – at Tuesday's bi-monthly meeting. The purpose for maintaining the dec...
Daylight comes and the three cats and birds have been fed. One cat is not only a cat; he's a Manx, the only Manx kitten that survived Hurricane Ike. All the others didn't make it. His name is Bobby Stagg, but we call him the "Old Man." The Stagg family, our neighbors, raised him but he moved to our place a couple of years ago. He's showing his age, arthritis, etc. Anyway, for most of my life daylight would have found me at work. I would have picked up the daily papers, had a...
While I certainly won't mention any names as they don't need some fool publishing a list of temporarily unoccupied residences, it is amazing the number of folks that are now spending more time at their lake homes than their permanent residences. They just won't come home and I don't blame them! I know of one couple that has spent more time at their camp on T-Bend over the past two months than they did in the past ten years.Robert and Beverly Connor left home as well, but took...
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred made a last-ditch effort to save the 2020 MLB season early this week by presenting a blueprint during a conference call Monday with the league's 30 owners, according to an article that appeared in Monday's edition of the Houston Chronicle. A return to play proposal would be given to the Players Association as early as yesterday, despite the situation still being characterized as extremely fluid, with several hurdles to overcome....
Donald Jeansonne, 96, of Bridge City, Texas, passed away on May 10, 2020 at his home surrounded by family. Private family services will be under the direction of Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Don was born in Plaucheville, Louisiana on February 28, 1924. He was the son of Adras and Carrie Jeansonne. He served in the Marine Corps in San Francisco, California and was a World War II veteran. Don married Helen Jackson on March 22, 1946. They were married for 68 years and raised...
Grace Marie (Hall) Guillot was born on January 15, 1945 in Anahuac, Texas and passed away on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at 10:30 p.m. She grew up in Anahuac and enjoyed a very happy family life with her parents and two brothers. Grace was a 1963 graduate of Anahuac High School where she was considered popular and was voted Miss Anahuac High School, Class Favorite, Student Council Member, Class Officer and was a member of The National Honor Society. She was active in numerous...
Helen was born on February 7, 1940 in Beeville, Texas to Edwin and Velma Staples Kossa, and passed away at home in Manvel, Texas with her family on May 9, 2020. She graduated from Liberty High School in 1957, married Donald Droll in 1958 and moved to Orange in 1961, where she raised her four children. Helen went on to earn her Associate and Bachelor degrees from Lamar University. She was a certified Leisure Professional, a Texas Parks and Recreations Society Professional and...
In a year when tradition has taken a turn upside down, Orangefield schools are still trying to decide when they'll hold high school graduation. Truthfully, every school district is. But in the Age of Covid-19 everything is tentative. "We had scheduled ours for May 22, but we can't do it then. That's not in the governor's window," Shaun McAlpin, Orangefield superintendent, said. Last Tuesday, May 5, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued guidelines for how high schools can hold actual...
Ding dong, the Covid's dead. One can hope. Orange County Judge John Gothia reported some big news Tuesday on the back of a similar announcement by Orange Mayor Larry Spears, Jr. And Bridge City could, too. "This is our fifth day of no new cases at all," Gothia told Commissioners' Court in a discussion of the coming shutdown of the six-county Southeast Texas Regional authority formed in mid-March to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. At a city council meeting held earlier...
Since the coronavirus pandemic has forced social distancing many Orange County residents have been doing more projects around the house and spending more time in their gardens. They have also been spending more time outdoors, on the whole, getting more exercise and enjoying the fresh air, especially during one of the most beautiful springs our area has seen in years. Cow Bayou in Bridge City is a great example. It offers residents the opportunity to get out on the water and...
