Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Frances Binagia Choate, 98, of Vinton, passed away on June 1, at Resthaven Nursing Home in Lake Charles. Visitation will be from 4:00-8:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 4, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. A rosary will be recited at 6:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, June 5, at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Orange. Officiating will be Father Tom Phelan. Burial will follow at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Orange. Frances was born i...
Kenneth Eaves, 59, of Gist died Sunday, June 1, at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont. A native of Orange, he was a lifelong resident of Gist. Kenneth was a welder for Bethlehem Steel. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 am Wednesday, June 4, at Memorial Funeral Home of Vidor, with burial to follow at Eaves Cemetery in Gist. A gathering for family and friends will begin at 6:00 pm Tuesday, June 3, at Memorial Funeral Home. Kenneth is survived by his mother Rosalie Eaves of Gist;...
Officers from the Orange Police Department responded to the following calls between June 2, and the morning of June 3: Forgery of checks, 201 8th St. Traffic accident, 2400 16th St. Warrant service, 201 8th St. Warrant service, RR and Link Ave. Warrant service, Rein and Carpenter’s Pl....
The National Weather Service in Lake Charles is monitoring a weak low pressure area in the Bay of Campeche. A tropical depression off the southern coast of Mexico will merge with this feature later this week. The National Hurricane Center is showing low probabilities of this system developing later this week in the Bay of Campeche, but it will have no impact on the weather in southeast Texas, southwest, south central, and central Louisiana through the weeke...
Joseph Raymond Sharp, 68, of Orange passed away on Sunday, June 1, at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont. Joseph was a native and lifelong resident of Orange. He was born on March 5, 1946 to Willie Ena (Wooten) and George Willis Sharp. He served his country in the Army during the Vietnam War. Joseph was a process operator with Chevron for 32 years, and 10 years at Goodyear. Joseph enjoyed going fishing and hunting. He loved spending time with family. Joseph was a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend who...
Virginia D. “Ginny” Green, 76, of Orange, passed away on June 2, at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont. Funeral services will be at 3:00 p.m., Thursday, June 5, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Officiating will be the Rev. Scott McIntosh of North Orange Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Orange. Visitation will be from 5:00-8:00 p.m., Wednesday at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Born in Meade, Ks., on March 23, 1938, she was the daughter of Russell Dow Finnell and Ida Lucille Holdeman. Ginny mov...
On Friday night 189 students of the Bridge City Independent School District crossed the field in Larry Ward Stadium to the tune of ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ as the Class of 2014 came together for a final time for graduation. Mistress of Cermonies for the Class of 2014 was senior class president Kaitlyn Suzanna-Reinstra Louvier. Louvier introduced fellow classmates, Valedictorian Luke Anthony Placette and Salutatorian Sidney Jude Shubarth. The Moment of Dedication was off...
WE HONOR OUR WWII VETS Those weather folks on television are more often wrong than right. In all fairness, no one can predict southeast Texas weather for certain. At best, last week they got a D. Every day the forecast had from 80 percent to 30 percent coverage of three to five inches of rain. Very few drops fell and that worked out good for outdoor activities but because of the forecast, some functions were indoors. I believe they all get their info from the National Weather Bureau in Lake Charles and if one is wrong,...
Understand this about the writers in your life: you will appear in their work. We write about what we know. And if we know you, well, it’s fair game. Whether cloaked in fiction or outed in all your shame or glory through memoir, particulars of your relationship with your writer might eventually become a matter of public record. Consider yourself warned. In high school, I was required to take a speech class. This was equal parts good and bad. I loved writing speeches, but hated delivering them. Knowing fewer kids signed up f...
The city of Bridge City just got a little bigger after Tuesday night's city council meeting. The council approved a proposed annexation plan for the city that will extend two fingers toward the Rainbow Bridge, according to City Manager Jerry Jones. The new city limits will be where the Extra Territorial Jurisdiction now lies- to an island in the middle of the Sabine River near the Rainbow Bridge. A strip of land on FM 1442 will also be annexed. Jones said there's a total of 1,022 acres that can possibly be annexed by the...
After the month of April was in the record books, one thing about the 2014 major league baseball season seemed very evident—the Houston Astros were headed for still another 100-loss season. They weren’t hitting, the starting pitching was spotty and the relief pitching was as inconsistent as ever. And there was rumbling among some of the other general managers in the league that Houston’s general manager Jeff Luhnow wasn’t putting his most talented 25 players on the active roster just to secure those high draft picks that go t...
Derreashia Breaux Daughtery is not only an impressive athlete, she is an impressive teen. She stays focused on her goals and puts practicing and studying before anything else. She seems to have found the key that many never find, the key to success. Derreashia is a Senior at West Orange-Stark High School and has recently signed with Howard College in Big Spring, Texas on a Girl’s Basketball scholarship. Congratulations go out to her. She was in the fifth grade when she fell i...
The Greater Orange Area Chamber of Commerce celebrated the grand reopening of Shabby Chic Hair Boutique with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Shabby Chic is owned by Brittany and Dustin Yu. They recently moved their business from Strickland Drive to 314 Henrietta Street and have been overwhelmed with all the support from their family and customers. The salon offers varies types of hair services as well as nail services....
