Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Doris Christian, 79, of Houston, passed away Monday, July 7, 2008. Service were July 12 from First Baptist Church of Mauriceville. The Revs. Johnny Brady and Kevin Brown officiated. Interment was in Kirbyville City Cemetery. Born in Mauriceville on Aug. 9, 1928, to Grady Prentis and Silsbee Ora Warrell Tillery, she was a member of First Baptist Church of Mauriceville and retired from Channelview ISD after 25 years. Doris also attended Fellowship of the Nations in Houston. She...
Walter Lewis Potter, 61, of Fort Worth, formerly of Orange, passed away, Wednesday, July 9, 2008, in Kindred Hospital in Fort Worth. A Mass of Christian Burial was July 12 in St. Mary Catholic Church in Orange. The Rev. Joseph P. Daleo officiated. Interment was in St. Mary Catholic Cemetery. Born Feb. 14, 1947, to Samuel Raymond and Dorothy Ada (Stewart) Potter, he was preceded in death by his parents and sister Jeanette Potter Cunningham. He is survived by his wife, Mary Verrett Potter; sons, Brian Lewis Potter, Daniel...
My friends Tommie and Paul brought me this recipe from Stephanie Ashcraft of Colorado. It is always good to get new recipes. I still have several who are going to send me one...one of these days. I could write another cook book if everyone that said they would send me a recipe did. Most of my readers want those recipes that people have used for years that were handed down through the years from kinfolk. This recipe put a new wrinkle on my brain. It is an old recipe in a different angle. German Chocolate is one of my...
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY HELEN DUMESNIL July 5, 1946 ~ August 31, 2007 From C.J., Virginia, Gloria, Jimmy & Bruce 8 grandkids & 10 great-grandkids...
Happy 8th. Birthday Tayler Weaver Love Ya Lots Memaw...
Darren and Brigitte Boullion would like to announce the engagement of their daughter Sarah Boullion to Joshua Bearden. They will be married on Aug. 30, 2008 at the River of Life Worship Center in Vidor, Texas. Sarah is a 2006 graduate of Orangefield and is employed by Academy in Beaumont. Josh is a 2006 graduate of Orangefield and is in the United States Army Stationed in Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, N.C....
Mr. and Mrs. Boyce K. Stephenson Jr., of Orange, Texas, are pleaded to announce the engagement of their daughter Sarah A. Stephenson to Marco A. Villasana of Beaumont, Texas. Marco is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jose M. Villasana Sr. of Hamshire, Texas. Sarah is a 1999 graduate of Bridge City High School and a 2004 graduate of Lamar University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and is a teacher for Beaumont Independent School District. Marco is a 1995 g...
Joe and Laura Dougharty and Tammy and Wayne LaVergne of Orange are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Elisa Dougharty Watts to Jeffrey Jack Moye, son of Walter and Kathleen Moye of Sour Lake and Vickie and Don Goetsell of Beaumont. Elisa is 1999 graduate of Little Cypress Mauriceville High School and a 2005 graduate of Lamar University she holds a Bachelor of Business in Marketing and is employed by Automatic Data Processing in Houston. Jeff is a 1998...
Program Recognizes Rising Costs; Benefits Low-Income, Those With Special Health Care Needs With rising energy prices dramatically impacting electric utility customers across the nation and in Southeast Texas, Entergy Texas, Inc. officials this year are once again making a deferred payment program available to qualified customers to help them manage high summer bills. “High prices are hitting us all especially hard this summer, a time when electric bills go up anyway because of cooling costs,” noted Vernon Pierce, Ent...
There’s an oak tree at 7001 Windmill Lane. A very nice one, actually. I know this because I live next door at 7005, and look at that tree more than anyone else in this world. It’s out by the driveport, green and rich and pretty. The folks who live there, my neighbors, never get time to see it. Alvin works at one of the industrial plants. Sheila is a nurse somewhere. I used to be back in that corporate world, never thinking I’d be semi-retired at 46. But here I am, with the cards on the table facing up. This particular tree...
More often than I care to admit it the front porch on my house looks like a delivery spot for the big brown truck and the UPS guys know my whole family by name. I scooped up a small box not long ago that had been sent from the good folks at Century Boat Company and sat down to check the contents. Inside I found a letter and shirt, no big deal I thought until I read the letter and understood the writing on the shirt. In the letter was a description and explanation of a fishing...
Last season our Dallas Cowboys knew they had the makings of a pretty darned good NFL football team. And they backed that feeling up with some impressive victories during the first half of the 2007 campaign. The Pokes continued the onslaught of big wins as the weather got colder, winning the NFC East Division and finishing the regular season with a dazzling 13-3 record and were seeded No. 1 in the NFC playoffs with the home field advantage throughout the playoffs and a first-round bye. Of course the reality of the situation is...
Friday and Saturday night, July 18 and 19, will continue the tradition of rodeo in Orange County that is over 50 years old. The Orange County Sheriff’s Posse will be presenting its’ annual rodeo in the arena on Highway 105. This year’s rodeo is dedicated to the memory of Warren “Dub” Stine, a former Posse president. Stine died in March at 69, having worked at the Orange Rice Mill for many years. He also farmed and ranched in Texarkana, Ark., and was employed with Choupique Ent...
After a month of fishing more live bait than I have fished in the past five years, I have found that little has changed as far as public perception of the technique. The general lack of respect exhibited by not only the purists, but fellow live bait fishermen as well is difficult to understand. The folks crowded around the cleaning table are usually quick to offer congratulations until the angler says that he or she caught their fish on live bait. At that point, the catch is filed away in the “Aw, any one can catch fish on l...
A pilot from Beaumont has been hired to helm Orange County’s Cessna Ag Wagon to spray for mosquitoes and serve as the craft’s mechanic. Patrick Borke (pronounced Burke) is an experienced pilot who will help officials map out the plane’s selected routes, Mosquito Control Director Patrick Beebe told county commissioners Monday. Borke will also assist in ground surveillance to determine active areas. “Those numbers tell us where we need to go and where we need to be,” Beebe said. The mosquito control office still needs to select...
An area grandmother says her grandchildren were sexually assaulted at Heaven’s Serenity House, 1207 W. Park Ave. in Orange. Beth Louviere reports her three grandchildren aged 3, 4, and 6 were molested by an underage person at the shelter. “There have been three counts filed with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office,” according to Louviere. “The papers were taken there by Sgt. Davis of the Orange Police Department Friday and I am told the office [reviewed them Mond...
WHATEVER WILL BE WILL BE Next Sunday, July 20, will mark 39 years since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon with the words, “The Eagle has landed” and “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” That was a proud moment for every American. Anyone today who was five or older then still recalls that event and where they were at the time. In 1961, new President John F. Kennedy directed that the U.S. would reach the moon in this decade and so we did, in 1969. If we ever get a president with the same dedication, not one...
By the end of 2008, Levingston Shipyard, recalled by many as helping “ ... put Orange on the map,” may soon have a historical marker at the corner of Green Avenue and Simmons Drive. According to historian Dr. Howard Williams, the Orange County Historical Commission has applied to the Texas Historical Commission to dedicate a marker for Levingston. If that happens, it will join markers noting the Riverside Housing Addition and USS Aulick (the first combatant ship built in Tex...
In the glory days of the oil industry in Southeast Texas the oil tycoons had “toys” that equaled those of any potentate anywhere in the world.The two largest refineries in the world were located in Port Arthur; one belonged to Gulf and one to Texaco. Both companies had started after oil was discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont. The headquarters for both companies were in the area and there were investors from all over the United States coming to Port Arthur to view the...
July 16 marks the 39th anniversary of the liftoff of the first moon-landing in 1969. Cmdr. Neil A. Armstrong, command module pilot Michael Collins and lunar module pilot Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. boarded Apollo 11 and made history as man stepped on the moon four days later. It was the fulfillment of President John F. Kennedy’s goal of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” by the end of the decade. The Eagle (lunar module) landed in Tranquili...
To protect confidentiality, only first names will be used and some locations undisclosed Ever wonder if your house was haunted or you just had an over active imagination? The Texas Society of Paranormal Investigators can help you find those answers. Saturday, a group of new ghost hunter hopefuls were taken on their first investigation to a cemetery located in Orange with some interesting results. Before the amatuer sleuthing, the “ghostbusters-in-training” went through an orie...
