Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating a hit and run crash that occurred between the hours of 2:30 and 3:00 am Sunday morning just north of Jasper. Troopers in Jasper county responded to a report of the accident on US 96 north of Jasper near Solley’s Liquor Store. The victim was walking in the northbound traffic lane of US 96 when a vehicle struck her from behind. The victim, 38 year old Deborah Loftin of Newton, was struck in the right shoulder, and is currently in the Intensive Care Unit at St. Elizabeth h...
Officers with the Orange Police Department responded to the following calls between Nov. 18, and the morning of Nov. 19: Public intoxication, 4212 27th St. Burglary, 1502 Park Ave. Theft, 201 8th St. Traffic accident, 1800 16th St. Warrant service, 205 Border St. Warrant service, 333 Lutcher Aggravated assault, 608 Strickland Dr....
Sylvia R. Thompson, 89, of Orange went home to be with the Lord Sunday, Nov. 17, following a brief illness. She was born July 19, 1924, in Havre, Mt., the daughter of pioneering wheat farmers. A member of the "greatest generation," she became a military wife and lived in a number of locations, including Oregon, where she gave birth to her first daughter, and California, where her son was born. The family moved to Orange in 1954, when her now-deceased former husband, John Derri...
George Eugene Pattillo, 84, of Pineland, died Monday morning, Nov. 18, 2013 in the Sabine County Hospital. George was born Feb. 15, 1929 in Orange, Texas, to Eugene and Carrie Gravett Pattillo. George worked in the Levingston Shipyard as a boiler maker and was a member of the boiler maker's union. George was a member of the Bethel Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Pineland. He is survived by his wife Betty Pattillo of Pineland, three sons; George Allen Pattillo and his wife Debbie of Atlanta, TX, Douglas Eugene Pattillo...
Robert Daniel (Danny) Block passed away at his home in Dallas, Texas on November, 7, 2013. A celebration of his life will be held Saturday, November 23 at Dorman Funeral Home in Orange, Texas. Visitation is at 2 PM, memorial service at 3 PM with graveside service to follow at Autumn Oaks Memorial Park in Orange. Danny was born on January 10, 1969 in Orange, Texas to Margaret Ann Jones Block of Norman, OK and Marvin Jay Block Sr. of Orange. He attended Little Cypress High...
Juanita M. Sullivan, 83, of Orange, died Tuesday, November 19, 2013, at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont. Funeral services will be 10am, Saturday, November 23, 2013, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Officiating will be Joshua Nobles and Reverend David Wagner. Burial will follow at Orange Forest Lawn Cemetery in Orange. Serving as pallbearers will be Timothy Sullivan, Brandon Sullivan, Brady Sullivan, Steve Lege, Bryce LeJeune, and Michael Sullivan Visitation will be from 5pm to...
William Ronald Gilmore, 72, passed away on November 18, 2013, peacefully in his sleep. William was born in rural Illinois on November 26, 1941. He graduated from Houston's Bellaire High School and went on to earn two undergraduate degrees from the University of Texas. While in college he married Glenda Elaine Musgrove; together they raised their four children and lived happily until her death in 2007. William worked for Johnson & Johnson for 10 years before starting his own...
Pauline Castleberry Shafer Evans went to be with her Lord on November 19, 2013 in Baptist Hospital in Beaumont, Texas, after a short illness. She was born July 11, 1920 to William Taylor and Elizabeth Ann Johnson Castleberry of Nacogdoches County Texas and was a graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches. She married Lawrence (Larry) Orin Shafer on June 16, 1945 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She received her Master’s Degree from Northwestern University in C...
George Ragsdale, 81, of Bridge City, passed away Monday, November 18, 2013, at his residence.Funeral Services will be 10:00 a.m. Thursday, November 21, 2013, at Claybar Funeral Home Chapel in Orange. Officiating will be Reverend Forrest Wood, pastor of First Baptist Church of Orangefield. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens near Bridge City. Serving as Pallbearers will be Bill Kiihnl, Larry Sanford, Ronnie Evans, Robert Montagne, Harvey Gunter and Paul Smith. Visi...
COURSE OF HISTORY CHANGED 50 YEARS AGO We can all speculate at how the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, November. 22, 1963, changed the course of history but that’s not reality. History is real. It happened. You can’t alter it. True steps of history, big and small, are cast for the hereafter. We’re all free to think about what might have been if certain events wouldn’t have occurred. At the time of his death President Kennedy’s popularity was wobbling, just a fraction of the tremendous popularity that came five...
The calendar indicates that this is November, but not unlike the past ten months of 2013, the anticipated fall weather is yet to arrive. One day we keep our Frogg Toggs on all day long to ward off a bone chilling wind and the very next day we leave the dock in shorts under overcast skies. Too much wind most every day has been the only thing you can take to the bank! Even more perplexing has been the high water levels that tend to scatter the fish in the open lake and hold...
I love listening to my grandmother’s stories. When we talk, we sit at the decades-old dining room table, the host to countless family dinners and holiday celebrations. It’s heard more than its fair share of stories from the Brewton clan. It’s the witness to all our gossip. Some of the stories she tells are tales from her childhood, growing up poor with her brothers and sisters in the Rio Grande Valley. She only started talking about the harder stuff as I’ve matured. “Caroline,” she said to me one day, “When we went to high...
