The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 187, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 8, 1986 Page: 3 of 37
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Sunday, June 8, 1986
THE BAYTOWN SEN
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By JIM KYLE together. As it whipped along, I ed and we worked our way out of Ann Dodson’s sister, Helen
Ann Dodson turned 81 this could see the destruction on the the ground to see an Grayson and husband Clyde live
year, but her yard on West ground. Like a giant egg beater unbelievable sight. Everything in Baytown as does her nephew
Miriam proves she’s still a very it churned, going back and forth, in all directions had disap- Phillip, who lived through that
active woman. back and forth.” peared. The houses, my tragic day with her in 1942.
From one end to the other, her What the Air Force man could chickens, our dog — nothing was The Dodsons moved to
yard is A sea of flowers. see from a distance was in reali- left, nothing. , Baytown in 1978 after buying the
Mrs. Dodson was born in ty a four-city block square being “My next-door neighbors who house that formerly belonged to
Vinrace, Czechoslovakia, a leveled. Every house, tree, shed, I’d seen go in their house earlier her sister, Mary, and husband,
small village near Prague. Her telephone pole — everything had disappeared. We later found Arnold Smith, now of Dayton,
father was a horticulturist who destroyed out that they had been killed The Dodsons retired from
graduated from college with Mrs. Dodson remembers the along with 34 more people in the Tinker Air Force Base in
honors. Like father, like tornado as if it happened yester- four-block area. Oklahoma. She had worked
daughter — she loves to help day. Her house was located in “I can still see the look on my there 30 years and her husband
beautiful things grow from the the middle of the devastation. husband’s face when he found us for 20 years.
When it was over, 37 of her tobealive.” Hediedinl981.
neighbors were dead and scores
injured.
“It was late in the evening
when I decided that I wouldn’t go
to a meeting I was supposed to
attend,” Mrs. Dodson
remembers. “Something told
me I better not go.
“There had been a report on
the radio that a tornado had been
spotted some 15 miles away and
the sky looked real bad at our t
house. Clouds as dark as night
churned over our house and it
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part time at St. Anthony’s
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“Everything was dead silence
for a time and then it came. The
sounds of trains rumbling
overhead. The door of the cellar
was ripped off and luckily a roll
of fence wire jammed the open-
In June 1942, Ann Dodson, her ing to keep debris from getting
2-year-old nephew, Philip Gray- us- I sat huddled with the
son, and her daughter, Lois children and praying.
Virginia; survived the - seemed Hke ages'-passv
deadly tornado to ever strike
Oklahoma City. -
In a newspaper article, the
twin tornado was described by
an Air Force man in the tower at
ANN DODSON must have Inherited her talent In gardening from her Tinker Air Force Base:
' father. He was a horticulturist In Czechoslovakia before the family “i could see the long black fun-
. came to America. In California, he raised flowers for seed that was nels of two tornadoes moving
-sold across the country. toward each other and suddenly
(Sun staff photo by Jim Kyle) the bottom of each one joined
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Miss Briscoe is a senior scout
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 187, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 8, 1986, newspaper, June 8, 1986; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1154465/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.