The Leonard Graphic (Leonard, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, June 26, 1964 Page: 4 of 8
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Mama’s marriage to Edward
Clinton Lacy was in 1894 at the
home of her half sister, Mrs.
Henry Weatherall, in the Lavon
neighborhood. Mr. Lacy died in
1941 at the age of 70 years, in
McKinney.
Many and diverse experiences
have been the lot of Eva Webb
Lacy. She cooked for gin hands1
as a young girl for her father’s
gin (just south of Copewell.
After her marriage and as the
years went by and seven children
were reared to adulthood in Hunt
County, the Lane Community,
good food, clothing, and good
training were somehow provided.
We can remember in the grow-
ing up years, the Sundays rare
with a preacher’s family not pres-
ent for the Sunday dinner from
one of the two churches that
the family attended. Augmenting
any special company might be
friends some of the “younguns”
brought home for dinner and an
afternoon of play. During the
week it was not uncommon for
a place to be scrouged for an
extra neighbor or so at the big
homemade table, a type made
necessary with the burning of
the ten room house and its pos-
sessions, the old Dial showplace,
the lumber hauled from Jeffer-
son, Texas. Six weeks later, dis-^
aster hit again when a hay barn!
with the grain crop, all the work!
animals and six killing hogs were
burned. The Lacy family
Lane residents since 1907.
Despite the setbacks life went
on. Kids were graduated, from
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LOWELL LEBERMAN
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, To all those who worked and hop-
ed so hard for the success of my can-
didacy I am sincerely grateful. My
continuing desire shall be that I may
oneday have the opportunity to apply,
to the benefit of Hunt and Fannin
■Counties, the lessons which I learned
as a candidate for public office.
DUR FRIENDS OF THE
LEONARD AREA:
_ Your response to and decisive i
support of my candidacy for State ■
Representative was encouraging and *|
genuinely appreciated. For a new-
comer to the political scene, such as I
was, to have led the ticket in the first
primary and come so close to victory
in the run-off can only be regarded
as an encouraging sign for the future.
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Little And Pony
League Schedule
Hunt County 4H Horse Show Will Be
Held Sunday, June 28th, In Greenville
Springier!
Warmer!
Quieter!
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Luggage
Ice Chests
Hair Spray
Sun Glasses
Bathing Caps
Thermos Jugs
Suntan Lotion
Insect Repellant
Film Developing
First Aid Supplies
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morris
Leggett. Jeannie and Danny.
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Karen and Pat Suspenski have
returned to Dallas after spending
a week with grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs, Bill Hooks.
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Latimer
and family of Lamesa are visit-
ing Mrs. Earl Latimer this week.
Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Roberts of
Spring Dale, Ark. visited Mr. and
SMrs. C. K. McClendon over last
Week end.
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Mama was a. charter member
j of a Methodist church organized
! in the Little Creek schoolhouse
built on the Revis farm. A Rev.
i McWhirter, father of Olin Mc-
i Whirter of Greenville organized
manner.
______________ Mama’s life in Guest House is
named for a Hartford, Connecti- very satisfactory. She left the cld'
cutt poetress who wrote, “What-'hcme in the Lane Community,
ever you should have your chil- p — ---- ----- ----- —*
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No. Side Square - Leonard - Pho. 587-224
Mrs. Eva Lacy of Guest House,
Greenville, will celebrate her
nintieth birthday on Independ-1
ence Day Saturday, July Fourth.)
She was bom in 1874 when the
“Your Home Town Druggist”
ONE OF 7NE WEIRDEST THINGS
THAT MAY HATPEN TN BASEBALL
THIS TEAR IS THE ATTENDANCE
BATTLE BETWEEN THE YANKEES
AND THE METE.
THE NETS. A SURE-FIRE BET
TO FINISH IN LAST PLACE,
MAYOUTORAW THE YANKS WHO
ARE PICKED TO WIN THE PENNANT.
WHEN IT COMES TO COUNTING
THE MONEY, THOUGH, MAYBE
"NICE GUYS DO FINISH LAST."
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( vtuneu ounuay tnvei
I stives and friends
Floydada, Lockney,
tevelland and Amarillo.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill LeCroy and
daughter, Jeannie of Garland,
Mrs. Eva Lacy To Celebrate 90fh Birthday
, Friends Invited To Lewis Home July 5th
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Mrs. Ann Howard, Mrs. E. E.
Spradling and Mrs. E. C. Cox re-
turned Sunday after visiting rel-
; in Electra,
Lubbock,
He died in 1955. Carl, the other
service man, has been a Celeste
rural carrier for twenty-five
years. His wife is the former
Theda Compton. Jess, now a re-
tired teacher in Yuma, Arizona,
has been teaching in the west
since 1923. She will not be home
until later this summer. My hus-
band, Pat and I see Mama once
a week.
The hard winter past was when
in November, Mattie Lee Lacy
Dillon, a business woman in Dal-
las was killed in a car accident.
Then in January, Perry, the old-
est son died suddenly of a heart
attack.
There are five grandchildren,
six great grandchildren and
“Gran Lacy” as the grandchil-
dren call her is looking forward
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The Hunt County 4-H Horse
Show will be held Sunday, June
28, starting promptly at 10:00
A.M. in the Upper Sabine Quar-
ter Horse Arena, located just off
Major Field road, approximate-
ly 3 y2 miles southeast of Green-
ville, Texas.
A total of nine trophies will
be given to the first place win-
ner in each class. A special trophy
will be awarded to the rider of
the high point horse. Also, rib-
bons are to be awarded for the
first six placing in each class.
The registration fee will be $1
per contestant for each event
entered. Registration will be at
the arena desk upon arrival at
the show grounds. Contestants
Jack White was in Fort Worth
privacy Tuesday to attend the showing
: of the new Frigidaire appliances.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Collins
McKinney visited his son,
and Mrs. Phil Collins and son,
this week.
Little and Pony League base-
ball games for Leonard and Ce-
leste will be played on Tuesday
and Friday nights.
The first game will start at
6:30 p.m. with no inning to start
after 8:00 p.m.
The first team listed will
the home team.
The first game listed will
the first game each date.
BASEBALLS A GAME
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JUNE 26
Chibs vs. Colts
Red Sox vs. Black Sox
JUNE 30
White Sox vs. Blue Sox at Ce-
leste
Cats vs. Colts
JULY 3
Blue Sox vs. Black Sox
White Sox vs. Red Sox
JULY 7
Cats vs. Cubs
Black Sox vs. White Sox
JULY 10
Colts vs. Cubs at Celeste
Blue Sox vs. Red Sox
JULY 14
Blue Sox vs. White Sox
Black Sox vs. Red Sox
JULY 17
White Sox vs. Red Sox
Cubs vs. Cats
JULY 21
Cats vs. Colts at Celeste
Blue Sox vs. Black Sox
JULY 24
Blue Sox vs. Red Sox
Black Sox vs. White Sox
JULY 28
Black Sox vs. Red Sox
Colts vs. Cubs
JULY 31
Colts vs. Cats
Blue Sox vs. White Sox
floored” a less
Zeke, the youngest, gave too much
jin the Flying Box cars, the sup-
determined spirit, sparked with ‘
good Irish humor. - ~ ----- — ------ -------
Mrs. J. R. Reed and daughter,
. . . _— --- of State College Pa. are visiting
I home in the Lane Community
just as she had lived in it for
dren become, strive to exhibit in) fifty years—and made a new life
your own lives and conversa-
, tions.”
may register up until the begin-
ning of each event.
Classes for the 1964 show are:
Halter 10:00 - 12:00 A.M.
Class 1.—Mares, any breed,
under three years of age.
Class 2.—Miares, any breed,
three years of age and over.
Class 3.—Geldings, any breed,
under three years of age.
Class 4.—Geldings, any breed,
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for herself out at Gupst Housp.
“The Home of The Aged of Hunt
County,” a project of Mrs. Susie
Williams.
-r ,• visited Mrs. LeCr.oy’s father, Joe
w”'. vS a™ng GoMe"’
the people unable to live alone
in their own homes yet able to
care for themselves, play domi-
the church. Mama remembers that noes’ listen to TV’ attend church ,
. Rev. McWhirter came in his bug- 1 services Provided by various mem-1
gy frcm his home in Nevada ’ ?ers. of c^ergy weekly, and>
to preach on Sunday evenings i V*si^ away as they choose. In >
™-- -..... - - most cases they choose to stay
| in their adopted home secure in
| independence, and the
of their own rooms.
! On Saturday, July 4, we expect)
the relatives, Mama’s sisters and
. neices and others for the lunch-
eon visit here in the Lewis home.
On Sunday, July 5, from two
to five P.M. the children will ap- j
predate callers, the family
friends and Mama’s to come and thing to her that day. Anyway
sit for a little visit. Mama said Mama always says, “I don’t need
that she hoped that no one both- a thing.”
ered to go out and get presents, Please sonsider this an invita-
that seeing friends meant the big tion to call on Sunday, July 5.
. there.
i Mama remembers that during
I the Rev. McWhirter pastorate he
and son Clint came out and help-1
ed families in distress, malaria
or “slow fever,” a common dis-
ease.
good Irish humor. eluding D Day. He came home
I will speak or her as mama I “d ®LIenLC°.,a
my mother name for her, for it
seems stilted to write of her as
Mrs. Lacy.
Mama came to Texas at the
age of four from Homer, Louisi-
ana and remembers the crossing
of the Mississippi River when the
oxen team left unattended start-
ed off down the bank with no
ferry in sight. The father, John
I. Webb, an inveterate talker had
left the family in the covered
wagon temporarily.
The family landed in the Mill-
wood, Nevada, Lavon region.
Mama grew up there and attend-
ed the rural schools but remem-
bers most vividly the Empire
Academy, a large school taught by
the late Z. A. C. Harris and Miss
Betty Hardin, both of Farmers-
ville. Pupils from the ABC classes ,
to mustached men attended. It to becoming a great, great grand-
must have been a good school for ! mother later this year. Despite
Mama has been and is still a 'her agre and descendants, to her
good speller, writes beautifully: friends she is Mrs. Lacy, belying1
and able yet to attend to busi-! aged r°le as is the modern
ness matters.
Her mother
I The school building burned and
I the Lavon school was built. The
membership of a new Presbyter-
ian church at Lavon was the in-,
vited home of the Little Creek'
Methodists. Recently, a life time
friend of Mama, the late Mrs.’
Fannie Boyd related that char-
ter Methodists still worshiped
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mrs. Eva ' high school both in Leonard and
Lacy will note her 90th birthday in Celeste, some did Wesley Col-
Saturday and her daughter, Mrs.'lege academy and college work
Lois Lewis prepared the fallow- and later went on to degreed
ing article for the Celeste Courier, teachers.
her hometown newspaper. Since Mama( called Mom
more re-1
Mrs. Lacy is known by many peo- ' centiy Or by some of the younger
.grownup children. Miss “Ever”
, never said quit. The war years
were tough with two sons in the
service and another in Arizona
for his health. Church work,
Home Demonstration work, a part
of the social life of the small
■community, and care of the sick
were part of her life. Then there
was the always plentiful garden,
the milking .of cows and any other
I farm chores necessary.
good old USA. had proclaimed I „„Thest,last ^ve
its independence less than a cen-i noored a less h3rdy splrit-
tury before. Mrs. Lacy has lived;
the life of self assertion with a I
Tressa Lynn is the name given
the daughter bom to Mr. and'
Mrs. Morrell Deel of Bedford.
She arirved at Glenview Hospital)
in Richland Hills and weighed i
8 lbs., 5Y2 ozs.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Grounds
are maternal grandparents and
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Deel are the
paternal grandparents.
three years of age and over.
Performance: 1:00 PM.
Class 5. Western Pleasure
Class 6. Flag Race
Class 7. Pole Bending
Class 8. Barrell Race
Class 8. Barrel Race
Class 9. Keyhole Race.
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pie in Leonard and area and by (
many of our out of town sub-1,
scribers we thought it would be',
of interest. <
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El NE E Loors
THE LEONARD GRAPHIC — Friday, June 26, 1964
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Also can do your plow sharpening and
welding.
JANWAY'S SHOP — Whitewright Tex.
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