Mount Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 2001 Page: 3 of 14
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annual class reunion conducted
Saturday, July 28 at the Texas
Barbecue Corral.
Booster Club
to meet
The Mount Vernon Athletic
Booster Club will meet at 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 7 at the
Barnstormer s Restaurant.
The purpose of the meeting is
to finalize plans for the Meet the
Tigers Day on Saturday, Aug. 11
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three days. The average low for Monday
the month was 74°. Tuesday
the damp4.06 inches in 2000.
July 2001 ended with less than
average rain. The average for July
is 3.62 inches.
A total of 32.88 inches of rain
has fallen this year. The year-to-
date average is 27.74 inches. The
minimum is0.07 inches recorded
in 1993 and the maximum was
13.03 inches recorded in 1992. __________ _________
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Dick Flournoy honored by
Daughters of the Confederacy
R. L. (Dick) Flournoy, Ph D ings about two area Confederate
of Mount Vemon was recently Veterans and their families in the
awarded The Jefferson Davis national publication Confederate
Historical Gold Medal and cer- Veteran as well as reprints and
uficate. brief articles in other publications
Dr. Flournoy was awarded such as Texas Lake Country and
the highest recognition and
honor the United Daughters of
the Confederacy bestow upon
persons interested in preserv-
ing the history and heritage of
the South and soldiers of the
Confederacy.
The award was presented in
a joint meeting of the Sons of
Confederate Veterans and the
United Daughters of the Con-
federacy. Dr. Flournoy serves
as First Lt. Commander of
Camp 441.
Dr. Flournoy was honored
for his contributions and writ-
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Texas Highways.
Additionally, Dr. Flournoy
contributed a short biographi-
cal sketch of his own Confed-
erate ancestor, Welcome Wright
Flournoy, and a time-proven
recipe to The Confederate
Cookbook: Family Favorites
from the Sons of Confederate
Veterans, published last year.
"1 plan to write other articles
about local Confederate veter-
ans and a book about battles
and regiments in the Civil War
when I am not so busy with my
independent practice of psy-
chology and trying to keep up
with my two-year old golden
retriever and my two-year-old
granddaughter," commented Dr
Flournoy.
- Marie Dacus '01
Vet's pictorial
Iwo recort low temperalures, The Agencyotficialwealhersuiionin Volunteers
to meet
A meeting to discuss the
Veteran’s Pictorial book will be
at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 11 at
the Franklin County Genealogy
Society office located at 110 E.
Main Sweet.
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customers have to pay a lot of begin making definite plans for
money up front for equipment, in- beginning work on the historical
stallation, etc., sometimes as
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Mount Vernon High School
Class of 1946
Class of '46 meets for reunion
The class met from 3 p in. to 5 Canaday, Sue Johnson Kizer,
p.m. for visitation and then had June Cowser Newsom, Maxine
dinner. Autry Zachary, Mary Ann Ma-
Letters and responses to let- jors Thomas; second row, Max
lers were read from several of Rutledge, W. J. Clayton, Russell
those unable to attend including Adams, Bettie Martinson Herring,
James Caudle, Billy Flowe, Patsy Roy Carr, Dorothy Gaye Ross
Cody Morrison, Mary Hamilton, Brown, Delora Jumper Tower,
Coy Sims, Peggy Broach and Principal Rufus Bolger, Bernard
Margaret Jaggers Reynolds. Gundy, Aubrey Hamilton, Ozella
Waine Johnson traveled the Nowlin Whetstone and Waine
farthest to attend the meeting. He Johnson.
lives in Pennsylvania. The next meeting of the class
The class collected $2(X) to be will be in April of2003.
donated the School Bus Memo- - Marie Dacus 01
rial Fund.
Members of the class attend-
ing the meeting as pictured were
front row, left to right, Georgia
Mae Hale Hays, Helen Keith
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Bush-Reves, Lillie. Mount Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 2001, newspaper, August 2, 2001; Mount Vernon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1330669/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Franklin County Library.