Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 1963 Page: 8 of 8
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PALACIQS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, January 31, 1963
BLESSING NEWS
By ELAINE DAY
Mrs. W. T. Gunter, Sr. is ser-
iously ill in John Sealy Hospital
in Galveston.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Phillips
and David visited Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Autrey and family and
Mrs. S. V. Phillips in Brazoria,
Sunday.
Dr. Russell A. Matthes and his
daughters, Melinda and Cynthia,
visited Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Matthes
on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lee Rick-
away and Barbara Jean of Brazoria
visited Mrs. Elizabeth Herreth,
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Powell and
Walter spent Saturday night and
Sunday in Houston visiting the
Pete Chanacks.
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Matthes were
guests of Dr. and Mrs. Russell Mat-
thes of Bay City to the 63rd Annual
Bay Area Council of the Boy Scouts
of America banquet and meeting
at the Rice Hotel in Houston,
Thursday. Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Mat-
thes also attended and Dr. Matthes
received the Silver Beaver Scouter's
Award. This award is the highest
honor awarded in scouting.
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Johs and
Jackie of Tomball and Jackie's
fiancee, Miss Tonie Johnson of
Houston, spent Saturday night and
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Foster.
Carlos Vacek, who recently left
his job in Monahans and now has
a job in Victoria working for the
S. I. C. office, was home for the
week-end.
Mrs. Wilbur Vaclavick and her
two children, Ellen and Neal, left
Friday for St. Augustine, Florida,
where she will spend about six
weeks with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Palmer. Mrs. Vaclavick
made the trip by automobile with
her sister, Mrs. Bobby Talbot of
Victoria.
Mr. and Mrs. Abner Siegfried re-
turned home on Wednesday, Jan.
23, after attending funeral ser-
vices for Mr. Siegfried's brother,
Emanuel Siegfried, on Monday,
Jan. 21, at the Merritt Church in
Elk City, Okla. Burial with in the
Ural Cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hubenak
and daughter Karen visited Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Braden in their new
home here, Saturday.
The local men's basketball team
defeated the Palacios team Friday
night in Port Lavaca in a very
fast and exciting game with the
score ending 29 to 28. The Blessing
team will play the First Christian
Church team frnm Port. T,a vara
next Friday night at 9:30 p.m. The
Blessing team have played 10
games with various Bay City, Pa-
lacios, Boling, and Lolita teams and
have not been defeated.
Roger Spring of Wharton visited
the Hugh Spring family Friday
and then Sunday the Hugh Springs
visited the Roger Springs in their
home.
Dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Day on Thursday was Joe T.
Webster of Houston. Mr. Webster
and Howard Hough, also of Hous-
ton, were dinner guests of the Days
on Friday.
Mrs. Jimmy Rickaway, along
with her mother, Mrs. J. E. Fitz-
gerald of Midfield, and her two
sisters, Mrs. Frank Ray and Mrs.
Final Rites Are Held
Friday For #Paf' Lowry,
Auto Accident Victim
Funeral services for Edgar ''Pat'
Lowry, Matagorda County's first
raffic fatality of 1903, were held
„ 2 p.m. Fi'iday, January 25, at
he First Baptist Church with Rev.
'.ayford Harris officiating. Inter-
ment was in the Hawiey Cemetery.
A son of H. S. and Ercel Foster
l.owry, he was born February 17,
1908 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. A
'•esident of Matagorda County for
many years, he attended Palacios
High School. For the past several
years he had operated the Phillips
03 Service Station on Highway 35,
north. He was married to Eva
Smith, who preceded him in death
on June 5, 1962.
He was killed Wednesday even-
ing, January 23, about 3.9 miles
west of Palacios on State High-
way 35.
Survivors include two daughters
Sharon Ann and Debra of Palacios;
four sons, Robert and George
Lowry of Houston, Lacy Lowry of
College Station and Patrick Lowry
of Palacios; one sister, Mrs. John
Merck, Sr. of Collegeport and one
brother Hebert Lowry, Jr. of
League City.
Requiem Mass Held
Sunday A. M. For Mrs.
Ernestine Cervenka
Requiem Mass for Mrs. Ernestina
Cervenka was held Sunday morn-
ing, January 27, at 10:30 at St.
Anthony's Catholic Church with
Rev. Patrick O'Farrell officiating.
Burial was in the Catholic Ceme-
tery in El Campo.
Rosary was recited Saturday
evening at 7:30 at the Palacios
Funeral Home.
A resident of Palacios for 22
years, she was born November 11,
1894, in Omaha, Nebraska, and died
in Wagner General Hospital, Fri-
day, January 25, after a lingering
illness.
She was head nurse at the Bay-
view General Hospital for many
years until failing health caused
her to retire from the work she
loved. She was a devout member
of St. Anthony's Catholic Church
and Altar Society.
She is survived by her husband,
Frank, of Palacios; a stepdaughter,
Rose Marie Edmiston of Lancaster;
a stepson, W. J. Cervenka of Lo-
lita; three sisters, Mrs. Mary
Chromak of Louise, Mrs. Elsie
Miller and Mrs. Lucy Hevener of
El Campo and three brothers, Joe,
Fr:>nk and Fred Strack of El
Campo.
Jack Ellis of Bay City, went to
Edna Monday afternoon to be with
Mrs. Rickaway's sister Barbara
when they learned of the accidental
death of Barbara's husband, Earn-
est Tipton. Mr. Tipton was killed
at 12 noon Monday, Jan. 28, when
he fell head first from a 20-ft.
scaffold where he worked at Alcoa
at Point Comfort.
Mrs. Henrietta Hoffman return-
ed last week end after spending
four weeks in Baton Rouge, La.
with her son, Herbert Guhn and
family, and a week in Houston with
her sisters, brothers and other rela-
tives.
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FREE DELIVERY
PHONE 824-2616
PALACIOS, TEXAS
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