Nassau Bay Garden Club = 'Fashions by the Bay' + fun

THREE THINGS you can always count on as you prepare to attend the Nassau Bay Garden Club Fashion Show Luncheon –fashions, fun and a good time for all.

And, this year was no exception as a dozen pretty models pranced around the Lakewood Yacht Club Ballroom May 12, showing off eye-catching “Fashions by the Bay” from The Clotheshorse Boutique in League City and drawing rounds and rounds of applause from the sellout crowd.

Fun! Just as it has been since back in the Sixties.

Co-Chairmen Rhonda Rivas and Royce Walker, who is also president of the garden club, got the party started as they began welcoming the crowd – which seemed like half of Nassau Bay and then some – with help from Committee

Chairmen Priss Fletcher, Beth Ann Maxwell, D’Ann Conrad, Christina Jordan, Gail Ferris Beasley, Gun Frame and Ann Davidson, committee members Angela Braun, Yvonne Guyand several models and committee chairmen. Meanwhile, the models – City Councilwoman Ashley Graves, Diana and Tina Clark, Judge Holly Williamson, Kelly Halbach, Jayne Sampson, Jennifer Coyer, Kathryn Gehbauer, Cathy Rice, Terry Grim, Catherine Johnson and the club’s Ann Gay scholarship winner, Cassie Marbach, now working on her Ph.D at Texas A&M – were busy lining up the outfits they would wear, with assistance from Sandy Carney, while out in the ballroom Nassau Bay Mayor Phil Johnson and this wife, Catherine, were Looking around, you might have spotted former Clear Creek ISD Trustee busy saying hello to one and all, as were James Abbey and his wife.

Win Weber sitting with the city’s former First Lady Sue Warters, Marsha Taylor, Alice Thomas, Leny Koster and Leona Pleasant, catching up on each other’s news while Julie Leith prepared to start the auction.

Across the way, we spotted Angie Shivers, Janis Balsomio, April Schneider, Sue Mooring, Michelle Berekey, Lara Forde, Sonia Korb, Chard Weller and Pam Smoilon just having a grand time enjoying themselves, as were Ann Davidson, Sheila Self, Trudy Davis, Bette Graham, Rose Gunn, Joyce Mayor Jennifer Munson, Gayle Nelson, Kathy Kidd, Tanya Everts, Natalie Jones, Tamy O’Brien and Marilyn Musial.