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Current Weekly News for Leakey, Camp Wood, Sabinal, Utopia and Surrounding Areas Vol. 5 No. 14
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April 8, 2015
Real County Judge Proclaims April Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness Month by Julie Becker
REAL COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT MONDAY APRIL 13TH @ 9 A.M. BE THERE!!
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GARDENINGFOLKLORE ............................ Page 7
Back Row LtoR: Real County Sheriff Bruce Carr, Real County Extension Agent Laci Bostic ; Fredlyn Wideman, RN Family and Community Services Texas Department of State Health Services; Nena Arlt, Bluebonnet Adminstrative Assistant, Devona Corona, Tri-County CASA Volunteer, Texas DPS Corporal Jake Sanchez and Trooper Eden Holguin, Front Row LtoR: Julie Solis, 38th Assistant District Attorney, Real County Judge Garry Merritt, Andi Hearn, Tri-County CASA Volunteer Coordinator (see story page 2)
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO CELEBRATE 125TH ANNIVERSARY by Karen Collins
KKYX TALK ABOUT TEXAS SATURDAY APRIL 11TH @ 9 SPOTLIGHT ON RIO FRIO TEXAS!!
COUNTYCITY CLEANUP ............................ Page 2
DAR members Dorothy Martin. Patsy Edwards and Francis Karasek
The Uvalde de las Encinas Chapter members, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), meeting at The Huddle in Uvalde on Saturday, March 21st, were reminded of the organization’s formation on
October 11, 1890, and early member Eugenia Washington’s words: “We want a Society founded on service.” This report from Lynn F. Young, DAR President General, as read by Karen Collins, encouraged members to learn about the origins of their organization, the four strong women who founded it, and the 125th anniversary celebration activities being planned for next year. The National Defense Report, read by Jakelynn Crawford, discussed a civics test, now being considered as a requirement for public school students to pass before graduating from high schools. It would be similar to the naturalization test required by immigrants seeking legal citizenship in the United States. Arizona is one of the first states to consider such a law but others have already followed, continued page 11
The Spirit of ‘45 FLOWERS IN BLOOM ............................ Page 6
INDEX State News .................... Page 2 Legals/Jail Register ...... Page 3 Community News ......... Page 4-6 Feature Story ................. Page 7 Obituaries ...................... Page 8 Classifieds ..................... Page 12
Today’s Weather
High: 81° Low: 63°
In 1923 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, Kenneth G. Kellar was born to Percival and Bonnie Jones Kellar. When the Kellars divorced, Bonnie, Kenneth who was 10, and his sister Betty who was 9, moved to Denver, Colorado, where Kenneth’s grandparents, G. W. and Minnie McGuire lived. The McGuires ran a boardinghouse style café and the children often helped on weekends and even during the week, washing dishes, cleaning tables, and cleaning up in general. The family followed the oil boom to Kilgore, Texas, still running a boardinghouse style café, with the children still helping out. It was the depression and people had to follow wherever they could go to make a living. At age 15, Kenneth got a job and learned the art of plastering. He worked on homes and businesses in Texas, and then in Colorado. Kenneth went to Wichita, Kansas, to visit his dad and while there, he met Doraline Nelson, who lived with her dad. After four months courtship, they married in Kansas. In May of 1943, they moved to Fort Worth, Texas. He was drafted into the Army, went to the induction center at Camp Wolters, near Mineral Wells, Texas. He received his basic training at Sheppard Field, located near Wichita Falls. He was then transferred to the Army Air Corp and from there, he was sent to Western Reserve University
by Billie Franklin
in Cleveland, Ohio, and was trained at many other places, too numerous to mention. He was trained as a fighter pilot, single and multi-engine planes. He received his silver wings at Aloe Air Force Base at Victoria, Texas, on September 8, 1944, and he flew navigators, helping them learn how to set the courses, necessary for navigation, in and around Houston, got out of the service on October, 1945, while in Houston. Back again in Colorado, this time in Littleton, he began plastering again, but soon went into his own business. He contracted Rheumatic fever and went into the Veterans Hospital. He was advised there to move to a warmer climate with lower altitude. So, they moved to Houston, Texas. There he got a job with Sinclair at the refinery in Pasadena, Texas. He was there for 19 years. When Arco bought it out, they moved to Washington state with the start of a new Arco refinery there. He remained with the company another 16 years, retiring at the age of 62. The couple then moved to Del Rio, on Lake Amistad, then to the City of Del Rio for a while. From there they moved to Fort Clark Springs, Brackettville. They had four boys, two of whom died, have 10 grandchildren, and 10 greatgrandchildren.