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TWENTY YEARS AGO (2003)

                --Gatesville ISD’s football stadium was renamed Pruitt Field to honor long-time coach, Larry Pruitt.  

                --Gatesville ISD students were invited to the 5^th Quarter Fellowship held at the Gatesville Church of Christ Youth Building.

                --An “Old-Fashioned Heavenly Highways Homecoming Revival” was set to be held at the First Baptist Church in Flat. It featured Foster Wilcox, of Hamilton, as the accompanist.

                --The Constanta, Romania Lions Club gave a flag to Coryell County District Attorney, Riley Simpson, who delivered the flag to the Gatesville Lions Club.

                --Lalla Rookh Ward was the winner of a drawing for an out-of-print family history book on Coryell County. The book was valued at more than $200.

THIRTY YEARS AGO (1993)

                --The Evant Elks beat Waco Parkview Christian 27-14 in a junior varsity football game.

                --The Gatesville Country Club was set to hold its final golf tournament of that year called the Guys & Dolls tourney.

                --The Triple L. Club of the First Baptist Church held their September luncheon/play day in the Fellowship Hall.

                --The Gatesville PTA scheduled a meeting on occult awareness for parents.

                --Sisters Beverly and Rebecca Blankenship, granddaughters of Hortense Blankenship, of Gatesville, continued prominent international stage careers.

FORTY YEARS AGO (1983)

                --Floyd Leo and Pauline Sutton returned from a 2-week vacation in Europe, where they met their son, Glen Sutton, and family, who were Baptist missionaries in Tours, France.

                --The Gatesville Volunteer Fire Department held their Seventh Annual GVFD Barbecue in conjunction with the Gatesville Chamber of Commerce’s Harvest Festival.

                --Jonesboro’s role in the history of Coryell County’s Red Cross chapter was reviewed in a speech by the chapter’s executive secretary, Mrs. Antonece Rogers.

                --Members of the Senior High MYF at Gatesville’s First United Methodist Church elected Anne Riddle as their president for 1983-1984.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

                --Oscar Latham was appointed as the assistant superintendent of the Mountain View School for Boys.

                --Girl Scout Troop 98 named their Patrol No. 2 the Spelunkers.

                --The Battle for the Planet of the Apes was showing at the drive-in theater.

                --The Gatesville Volunteer Fire Department was set to host a week-long open house during Fire Prevention Week.

                --Cora Blacklock Snowden was honored on her 87^th birthday with a family dinner at the Gatesville Community Center.