Whatever happened to…11-17

TWENTY YEARS AGO

(2001)

                -- Gatesville High School students in Jan Wynn's class were donating their time and energy to work at the Care Center. Although limited to only a brief time each Monday morning, center director Deral McWhorter reported the students could box 38 boxes of food in a mere 38 minutes.

                -- Officers of the Coryell County Genealogical Society were being installed. The officers included Ginger Dossman, Lalla Rookh Ward, Nell Yates, Carol Smith, Charles Reeve, Beth Hodges, Bobby Hodges,  Luzane Curry, and Faye Nichols.

                -- L.J. and Anetta Nichols were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary at the Belton Lake Outdoor Recreation Area (BLORA) hideaway pavilion overlooking Lake Belton. L.J. Nichols and the former Anetta Renfrew were married Nov. 7, 1951, in Chickasha, OK with Elder D. Ramsey officiating.

                -- Kutter Jack Saunders celebrated his first birthday with a "Winnie the Pooh" birthday party. The honoree is the son of Mike and Crystal Saunders of Gatesville and the grandson of James and Chery Harris of Jasper and Stanley and Rhonda Williams and David and Shauna Saunders.

                -- Joe Frank Holder proudly displayed an eight-point buck he killed on the Jack Davidson ranch near Pecan Grove. The buck was shot with a .243 from approximately 50 yards.

                -- Gatesville Masonic Lodge 197 recently completed their most successful coat drive since the program started. Members raised enough money to purchase more than 20 children's coats to be distributed through the Care Center.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

(1991)

                -- Dr. Stephen Norris, surgeon at Coryell Memorial Hospital, was elected to the board of trustees of the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton during the annual meeting of the 2.5 million-member of the Baptist General Convention of Texas in Waco.

                -- Winners of The Gatesville Messenger's Holiday Recipe contest were: Lourenia Young, $65 HEB gift certificate; Lottie McDonald, $35 Wal Mart gift certificate; and Jo Ann Carothers, $35 Thriftmart gift certificate.

                -- Two trustees were elected during the annual business meeting of the Hemmeline Cemetery Association held at Bethel Heights Baptist Church. Elected to serve two-year terms were Alvin Kiphen, vice-president, and Lewis Lengefeld, secretary-treasurer.

                -- The 1991 Coryell County Hay Show received 57 entries. Joe Loden came out the big winner, exhibiting the overall Grand Champion bale with a champion small grains entry. He also exhibited the Champion Coastal Bermudagrass bale.

                -- Ginger Petty of Evant finished 49th at the Class 1A state cross country championships held at Southwestern University in Georgetown.

                -- Melody Palmer was recognized for her performance with the Texan Stars dance team at Tarleton State University.  A senior Interdisciplinary Studies major at Tarleton, Melody was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Palmer of Gatesville.

FORTY YEARS AGO

(1981)

                -- Doug Barton, former Hornet football star and son of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Barton of Gatesville, was to be a starting linebacker on the Cisco Junior College Wrangler squad that was to play in the annual Wool Bowl Game in Roswell, N.M.

                -- R. E. (Bob) Lee of Fort Gates was awarded a custom-made, hand tooled roping saddle valued at around $1,300 after emerging as the National Old Timers Rodeo Association's champion team roper for the second straight year.

                -- Former Gatesville resident, William Blankenship, an operatic tenor of international renown who was residing in New York City, took an acting role in a daytime television serial. Blankenship became a member of the cast of "All My Children," an ABC-TV soap opera.

                -- Coryell County Farm Bureau delegates going to the state convention were Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Pruitt, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Littlefield, Mr. and Mrs. Don Rhoades, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Loden, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Cheatham and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Brown.

                -- Pvt. Charles L. Sims, son of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Sims had completed a parachute packing, maintenance and airdrop course at the U. S. Army Quartermaster School, at Fort Lee, Va.

                -- The Mitchell Scholarship Fund, established to honor Lloyd Mitchell, was enriched by a $1,000 contribution by Wes Gilbreath, owner of the SignAd Company in Houston and a Gatesville developer.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

(1971)

                -- Authorities at Panola Junior College in Carthage honored Mrs. Merle Glass of Gatesville by naming a dormitory after her on their campus. Glass, a retired teacher, was a member of the Panola faculty or several years.

                -- Curtis Davis, associated locally with the George Painter Realtor firm, was notified by the education director of the Texas Association of Realtors, that he had successfully completed Course III of the San Antonio Realtors Institute.

                -- U. S. Air Force Senior Master Sergeant Jimmie Peveto, son of Mrs. T. J. Peveto Sr. of Oglesby, arrived for duty at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth. He had previously served at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. He was a 1948 graduate of Gatesville High School.

                -- Ronnie Sullins of Oglesby, a junior at Tarleton State College in Stephenville, had been named to "Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges" for 1971. Sullins was a 1969 graduate of Oglesby High School.

                -- Mrs. Roger (Jo Ann) Barnett displayed an 8-point rack and head of a buck deer she bagged on opening day of deer season, on the Jack Saunders place near Pidcoke. She repeated the performance on the same day by bringing down a handsome 9-pointer.

                -- The new president of the Gatesville High School Ex-Students Association was Bob Boyd, local mortician. Bobby Jones was vice president for 1971-72 and Mrs. Catherine Healer was re-elected secretary.