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Wanda, Danny, Thomas, John, Diana and Ricky Bowman
Fish Construction.
We have raised four children, Danny, John,
Diane, and Ricky; here in Borger, where they
were also born.
Danny Edward, is working and lives at 103
Estireno. Richard Joe lives at 1005 Kingbury,
Austin, Texas.
Brenda Diane Peabody has two daughters,
Rene, three and Misty Dawn, seventeen
months.
Tommy enjoys hunting and fishing and
Ricky is a student still living at home.
I have enjoyed our family a great deal over
the years and now I can enjoy grandchildren
too. Submitted by Wanda Faye BowmanBarney and Velma Boyd, 1973
Barney D. Boyd, Jr. Family
Barney D. Boyd, Jr. was a graduate of the
Fairview High School, near Burkburnett,
Texas. He served in the 31st General Hospital
of the United States Army from April 1, 1943
to January 21, 1946. Barney came to Borger
and started to work for Phillips Petroleum
Company in April of 1946 at the Plains Butadien
Plant.
He married Velma Ina Fagley in Olney, Illinois
on September 23, 1950. Their first
daughter was born on November 3, 1952,
Hazel Grace. She graduated from Borger High
School in 1971, and attended Frank Phillips
College for two years and two years at West
Texas State University at Canyon, graduating
with a BS degree in Social Work. Hazel married
Michael H. Hazlett August 25, 1973 and
they have one daughter, Rebekah Erin, born
August 21, 1975.
Their second daughter, Ina Sue, born February
25, 1955, graduated from Borger High
School in 1973 and attended Frank PhillipsCollege for two years; West Texas State University
for two years and graduated with a
degree in Business Administration. She will
graduate in June of 1980 from the Princeton
Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey
with a Master of Divinity Degree.
They are members of the First Presbyterian
Church. Velma has been the Church Secretary
there since June of 1964. Barney, Hazel
and Ina Sue have all served as Elders of the
Church, and continue to be actively involved
in all phases of the church work.
Barney is active in the Masonic Lodge,
serving as the Worshipful Master of Isom
Masonic Lodge #1242 in 1979-80, and also
has served as the Worthy Patron of Borger
Chapter #811, Order of the Eastern Star four
times. Barney also has served on the Advisory
Board for the Borger Assembly #97, Order of
the Rainbow for Girls.
Velma, has served Borger Chapter #811
as the Worthy Matron; and was Chairman of
the Advisory Board for Assembly #97 three
times.
Hazel and Ina both were very active in the
Order of the Rainbow, serving as Worthy
Advisor; and are also members of the Eastern
Star Chapter #811. Velma Boyd
The Brain Family
I, Ada B. Brain, came to Oklahoma from
Kentucky when I was three. We moved to
Pampa in a covered wagon in 1912 and I went
on to Panhandle to work for my aunt at the
Panhandle Hotel, where I met and married
Lawrence E. Brain, Sr., in July, 1913.
Mr. Brain was employed as Station Agent
for the Santa Fe but resigned that position in
1923 to enter private business. While in business
in Panhandle, he served as Justice of the
Peace and also Mayor. During the time heserved as Justice of the Peace, he met Ace
Borger, who was instrumental in forming the
Borger Townsite. Mr. Brain was appointed
Borger's first Postmaster in 1926 and can be
seen in the center of the picture with Borger's
first load of mail.
When the Borger Townsite laid out the
streets, they named the streets going north
and south after Hutchinson County ranchers;
however, they named the last street on the
east side as "Brain" after Borger's first Postmaster.
When the first lots were put up for sale, Mr.
Brain purchased a lot and built his new home,
this being the third "real" residence built in
Borger. All other dwellings were shacks and
tents. Our home at 317 No. Hedgecoke was
completed in October, 1926, and we moved in
immediately with our four children-Evelyn
Sue, Cecil Lee, Lawrence E., Jr. and George.
We thought our new home was almost
"heaven" in that we had a real bathroom even
though we had no running water and had to
buy it by the barrel. We had to use the bath
sparingly but when the city finally got the
water lines laid, we could enjoy that "bathroom"
to the fullest!
We were charter members of First Baptist
Church where Mr. Brain served as Church
Clerk and also sang in the choir.
After Mr. Brain's term as Postmaster ended,
the great depression was going on and it took
all of us working to make ends meet. Mr. Brain
became ill and passed away in 1936 and the
years from then until the war was over, I spent
renting rooms, serving meals and working at
various places in Borger.
The Lord brought my three sons home
safely from the war. Lawrence E., Jr. had married
Margaret E. Allen of Everett, Mass., and
they returned to Borger, along with their son,
Larry, and Lawrence took up the job he left at
Phillips Refinery. They reside in Phillips. Cecil
Lee married Molly J. Bayless and they live in
the Chicago area. George married Wanda
Moreland and they reside in Borger. Evelyn
Sue married David L. Baird, who was killed in
December, 1949. She worked for Southwestern
Public Service from 1941 until 1950, when
she resigned and we moved to Amarillo
together to make our home. She has worked
for the Bivins family at Coldwater Cattle Company
since March, 1950.
We will always consider Borger our
"home." Mrs. Lawrence E. (Ada B.) Brain
Dave Brandon Family
Dave moved his family to the Panhandle in
the boom days of the late 1920s and settled in
the part known as Isom.
Before Borger's main street was paved,
Dave became a city policeman. A native
Texas, he loved West Texas. He served as
Constable of Precinct 2 in the 1940s and 50s
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Hutchinson County Historical Commission. History of Hutchinson County, Texas: 104 Years, 1876-1980, book, 1980; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20204/m1/93/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hutchinson County Genealogical Society.