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information is known  about her parents.    After Silas died  Elizabeth
supported her family by teaching school. She died on August 15, 1890,
and was buried in Matagorda Cemetery.
Silas and Elizabeth Baxter's children   were all born in  Matagorda
County: (1) Blanche Frank, born June 12, 1871, married William Carlyle
Berg on April 8, 1891, and died June 26, 1953; both are buried in   the
Matagorda Cemetery; (2) Bertha Demis, born December 1, 1873, married
Edward Roland Inglehart, and died January 31, 1960; both are buried in
the Matagorda  Cemetery   (see  Inglehart  Family, Historic   Matagorda
County, Volume 2); (3) Mary  Annette "Mazie," born November 13,   1875,
married Charles  Partain   on May  6,  1895, in Matagorda;    (4)  Silas
Dinsmore Baxter, born January 29, 1878, married Susie Weatherford Hill
on May  4, 1904;  and   (5) Margaret  "Baby,"  born January  28,  1880,
married William Elias Williams on July 20, 1898, and died December   9,
1927; both are buried in Matagorda Cemetery.
Billie Thrasher
Muriel Lawhon
WILLIAM BENNETT FAMILY
William D. Bennett  was born   on October 15,  1931, in  Galveston,
Texas, to Earle Neal and Anna "Macy" Minter Bennett. The family lived
in High Island  until 1941, when   they moved to  Alvin. Only   sixteen
years old when he graduated from high school, Bill was offered a music
scholarship to a college in Kentucky, but decided to study engineering
at Texas A&M College (as   it was called then).   He was in the  Corps,
the Aggie Band,  and Phi   Eta Sigma honorary  fraternity.  During  his
last two  years, he   was   student assistant  director  of  the  Aggie
Freshman Band.   He graduated   with a bachelor of   science (B.S.)  in
electrical engineering in 1953.
Bill and Arlene  Kemp were married   on October 30,  1954, at  Holy
Cross Church by Rev. Christopher J. Martin. The couple then moved    to
Tucson, Arizona, where Bill   served in the  United States Army  Signal
Corps for two years. Upon their return to Bay City, Bill was employed
by Phillips Petroleum Company at Old Ocean as an electrical   engineer,
and he retired as  a construction manager   in 1986 after  thirty-three
years with  the company.    He  was a member   of Knights  of  Columbus
Council 3070, serving as grand knight,   and he was a Cub Scout  leader
and youth baseball coach.
Arlene Mary Kemp, daughter   of Paul and  Marie Lukefahr Kemp, was
born on September 12, 1932, in Lincoln, Nebraska. The family moved to
Bay City in  1937 to  live on her   grandfather's farm.   The Kemp  and
Edgar Lukefahr families, including the   two Kemp children, Arlene  and
Richard, and  the eight   Lukefahr children,  lived next  door to  each
other and enjoyed many family outings--picnics in LeTulle Park, church
activities, trips  to the  beach and   to town  on Saturday  nights  to
attend one of the three movie theatres (there was a fourth for a short
time in the early 1940s).
Arlene was enrolled first   in Jefferson Davis  School and then  at
Holy Cross School  when it   opened on Fifth  Street in  1940.  It  was
staffed for  a  short time  by   the Benedictine  Oblate  Sisters  from
Mobile, Alabama, who   came from  England to  serve in  the Diocese  of

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