Electra Star-News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 20, 2002 Page: 3 of 8
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Base, Always forgive your enemies;
nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde
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Thursday- Fried catfish,
tarter sauce, oven baked french
fries, creamy <
combread, strawberry jello with
fruit and topping.
Friday-Swiss
creole
spinach,
cobbler.
Interment is scheduled for
June 19 at Ft. Sam Houston m
San Antonio alongside her
husband Willie.
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Morris F. Lavender, 81, died
Saturday, June 15, 2002 m Fort
Worth.
Graveside services were
held 3 p.m. Monday, June 17, m
Goshen Cemetery.
Moms was preceded m
death by his wife, Ruby Nell,
parents, James and Minnie
Lavender; and brothers, Roy
Hackney, Lloyd Lavender, Ray
Lavender and Baby Lavender.
Survivors include daughters,
Sandra Lavender, Phyllis
Lavender, Linda Kaye
Lavender; brothers, Kermit F.
Lavender, the Rev. Alvm
Lavender and wife, Myrtle, Dr.
Gene Lavender and wife, Joyce;
sisters, Edith Wilson, Helen
Talbert; four grandchildren; four
great grandchildren and many
loving nieces, nephews and
friends
Advice is like snow; the softer
it falls, the longer it dwells upon,
and the deeper it sinks into the
mind.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Confidence, like art, never
comes from having all the
answers. It comes from being
open, .to. all the questions.
—Earl Gary Stevens
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Included in take plans are goals and strategies to achieve them. After approval by the
Board of Trustees, copies of the plans will be available at each Parent Center. Parent and
community members working with the faculty were Georgia Eakin, Benny Bowden,
Marsha Kubitz and Kim Kelley. The school was represented by Jerre Gibbons, Mary
Laura Slappey, Brenda Gunter, Rogers Lankford, LaRae Collins, Nora Curry, Michele
Belcher, Cheryl Kays, Kay Balthrop, Patty Kay Bruce, Fran Davis, Missy Wheeler, Maggie
Kieren, Gayle Jennings, Billy Clark, and Don Windham. Helping to facilitate at the annual
Pick Your Destination,
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June 24-28
announced.
They are:
Monday- Cheese burger,
M. F. Lavender
Major Clarence F. (Willie) Services Held
McSpadden, who died in 1988.
They were married in 1942.
An active member of the
United Methodist Church in
Electra, she taught Sunday
School in the Kindergarten and
Junior classes for many years. In
her later years she worked with
the elderly and performed video
tape deliveries. Along with her
friends Gwen Jones, Thelma
King and Mozelle Robb, Ruth
started the Browse and Buy
Shop m 1968. Selling used
clothing and other "treasures,"
the ladies were able to give
$21,624.50 to the Methodist
Church. After Ruth's husband
time students who complete the an(j
semester with a 3.5 GPA or
above.
The President's List for the
16 week spring semester 2002:
Sharon Ann Hohenstein,
Electra.
The President's List for the
11 week spring semester 2002:
William Owen Gafford,
Electra, Texas.
The Dean's List for the 16
week spring semester 2002 are
the following:
Ashley Dawn Jones, Electra,
Texas.
Selena
Electra, Tx.
Vicky
Electra.
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Where the eye is the jury, thine Willie died, Ruth worked for
many years from his former
office and the insurance agency
alongside Willie's partner Bob
Moore and her dear friend
Beverly Stump
Survivors include her son,
Sam McSpadden and his wife
Connie; her daughter Ann and
her husband Bert Hand; Bert's
two daughters, Sarah Hand and
Katie Hand Charlson; her sister-
in-law Lois Warren; and her
best friend Elizabeth Sachse.
apparel is the evidence.
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WORKSHOP-Parents, members of the community and EISD faculty gathered Thursday,
Friday and Monday to. develop district and campus plans for the coming school year.
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Menus for the summer lunch
program at Dinsmore for the
cheese, hot rolls, peanut crispy weeh of June 24-28 have been
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They include:
Monday- Grilled
Congregate Menus for the Brianne Leigh Payton,
citizens who will be eating in daughter of Brian and Carolyn
the Annie Powell Senior Payton of Electra was named to
Citizens Center for the week of the President's List for the.
been spring 2002 semester at Texas
Tech University in Lubbock,
Texas.
, Payton is a senior and is
lettuce, tomato, pickles, onion, majoring in Spanish.
baked beans, banana pudding.
Tuesday - Baked turkey,
dressing with giblet gravy,
cranberry sauce, cauliflower,
spinach, hot roll, apple crisp.
Wednesday- Creole chicken,
whole kernel com, broccoli with
Country Glory Church^
(formerly Electra Church of God Church)
Non Denominational Casual Dress
Sunday Morning Services
11 a.m-12 noon
Bro. Rick Allen
Everyone Welcome
peach salad, fhnt, applesauce, milk.
Wednesday- Meat ;
♦♦♦ ’ cheese nachos, salad, pinto
I can give you a six-word for- beans, fruit, sliced peaches,
mula for success: “Think things
through—then follow through.”
—Edward Vernon (Eddie)
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Michael D. Bennet has been
commissioned as second
lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force
after graduating from Officer
Training School (OTS) at
Maxwell Air Force
Montgomery, Ala.
During the demanding 12
week course, cadets are trained
to be top quality Air Force
officers through an extensive
curriculum comprised of
classroom work, lectures, and
exercises to develop leadership,
team building, and officer skills.
They receive instruction in
military training and
application, professional port up to 850 times its
knowledge, human behavior, weight on its back,
defense studies, leadership
studies and management,
communication skills,and
physical fitness and a field
training deployment.
Bennett is a chaplain service
support journeyman assigned to
and th® 42nd Air Base Wing.
He is the son of Marvin and
Claudia Bennett of Vernon,
milk. Texas-
Thursday- Homestyle His wife, Deidra is the
chicken sticks, creamed daughter of Steven P. Vaughn of
potatoes, gravy, roll, salad, fruit, Electra, Texas and Debbie
fruit cocktail, milk. Gendron of Palm Bay, Fla.
Friday- Tuna sandwiches, The staff sergeant is a 1995
chips, beans, fruit, cookies, graduate of Vernon High
milk. School.
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Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not
with the wind. .
—Hamilton Wright Mabie
Ruth W. McSpadden, a
students for academic honors for long time resident of Electra,
the spring semester 2002 on the died on June 15, 2002 m New
Vernon campus and at the three Braunfels, Texas after a short
Wichita Falls center: Century illness.
City Center, Sheppard Learning She was bom in Henrietta,
Center, and Skills Training Texas on October 14, 1917. Her
Center. parents were the Reverend Pleas
The President's List and Mattie Warren. As a
recognizes full-time students Methodist minister, Ruth's
who complete the semester with father traveled his assigned area
a grade point average of 4.0. jn a horse and buggy. Ruth is
The Deans's List recognizes full- preceded in death by her parents
____1 six brothers. She is the
widow of former US Army
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