The Leonard Graphic (Leonard, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 2001 Page: 4 of 10
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, PAGE 4 - The Leonard Graphic - October 18, 2001
Years Gone By Compiled by
• .* - - " Mauridell Hutton Bennett
National Anthem singers
The Zeonarb Graphic
October 1951
Miss Nina Wicker become bride
of Eddie Ray Anderson
Miss Nina Wicker and Eddie Ray
Anderson repeated their vows Oct. 13,
1951 at the Presbyterian Church here
in Leonard, officiating was Rev. Otis
Swisher.
The wedding music was presented
by Mrs. J. A. Arnold.
The bride wore a navy suit with a
Mr. Anderson, formerly lived with Belvery Gene Ferguson, had arrived
his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Dick in Tokyo, Japan.
Caskey in Leonard but for the past two
years has been in Korea. He is now’ To BE Stationed At BEEVILLE
stationed in Virginia. T-Sgt. And Mrs. Pete Evans, who
(Modern-day footnote: Happy have been stationed at Coco, Fla. ar-
50th Anniversary Nina and Eddie.
From all your friends in Leonard.) '
New Employee
rived here for a visit with his mother,
Mrs. Clarence Evans and other rela-
tives this week. Sgt. Evans will now
be stationed in Beeville, Texas, on
Pat Wilson, owner of the J. R. recruiting duty.
Wilson Furniture Co. and Wilson Life
Insurance Co. announced this week
A Girl for THE SMITH’S
pastel pink blouse, navy accessories that Mrs. Rubye Mae Savage had been A 5-pound, 12-ounce bundle of
and a corsage of pink carnations, added to the personnel of the store, joy arrived Oct. 16. The little Miss
Attending the couple were Miss Mrs. Savage will be connected with was born in the Wolfe City Hospital
Nadine Grounds and Otto Holland, both the bookkeeping and sales de- and has been named Trenia Morene.
Miss Gounds wore a gray suit with partments. Parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. C. (RED)
navy accessories. Smith.
The bride is a graduate of Leonard , Arrives IN Japan Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs, J.
High School and holds a position with Mrs. B. G. Ferguson received C. Smith Sr. ofPike and Mrs. Ben Hall
the Leonard National Bank. word this week,that her husband, Sgt. of Leonard.
Birthday adventure
Esther Minchey, a resident
of the Delba community
west of Leonard, celebrated
87 years on Oct. 14 with a
ride on a four-wheeler
driven by her great-
grandson, Barry Wright of
Whitewright. Her son,
Royce Minchey, and his
wife, Alene, hosted a day of
birthday festivities for. 1
Minchey. |
Submitted photo |
Cynthia Coffey photo
At the Leonard vs. Honey Grove football game Friday, Oct. 12, Charles Darling led the
First Baptist Church-Leonard choir in a moving rendition of the ‘Star Spangled Banner.’
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Escapees captured in stand-off; one shoots other
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Sherman home of an escapee’s relative, gunpoint and stole their Nissan pickup and refused to stop for the trooper, and a chase
That person, it is suspected, drove the five three weapons in Wood County, leaving began. It ended when the escapees stormed
to Plano where they were allegedly met the Dodge pickup there. into the Forresters home in Forestburg
by Leach’s 16-year-old niece from Keller. The duo then traveled to Bonham around 6:30 p.m. Sunday.Gantt and Leach
Officials said she took them Friday after-’ where they overpowered Lindsay Ann shot at law enforcement officers several
noon to the Jolebec Stables in McKinney. LaRue and her husband Michael, inside times during the stand-off, but officers said
There they held the owner and two em- their home near Bonham about 11:30 p.m. they never returned fire and no one was
ployees captive while one escapee, Bryan Saturday. Fannin County Sheriff’s Office injured by the shots Gantt and Leach fired.
Riley, left with the teen age-girl in a Dodge Chief Deputy Donnie Foster said, “The After being arrested, Leach was charged
pickup owned by a stable employee. fugitives cut phone lines, killed a dog, and with four counts of aggravated assault oh %)
Officials said when Bryan Riley and waited inside the house until the owners a public servant, two charges of aggra-
the girl returned, they saw law enforce- returned.” He said they kept LaRue, his vated kidnapping, and one charge of bur-
ment officers arresting Reynolds and Jerry wife, and Silvius bound until about 9:20 glary of ahabitation by Montague County
Riley. Bryan Riley and the girl fled the Sunday morning. Gantt and Leach left the officials. He also faces other charges from
4 T l . scene and he was arrested Saturday night Nissan in a barn and took the LaRue’s Lin- Grayson, Wood, and Fannin Counties. He
1 renton 00 near Bonham. Officers found the girl coin Navigator, plus weapons and cash is being held without bond.
sleeping in the stolen Dodge after she stolen from the house. They left Michael Gantt was also charged with four
cal to QA 0 dropped Riley at his relative’s house Fri- LaRue and Silvius bound and took Lind- counts of aggravated assault on a public
S al C OCL A / day evening. Gantt and Leach also stole a say LaRue, 35, with them. Michael LaRue servant, two counts of aggravated kidnap-
Dodge pickup from the stables, taking a identified Leach and Gantt to Fannin ping, and one count of burglary of habita-
The Friends of the Trenton Library hostage with them. Joyce Silvius, 59, re- County sheriff’s deputies, Foster said. tion. He alsofaces other charges stemming
have scheduled a semi-annual book mained their captive from Friday afternoon The escapees and their new hostage from thejail break in the three additional .
sale for Saturday, Oct. 27 from 10 a.m. until she was traded for another hostage were next spotted traveling west on US counties. Jeremy Reynolds, Bryan Riley,
to 2 p. m. i n the Trento n Elementary Sunday morni ng. Duri ng that time Gantt Hwy. 82 by a Texas Department of Public and Jerry Riley all face the possibility of
School Cafeteria. and Leach allegedly robbed two men at Safety trooper in Muenster. The escapees additional charges in several counties. %)
All proceeds go toward the pur-
chase of new books for the library.
Last year’s proceeds helped purchase
the 2001 Blue Bonnet Award winning
books, as well as some much needed
high school level biographies.
The group is also still seeking do-
nations of books for the sale. Books
may be brought to the library located
n the Trenton High School, or to the
Elementary School office from now
until Oct. 26 during regular school
hours (7:45 a.m. - 3:45 p.m.) -
“We already have a huge selection
of books, which is going to make this
sale our largest to date, but we always
like more,” said chairperson Myrna
St.George.
Police & Fire Briefs
■ On Oct. 9 at 3:29 p.m., po-
■ Local police were notified by front for a few minutes.
lice were called to the intersection the Hunt County Attorney General’s
of N. Highway 69 and Houston
Street. A 53-year-old woman had
been riding her bike when she fell.
She was transported by ambulance
to a Bonham hospital.
A woman notified police on
Oct. 12 at 11:05 a.m. that a dia-
mond ring had been stolen from
■ Police were notified on Oct.
office that they had a felony forgery 16 at 12 p.m. that a soda vending
warrant for a local Leonard man that machine was burglarized. Approxi-
was employed at Leonard ISD in the mately $50 and a coin box worth
maintenance department. The man $100 was reported missing.
was arrested Oct. 12 at 11:30 a.m. ■ On Oct. 16 at 10:25 a.m. lo-
without incident. cal police were notified by the
■ On Oct. 12 at 3:35 p.m. police Kaufman County Sheriff’s Depart-
were notified by a U.S. Highway 69 ment that they had a warrant for a
her residence in the 100 block of business that $200 had been stolen Leonard woman for receiving or
E. Bois D’arc between Oct. 5 and from a bank bag after a suspicious stealing stolen checks. She was ar-
Oct. 11. man had been left alone in the store rested without incident.
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Adventures in Genealogy: Beating the bushes
By Uncle Hiram names. I have always considered this , Last summer, on our extended (sigh,), no Dodsons (sigh), and of
Special to the Graphic creative research; she says I am com- vacation to Florida, like always, I course no Hocutts, wait, there it is,
[Editor’s Note: The following is pulsive, would go through the phone books in five separate listings for Hocutts. My
the first in a new series of columns For years I had no real good answer every small town we stopped in. In a blonde was so shocked she didn’t
by Celeste resident Bill Hocutt, for her because I had never come across small town near Mobile, Ala., we even object when I pulled out the cell
AKA Uncle Hiram, a genealogy re- the surnames I was looking for. I would stopped for dinner at one of those old- phone and started dialing. I ended up
searcher/writer. Enjoy!] search the phone books and she would fashioned greasy spoons. You know with six pages of notes on a branch of
I wanna tell y’all about one of the just sit over there and giggle. I would the ones I mean, the cook is always the family that had escaped my widely
things I do that drives my sweet go through the football programs every named Cookie and the waitress is thrown net. •
blonde right up the wall. Every time time our little town had a road game named Flora Bell or Norma Jean. As The moral of this, never overlook,
we go on vacation or on a trip, the and she would roll her eyes and giggle, we were waiting for our chicken fried any opportunity to do genealogy,
first thing I do when we check into I am not sure, but I think she put up steaks, and after sneaking over to the Check, those phone books, look at
the motel, even before I steal the ash- with my little compulsion because she phone booth “borrowing” the phone those high school football prograrns
trays, is grab the phone book. I care- figured it was harmless and it only took book, I started my routine. Let s see. - and look at any source that lists lots
fully go through it, looking for sur- me a minute or two. no Traywicks (sigh), no Lunsfords of names. Sometimes you get lucky.
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Kiwanis inducts
officers, awards
Wilson high honor *
Betty Clay, Kiwanis Lt. Gover-
nor of Division 8 in the Texas/Okla-
homa District, was in Bonham re-
cently to induct Tandy Hix as presi-
dent of the Bonham Kiwanis Club.
Also inducted by Clay were Ron
Nippert, vice president; Secretary
Holly Shelley; Treasurer James
Woodall; and new Board Members
Charles Teller, Buster Norman, and
Mary-k Ashley Wilson. Board mem-
bers continuing to serve are John %
Burnett, Alexis Clark, and Joe Moss,
immediate past president.
Mary-k Ashley Wilson was
named Kiwanian of the Year.
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The Leonard Graphic (Leonard, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 2001, newspaper, October 18, 2001; Leonard, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1660118/m1/4/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Leonard Public Library.