Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 13, 1989 Page: 6 of 14
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WILLOW
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MATTIE CHILDERS 473-2226
July 4th~Some people are
enjoying the 4th of July, and
some are trying to get this hay
baled; some folks trying to get
things going again after a hail
storm and wind that blew up
trees, including the roots.
1 talked to Clara Schmidt,
she said it was awful at their
house near Big Town. Diane
doesn't live too far from Clara.
All the lights went out. Diane
had a bunch of candles so she
and the neighbors had a light.
Fayne said that over at Euless
was just as bad. The cloud
went around here that came
through this area Sunday even-
ing
I wanted to go to Mrs.
Sophie Lynch's funeral Mon-
day, but I was afraid to drive-
so much traffic. Annie Johnson
and 1 went to the funeral home
and took our (lowers. There
wasn't anyone there but the
manager < f the funeral home. 1
thought a iot of Sophie; we liv-
ed as neighbors when Royce
and Fayne were very little
boys. They, and all the rest
down in that neighborhood, all
went to Dallas. R.F. bought all
their farming tools. The tools
reside down behind the hay
barn, the tractor has taken the
place of them.
Raymon and Royce are bal-
ing hay, just like hay balers are
supposed to do, and have run
out of gator ade. They said that
ice water would do til about 3
p.m.
We had just finished lunch
and Royce went to check on
some hay at Edd Johnson's
meadows when a car drove up
in front of our house. Well, it
was Frankie Ivie, his wife and
young son. Of course, the
young son didn't want to cele-
brate the 4th alone; finally got
them to eat lunch. It’s been so
many years ago since Frankie
had been to our house. He and
Fay ne and Elmer Latham were
awfully good fishermen when
they were small, down on the
Sabine. Elmer and Fayne made
themselves a two-wheel gigger
cart. Now, they were important
boys, By then Icie Mae and
Willie Ivy had moved and
Frankie had to go, too.
While they were here, Ferr-
ington and L.J. Flowers spent
some time with us. They flew
in, but was a while longer be-
fore their sister, Sophie Lynch
got here. She died almost in-
stantly. Her husband Edd
Lynch, was buried somewhere
close to Alba, TX, is why they
brought her back to 'Salem,' 1
think is the name of the
cemetery. L.J. Flowers and his
wife, Audrey, stay at their
home in the state of Washing-
ton during the summer and in
Alba in the winter.
Diane got to stay home this
week, but will be on the road
again.
Mrs. Snad O'Rear called me
during the time Sophie was in
the funeral home. I think a lot
of Mrs. O'Rear. I used to see
her often. I think a lot of her
and Snad, too, before he went
away.
I had a nice visit over the
telephone with Joy.
Ricky Childers and wife
went to a horse (?) - don’t
know if they are richer are
poorer. They were due a break,
working 7 days all the time
makes us contrary at our
house.
Got back from the hay field,
the phone was ringing. It was
Pete Latham, down Houston
way. They have two daughters,
one in/or about Nashville
Tennessee. I forgot where the
other girl and family lives. He
said he was planning on
visiting us this summer and ask
Mary Latham, another cousin,
to come with him.
I hated so bad that I didn’t
get to go to Bennie Franklin's
burial at Turner Cemetery. He
and Raymon were school
mates their first years of
school.
I talked to Joy. She's aw-
fully tired and Pete is feeline a
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little better, I think. He's got
another round with his doctor
this week.
It's been quite a few years
since the pieme and visiting
wasn't in full swn g. Maybe it
won't be long, Pete will be all
better and bless their hearts,
R.F. and Royce will be in the
hay, they can bale.
The people down below is
either visting. or home for a
few days. I'm glad someone
(or ones) live down there. I
loved it down there when we
lived there.
Diane came down Saturday.
I enjoyed her so much. I was
fixing lunch when she got here
and was tired as usual. She
took over the kitchen and I just
sot down. When she had it all
finished, green peas, okra, red
beans-is a must, peach pie,
fried potatoes, corn bread,
what she called goulash, any-
way, she, Fayne and I were all
here to eat. The men went to
the hay field, and Dot made a
sack full of hamburger feed.
Raymon. Royce, Edd Johnson
and his hired hand, ate in a
shade near the meadows.
Diane and I went to
Mineola. Coming home we
stopped and got Raymon and
Royce a box of ice cream. By
the time it went around, I don't
think Childers and Royce got
any, but that’s the kind of luck
a hay baler has.
Diane and I had a nice visit
with Peggy Greene Saturday.
She is a very nice person to
know. She's very much involv-
ed with her grandchildren. I
think they had played ball Sat-
urday morning, and all went
and visited Mrs. Greene Satur-
day evening. Peggy said she
was doing okay. First thing I
do when these lights go out is
call Peggy. She has a beautiful
yard, and Floyd has a very
pretty little puppy, a Father's
Day gift from his son, Rodney;
beige color and tan spots, a
very unusual color, but very
pretty.
I haven’t heard from Joy re-
cently. Yes, 1 have just talked
to her. She said Pete is doing
fine and is a lot of company.
Also, her two grandsons
visited them. Joy said it had
rained so much down there,
one of her fruit trees died. She
has tried so hard to get cherry
trees to grow. Someone told
her to set out two cherry trees
and they would live. Far as I
know, they have. She told me
what kind of fruit tree died, but
I’ve forgotten. She said it had
rained so much the gardens
ruined, just plain drowned.
Dot's company this weekend
is one of her sisters, Carolyn
Watson, from Lufkin. One
time when Royce and Dot first
married, they went to Galves-
ton for a weekend. Diane and
Carolyn went with them, they
were around twelve-years-old.
As soon as they got to the
water, in went the two, with
Dot and Royce unloading the
car. I think they said there was
an undertow, and got these two
and washed them way out.
Carolyn couldn't swim and
fought Diane so that she
couldn’t. A lady on the beach
saw them and got the life
guards and got them out, but
they were life-less. He finally
brought them to, and if I
remember, those two haven't
been vacationing with Royce
and Dot (where it's water)
since.
Josh Childers visited us a
while one evening last week.
His daughter visited him re-
cently. She has two beautiful
daughters. When Francis
(Josh's daughter) was about
14-years-old, she spent some
time with us and another ‘aunt’
Modena. We were sewing for
her, in those days you made the
girl's dresses, and a lot of time
the boys shirts. Modena and I
lived about Wi miles apart. It
sure was a problem to fit the
dresses on Francis, she’d rather
play. We didn’t know what
patterns were then, just try on
until it would do. But between
Modena and I, we got them
made. That's been a lot of
/ears ago, hasn’t it Modena?
We would meet at my house
and the men shell peas or fix
corn, bring it to the house in
wagon loads, then go to
Modena’s and can. Those were
good days, but one day they
brought aunt Minnie Ingram up
here to shell peas. I made corn
bread muffins in those days,
had a huge bowl full. Our kids
had to wait until the grownups
ate. when they were finished,
the kids were starved (or they
thought, anyway). When they
did get a chance to eat, that
bowl of muffins just plain dis-
appeared. Aunt Minnie just
couldn’t understand where they
went. Modena and I knew, and
I was cooking more. It was
during the war and couldn’t get
tea. and aunt Pattie and Billie
even drank tea for breakfast.
They delivered ice. lucky if
you got 25 lbs., and you’d roll
it up in a quilt. (And then say
good old drys?) Yes, they
were good in i way, and I think
we were more concerned about
our neighbors. Never go and
visit a while at night, and then
no radio. Just plain visited,
maybe play 42, and always
someone cheating “just for
fun” they said, if they got
caught. Roy William and R.F.
were always partners, if they
needed double 6, they lay six
dominoes down, etc. So
naturally, they always won.
But one night Mr. Flowers
caught on to their little trick
and took his wife home and
“that was that”
Mr. Meg Yancy Riddling, in
Grand Saline, had a little
wagon and team of little mules.
Mrs. Flowers and I sold our
eggs to him, and he in turn sold
them on his route. We also had
a Watkins man. We’d swap
eggs for Watkins linoment. O
yes, we had aches and pains,
and Johnson grass. We’d cut it
down one day, and it was up
again the next day. One day
Raymon was plowing in that
Johnson grass, three mules to
his plow, and I was hoeing,
and it was hot! An insurance
man stopped to sell R.F. some
insurance, that’s when the in-
surance man found out he
should have been a farmer, or
never stop a farmer from his
easy way of life.
Enough bull, and love you
all. Thank the good Lord for
these fans, ice makers, etc.,
etc. We’ll talk again next
week, good Lord willing,
through our Rains County
Leader.
Services for
Grady Bass
in Kilgore
Grady Bass of Kilgore, who
had lived in Kilgore since the
early 1920s, died Sunday, July
2. in Medical Center Hospital
in Tyler.
Funeral services were held
at 4 p.m. Wed., July 5, at
Forest Home Baptist Church
with the Rev. Mack Spinks and
Carl Williamson officiating.
Burial was in Hickory Grove
Cemetery, Kilgore, under the
direction of Rader Funeral
Home.
Mr. Bass was born Sept 26,
1915. He was a retired carpen-
ter and member of Forest
Home Baptist Church since
1930.
Survivors include his wife,
Mauritta Carpenter Bass;
daughter, Barbara Simmons;
sons, Gene & Wayne Bass; sis-
ter, Miss Mae Bass; brother,
Horace Bass; 7 grandchildren;
and 7 great-grandchildren, all
of Kilgore.
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and Stacy Friday night.
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Execution
Date to Be Set
for Betty Beets
Betty Lou Beets, whose
murder conviction was recent-
ly upheld by the U.S. Supreme
Court, could become the first
woman to be executed by the
State of Texas.
A week after the U.S. Su-
preme Court let stand the 1985
conviction and death sentence
of convicted husband-killer
Betty Lou Beets, a state district
judge in Henderson County has
scheduled Aug. 24 as the day
to set her execution date.
State District Judge Jack H.
Holland of the> 173rd Judicial
District will set Mrs. Beets’
execution date during an
Athens hearing, court coordi-
nator Beth Williams said
Wednesday.
Mrs. Beets, 52, was con-
victed of capital murder in the
1983 slaying of her fifth hus-
band, former Dallas Fire Chief
Jimmy Don Beets, and indicted
on murder charges in the kill-
ing of her fourth husband,
Doyle Wayne Barker, son of
the late Mr. & Mrs. Jack
Barker of Emory.
The bodies of both men
were unearthed in her yard
near Payne Springs-Mr.
Beets' under a wishing well
that served as a flower planter
in their front yard, and Mr.
Barker’s under a shed that au-
thorities believe the unsus-
pecting fifth husband built over
the grave. The bodies were un-
earthed from the yard of her
mobile home at Cherokee
Shores subdivision on Cedar
Creek Lake June 8, 1985-just
five days before the Dallas city
pension board was expected to
award her $15,852 in back pay
and a monthly pension of $790
until her death or remarriage.
Both were shot in the back
of the head with the same .38-
caliber pistol, prosecutors said.
Mrs. Beets, a lOth-grade
dropout, was arrested just
three days before she was to
collect on her husband’s insur-
ance. Investigators, acting on
information provided by two of
her children, found Mr. Beets’
and Mr. Barker’s bodies bur-
ied in her yard.
Mrs. Beets’ case set a pre-
cedent when the Texas Court
of Criminal Appeals over-
turned her conviction and then,
in a rare move, changed its
mind and reinstated the death
sentence.
On June 27, the Supreme
Court ruled Mrs. Beets re-
ceived a fair trial and was
properly sentenced.
District Attorney Billy M.
Bandy, who prosecuted Mrs.
Beets, said there will not be
arguments at the Aug. 24
hearing. He said the judge will
have Mrs. Beets in the court-
room, set the date "and that'll
be it.”
Bandy said that after
Holland sets the date, Mrs.
Beets’ execution by lethal in-
jection would likely be stopped
only by a stay from Gov. Bill
Clements or a motion for a writ
of habeas corpus, probably fil-
ed in federal court in Tyler.
RAINS COUNTY LEADER
Enorjr, Texas Thursday, Inly 13,1989 Pays 6
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GRADUATES FROM MEDICAL SCHOOL-Jeffery D.
Adair, son of Sonja Adair and the late Douglas Adair of Dallas,
was graduated June 3rd from Louisiana State University School of
Medicine. Dr. Adair will do his internship at LSUMC for one
year. He will do three years’ residency in anesthesiology at Man-
mouth Medical Center in Longbranch, New Jersey. Dr. Adair is
the grandson of Benson Adair and Connie Bane of Emory. Those
attending the graduation from here were Benson Adair, Deloris
McAree and Betty Childers. Photo Contributed
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Thomas. They will be singing in Brewton, Alabama, July 16 and
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Becknell, Kathleen Hill. Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 13, 1989, newspaper, July 13, 1989; Emory, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth765493/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rains County Library.