Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1984 Page: 18 of 33
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P»ee 6. Section 2, The Hondo Anvil Herald, Thursday, April 12, 1984
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Adequate insurance
important concern
Proper insurance cover-
age is of major concern to
everyone, but particularly to
our farm and ranch families,
according to Gaye Bippert,
Texas Agricultural Exten-
sion Service - Home
Economist.
A special program on
evaluating your insurance
needs will be presented
Thursday, April 12, at 7:30
p.m. at the DTianis School
Cafeteria.
The Medina County Pro-
gram Building Committee
and the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service is spon-
soring the program. The
Texas Insurance Board is
furnishing two speakers.
Woody Pogue, Deputy Com-
missioner of Health Insur-
ance, will discuss health
insurance. Ed Casper,
Assistant Director of Work-
men’s Compensation, will
cover workmen’s compensa-
tion with special emphasis
on the new bill that affects
farm and ranch labor.
Tim Howard, Field Under-
writer with Texas Farm
Bureau Insurance Com-
panies, will cover liability
insurance.
This program is free and
open to everyone. •„
By Mary Ney Gilhooiy
One of life’s common
denominators today is mov-
ing from one place to
another On meeting a
stranger, an opening con-
versational gambit is
“Where are you from?” At a
recent Dallas dinner party
for twelve, this writer was
the only native Texan. Our
generation has coined
phrases such as “upward
mobility” and “climbing the
corporate ladder”; psycholo-
gists speak of the ‘ifairily of
origin” and the “nuclear
family” Underlying all this
language growth is moving:
moving up, moving out,
moving away.
In such a world, Agnes
Rothe Ney did not move.
She, in her words, “stayed
put”. She stayed put for 76
years, four months and 17
days. Nearly eight decades
later she still lived in the
house - still slept in the very
bedroom in which she was
bom.
Home for Agnes, nick-
named “Nux” by affectionate
siblings, was the 95-year-old
frame house her father,
August C. Rothe had built
for his wife, Emma Sauter
Rothe, and their young
family, some ten miles north
of DTianis. Like the family,
the house also grew. The
original structure was six
rooms. Later additions and
improvements brought it to
its present complement of
ten rooms, hallways and long
porches
However, any house is so
much more than mere
rooms. Every house takes its
character, its personality, its
very soul from the family
that dwells therein. Three
generations lived and shared
the August Rothe home-
stead.
When Agnes married
Herman J Ney in 1931, the
young couple chose to live
with Agnes's widowed
mother, then 67 years old,
and Agnes’ older sister,
Tina. Six children were bom
to Agnes and Herman and all
grew up in the sprawling
ranch house. The five who
survived childhood married
and moved to homes of their
own.
With Herman's death in
1972, (her mother and sister
had died earlier), Agnes was
alone on the ranch. Although
many friends and relatives
with good and kind inten-
tions tried to persuade
Agnes to move to town, she,
like so many widows, sought
emotional security in the
sanctuary of her home.
Derision to Move
Some 12 years later Agnes
bowed to the inevitable; she
derided to move to town.
She chose to relinquish the
splendid isolation of the
country to accept the com-
fort of nearby caring rela-
tives and friends.
With almost fictional tim-
ing, a very appropriate
house came onto the market.
The home of the late Mollie
Poerner was the right home
at the right time in the right
place. Joe Sauter was the
carpenter nearly a century
ago for both I ouses and thus
they share in common some
architectural features. The
houses are of the same
general vintage and thus
both claim long family his-
tories.
Moving weekend was
March 17-18 of this year
Agnes’ three daughters
Beatrice Koch of DTianis
JoAnn Poerner of San An-
tonio and Mary Gilhooiy of
Dallas gathered earlier in
the week and helped Agnes
make the difficult choices of
what to take to her “new”
home.
In Agnes’ ranch home
there were many cupboards,
closets, chests - all filled
with the accumulation of 80
years of living. The selection
and packing process was
frequently impeded by a
rush of memories for Agnes
of earlier human events,
births, marriages, funerals,
not yet lost in the mists of
time.
Moving Day
A convoy of family pick-
ups and trailers drew up to
the ranch house early Satur-
day morning. An assorted
group of non-professional
but enthusiastic movers be-
gan the task at hand. In any
extended family there will
surface a collection of skills
and talents. So it is with
Agnes’ family By noon the
appliances were hooked up,
the furniture was arranged,
ancestral portraits had been
hung and all the major
aspects of moving accom-
plished A family buffet
lunch was served to some 22
family members who in one
morning had transported for
Agnes her most precious
earthly possessions to their
new home.
Home is both the dwell-
ing where we reside and the
inner-most recesses of the
heart where we truly live.
For Agnes, home will pro-
bably always be the house on
the ranch. One doesn’t
uproot nearly eight decades
of memories and easily
transplant them, no matter
how fertile the new soil.
In their loving concern for
her welfare, her children
promised her good friends
and close neighbors when
she moved to town. That
promise was fulfilled on a
sunny April afternoon last
Sunday when nearly 60
friends and relatives came to
visit Agnes during an Open
House and helped her bid
farewell to one era and
celebrate the beginning of
the next
: BENIGN BRICKS... Like a
massive face, the window-
eyes of the old St. Anthony’s
i building in DUanis seem
almost to smile. Long ago a
parochial school, the old
edifice has served the
DTianis public schools for
years, housing classes at
various times from high
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places from the more than 75
years of passing feet. Cer-
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Disabled adults need help
• Abuse, l eglect, and ex-
ploitation of disabled adults
and the edlerly should be
reported to the Texas De-
partment of Human Re-
sources. Every report is
investigated by the agency,
and services are offered to
remedy identified problems.
Reports can be made by
calling the Hondo TDHR
office at 426-3062, the Abuse
Hotline 1-800-252-5400, or by
coming in person to TDHR
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also. The Adult Protective
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Uvalde, and Atascosa county
cases is Patricia Lawrence.
Ms. Lawrence is head-
quartered in Hondo at
Avenue M and 20th Street.
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Proctor, Frances Reitzer. Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1984, newspaper, April 12, 1984; Hondo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth818498/m1/18/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hondo Public Library.