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THE GILMER MIRROR, Gilmer, Texas December 17, 2014 — Page 3A
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Ramond
Pearson
Funeral services for Ra-
mond Pearson are pending
with J.H. Anderson Memorial
Funeral Home.
Mr. Pearson died Friday,
Dec. 12.
Johnny
Holloman
1952 - 2014
Funeral services for John-
ny Holloman, 64, are pending
with J.H. Anderson Memorial
Funeral Home.
Mr. Holloman died Sunday,
Dec. 14.
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BETTY BIVINS COOK
BETTY BIVINS COOK
Here is a variety of side dish
recipes you might want to try
for your holiday meals:
RICH AND CREAMY
POTATO CASSEROLE
6 medium potatoes
16 oz. sour cream
8 oz. shredded Cheddar
cheese
4 tbsp. butter, melted, di-
vided
3 green onions, thinly
sliced
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
Place potatoes in a sauce-
pan; cover with salted water.
Bring to a boil. Reduce heat,
cover and simmer until tender.
Drain and cool.
Peel and grate potatoes.
Place in a bowl. Add sour
cream, Cheddar cheese, Stable-
spoons butter, green onions,
salt and pepper.
Transfer to a greased 2-1/2
quart baking dish. Drizzle
with remaining butter. Bake,
uncovered, at 350 degrees for
30-35 minutes or until heated
through. Refrigerate any left-
overs. Serves 8-10.
FESTIVE CORN
1/4 cup chopped green
pepper
1/4 cup chopped sweet red
pepper
2 green onions, thinly
sliced
2 tablespoons butter
8 oz. pkg. cream cheese,
cubed
2/3 cup milk
3/4 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. dill weed
16 oz. pkg. frozen corn,
thawed
In a saucepan over medium
heat, saute peppers and on-
ions in butter until tender.
Add cream cheese, milk, salt,
pepper and dill. Cook and stir
over low heat until cheese
is melted. Add corn; heat
through. Serves 6-8.
PIMIENTO
GREEN BEANS
2 lbs. fresh green beans, cut
into 2-inch pieces
14-1/2 oz. can chicken
broth
1/2 cup chopped onion
2 oz. jar chopped pimientos,
drained
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 to 1/4 tsp. pepper
1/4 cup shredded Parmesan
cheese
In a large saucepan, bring
beans, broth and onion to a
boil. Reduce heat; cover and
cook for 10-15 minutes or until
crisp-tender. Drain. Stir in
the pimentos, salt and pep-
per. Sprinkle with Parmesan
cheese. Serves about 10.
SWISS SCALLOPED
POTATOES
5 medium potatoes (about 3
lbs.), peeled and thinly sliced
1 small onion, thinly
sliced
4 oz. jar diced pimientos,
drained
3 garlic cloves, minced
8 oz. shredded Swiss cheese,
divided
3/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
14-1/2 oz. chicken broth
2 tbsp. butter
In a greased shallow 3-quart
baking dish, layer a third of
the potatoes, onion, pimien-
tos, garlic and Swiss cheese;
sprinkle with 1/4 tsp. salt and
a dash of pepper. Repeat lay-
ers once. Top with remaining
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potatoes, onion, pimientos,
garlic, salt and pepper. Pour
broth over the top; dot with
butter. Bake, uncovered, at
375 degrees for 1 hour.
Sprinkle with remaining
cheese. Bake 30 minutes or
until liquid is absorbed and
cheese is melted. Let stand
for 10 minutes before serving.
Serves 8.
POTATO CHEESE
CASSEROLE
4 lbs. potatoes, peeled
8 oz. pkg. cream cheese,
softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup milk
1 to 1-1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 cup chopped green pep-
per
1/2 cup shredded Cheddar
cheese
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
cheese
1/2 cup snipped chives
2 oz. jar diced pimientos,
drained
Cook potatoes in boiling
water until tender; drain and
mash. Add cream cheese, but-
ter, milk, salt and pepper; mix
well. Stir in the green pepper,
cheeses, chives and pimientos.
Spread in a greased 13-inch x 9
inch x 2 inch baking dish.
Bake, uncovered, at 350
degrees for 50-y0 minutes or
until browned and heated
through. Serves 12-15.
CREAMY VEGETABLE
CASSEROLE
24 oz. pkg. frozen Califor-
nia-blend vegetables
10-3/4 oz. can condensed
cream of celery soup, undi-
luted
8 oz. jar process cheese
sauce
1/2 cup finely crushed but-
ter-flavored crackers (about 13
crackers)
2 tbsp. butter, melted
Prepare vegetables accord-
ing to package directions;
drain. In a bowl, combine
soup and cheese sauce. Add
vegetables and stir to coat.
Transfer to a greased shal-
low 2-quart baking dish. Toss
cracker crumbs and butter;
sprinkle over the top.
Bake, uncovered, at 350
degrees for 30 minutes or until
heated through. Serves 6.
HOLIDAY HOMINY
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
3 cups milk
1 to 1-1/2 tsp. seasoned
salt
1 to 1-1/2 tsp. coarsely
ground pepper
2 cups cubed process cheese
(Velveeta)
5 cans (15-1/2 oz. each) yel-
low hominy, drained
Paprika
In a large saucepan, melt
butter; stir in flour until
smooth. Gradually add milk,
seasoned salt and pepper.
Bring to a boil; cook and stir for
2 minutes or until thickened.
Stir in cheese until melted.
Place hominy in a greased
13 x 9 x 2-inch baking dish.
Pour cheese sauce over homi-
ny. Bake, uncovered, at 350 de-
grees for 25 minutes. Sprinkle
with paprika. Bake 10 minutes
longer or until heated through.
Serves 12-14.
This weeks column was
written by my sister, Ruby Ida
Bivins Denton. We appreciate
her sharing her memories.
Christmases of the 1930s
and early 1940s stay in my
memory as the best Christ-
mases of my life. Christmas
was so much simpler then.
Christmas time was some-
thing children looked forward
to all year because it was then
we got toys. We did not get
them all through the year as
many children do now.
We also did not get a lot of
gifts for our birthdays. Mother
baked a cake and that was
about it.
But at Christmas there
would be whatever toys Santa
could bring. (He sometimes
was poor along with the rest of
us in that depression time.)
And Mother made many
kinds of special desserts for
Christmas time. We visited
grandparents and got other
special treats. Nobody had
much money in our neighbor-
hood.
Mostly we were small crop
farmers and grew our own
food and raised our chickens,
cows, and hogs, so there was
plenty of food on the table.
But we saw red delicious
apples and oranges only at
Christmas.
On Christmas morning,
Santa had always left a small
brown paper bag with an or-
ange, an apple, some nuts (in
the shell), and a few pieces of
Christmas candy—chocolate
drops and ribbon candy and
sometimes some shaped mel-
locreams.
These were the same type of
candy that candy corn is made
of, but at Christmas they were
available in an assortment of
Christmas shapes and flavors:
chocolate reindeer, green
Christmas trees, red Santas,
green holly leaves, white
snowmen, and yellow stars.
(These same shaped candies
came out also at Easter and
Halloween in shapes for those
times.)
Mother made a yellow or
chocolate cake with white
cream icing and decorat-
ed it with these Christmas
shapes.
Along with everyone else,
we always had a live Christ-
mas tree, as there were no
artificial trees until later. Ours
was most always a little cedar
tree cut from the woods.
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By TOMMIE CRONE • 903-725-6192
SIMPSONVILLE, Dec. 15-
Simp sonville VFD answered
a fire call, Dec. 8. This was a
brush fire on Sheep Road that
had gotten out of control. It
wasn’t as windy that day as it
has been, however if you start
any type of fire you need to
stay with it until you know it’s
out. Don’t take any chances.
The house you save may very
well be your own.
Simpsonville Baptist
Church would like to invite
all churches to their Sunday
Christmas of special singing,
to be held Dec. 21 at 11 a.m.
Everyone is welcome to come
join in the true meaning of
Christmas. You shall truly be
blessed.
There will be a short service
then everyone will enjoy the
music.
Bill and Tommie Crone
traveled to Oklahoma this
NORA STEELMAN
Nora Steelman
to celebrate
90th birthday
Nora Steelman will cel-
ebrate her 90th birthday on
Dec. 19. Mrs. Steelman was
born Dec. 19, 1924 to Clifford
and Myrtie Hopkins.
She grew up in the Sim-
mons community and gradu-
ated from Harleton High
School in 1942.
She married Bynam Dug-
ger, and they had three chil-
dren: Jerry, Janice and Jim-
my. After Bynam’s death she
married Dean Steelman in
1959.
Mrs. Steelman worked for
Safeway for 25 years and re-
tired in 1987.
The Steelmans have six
grandchildren, nine great-
grandchildren and one great-
great-granchild.
Her family will help her
celebrate her birthday with a
dinner on Saturday, Dec. 20.
Mrs. Steelman would love
to hear from friends and fam-
ily with cards or letters mailed
to 1602 Pinecrest in Gilmer.
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of Tommie’s precious sister,
Ruth Burnett. She fought a
hard battle with lung cancer.
She passed away Dec. 9 at the
age of 67.
Please pray for one of my
other sisters, Linda Hill, who
lives in Bennington Okla. and
is on Hospice and suffers with
MS. There are so many out
there sick that still need our
prayers. Please keep them in
mind when you pray.
Christmas is just around
the corner and I hope everyone
is ready for it. While you are
out shopping keep in mind the
true meaning of Christmas.
Give the gift of love — it keeps
on giving. I do pray everyone
has a Merry Christmas.
I can’t help but wonder how
many people in Upshur Coun-
ty put up a real Christmas
Tree. I saw a lot of fresh trees
at a store Sunday that were
wrapped, however they had
been cut so long the needles
were falling off and they had
turned brown.
Dead trees are a fire hazard.
We used to take the grand-
children out to the tree farm
and would ride around in a
wagon and pick out the tree we
wanted. When you go to cut a
real tree I have found they are
a lot bigger when you get them
home than what they look in
the tree farm.
One year when my son was
small we went to my grand-
father’s farm for a tree and I
thought it looked small, just
like we wanted. We worked so
hard cutting it down, and when
we got it to the car it was so
large we couldn’t get it in the
trunk of the car. We finally had
to go find another one. Any
way it was a lot of fun. That is
what life is all about, fun and
wonderful memories made.
I am still putting up mustard
greens. They smell so good
when they are cooking and
they make a salad wonderful
when you put them in it fresh.
There is nothing better than
things right out of the garden.
Yes, the big yellow grasshop-
pers are still lurking.
Gladewater Opry to present
annual Christmas show
Performing at the Gladewa-
ter Saturday Night Opry this
week will be will be Daniel
Foster, Tom Brown, Adele Lit-
tle, Emily Duckworth, Anna
‘Storytime’ offered
Thursdays at Library
The Upshur County Li-
brary’s Story time will be held
Thursday at 10 a.m. and at
4:15 p.m.
This week attendees may
hear One Special Christmassy
M. Christina Butler and Snow
Bunny’s Christmas Wish by
Rebecca Harry.
The library is located at 702
W. Tyler, St., Gilmer.
All programs are free of
charge and there will be a
craft.
For more information call
Debbie White at 903-843-5001.
Rosewood Baptist
schedules annual
Christmas pageant
Rosewood Baptist Church
will hold its annual Christmas
pageant on Sunday, Dec. 21.
This year’s program is en-
titled “The Christmas Hope”
and will portray the birth
of Christ in both drama and
song. The program begins at
10:30 a.m.
All are invited to attend and
join in celebrating the true
meaning of Christmas.
Taylor, Cheyenne Chasteen,
Moriah Chasteen, Steward
Holler, Linda Flesher, Gina
Ivy, and Special Guest Santa
Claus. Tickets are $10 for
adults, children 6-12, $5, and
under six free.
Auditions are held at 4:30
p.m. every Saturday.
The Opry House is located
at 108 E. Commerce St. in
downtown Gladewater. Show-
time is 8 p.m.
Call 903-845-3600 for infor-
mation or reservations.
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survivors beyond the immedi-
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parents, brothers and sisters,
and grandchildren. Inclusion
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(Exception: Should a person
have no survivors other than a
niece, nephew, etc., then that
relative may be listed.)
There will be a $10 charge
for a photograph run with a
free obituary.
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showed the Cuzick’s,
Shirley’s, and the
Atwood’s during our
time of grief.
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