DEAR ABBY: My father passed away a couple of years ago, and my mother passed on recently. I have noticed something that I would like to share with your readers. When I came back to work after the funeral, many well-meaning friends and co-workers approached me to express their sympathy.
Barbara Louise Gazaway Harris, known to her friends and family as “Boby”, completed her earthly journey Saturday, December 10th, after a lengthy illness. Boby was born in Ruidoso, New Mexico, the first child of JB and Julia Ann Gazaway, on August 7, 1936. As a junior in high school, she met a tall, handsome airman, Ken Harris, at the roller rink. That night she went home and told her mother she had met the man she was going to marry. They did marry on July 13, 1953! They were very happily married 67 years. Ken & Boby had four children: Terry Kimm, Kathy Jan, Gregory Stewart, and Jeffrey Scott. Boby graduated valedictorian from Ruidoso High School in Ruidoso, NM in 1954. She later earned two Associate degrees, one in Music and one in Accounting, from St. Clair Co. Community College in Port Huron, MI. She put those to use serving as Pastors’ secretaries, church financial secretary, church pianist, including directing the choir from the piano in one church, and teaching piano lessons. She also taught children and adults in Sunday School. Boby loved gardening, tailoring her plants to the climate she lived in at the time. In Michigan she grew beautiful roses and gallons of strawberries. Here in Brownwood she grew blue bonnets and poppies. She often said, “Like Paul, I have learned to be content in whatever state I am.” Additionally, she enjoyed sewing and needlework. Her needlework gifts are treasured items of family and friends. In college Boby took a bowling class. Following that she taught Jeff to bowl and they all joined a league. In Brownwood she also recruited her brother Jerry and they all bowled together in leagues and just for fun with family and friends. Boby dedicated her life to her faith, her husband, and her family. She was known and loved by so many friends, of all ages, across the country, making life long friends wherever Ken’s job, as a Border Patrolman, took them. In retirement, she and Ken moved to Brownwood where they were active in Coggi
HOUSTON (AP) — Braxton Harris has been named head coach at Houston Christian, becoming only the second coach for the FCS program that was known as Houston Baptist until a name change in September. Harris spent the last two seasons at Campbell, where he was associate head coach, linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator.
When Mike Leach first moved to Mississippi State from Washington State, he stayed in the Left Field Lofts at the Bulldogs’ baseball stadium. The two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartments have balconies that look out at the diamond at Dudy Noble Field, and are a 3-minute walk from Mississippi State’s football facility and practice field.
Hoops Roundup: Early boys stop Ballinger 60-49 BALLINGER -- John-Stewart Gordon made three 3-point goals and scored 13 points Tuesday night, leading the Early Longhorns to a 60-49 nondistrict boys’ basketball win over the Ballinger Bearcats. Early improved to 7-4 as Jeremy Brown scored 12 points, and teammate Andrew Caten added 11 points.
Maria (Mary) Teresa DeLeon Patrick, age 68, of Brownwood, Texas passed on Monday December 12, 2022, at Hendrick Hospice Care in Abilene, Texas. Visitation will be Thursday, December 15, 2022, from 5:00 PM. to 7:00 PM with Rosary at 6:00 pm at Heritage Funeral Home Davis Morris Chapel, 800 Center Avenue, in Brownwood. Funeral services will be at 1:00 pm on Friday December 16, 2022, at St. Mary’s Queen of Peace catholic Church, 1105 Main St. Brownwood with Father Francis Onyekozuru officiating. Interment will follow at the Vega Cemetery in Bowser Community, Texas. She was born Maria Teresa DeLeon on December 4, 1954, in Santa Anna, Texas to Alejandro and Amelia DeLeon. She graduated from Santa Anna High School, then attended Commercial College. She then started working for the Kohler Co, Brownwood on September 17, 1981, to earn a little extra Christmas money for that year...then retired nearly 40 years later on July 1, 2021. It was at Kohler where Mary and Perry found each mother and began their journey through life. After 12 years of ’dating’, Perry and Mary married on September 5, 1998. She was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church of Coleman, later moving to Brownwood where she attended St. Mary’s Catholic Church Mary was “determined and headstrong”, never backing-down! She was a natural decorator and organizer of parties/events both at home and work. She had deep appreciation for the finer things in life and loved to shop. She loved to decorate her house for special occasions - she believed you can never have enough decorations. She was an easy bribe with a movie and popcorn. George Strait was her fantasy man and she loved to fish. With the love of her life, she changed from a small town city slicker girl to working cow girl; sorting cattle, pushing cattle down the alleyway, deworming, feeding hay/cubes. Mary loved to “go”, go anywhere with a passion for travel. She naturally liked to help others. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother,
We got the sad news last week: a longtime family friend died after a 12-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Shirley and her husband were already in the neighborhood when our family moved from New Mexico to North Carolina in 1968.
BrownCountyCommissioners Court members authorized the purchase of 20 computers at a cost of $36,542, which includes 20 back-up batteries, to replace computers that are old and failing. Commissioners agreed to the purchase from Dell Computers after meeting with technology consultants Goldsmith Solutions, which has offices in Abilene, Dallas and Austin.
Class 6A Division I State Championship Duncanville (140) vs. Galena Park North Shore (15-0), 7 p.m.