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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal from Lubbock, Texas • Page 32

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Larry Koeger of Odessa and is employed as a was best man. Groomsmen secretary In Dallas. Watt 1s a were Ben Moncrief of Luhbock, graduate of Wilmer Hutchins and Richard Brown of Carls- High School in Hutchins and is bad, N.M. and Wayne Kikerla senior student at Texas Tech were ushers. majoring in.

industrial manageTerry Watts and Curtis Mar- ment. He a member tin Flower Tech varsity baseball team and were ringbearers. girls were. Suzanne Brown of is in Dallas. employed by Affiliated Foods Carlsbad and Beth Brown of Hutchins.

They are residing La Lubbock. Paul Brown of Carls. bad and Jeff Brown of Lubbock, were candlelighters, King Arthur's legendary The bride is a 1964 graduate home, Tintagel, stands on of Post High School, attended sea-lashed in Cornwall, Columbia Secretarial College In England. A New World of Living opens Saturday! 9 00 NEW from Simmons! Watts-Kiker Ring Vows Pledged (Special) Miss Kiker and Lee Watts' exchanged wedding vows at 8 p.m. June 10 in the Trinity Baptist Church, with the Rev.

Jimmy McGuire, minister, officiating. the double ring ceremony. Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. W.

C. Kiker and Mr. and Fred Watts of Hutchins. The bride was given in marriage by her father. Miss Linda McMahon of Lub-! bock was maid of honor, and Miss Edith Johnson was brides- freighter through the Mediterranean Sea and on to en, where they stored their bicy.

and bought a car to tour Europe. They drove through Germany, Belgium and into France, wherei "cold Posey says they found Paris and wet, SO we for sunshine and drove into Spain." After spending a month on the Spanish Riveria, they drove into Switzerland, down to Italy and Couple Hits Trail Around World 1 American food during their They then went to New for the mOst part, but months with Posey engaged in els. They did their own cooking, Zealand, where they spent four Posey says it was often difficult one of his favorite pastimes. find American groceries. fishing for Rainbow frout.

The trip "wasn't too hard to! "It got cold there in June." Posey, "because he says, "so we decided to tour doe usually rats. book passages for a while." very far in They flew back to Australia Their journey began with a and then began the major portrip through the South Sea Is- ion of their trip. Their iteneraryling lands to Guam and on to from Sydney. Australia, included! Australia, where they stayed alIndonesia, the Philippines andi 4-B LUBBOCK AVALANCHE- JOURNAL- Wednesday Evening, June 21, 1967 'HEADQUARTERS' IN LUBBOCK By BARBRA WORLEY 1 Women's News Staff Lubbock is a "sort of head. quarters" for Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Posey, 601 Chapparal, who have spen the past six years away from the city, and two of those years traveling around the -taking their bicycles with them. Posey, who had been employed by the City of Lubbock as director of Electrical Services, left with his wife in January, 1960. to join a company bullding missiles on the island of Kwajalelr in the Marshal Islands. The cou ple remained there for live vears, until Posey decided to re tire "take ly.

"'We felt that we were Tree tol go," says Posey, "so we decidedi to take a freighter and see thei rest of the world. We thought: we'd just see it all and mayhe find out where we wanted 10 live." Mrs. Poscy says their original Intention was to be gone for al year but "I knew all re time 51 would take two years." The nice thing about the trip though, says Posey, is that it was a leisurely one. "We didn't really care how long it took and we spent just as much or as little time in a place as we wanted to," he says, noting for instance, that they were planning; to stay in Penang, Malaysia, for a few days, and' instead spent three months. had been using on Kwajalein," says Mrs.

Posey, "because there were no private cars there." They decided to take the along with them "so we could ride through the ports as we stopped and get acquainted with the natives." says Mrs. Posey. Got Along Well "We got along well with the people almost everywhere we went." she says, and found very; little we had to do was be nice to them and. they were nice to The main problem the Poseys! encountered was in locating: Winners Lubbock. Duplicate Bridge Club met Monday night in the home cf Mrs.

F. Marquam, 3701 22nd Pl. First place winners were Mrs. Robert Burns and Mrs. David Hester; second, Mrs.

H. Harbous and Airs. J. B. Thompson; and third, Leon Smith Hendrix.

The next game will be at 1:15 p.m. Friday in the Marquam home. "Beautiful Window Shades Decorator Colors. Call Tontine." TONTINE then Hong Kong for a month. They then went to Japan for two weeks and toured Korea and Okinawa, going back Hongicles Kong, Singapore and then to Pcnang.

After the three-month stay there, they, went to Bangkok. Thailand, then up the to the Suez Canal, where they at various ports, includ-flooking Port Said. Bought Car the canal they look a 1 the the the the the LOOKING BACK-Mr. and Mrs. Frank Posey.

604 Chapparal, reminisce about their two-year trek around the world as they re-read an article about them which appeared in the Rotorun. New Zealand. Daily Post, while they were bicycling through that country. (Women's Staff Photo) COOL COLORS Keep cool with color! Re- search has proven again and again that the psychology of color works. Air-condition your room with lime-sherbet filmy curtains in a non-iron, nonfade fabric.

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