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4C THE BRAZOSPORT FACTS Sunday, March 10,1996 MILESTONES Engagements Eck-Bowling Marie Eck and the late Joseph Eck of Gulf Port, Miss, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Julie Marie Eck of Gulf Port, to Christopher Bowling of Sweeny, son of Theresa and Marty Freudensprung of Sweeny, Tx. and Rodney and Marlys Bowling of Lake Jackson, Tx. The wedding is planned for 1 p.m. on March 23,1996 at Second Baptist Church Lake Jackson. Invitations are extended through the press.

Trammell-Jordan Mr. and Mrs. James H. Trammell, Jr. of Angleton, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Kimberley Michelle Trammell of Angleton, Tx.

to Michael Kevin Jordan of Angleton, son of Mr and Mrs. Edward D. Jordan of Angleton, Tx. The wedding is planned for 6 p.m. on March 16,1996 at Northway Baptist Church.

Invitations extended through the press. Neal-Burns Robert and Charlene Neal Sr. of Centerville, Tx. announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Denna Mary Neal of Clute, to Kenneth Wayne Burns Jr. of Clute, son of Kenneth and Lynda Burns Sr.

of Clute, Tx. The wedding is planned for 7:30 p.m. on March 22, 1996 at The Salvation Army Church in Freeport. Invitations are extended through the press. Eberspacher- Cadenhead Sherry Eberspacher of Angleton, Tx.

and the late Kenneth Eberspacher announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Anja Lea Eberspacher of Angleton, Tx, to Kenneth Klay Cadenhead of Lake Jackson, son of HV and Edna Cadenhead of Lake Jackson, Tx. The wedding is planned for 4 p.m. on March 16,1996 at First Baptist Richwood. Bride's grandparents are Buddy and Lois Webb of Angleton and Claire and Harry Seigler of Lockhart. Great-grandmother is Ema B.

Eberspacher. Groom's grandmother is Mildred Cadenhead of Brazoria. Invitations are extended through the press. Ross-Mays A June 8 wedding is planned for Jane Elizabeth Ross and Matthew Carroll Mays. Jane is the daughter of Mrs.

Wilma Ross and the late John Ross, Jr. of Florence Kentucky. Matthew is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Max Mays of Lake Jackson.

Miss Ross is a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University and is at present a third year dental student at the University of Kentucky School of Dentistry in Lexington. Mr. Mays has a B.S. degree from the University of Southwest Texas and graduate studies at Eastern Kentucky University. He is presently employed by Lexmark Corporation in Lexington.

Bowman-Machajewski Mr. and Mrs. Joe C. Bowman of Lake Jackson are pleased to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Jennifer Renee, to James Edward Machajewski, son of Mr. and Mrs.

David Machajewski of Conroe, Tx. Jennifer is a 1992 graduate of Brazoswood High School. Jim graduated from Conroe High School the same year. Both are students at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville and plan 1996 graduations. The wedding will be Oct.

19,1996 at First United Methodist in Huntsville, Tx. Anniversaries Reytiolds-Beckham Dy Son Anniversary GiJEford Anniversary Snyder Anniversary Aguilar Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. James A. Reynolds of Freeport, Tx.

announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Rona Renee Reynolds of Richwood, to David Allen Beckham of Richwood, son of Ms. Sue Olson of Lake Jackson, Tx. The wedding is planned for 6 p.m. on March 23, 1996 at The Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints Church. John "Curly" and Lottie Dyson of Angleton, Tx.

will celebrate their 50th Wedding Anniversary on March 10. The couple were married in Belton, Tx. on March 8, 1946. A celebration is planned from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

on Sunday, March 10 at Church of Christ, corner of Wilkins and Downing, Angleton. No gifts please, just your presence. Bro. and Mrs. D.G.

Gifford of West Columbia celebrated their 55th Wedding Anniversary March 8, 1996. They were married March 8, 1941 in Angleton, Tx. They have two children, Jenny and Glenn Gifford of Sea Isle in Galveston and Carolyn May of Hide Away-on-the Gulf. They also have two granddaughters, three great-granddaughters and one great-grandson. Bro.

Gifford organized the Capitol Missionary Baptist Church in West Columbia on Oct. 3, 1953 and was Pastor there for 30 years, where he is still teaching the Adult Men's Sunday School Class. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Snyder of Freeport, Tx.

and retired to Graff, Mo. will celebrate their 50th anniversary on March 10, 1996. They have lived in this area since 1951 through 1974, then retired to Graff, Mo. Mrs. Walter Snyder is the former Edna E.

Cheves of Kansas City, Mo. The couple have three children. They are Walter Snyder, of Houston, Tx, Connie Snyder Powell of Houston, Mo. and Kathy Snyder Varnado of Freeport, Tx. Mr.

Walter C. Snyder was employed as a Chemical Technologist for Dow. Mrs. E. Snyder is employed as a homemaker.

No celebration is planned for them, due to Walter's bad health, but they would enjoy receiving cards from those that remember. They lived at 914 W. llth St. for 22 years and retired to 6504 Girlstown Graff, Mo. 65660.

They would love to hear from old friends. Pat and Anita Aguilar celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary on January 13, 1996 with family and friends. Mr. Aguilar, a World War II veteran, moved his family to the area in 1951. Mr.

Aguilar is retired from his job as Mail Supervisor after twenty nine years at First City Bank. Pat and Anita raised two sons, Jerry and Gilbert Aguilar and four daughters, Yolanda Salazar, Mary Belinda Cisneros, Patsy Garcia, and Toni Perez. The active grandparents are blessed with eighteen grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. The celebration began with a special gathering at Primera Iglesia Bautista to acknowledge the many blessings the couple has received. Granddaughter Becky Whitten and niece Gloria Aguilar sang in honor of the couple.

A reception was held at the K.C. Hall in Brazoria following the ceremony. As the gathering reminisced, Mariachis entertained the quests with traditional love songs. The evening continued with music provided by nephew Ignacio Damian, Jr. A few more reasons why women love their men There are a lot of good things about being married.

Not worrying about a date comes to mind. Give me a little time and I'll think of some more things, but the big reason for sharing a life with a man is that he can open jars with lids that have been put on by the same wrenches used to tighten the lug bolts on your tires. Men can get to bacon that has been hermetically sealed for a future in the Smithsonian Institution. I know what you're thinking. You're saying to yourself, "This is a sexist thing, and she is suggesting that men are stronger than women." Wrong.

I am suggesting that a woman, given a package of lunch meat with a handy zip lock for future use, will rip at it with her teeth, stab it to death with a bread knife, beat it senseless with a fork and bludgeon it on the counter edge. She will be on the verge of insanity when her husband says, "Give me He flips his fingernail under it, and it opens in seconds. That is because the woman has loosened it up. You could breathe on it at this point and the plastic would give way. In some marriages, it is the only thing a man does to make him feel good about himself.

He may not buy the food, make a decision on what to cook or how i Erma Bombeck At Wit Enc to prepare it, but he can get it out of the package. I've seen it happen a million times. During the last 50 years, grocery stores have gone from personal little shops where the grocer did everything for you to today's do-it-yourself warehouses. Changes made it possible for a woman to put her fresh fruits and vegetables in plastic bags if she could get the bags open. There's an army of us every day who stand in the aisles rubbing the plastic bags together as though we're trying to make fire from twigs.

If there is no man in sight, we do what we have to do spit. Want to provide comic relief for aisle seven? Try to get two soft drinks out of the plastic carrier. The strength thing is a rumor started by men and is left over from the days when women were content to feel a man's muscle and quiver. If there is a woman out there who does not admit to using it to her advantage, she is lying. I figured out a long time ago that no one cares if one of my basic skills is getting a candy bar out of its wrapper.

Oh sure, I could try to rip it with my teeth, use my fingernails as hacksaws, struggle to penetrate it with an emery board, or simply give it to my husband and say, "I don't know what I'd do if I weren't married to the strongest man in the world." He will smile and say, "I'll get my toolbox." Universal Press Syndicate Photographs presented as social documents LOS ANGELES (AP) The Museum of Contemporary Art has put on show several series by major photographers from a collection of 2,100 photographic prints it acquired last year. The museum says the collection traces the development of American documentary photography from the 1940s through the 1980s. This selection is presented as social documents that recreate daily life as letters or diaries would. Images range from Brassai's nocturnal scenes of Paris to Robert Frank's classic, The Americans. Among other series represented in the show are Helen Levitt's photos of New York street life; Danny Lyons' The Bikeriders, and Garry Winograd's The Animals, which tries to break down divisions between humans and animals.

The exhibition, Social Documents: MOCA 's New Photography Collection, will remain on show through May 26..