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Hood County NewsSalurday, November 26. 1994 3 Now that Thanksgivings over, it's time to Christmas decorate Idea for DRT born in Pecan Plantation Bits Wanda Middleton 579-5540 Cradle I III I I i (u I--- Kari Roberts, Jim and Mary Uebelhart, Jim and Helen Dillard, and Jack and Dorothy Campbell. Aprize was given to Chuck and George Anna Harris for being the longest-married couple.The tournament was rained out Saturday, but play proceeded during high winds on Sunday. They report a great time, outstanding food and are looking forward to next year's event Thank you, Claude and Cindy Burroughs and Jim and Virginia Turner. Delores King says thanks to the volunteers who helped us exchange our directories.

They put in many hours. If you didn't get to exchange your directory, you may buy a new one at the reception desk. The supplement will be available in January. Bob and Joyce Higginbotham are enjoying having daughter Susan living close by. Mother and daughter are particularly enjoying shopping together! Joyce says that their other daughter in Albuquerque is much improved and will be here for Christmas.

II Meet Brenda Knox, the new management executive secretary. Brenda lives in Granbury andis looking forward to meeting you. It's slow work and the rain has played a large part to slow us down, but little by little, we're getting the Plantation road sighs refinished. It's amazing what a little paint can do! Please call me and tell me about your Thanksgiving, etc. (My file folder is empty!) Hope the afterglow of Thanksgiving still lingers with you.

Let's not even think about the lingering calories hanging here and there. It's time to think Christmas. You can be of great help-and have fun in the bargain-if you'll come tome clubhouse at 9 a.m. Monday to help decorate. From the looks of things so far, it appears it will be even prettier than last year's wonders.

You're needed; see you at the clubhouse. It's been a big November for Jim Williamson. Ann says he went to Las Vegasentered two golf tournaments, won one and came in second in the other. They then went to Houston where he was the recipient of a surprise birthday party. Family came from Phoenix to Tyler and points in between for the event.

After all that, their Thanksgiving was a quiet affair here at home. Jim and Bonnie Waters are recent transplants here from Odessa. They live with Beertje Bear" in Dutch), a Belgian Bouvier, who is having a slight adjustment problem. Jim works in Egypt, but comes home frequently. There are those who are in our thoughts and prayers: Betty Snyder says that Cedric is holding his own as well as can be expected.

Fred Crum will undergo chemotherapy and radiation soon for cancer. Joyce Williaford has had a bone marrow transplant and is in Baylor, Dallas. Bill Gentry is recovering from quintuple by-pass surgery. Ruby Horkey just had shoulder surgery, and Bill Brake will have surgery the 29th. Helen Dillard's father recently passed away in Atlanta.

The Fall Ringer Roundup golf tournament was such a success that it's already planned again for next year. Forty-seven teams participated from Colorado to Dallas. First Flight winners: 1st, Jim Barrett Carlene Stewart; 2nd, Pat and Leon Morrison; 3rd, Tom and ImogeneTabsen; 4th, Larry Longener and Donna Penney; 5th, Bill and Nola Pearman. Second Flight: 1 st, Jim and Punky Nyberg; 2nd, Sam and Marilyn McGowan; 3rd, Dick and Bev Gilmore; 4th, Mike and Phyllis Mullally; 5th, Gary and Elaine Wilkie. Third Flight: 1st, Dennis Tipreand Deb Moore; 2nd, Chuck and George Anna Harris; 3rd, Jim and Carole Womack; 4th, Jack and Carol Nieman; 5th Jim and Virginia Turner.

Fourth Flight: 1st, Martin Smith and Sharon Eckels; 2nd, Wes Redden and Kay Crotts; 3rd, Lloyd Philpy and Betty Pelley; 4th, Bill and Jan Cramer, 5th, Dave and Helga Burnnette. WhiteTee Flight: Bernice Herrington; 2nd, Dave and Geri Grove. "Special" prizes were awarded to David and Charlene Riskey, Rick and The Cradle, standing high on the historical island of Galveston, is special to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT) because it where the idea for the organization was born in 1891. DRT member JoAn McCreary recently talked to The Comanche Peak Chapter of DRT about the history of The Cradle. In 1846 the small structure served as the law office of the first attorney licensed in the Republic of Texas, William Pitt Ballinger.

It originally stood as a separate building on the lawn of The Oaks," home of Betty Ballinger and her first cousin Hallie Bryan. Later it was moved up to the house and became the library. "Ballinger and Bryan were born in Galveston and shared many of the same interests, especially in literature and travel," McCreary said. "During the summer of 1891, the two young women liked to sit in the library studying Henderson Yoakum's 'History of Texas. They knew many prominent people during the days of colonization and of the Republic.

Their maternal grandfather, William Houston Jack, was a soldier at the battle of San Jacinto. The women thought the ideals of pioneer men and women of Texas must be perpetuated by their JoAn McCreary of DRT with photo of historic 'Cradle' descendants and conceived the idea of founding an organization of women for whom this task would take on a noble meaning." In the Houston home of Mrs. Andrew Briscoe, 16 women-all lineal descendants of heroes of the Texas Revolution-formed an organization called "Daughters of the Lone Star Republic" that later became the DRT. The Ballinger home was de- stroyed in the hurricane of 1900 and rebuilt in 1911. The small library was sold and moved away intact It fell into disrepair and obscurity.

In May of 1937, through the efforts of Hallie Bryan Perry, the small building was traced and found in a bad state of repair. The owner to tear.it down for sal- and was glad to sell it. The DRT obtained donations for the moving and re-. pair of the building, now lovingly referred to as The -Cradle," and relocated it to Menard Park in Galveston. A bronze plaque between the two doors reads, "The Cradle of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, formerly the library of the William Pitt Ballinger home The Oaks where in 1891 was born the idea of this organization." Pknninga holiday activity? CaiiHCN formation including a brief description of the activity, date, time, and a contact person and phone number to Shirley Petroshus, Lifestyles Editor, Hood County News, P.O.

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