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Winner number 28 of the 2nd Annual St. Joseph’s Catholic Church 52-week gun raffle was drawn Sunday, March 6. The winner of a Mossberg MC2C, 9mm is Richard Hicks of Montgomery. The next drawing will take place Sunday, March 13.
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Have you and your family received the COVID inoculation? Please consider doing this for yourself, for your family, for your neighbor, for your community.
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Cecil E. Burney, a descendant of earliest Grimes County settler Francis Holland, and a student at Stephen F. Austin State University, wrote a “scholar works” entitled, “Home of Heroes: The Story of the Holland House.” It was published Oct. 1971 East Texas Historical Journal.
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The monthly meeting of Keith Civic club was held Thursday, Feb. 24, at Keith Community Center with a small number attending. Several missed for various reasons. All present enjoyed a time of fellowship over the covered dish meal. There was a variety of business discussed and acted upon. Hopefully the weather will be better next month. Make plans to attend.
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Navasota Farmers Market will be held Saturday, March 12, from 9 a.m. till 1 p.m. at Navasota Public Library. New vendors will also be at the market.
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The beautiful weather we have makes me want to work in the yard, plant flowers, pick up small twigs, mow etc. But like many others I have allergies including a runny nose, sinus headache, cough, etc. I hope this clears up soon.
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Area residents were shocked to learn of the death of Charlie Oran Mc-Duffie who died in an accident near his home in Iola Tuesday, Feb. 15. He was born March 23, 1944 in Houston, the son of Charles Oran Sr. and Mary Lillian Bean McDuffie. He was raised in Houston but spent his weekends in Iola. Mc-Duffie graduated from Stephen F. Austin High School in 1962. He married his soulmate, Ann Herzog, who survives him.
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In the early 1980s, Sarah Ann Silverstein Hoffman wrote a century old family story of her ancestors, the Isenbergs and the Silversteins. It was for the first edition published in 1982 of “The History of Grimes County, Texas.” It was also a century old story of a couple’s three buildings in Navasota.
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