Waco Town Crier – March 2025

Here is the March 2025 Town Crier. I hope you will all enjoy. And again, a big thanks to all of you who help to contribute to make the Crier interesting.

Please stay healthy, stay safe, and stay in touch.
jeanne

This month’s contents include …

  • From the Editor
  • From Our Graduates
  • Regarding Anna Louise Logan
  • Regarding Norma Cissell Smith
  • Regarding Linda Welch, sister of Larry McMurray
  • Updates
  • Good Luck by Bill Alexander
  • March Birthdays
  • Did You Know?
  • In Olden Days: Country Computer Technology
  • Pictures
  • Humor

Waco Town Crier – February 2025

 
 

January flew by! Texas finally got a good rain…also some very cold weather with snow in our south! It made history- Beaumont broke a record since 1949. Earlier, Dallas and up north got the snow. Waco was in the middle…no snow either time.

As you know, I am in the process of making new lists. I sent out a blast that in the future I will be sending only to those who respond to let me know they want on the list. This February issue will be the last time that I send out to the old lists. I appreciate so much those of you who have responded. With that in mind….unless I hear from you that you want to be kept on the list, you will not hear from me again. I am not sure those who do not respond even get the emails rather than just not wanting to be on the list. Whatever it is, my new lists will be made up of those who respond. If you speak with anyone who wants on the list, please let me know.

Again, thank you so much for contributing items and pictures of interest for our graduates to enjoy and thanks for your prompt response to the new lists.

jeanne

Here’s what you’ll find in the February Town Crier:

  • From Our Graduates
  • Regarding Tommy Stroud
  • Updates
  • My Lucky Day by David Dibb
  • February Birthdays
  • Eating – The 50s
  • Some of Howard Dudgeon’s Trivia on Famous Quotes
  • Pictures
  • Blast from the past
  • Humor

Waco Town Crier – January 2025

HAPPY NEW YEAR! A whole new year is before us!

2024 brought a lot of sadness and loss to many of our graduates. Our hearts go out to all those grieving families. It is so sad every time I have to send out a blast of the departure of a graduate or the departure of a graduate’s loved one.

Thank you, everyone, who has contributed to the Town Crier this past year and in other issues of past years. Because of you, the Crier continues to live on. Do not forget to share with us the things of interest going on in your life. If in decluttering you come across some old memorabilia, please share that with us. It is always fun to walk down Memory Lane.

Now, enjoy this new issue and please continue to stay healthy, stay happy, and stay in touch.

jeanne

Here’s the January 2025 issue of the Town Crier. Inside, you’ll find:

  • List of Positive Traits
  • From Our Graduates
  • Updates
  • January Birthdays
  • Some Improvised Dialogues
  • My Luckiest Thing
  • Pictures
  • Humor

Waco Town Crier – October 2024

  

We hope all who experienced any of the problems from Hurricane Helene and/or Hurricane Milton are okay. Please let us know where you live and if you had any issues with water, wind or power.

Fall weather is on the horizon. I don’t know about others, but I am very
ready to say good-bye to all the heat that Texas has endured.

Stay well, stay safe, stay in touch, and keep making memories.

jeanne

Enjoy your October 2024 Town Crier

  • Hurricane Updates
  • For David and Anita Dibb
  • Updates
  • Regarding the Death of Les Hanks
  • October Birthdays
  • A Couple of Magnolia/ Chip and Joanna Tid-Bits by Judith Hamff Murphy
  • Did You Know?
  • A Neat Idea
  • Ten Movies that Have the Approval of Soldiers and Historians
  • Happy 60th Anniversary Tim and John Latta
  • Kudos to Jim Monnig
  • Humor
  • Thought for October

Waco Town Crier – September 2024

  

Just think….in 4 months Christmas will be over.  Is that a frightening thought of how quickly time is flying by?
On the bright side of 4 months from now– the long hot summer should be behind us,  as well as the election.  Enough said.

Here is the September 2024 Town Crier:

  • From Our Graduates
  • Updates
  • September Birthdays
  • Regarding Sammy Owens
  • Did You Know?
  • A Neat Idea
  • Places to Visit
  • Pictures
  • Humor 

Again, our thanks to Elizabeth Bentley for keeping our website so current and for Pat Payne in making it financially possible.  We have great graduates!  Remember, if you have anything to contribute , do not hesitate to send it.  Our graduates would love to hear from you no matter how far away you might live- Hawaii, Florida, New York, Washington…..all the corners and the in-betweens.    Again, thanks so much to all those who keep us informed and entertained with your interesting and humorous items.  You help make my job easier. 

Stay safe, stay healthy, and stay in touch!
Jeanne

Waco Town Crier – August 2024

After some cooler weather in July and a little splatter of rain here and there, I think the long hot summer has now arrived. We are under heat alerts, and they are predicting near 100+ degree temperatures in our future.

Remember all our graduates and families of our graduates who are experiencing difficult times.

Stay cool, stay safe and healthy, and stay in touch.
jeanne

Here is your August Town Crier:

  • From Our Graduates
  • Updates
  • August Birthdays
  • Medical Corner
  • Did You Know?
    • Howard Dudgeon on interesting things at Baylor
    • David Dibb on Octogenarians
    • Jeanne Holland Harmon on “11-22-63” by Stephen King
    • Old Wives Tale??
  • A Neat Idea
  • Pictures
  • Humor

 

Waco Town Crier – July 2024

The Long Hot Summer has arrived in Waco, Texas. We have been under heat advisories for several days now. The lake is full, the lake parks are closed for the summer due to the flooding, but Waco is still going to restrict our water usage this summer. I guess: “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.

I talked to Steve Brown who was expected to return to his home in Alto, NM (outside Ruidoso) approximately on June 27. Steve had talked with a neighbor who did not evacuate and got the news that things were safe. The fires were about a mile from his home. This is good news. Also, Kay Phillips Sparks’ son lives in Ruidoso and was spared. We are so sorry for all those who lost their homes and belongings … and some, their lives.

Stay cool, stay healthy, and keep in touch. The Town Crier always welcomes input. A hearty thanks to all who have contributed! It is greatly appreciated.

Jeanne

July 2024 Town Crier Contents

  • From Our Graduates
  • Regarding Tommie Jo Burch Regian
  • Upon Meeting Famous People
  • Ten Most Beautiful Cities in the World
  • Almost Killing Randy Turner by Jim Monnig
  • Updates
  • Blast from the Past
  • July Birthdays
  • Ten “Must See” Landmarks in the USA
  • Humor

Waco Town Crier – June 2024

The month of May has surely done wonders for Lake Waco. There has been so much rain in Texas they had to let water out of Lake Waco. Last year a drought….this year things are flooded. Texas weather- never a dull moment!

A few of our graduates have been in some of the bad weather that has hit Texas. Cathey White Land and her husband experienced some yard, fence and tree damage in the fierce winds that Houston experienced. They were out of power but fortunately had a generator.  

Malissa Ruth Starnes Baugh and her husband experienced tree, fence and yard damage in the Temple tornado. They were without power for several days. The Texas heat and humidity is pretty miserable without power. The great thing is neither of the houses were damaged nor were their families.

Sharon McCarthy Odell had a lot of tree damage in her area during the storms that went through the Dallas area only a few days ago. Her house was also spared.

All of you who live in the Houston, Temple, Dallas area from whom we have not heard, we hope you have had no damage or minimal damage only. Any damage is disturbing…especially at our ages. Thank heavens we have not heard of any lives of our graduates who were harmed from the storms. However, more severe storms are expected tonight and tomorrow ……so keep your fingers crossed and pray for all in harm’s way!

The June 2024 Crier is linked here.   Contents this month include:

  • From Our Graduates
  • Upon Meeting Famous People
  • Memories of the May 11, 1953 Tornado by Howard Dudgeon
  • Updates
  • June Birthdays
  • Did You Know?
  • Some Uses of Dawn Dish Soap that have Nothing to do with Dishes
  • Humor

Please enjoy and continue to let us know how you are, where you might have been, or any news you would like to share. We want to hear from you.

Stay safe, stay healthy, and stay in touch.
jeanne

Note:  This month’s picture of Omaha Beach in Normandy is from Elizabeth Bentley’s personal library.  May we always remember what Freedom cost that fateful day in June 1944.

Waco Town Crier – May 2024


It is time already for another issue of the Town Crier.

I hope all of you have escaped the bad weather that has been rolling through the good ole USA. Wacoans still remember the tornado of 1953 that killed 119 people and left so much destruction. We can surely sympathize with those in Nebraska and Oklahoma and other parts who have recently experienced the devastation of such inclement weather.

Enjoy the May 2024 issue. Please remember to share with us trips you might have taken, memorabilia you might have run across in decluttering or moving, or any items of interest we might enjoy. Your participation helps to make the Crier interesting and remain in existence.

Stay healthy, stay safe, and stay in touch!
Jeanne

Town Crier Contents:

  • From Our Classmates
  • The Total Eclipse Recap by David Dibb
  • May Birthdays
  • What I Have Learned (1998 publication in Ann Landers’ column)
  • Money Talks News
  • Did You Know? (Howard Dudgeon Trivia)
  • Pictures
  • Medical Humor for Seniors