My first year of school in South Texas was at Lamar Elementary School in 1960. It is not important to my memory that this was my first year of school in South Texas. It is just a place marker for one of a few an individual Teachers that had an influence on me. Those teachers […]

The Seventh Grade, E. Merle Smith Junior High School, 1961. There were several new things I experience when I entered Junior High School. One such things was wonderful and stayed with me not only, throughout my few years in Junior High, and High School but beyond. That was the experience of eating at Lands Drive […]

Our Family first moved to South Texas, in 1960. We lived on North Odem Avenue, in Sinton, San Patricio County, Texas. We had just moved a few weeks back, and it was time to mow the grass. I do not remember where my Brother Ralph was at, or maybe he pulled a Huckleberry Finn’s, “White […]

North Odem Avenue, don’t remember the number, think it was 221 (see note at bottom of page), but not sure. This is the street where the first house we as a Family first settled in, in Sinton, Texas. The year was 1960. I was month away from attending the sixth grade. The house was located […]