Category: Clubs

Press release

The Lone Star Antique Tractor & Engine club is having its spring tractor ride on May 9 from Brownsboro to Murchison. The club has a spring and fall ride each year, and this year has chosen Henderson County.

The tractors are from 1930s to 1960s and will be traveling about 12 miles and hour across the county roads visiting the Blackjack Community, City of Murchison, Barton’s Chapel, Callender Lake, and Brownsboro. Continue reading “Lone Star Antique Tractor & Engine Ride”

The Rootseekers speaker at their recent meeting was James Russell Brenner, otherwise known as “Rusty.” Rusty is an expert on cemetery restoration. His company Texas Cemetery Restoration LLC does everything pertaining to cemeteries and was born from a love of exploring historic cemeteries and his experiences working as a young man with his father in the monument industry.

They will do a detailed and thorough evaluation for each monument in the cemetery including levelness, soiling, orientation, overall stability, conservation strategy and priority, and a price to restore it, and consider using restoration services similar to the ones from a restoration company nearby. They use GPS equipment and GIS mapping software to record locations of graves and cemetery landscapes to create a digital and printed map of your cemetery.

They also create a digital working database for you to add information as your cemetery changes and they have ground penetrating radar survey services to identify and locate lost and unmarked graves. Monuments that need leveling to prevent them from sinking or falling over will be leveled with a suitable foundation and aligned with the other monuments.

Rusty says they have found products that can clean and restore broken tombstones like new and that are safe. Broken pieces are epoxied and mortared together and cleaned with D/2 Biological Solution that inhibits microbrial growth. The Kaufman County Historical Commission is having a cemetery workshop on May 2 at the Morrow Chapel Cemetery which is located six miles east of Kaufman on State Hwy. 243 on the south side of the road next to the Ola Church of Christ. Cost is $30, which includes lunch and refreshments. Contact Friends of KCHC at [email protected] for workshop application. Attendance is limited to 50 people. The workshop is hosted by the Kaufman County Historical Commission. It is presented by Texas Cemetery Restoration. You may contact Rusty at [email protected] or 214-686-0014. He is also on facebook and twitter.

The Sarah Maples Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution met at the Library at Cedar Creek Lake to welcome their speaker, Debra Heathman. Her topic was “USA Flag History Etiquette,” and she drove all the way from San Marcos for the meeting. Debra is currently serving as CoChair for the Flag of the United States of America and ViceChair of Pages on the state level here in Texas. As a junior member of DAR, she is also serving as Chapter Regent for the Sarah Cockrell Chapter in the Dallas area, as well as holding numerous chapter committee chairmanships. Along with her DAR duties, she is currently serving as the Senior Leader for the Conservation Committee for the Texas Society Children of the American Revolution. Debra also traveled to Michigan to serve as a Page to the visiting Regents during the Michigan State Conference this last year. (Courtesy photo)

Jacque Vaughn, who is a new member of the Sarah Maples Chapter of DAR, has taken on a big project. She is going to make a lap quilt for all the veterans in local nursing homes. Everyone in the Sarah Maples Chapter wants to give back as best they can to their communities and this is Jacque’s way to do that. It is a big project. There are currently 44 veterans in seven nursing homes. Jacque says she hopes she lives long enough to do the job. She has already finished one and it is just beautiful.

Press release

The Pinnacle Women’s Club (PWC) scholarship committee members, Chairman Lee Durso, Eunice Hamlin, Marlene Ungarean, and Gail Fankhauser, selected this year’s scholarship recipients. These students were from Mabank, Eustace, Malakoff, and Athens school districts. The committee chose five very deserving recipients based on the class rank, SAT/ACT scores, financial need, and recommendation letters. Each of the five students graduated with honors with at least a 3.5 GPA. Each of the students will be awarded a scholarship for one year. Continue reading “Pinnacle Women’s Club Awards Scholarships”