The 45th Reunion of the Class of 1966 is scheduled for October 21-22, 2011. Our Friday night event will be held at the Crosstimbers Winery in Grapevine, and on Saturday night our dinner event will be at the Hilton Lakes DFW Hotel near Bass Pro Shops in Grapevine, both venues located very near the DFW Airport. Bob McComas is leading the planning team for the reunion. Several meetings have already been conducted, and we are now in the late planning stages. Tickets for both events can be purchased on the KHS '66 microsite. If you have not already purchased tickets and confirmed your plans to attend, then please do so ASAP so that we can get a feel for attendance and how much food to order. A reunion kick-off party was held on Saturday, November 13, 2010, at Gleneagles Country Club in Plano. The event was from 7:00 PM until midnight, and featured an open bar, light hors d'oeuvres, dancing to the music of our high school era and a lot of fun. Proceeds covered event expenses and put money into our reunion fund. The next two of several golf tournament fundraisers will be held on Friday, April 15, 2011, at Wildflower Country Club located at 4902 Wildflower Lane in Temple, Texas (254-771-1177). Tee time is 1:30 PM, so please be there by 1:00 PM to get signed up and ready to play. Green fees are $55.00 per peson. Saturday, April 16, 2011, at Mill Creek Golf Club, located at 1610 Club Circle in Salado, Texas (254-947-5698). Tee time is 10:00 AM, so please be there by 9:30 AM. Green fees are $50.00 per person. For both these tournaments hole sponsorships are available for $40.00 each. Contact Pam hare Bazet at pambazet@yahoo.com for information about these golf tournaments and hole sponsorships, as well as details about format, accommodations, etc. Other periodic events are being discussed and planned, with details to be published here when available. The Class of 1966 now has a travel club offering special rates on various air, land and ocean cruise trips. The Kimball Travel Club allows classmates to travel together to some exciting destinations as part of a class event. For details on available trips visit Kimball Travel Club, or else click the link on the lower navigation bar (the link is now active on all the main header pages on the navigation bars, but it will be awhile before it is active on the more than 1,400 other pages of our website.) |
William Boyce Rutledge passed away peacefully on January 1, 2012. Visitation will be from 6-8 PM Thursday January 5, 2012 at Jaynes Memorial Chapel. Funeral Service will be held Friday January 6, 2012 at 12:00 noon at Jaynes Memorial Chapel. Graveside service follows at Laurel Land Cemetery. Paul Edward beauchamp passed away at home in Bristol on November 7, 2011 from unknown causes. In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be made to the Bristol Volunteer Fire Department, 101 So. Old Walnut, Ennis, TX 75119. Vicki Lynn Findley Metzger passed away on July 11, 2011, after a long battle with cancer. Her twin brother (and our classmate) Richard informed us of this tragic event today. Visitation will be from 6:00 - 8:00 PM at the David Clayton & Sons Funeral Home, 200 W. Center Street, Duncanville. The funeral service will be at 10:00 AM Saturday, July 16, at the funeral home. Burial will be at Little Bethel on Clark Road in Cedar Hill. Your condolences can be sent to Dick, Vicki’s twin brother, at SMFDGF@Yahoo.com, or by mail to 2417 Cliff Teen Court, Dallas, TX 75322. Please keep Richard and his family in your thoughts and prayers. Stephen E. McRoberts passed away on April 14, 2011, from a massive heart attack. No other details are currently known. Paul William Worth passed away on March 4, 2011, in Austin, Texas, where he had lived and worked for many year, after a long and hard-fought battle against cancer. Ronald "Bud" Alvin Coleman passed away on September 10, 2010, after a 9 year battle against colon cancer. Vivian Inez Coleman DeLozier passed away on July 8, 2010 from a heart attack. Robert Earl Williams passed away July 2, 2010 at St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Gregory Alan Griswood passed away from unknown causes on May 31, 2010. James Samuel Shimek passed away on December 5, 2008. No other details are currently available. We have just learned that Charles Edgar Burr passed away on December 4, 2003 from unknown causes. Dexter Lane Burris passed away on December 2, 1996 from unknown causes, and we just learned about his death recently. We have just learned of the passing of Sharon Elaine Kiphen on or about April 15, 2008, from an unknown cause. No other information is currently available. James Everett Goolsby passed away on October 18, 2009 from unknown causes. We learned about his death just recently. We have just learned that Linda Rene Mahurin Williams passed away May 5, 1979 from undisclosed causes. It has been brought to our attention that Wilson Darrel Davis was killed in an automobile accident in 1969. No other information is currently available. |
A new section has been added to our Classmates Personal Webpages section seeking to locate nearly 100 classmates who are still unaccounted for as of June, 2010. Links to the two pages, one for classmates whose last names (maiden names for women) begin with the letters "A" through "L", and a second page for "M" through "Z". We would like to make a special effort to locate any and all missing classmates in time for the 2011 45th Reunion of our class, so if you can help, then please send information to Gary Spurlock or Danny Hammontree, whose e-mail addresses are linked on the two new pages. Dear Friends, Everyone our age has been exposed to old time gospel music during their lifetime. From Rock of Ages, Amazing Grace, The Old Rugged Cross, to How Great Thou Art, Old Friends, When We Ring Those Golden Bells, I'd Rather Have Jesus, Than Silver or Gold, etc. I have been blessed with the opportunity to help promote the gospel thru country music by way of the Internet (www.kbec.com) or in the southern part of Dallas, Ellis, Navarro, Johnson and Hill counties thru KBEC 1390 am. My show is produced and broadcast on Sunday nights from 6:00 - 10:00 pm (CST) from Waxahachie, Texas. The format brings together three distinct, yet similar types of country gospel music. In the first hour I try to highlight country gospel music from around the USA., with stars like Porter Waggoner, Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, Randy Travis, and the Statler Brothers, just to name a few. In the second and third hour, I play two solid hours of just Gaither music with Bill, Gloria, and all their homecoming friends. In the last hour of my show, I highlight local artist from Texas, like Fletcher Jowers, Willie Nelson, Lee Ann Rimes, and His Harmony. Not having any training in radio, KBEC and I have combined to put forth a worthwhile show and garner a vast listening audience. Never in all my wildest dreams in high school, did I ever see myself as a radio personality, producing a radio show that goes out to the public. I couldn’t even carry a tune in a bucket and now I put tunes together for broadcast. To sum it all up, get your dose of good old country gospel music, every Sunday evening, for this is "just what the doctor ordered". Ol' Doc (Phil Veltman) |
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