Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Rosston

Church was well attended Sunday. Joey and Ellen Wallace dedicated precious little Hayley to the Lord in the morning service. A good number of their relatives were present. Haley was presented a beautiful white Bible. After church all the relatives had lunch with Joey and Ellen. Other visitors were the Cloud family from the Pete Morman house. We had eight babies in the nursery Sunday morning. Ted Waters and wife of Dallas were also visitors.

Roscoe's cousin, Sonny Martin, of Shreveport passed away Friday. The funeral was Monday morning in Shreveport with burial there. Roscoe and I attended as did other family members from here.

Bro. Chris Lucy of Taylor will be the evangelist of Bluff Springs youth revival March 13-15 at 7 p.m.

The Gold City Quartet will be in concert at Garrett Memorial in Hope March 19 at 6 p.m. They meet in the Klipsch Auditorium.

Roscoe and I had supper with Billy and Minnie Ella Schmitts on Friday night at Catfish King in Hope and we attended the annual sale at the coliseum.

On Saturday Roscoe and I attended the Jonquil Festival at Washington. I believe it was the largest one we had ever been to. We enjoyed it very much.

Joe Vested and Joey Burns of Stamps were supper guests of Dail and Marjorie Evans on Saturday night. They had attended the Jonquil Festival.

Don and Nada Cearley of Prescott, formerly of Rosston, have sold their home in Prescott and moved to Taylor. They united with First Baptist Church, where Jerry Evans is pastor.

Others attending the Jonquil Festival in our family were daughter-in-law, Booie Williams, our granddaughter, Tori Rocole of Magnolia, Maxine Freeman, Vicky Marlar, Tamara Marlar and Tonda Pennington, Mr. and Mrs. Donnie Rocole and their granddaughter, Kathryne Rocole.

The Van O'Keefes of Longview, Texas, were weekend guests of his mother, Valeria O'Keefe.