El Valle Garden Club, 1938 - CokeCounty, TX Contributed by Fran Wylie Lomas 18 February 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************************** All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** Copied with permission from Stalkin' Kin, Volume XXIX, Number 4, pages 161-163, a publication of the San Angelo Genealogical & Historical Society. EL VALLE GARDEN CLUB - ROBERT LEE, COKE COUNTY, TEXAS Abstracted by Fran Wylie Lomas (The first seven yearbooks of the Garden Club are among the family papers in my possession. Details in brackets have been added for genealogical purposes) The "El Valle" Garden Club was organized in Robert Lee, Coke County, Texas March 23, 1938 by Mrs. Houston Smith and federated August 24, 1938. The first officers were: President Mrs. B. A. Austin* [Anne Frances Conger, dau of George Washington and Ernie Foster Conger; m Buryl Austin] First Vice President Mrs. W. K. Simpson* [Cora Bellinger m. Rev. William King Simpson] 2nd Vice President Mrs. J. K. Griffith* [Carrie Alice Sloan m. Joseph Kimberlin Griffith] 3rd Vice President Mrs. J. C. Snead Jr.* [Willie Mae Cumbie, dau of William Jackson & Ollie Gertrude Walton Cumbie] Recording Secretary & Treasurer Mrs. Chism Brown [Ruby Young m. Chism. S. Brown] Corresponding Secretary Mrs. W. J. Cumbie* Ollie Gertrude Alton, dau. of William T. and Nancy Potts Walton, m. William Jackson Cumbie] Expense Chairman Mrs. F. C. Clark Willie Bell, dau. of Willie Helm and Merriet Elizabeth Hall Bell; m. Freeman C. Clark] Recreation Chairman Mrs. Bruce Clift [Ruth Simpson, dau. of W. K. & Cora Bellinger Simpson, m. Wallace Bruce Clift] Finance Chairman Mrs. J. S. Craddock* [Lela Adaline Morrow, dau. of James Franklin and Lela May Westbrook Morrow, m. Jess Sincliar Craddock and grandmother of Fran Lomas] Yearbook Chairman Mrs. Fred Roe* [Effie Walling, dau of Press & ldra Walling] Expansion Chairman Mrs. Cortez Russell [Lena Simpson, dau of W. K. & Cora Bellinger Simpson] Press Chairman Mrs. H. L. Scott [Leola Gertrude Cumble, dau of William Jackson & Ollie Gertrude Walton Cumbie; m/1 Moses Glenn, m/2 Horace Lamont Scott] Exhibit Chairman Mrs. Will Simpson [Bert McCabe, dau of John & Sally King McCabe] Civic Chairman Mrs. Houston E. Smith* Other members: Mrs. Henry Briscoe Mrs. Will Campbell [Louvenia Payne Campbell] Mrs. Fred DeLashaw [husband was Baptist pastor 1937-1940] Mrs. Frank McCabe [Fern Cumley, dau of Sam & Sally Coleman Chumley, m. J. Frank McCabe] Mrs. Lee Ramsour* Mrs. D. P. Walling of Sterling City [Virginia Griffith, dau of Joseph Kimberlin and Carrie Alice Sloan Griffith, m/1 Delbert Preston Walling] Mrs. Fred McDonald Jr was listed as charter member two years later. [Thelma Jo Looney] New members 1939-1940: Mrs. G. T. Hester [husband was Methodist pastor 1938-1940] Mrs. J. S. Gardner [Jessie F. Stickney, dau of J. F. Stickney, m. John S. Gardner] Mrs. Ernie Conger Mrs. Paul Good [Garland Mitchell, dau of J. Weaver and Natalie Higginbotham Mitchell] New members 1940-1941: Mrs. Jack Lassiter Mrs. G. C. Allen [Ione Cumbie, dau of William Jackson & Ollie Gertrude Walton Cumbie, m. Gerald C. Allen] Mrs. H. C. Allen [Amelia Caraway, dau of Willie T. and Nanny Caraway, m. Hawley C. Allen] Mrs. Reed Barnett New Members 1942-1944 (as missing the 1942-1943 Yearbook): Mrs. D. B. Collingsworth Mrs. G. W. Conger [dau of R- W. Foster] Mrs. Fred 0. Green [Fannie] Mrs. A. W. Littlefield Mrs. Pike Martin Miss Mettie Russell [dau of Andrew Jackson & Martha Eliza Adaline Major Russell] Mrs. T. A- Richardson [Leila L] Mrs. Vasco Teer [husband was Methodist pastor 1942-1945] Mrs. Dollie Wylie [Dorothy Elizabeth Harriet Bryan, dau of Terrell & Harriet Albritton Bryan, in. Thomas S. Wylie and Great grandmother of Fran Lomas] Mrs. Harry Hames [husband was Baptist pastor 1943-1944] New members 1944-1945" Mrs. Hugh Lewis [Lexie James m. Hugh S. Lewis] Mrs. Drue Scoggins [Inez Brown] Mrs. D. Hannon Mrs. Doris Brown Mrs. Henley [possibly wife of Taylor Henley, pastor at Baptist Church] *Charter Members