Fairfield Recorder newspaper - May 22, 1969 edition

Edd Bonner To Fill
Unexpired Term 
Of Late Mr. Harris

  Appointment of Edd Bonner to 
fill the unexpired term of Hugh 
Harris as commissioner of Fair-
field Precinct 1 was announced 
last week by Travis Evans, county 
judge of Freestone County.
  Mr. Harris, who had been county 
commissioner for the past eigh[t] 
and a half years, died Tuesday, 
May 13. 
  The new commissioner, a well-
known rancher, is Past Master [of] 
the Fairfield Masonic Lodge, Past 
Patron of the Order of the Eastern 
Star, and treasurer and member 
of the Official Board of the First 
United Methodist Church.
  He and his wife, the former An-
gie Watson, have two sons, Mike, 
a teacher in the Austin public 
school system, and Andy, a stu-
dent at Stephen F. Austin State 
College in Nacogdoches.
  Other members of the Commis-
sion are Asa Pickett, Teague Pre-
cinct 2; Spurgeon Pickens, Butler-
Dew Precinct 3, and Hubert Was-
son, Wortham Precinct 4.