Hunt Co., TX - Hogeye New Community Center 2nd Homecoming ********************************************************* This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Sarah Swindell USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************************* Hogeye New Community Center Scene of Second Annual Homecoming Sunday Two-hundred ninety-three friendly, happy neighbors, friends, and former residents met early and stayed late on Sunday, September 2, 1962, at the Hogeye Community Center for the second annual affair and the first in the new building. A covered dish dinner was served. Hubert Shields, speaking for President Billy Warren, was in charge of the brief business session. Next homecoming was voted for 1964. Hogeye was recognized as one of the oldest communities in Hunt County. Mr. Neil Mulkey, brother of Mrs. Solon Milton, of Norfolk Virginia, traveled fourteen hundred forty miles to the reunion. He is a nephew of Tom Mulkey here. Mrs. Allen Harris came for far away, Dalton, Georgia. She is the cousin of Mr. Mulkey. The oldest in years, but among the youngest in spirit of the day, was Mrs. Velma Holland who was Velma Aven. Mrs. Holland’s address is 1804 North Mayo Street, Commerce. She is eighty-three years young. Scores of people admitted to being over seventy years of age. Some of the approximately twenty families and individuals who made the day possible were Mmes. Jack and Lawrence Hunter who registered the guests. Jack Ruff was introduced as President of the Celeste Cemetery Association. Bobby Compton accepted contributions for the center’s building fund. Albert Granberry took pictures for a later slide presentation. Monty Blakemore, Garland Evans, and Duane Compton dispensed iced cold drinks. Mrs. Drey Aven had good help from the Ramsey and Aven women guests to prepare for the big day Sunday. In the crowd, Mrs. Alyne Aven Ruff counted her relatives and there were thirty-three, including brothers, sisters, and families. Vendel Hudson, carrying a pretty year-old pink-dressed twin, admitted he knew not which one he carried—Mrs. Vendel Hudson (Annie V. Williams) visited with friends while the other twin calmly looked about. Also present were former teachers of Hogeye School and later the Midway School. Present were Monroe Compton, Ida Mae Jordan, Hubert Shields, and Lola Jones Mallow. Oscar Hudson, presently of Leonard, was a trustee of the old Hogeye School. One hundred-ninety-two out of town people registered including: Fred Evans, Bo Slater and son and daughter, Lloyd Mulkey, Mrs. Bobby Risinger and daughter and son, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Compton, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ray Hunter and daughter, J. W. (John) Hunter, U. C. Powell, Harold Lyday and son, Mr. and Mrs. Sammy Johnson, Eddie Stallings, Mr. and Mrs. Alton Webb and child, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hanson, Miss Ida Mae Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Berry and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Furr, Dallas; Ernest Kidwell, Mrs. Florence Harris and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ray Mulkey and two children, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Pennington and daughter, Fort Worth; R. J. Ramsey, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. O’Dell, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lyday and son, Mr. and Mrs. Ted West, Mrs. Poshia Wallace, Mrs. Hazel Hutcherson, Mrs. Sue Aven and two daughters, Mrs. Edith Thomason, Mrs. Neoma Little, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Yates, Mrs. J. W. McBride, Mr. and Mrs. Bill McBride, Mr. and Mrs. Bennie R. Warren and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Welborn, Gene Welborn, Mr. and Mrs. Sid Welborn, Mr. and Mrs. Harley Howell and daughter, Ernest Hayes, and Arlin West; Greenville. Also, Martin L. Evans, Durant, Oklahoma; Matt Aven, Tyler; Bill Tatum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Brownfield, Lubbock; Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Evans, Vivian, Louisiana; D. A. Ramsey, Morton; D. L. Ramsey, Maysville, Oklahoma; Everett Reece, Houston; Forest Aven and two children, Arlington; Don Aven and three children, Hurst; Mr. and Mrs. Dan Tatum, Port Neches; Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hunter and daughter, Garland; Mrs. Lola Mallow Lawton, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Joe Blythe and two children, Frost; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Baker and three children, Pittsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Deason, Glen Rose; and Mrs. Stella Hunter Collins, McKinney. Also, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Watkins and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hudson, Grand Prairie; Herbert Mulkey and son, Garland; Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy West and two children, Irving; Mrs. Rosa Aven, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Furr, Lubbock; Kenneth Griffis and boys, Houston; Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Mulkey, Neil Mulkey, Norfolk, Virginia; Harold Mulkey, Merit; Mrs. Nevada Sprinkle Garner and daughter, Whitewright; Mrs. Estalee Wilkerson, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hudson, Mr. and Mrs. Harl Hudson, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Barr; all from Leonard; Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Windham, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Aven, and Mrs. Velma Holland, all from Commerce. Also, Mrs. Beatrice Moore, Southland; Mr. and Mrs. Porter Hanson, Mr. and Mrs. Dorman Tucker, Wolfe City; Mr. and Mrs. E.M. McBride, Vernon; Mrs. Laura Mays, Irving, Mrs. Alice Harris, Dalton, Georgia; Mrs. Esta Lee Sams, Cleburne; Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Swindell and two children, Palestine; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Compton and two children, Lubbock; Mr. and Mrs. Sam West, Farmersville; Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Vendel Hudson and twin daughters, Sulphur Springs; Woodrow Bishop, Orange; Noah Dan Butler and Mrs. Carl Brasher, Merit. (September 7, 1962, The Celeste Courier)