By: W.C. Reader

This month’s “Tip-of-the-Hat” goes to the staff of the local HEB grocery store, represented by such fine people as Ben Ramirez, Robin Groff, Homer Elizondo, and Tyler Groff, for the efficient, pleasant, courteous service they render to local patrons while attending to their food requirements each day. They make this chore seem easy even for an old man like us. ----- After hearing about Nancy Advant making a command appearance on top of the Kauffman Motor Co. building recently, we’ve been wondering if she is planning to go into the construction business. And wasn’t that Bob Jinette who showed up as a disinterested spectator? ----- Marg Hoff and Pat Hemby made a stop-off at the “Sparkling City by the Sea”, Corpus Christi, recently, but it wasn’t for a Spring Break. It was all business as this twosome put in an appearance at a retired teachers meeting. ----- Beecher Hoff still making regular appearance on the local golf links, but we haven’t worked up the courage to ask him to let us take a look at his scorecard. ----- From the number of times we bumped into Norma McCarley in the aisles while doing a little grocery shopping the other day, you would have thought we were playing hide-and-go-seek. ----- After a long drought, it certainly was nice to come face-to-face with longtime friend Stanley Bergman recently. Both of us launched our teaching careers in the Karnes County Country Schools back in the 1930’s. ----- Truett Hunt always seems to be a busy man, but never too busy to remind us of some of our shortcomings, which date back to the 1930’s, when we both were students at the Kenedy High School. ----- Dr. A.F. Day, Jr., still trying to keep the past alive by dropping by the other day to leave a box full of Reminisce magazines for us to use when needed to research occurrences in the past. Thanks, Doctor! That ought to help relieve some of the strain on our brain. ----- One of our prize former neighbors, Roxanne “Elmo” Osburn Webb, picked up the phone recently and gave us a call to see if we still are polluting the neighborhood where she grew up. We’re still here, “Elmo”, but have slowed considerably since those days when you wandered up the street early in the morning, came into the house without knocking, hurl a few sassy remarks in our direction, and then go on your way without giving us time to make a suitable reply. Roxanne is the charming daughter of Sandra Slaughter and the late Gus Osburn. ----- James Johnson pulling us over to tell us that he and the rest of his entourage, Lucille Pace, James Stewart, and June Stewart still are making their weekly pilgrimage to the Pizza Hut in Kenedy, and they have been wondering what has happened to Mama Dorris and the rest of her quartet. Well, James, we don’t want to say it too loudly, but we think old rocking chair has gotten hold of most of those playgirls. ----- That was a mighty fine article carried in the April 30 issue of the Victoria Advocate about Karnes County’s premier historian, Bob Thonhoff. Hope you read it, and if not, do so. Incidentally, the author was old friend, Henry Wolff, Jr.

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