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Archie D. Rogers, Jr., 86, of Beaumont, went to be with his beloved wife, Lois in Heaven Tuesday, November 8, 2011. A native and lifelong resident of Beaumont, he was born December 19, 1924, to Ida Mae Ross and Archie D. Rogers, Sr. He was educated in the Beaumont City Schools from first grade at Junker Elementary School through Dick Dowling Junior High School and graduated from Beaumont High School in May of 1942. He married Lois Mildred Cobb on August 22, 1947, and they had three sons and six grandsons. He served as an artilleryman in the 6th Infantry Division in the South Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II for two and one-half years in New Guinea and the Philippines. Archie graduated from Lamar Junior College in May 1948 with an Associate of Arts certificate and continued his education graduating in 1949 from The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas with a Bachelor Science Degree and a Masters of Education degree in 1963. He taught physics and chemistry among other subjects at French High School from 1949 until 1966. He became Director of Business Services for the old Beaumont Independent School District and served in that capacity from 1966 until 1984 when he retired. As a young lad, he served as Junior Councilor in the Frank P. Decker chapter of the DeMolays. He was also a member of the Downtown Optimist club serving in various capacities during the 1960's and 1970's. He served on the Board of Trustees of Schlesinger's for a number of years, serving as Chairman among other positions on the Board. He was a Deacon with Calder Baptist Church and a teacher for the Men's Bible Class for many years. He had a great love for growing things like flowers, vegetable gardening and Bonsai. For about twenty years, he planted hundreds of tulip bulbs for the show they would exhibit in the early spring, brightening the yard and the neighborhood. Folks would slowly drive by to look at the show and many would stop and ask about the flowers. He also had a love for Bonsai, the Japanese art of growing trees in pots with the resulting minituring of the plant. At various times he would have as many Bonsai he could crowd in the small backyard benches he built to accommodate his hobby. Sometimes he would have hundreds of little trees in pots, lovingly repotted at the proper time. Each tree would have a history that he would carefully keep, noting the care given and the result of the care. He was also interested in the history of his family and as a result wrote a book about his family. He and his wife, Lois, traveled to most of the great libraries of our nation to investigate the histories of their families. Survivors include sons, A. Douglas Rogers and his wife, Donna of Orange, Gregory H. Rogers of Vidor, and Gary A. Rogers and his wife, Nada of China; grandsons, Daric Rogers and his wife, Andrea of Dallas, James Rogers and his wife, Heather of Beaumont, Daniel Doyen and his wife, Katie of Midland, Deven Doyen and his wife, Brianne of Kingsland, Ross Rogers of China, and Ryan Rogers of China; and great grandchildren, Bailey Rogers and Deacon Rogers of Beaumont, Casen Doyen of Kingsland, and two more on the way. His memorial service will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, November 26, 2011, at Calder Baptist Church, 1005 N. 11th Street, Beaumont, Texas. Published in The Beaumont Enterprise on November 25, 2011
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Marcus Bowman, 81, of Lumberton, passed away Wednesday, November 23, 2011, at his residence He was born in McComb Mississippi and raised in Galveston, he graduated in 1949 from Ball High School in Galveston and taught at French High School from 1956 to 1964. He has lived in the Lumberton area since 1969. From helping create the Lumberton Municipal Utility District to opening the first insurance agency in Lumberton; from coaching Raiders football to being the “Voice of the Raiders” for 20 years to serving on the LISD school board and was on in the Lions Club for over 50 years. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Frances Dennis Bowman of Lumberton; daughters, Cindy Garrison Woodall and husband Billy of Nome, Marcia Spears and husband Mark of Lumberton; grandchildren, Marc Garrison and wife Kayti of Camp Pendelton, Casey Spears; niece, Rose Marie Leisner and husband Bobby of Evergreen; and nephew, Mac Phillips and wife Helen also of Evergreen. Marcus is preceded in death by his mother and father, Marcus and Bessie Bowman; and sister, Marie Phillips.
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Mildred Campbell Yates - English
Mildred Campbell Yates, despairing optimist and free-thinking Methodist, died on Saturday, January 9, 2010, at Christus Hospital St. Elizabeth in Beaumont. Born in Beaumont, she was the daughter of Eula Owens Campbell and Will H. Campbell. She attended local public schools, graduating with honors from Beaumont High School in 1936. Mildred attended Randolph Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and graduated from the University of Georgia in Athens in 1940.
Returning to Beaumont with war clouds brewing, she realized that all she knew how to do was to write scholarly papers and play the cello, so she took a secretarial course and found work in the defense industry, first at the Defense Plant Corporation which was overseeing the building of Neches Butane Products Company in Port Neches, then at Pennsylvania Shipyards in Beaumont. She married Reed H. Yates, Jr., in 1944, and they lived in Gulfport, Mississippi, where Reed was an instructor at the Gulfport Army Air Base. There were two children born to their marriage, Reed III and Mary.
In 1953, Dr. Lena Milam asked Mildred to teach music and language arts at the new elementary school, Eugene Field, and she began the career she was born for. She spent fourteen happy years at Field, then two years at Lamar teaching graduate students who were working toward their Masters Degree in Language Arts. In 1969, she returned to the Beaumont Independent School District, this time to French High School, where she taught English and occasionally various history courses. Mildred loved teaching – she was a natural – for it came easily to her and all her students were dear to her. She also enjoyed her own children and entered joyfully into their lives. In 1962, she earned the Master of Arts Degree in English from Lamar.
She took early retirement in order to spend time with her family and travel with her husband. She threw herself into Historic Preservation with the same enthusiasm she had put into teaching and was pleased to play a part in the restoration of the Tyrrell Historical Library, the Jefferson County Courthouse and the Jefferson Theatre.
She was the author of two developmental readers, Images and Keystone, published by Houghton Mifflin. She was associate editor and author of two chapters updating the history of First United Methodist Church, Beaumont, With a Dome More Vast. She belonged to the Beaumont Heritage Society and was twice its president, and held membership in the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, the Mental Health Association in Jefferson County, of which she was for four years its secretary, the Tyrrell Historical Library Association, in which she served in many capacities, the Jefferson Theater Preservation Society, Pi Beta Phi national sorority, Texas Gulf Historical Society, for which she served as genealogist, and First United Methodist Church and its Alpha Omega class. She had docented in both the John Jay French House and the McFaddin-Ward Historic House. Mildred is listed in Who’s Who Among American Women for the years 1999-2005.
Her husband, Reed Yates preceded her in death, as did her sister, Mary Bond Belk; and her brother, Jeff H. Campbell.
She is survived by her son, Reed H. Yates III and his wife Linda of Southlake; daughter, Mary Yates Kirkpatrick of Beaumont; grandsons, Phillip Kirkpatrick of Austin, Charles Reed Kirkpatrick of Beaumont; granddaughters, Amanda Yates Bradford and her husband Kevin of Arlington, Bethany Kirkpatrick of Beaumont; greatgranddaughter, Natalie Bradford of Arlington; and her greatgrandson, Connor Reed Bradford of Arlington; her life-long friend, Mildred P. Hall, “the other Mildred”; many students she so happily taught; as well as three nieces; and two nephews.
Her funeral service were held Thursday, January 14, 2010, at First United Methodist Church with burial followed at Magnolia Cemetery under the direction of Broussard’s, 2000 McFaddin, Beaumont.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Tyrrell Historical Library, P.O. Box 77726, Beaumont, Texas 77726-2563; First United Methodist Church, 701 Calder, Beaumont, Texas 77701; or to Charlsie Berly Fund of Texas Gulf Historical Society, P.O. Box 1621, Beaumont, Texas 77704.
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Adlai Guy Welch
Birth: Feb. 19, 1898 -- Death: Mar. 28, 1961
Guy was born and raised in Chickamauga, GA. He graduated from Mercer University, Macon, GA in 1925. He married Katherine Moore of Macon and moved to Rusk, Texas where he taught mathematics at Rusk Junior College. Katherine died of pregnancy complications in 1926. He then married Ruth Dominy in 1928. She was one of his students at Rusk. He moved to Beaumont, TX as Principal of French High School. He stayed there until 1936 when he accepted the position of Principal of Alvin High School in Alvin, Texas. In 1938 he became Superintendent Of Schools in Alvin. In 1950 he also became Dean Of the new Alvin Jr. College and retained both positions until his retirement in 1954. He later accepted the position of Superintendent of the Manvel School District until his death in 1961
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Lydie Johnson DeJean
Date of death:
July 19, 2007
A former resident of Beaumont, Texas, she died at the Hospice Butterfly Wing at Ollie Steele Burden Manor at 9:25 a.m. Thursday, July 19, 2007, in Baton Rouge as the result of complications of a stroke. She was 81, a native of Jackson and a resident of Baton Rouge since 1986. Visitation at Rabenhorst Funeral Home, 825 Government St., on Saturday, July 21, from 9 a.m. until funeral service at 11 a.m., conducted by the Rev. Chris Andrews of First United Methodist Church. Interment in Greenoaks Memorial Park. Formerly Lydie Evelyn Johnson, she was a graduate of Jackson's McKowen High School and then LSU in 1947. She retired after 17 years of teaching history at French High School in Beaumont, where she had lived for 37 years. She completed graduate studies at Lamar University in the history of Eastern and Western civilizations. At LSU, she was a member of Kappa Delta sorority, and became a member of the White Rose Circle of Kappa Delta as an active alumnae for more than 50 years. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Baton Rouge. She was also an active member of the John James Audubon Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is survived by her husband, Joseph E. DeJean Sr.; daughter and son-in-law, Melanie DeJean Hansbrough and Dr. Thomas A. Hansbrough of Baton Rouge; a son, Dr. J. Edwin DeJean Jr. of New Orleans; grandson, Thomas A. Hansbrough Jr. of Baton Rouge; granddaughter, Leigh Hansbrough Fahr and her husband, Trevor C. Fahr, of Dallas; and great-grandson, Thomas A. Hansbrough III of Baton Rouge. She is also survived by her sister, Helen Prescott of Baton Rouge. She was preceded in death by her father, Sen. James Mellard Johnson; mother, Rita LeBlanc Johnson; and brother, James Mellard Johnson Jr., all formerly of Jackson. Honorary pallbearers are Bill Castro, Gregg Samrow and Jesse Bankston. The family extends special thanks to Dr. Terry Rehn, Dr. Swayze Rigby, Dr. Robert St. Amant, Dr. Pat Gahan and Jean Comeaux. The family also extends its gratitude to the entire organization at Ollie Steele Burden Manor, Hospice of Baton Rouge and for the efforts of the Care team and staff of First United Methodist Church. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to First United Methodist Church, 930 North Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70802 or Hospice of Baton Rouge, 9063 Siegen Lane, Suite A, Baton Rouge, LA 70810.
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