2019-10-27
Editorial: Take care to avoid bumps in the night
Halloween falls on Thursday and if past events foretell the future, the city’s streets and sidewalks will swell with children who have been transformed into candy-craving monsters. They will tramp from house to house in hopes that their tricks will be rewarded with treats and we, especially those of us behind the wheel, need to watch for ghostly forms that […]
Are we losing the art of conversation?
I am one of those weird people who speak to people in elevators and start conversations in the doctor’s office. I have never met a stranger. Just recently I met a lady in Tuesday Morning in Kerrville. I mistook her for someone from Sabinal but found out she was from Yancey and was shopping in Kerrville with her daughter. That’s […]
Coyotes lose weather-shortened game
On a stormy night in Boerne, the Champion Chargers recorded a 30-0 district football victory over the Uvalde Coyotes. The first half of the game at Boerne ISD Stadium was punctuated by strong winds and rain from a line of thunderstorms that preceded the first major cold weather front of the fall. At halftime, the game went into lightning protocol […]
City championship golf scheduled Nov. 9-10
Entries are being accepted for play in the 2019 Uvalde City Championship golf tournament scheduled for Nov. 9-10 at Uvalde Memorial Golf Course. Action in the two-day event will begin with an 11 a.m. shotgun start each day. The entry fee is $50 per golfer. Individual stroke play will be the format for the event. Players will be divided into […]
Lineta Brown
Lineta Brown Lineta Brown, 97, of Uvalde, died on Oct. 25, 2019, at Amistad Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Uvalde. A funeral service will be held Monday at 11:30 a.m. in the chapel at Rushing-Estes-Knowles Mortuary. A complete obituary will appear in a future edition of the Uvalde Leader-News.
Martha Hodges
Martha Hodges Martha Estelene Hodges, 85, of Niederwald, died on Oct. 23, 2019, in Uvalde. She was born on Dec. 20, 1933, in Lubbock to Jewel (Morton) and James Earl Nichols. While growing up, she lived in Muleshoe, Quanah, Matador, and Vernon. She left the Panhandle with her brothers, Charles and James, to find better jobs, and they settled in […]
Harold Huddleston
Harold Huddleston Harold Glenn Huddleston, 63, of Uvalde died on Oct. 20, at his residence. A celebration of life will be held on Saturday at 1 p.m. at 214 W. Frio St. He was born on Dec. 9, 1955, in Pleasanton to Lennie (Bell) and Delmer Huddleston. lings in that family. The family says he was a man of many […]
Vivian Jones
Vivian Jones Vivian Brown Jones, 88, of Uvalde died on Oct. 22, 2019, at Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. A graveside service will be held today at 2 p.m. at Vance Cemetery. She was born on Aug. 17, 1931, in Vance, Texas to Georgie Ruth (Connell) and Andrew Brown. According to the family, she loved horses and goats, spending her […]
