10/1/23

MAIL CALL

from Pat Trahan Knox
9/16
I'm so sorry it's taken me so long to thank you and the wonderful TJ reunion staff for the time and effort spent for our enjoyment! It's still hard for me to comprehend that we graduated from TJ 55 years ago. I'm so thankful each time we are able to visit with our classmates. It's so difficult to see our memorial wall grow at each gathering. I treasure the time we're able to catch up on our friends and their families. Could we perhaps share our phone numbers making it easier to stay in contact with more class members?
I found in a closet two large"#1" finger sponges. We'll have them at our next reunion.
Our 1968 graduating class has a website that is unequaled and enables us to enjoy keeping up with our TJ families. I sincerely thank our reunion group for the outstanding job they did. When the school song played, I know I'm not the only one who was extremely touched. It is the most beautiful school song ever; let's keep it alive!
Thank you again to our reunion group that made it possible to enjoy 2 days of memories!
patknox@hotmail.com


WEBSITE DONATION
from Arleen Lang Hulin
from Linda DeCuir McFadden – in memory of Diana de la Rosa, Hal Ross & Nancy White

REUNION COMMITTEE DONATION
from Fred McCarty
I’m sending this donation for our class and I am already looking forward to any opportunity to meet our TJ classmate. The reunion committee did an outstanding job on the 55th reunion and I am certain the 60th will also be special.
Donations may be sent to me:
Linda DeCuir McFadden
7699 Boardwalk
Lumberton, TX 77657

55th REUNION PHOTOS
It is fun to look back at the pictures sent in from the reunion. If you have forgotten to send yours, please send them to me by text or e-mail and I will get them to Mike.
(409)749-4879
lindadmcfadden@yahoo.com

SURGERY
I needed to write this newsletter this weekend because my dominant right arm will be in a sling soon. Left hand only typing doesn’t go very fast!! After tearing a rotator cuff in my left shoulder and then two weeks later tearing the right one during a fall, I have really been hampered with what I could do. The doctor put off the surgery until AFTER the reunion and our 50th anniversary but now I have it scheduled on Wednesday, Oct. 4th. I certainly am not looking forward to the imposition of what is to come but it is what it is. Dr. Thomas B. Edwards at Fondren will do a reverse shoulder replacement.

NEWS FROM THE HOMEFRONT
Murphy and I were lucky to have lunch with classmate, John Wilson, recently. Even though he now lives close in Crystal Beach, it was the first time we have seen him since our 25th class reunion. We had a lot of laughs and caught up. He has lived and traveled around the world with his job. Well, I just finished having a root canal. Yay me. We have enjoyed hearing from our two granddaughters from A&M. Drew just surprised me last night. She showed up at our front door and I thought it was the UPS man. She said she was a little homesick and decided to come back to Lumberton for her first visit since leaving and moving in on campus August 17. She is spending a couple of nights here while also visiting the rest of her family. We watched Pixar movies while she worked on an art homework project. She is an animation major. I was sad to hear her tell me that she has received several blunt remarks from classmates when they ask her what she is majoring in. Apparently not everyone has to be a doctor, lawyer, merchant chief or accountant. They need to remember her when they laugh at a movie or play a game! Can you imagine not having TOY STORY? Ironically, our other granddaughter is in her third year at A&M and is studying for her RN degree hoping to someday be a PA or NP. Then, there is my hubby. Murf said for me to hurry up and get better from my surgery because he has to go to the “beer lease” for the upcoming season. Really? He hasn’t brought a deer home in two years!

SUPPORT
Alfred Hebert (faculty member) & Carolyn (Bigler) Hebert
Various health issues
hawiistomnd@hotmail.com

Carole Oubre Reeves
Dealing with treatments for pancreatic cancer
Carole.reeves@att.net
6535 Jefferson
Groves, TX 77619

Debbie Borres Desmond
Lymphoma treatments
Desmonddebbie353@gmail.com
503 37th St.
Nederland, TX 77627

Diana (Caillier) & Robert Lewis
Multiple health issues
912 E. 6th St.
Port Arthur, TX 77640

Charline Valenciano Allen
Dementia
Jhargrave77@yahoo.com
8695 Medical Center Blvd.
Port Arthur, TX 77640

Ricky Bradley
(FB posts from Gloria Phillips Bradley)
8/15
We are in an ambulance headed for Baptist Hospital. Rick fell off a 15ft ladder. He's on a Back board. PLEASE PRAY
8/16
Wendy & I were at hospital all day.
Rick has a Broken Leg just under his Titanium knee Replacement. Also, he has a Compression fracture break of T9 on his Spine. They are doing an MRI sometime this evening. They stapled a large deep gash on his leg with 12 staples. They are Going to do a distal femur replacement Surgery on his knee tomorrow about 12:15. He will have to wear a Back brace for a Fractured Spine. He will do In-hospital Rehab after knee surgery.
We are so very Thankful God's hand was on Rick today when he fell from that ladder, He is still with us!
We appreciate all Prayers for continued safety through surgery & recovery.
Rick went in surgery at 1pm to recovery at 3:30pm. We're back at room 4:15pm He's sleeping now. He had a Complete knee replacement plus a rod inserted from artificial knee up into femur 150cm. We are Praising the Lord for continually carrying us under his wing.
Rbradley73064@yahoo.com
9221 SW 99th St.
Mustang, OK 73064

Jim Snoek
8/14
An update on my cochlear implant that was activated in late June. The main objective was to improve my understanding of speech. That has happened and continues to improve. The cochlear specialist say it may take as long as a year for the brain to fully adapt to the new way of hearing so to expect improvement to continue. One big difference is the frequencies of sound not heard before. I mentioned previously the annoying clicking of dog nails traipsing across the floor and of keyboards being typed on in the office. Just last week, as the director in our office was erasing the white dry board to post new numbers, I noticed the swishing sound of the erasure matched the movement of her arm. Never heard that before. She was about 20 feet away and I heard that? I’m impressed.

Marilyn Jackson
Radiation and chemo for bladder & breast cancer
Marilynsjw@yahoo.com
2315 Glenwood
Port Arthur, TX 77642

Steve Wentworth
Surgery for oral cancer
Leslie.wentworth125@gmail.com
125 River Rapids Loop
Wimberly, TX 78676

Jeanette Constantine Morgan
Loop recorder and then later had to have the heart shocked
denandjune@yahoo.com
3901 Hwy 366
Groves, TX 77619

Kathy Melancon Perio
Knee replacement surgery
lperio@gt.rr.com
8950 Taylor Circle
Orange, TX 77630

Felicia Hiatt Petit
Back surgery
texteach@yahoo.com
3008 Cambridge Meadows Ln.
Dickinson, TX 77539

Diane Barker Foreman
Multiple health issues
dianebforeman@gmail.com
5541 Garfield
Groves, TX 77619

Loretta LaLonde Myers
Back surgery
lorettamyers@verizon.net
522 Beacons Hollow Lane
League City, TX 77573

Ray Knox
(husband of Pat Trahan)
“On September 23, Ray and I were in the Woodlands for the funeral of a longtime co-worker and friend. Somehow, in a 3-minute period, Ray fell in the parking lot, with a severe brain injury. We are at the Hermann Memorial hospital in the Woodlands. He is receiving intense therapy in the TIRR floor of the hospital where we are very hopeful that each day will bring further improvement. My sons have helped me so much. Richard lives in Beaumont and is taking care of our home in Beaumont and sweet Sandy, our dog. Jeff is in College Station, visiting several times a week taking care of any financial needs or medical records for any future therapy needs. I am truly blessed to have such a comforting support system. Prayers are appreciated.”
patknox@hotmail.com
925 Brandywine St.
Beaumont, TX 77706

CONDOLENCES
(CLASSMATES GONE TOO SOON)

Diana (de la Rosa) Elizondo
3/7/50 – 3/7/22
Tudi Elizondo
2567 Garza Lane
Ingleside, TX 78362
2d@yahoo.com
Thank you to Diana’s son who contacted us about her death when he realized she wasn’t included in our MEMORIAL SECTION. Our condolences.

Hal Ross
3/7/50 – 8/29/23 Glynda McCuller
3113 Madison
Nederland, TX 77627

Nancy White
9/26/49 – 9/9/23


Deceased family members of classmates

Dee Pillitere
(sister of Chrissy Dupuis Mullens)
8/2/42 – 9/8/23 Chrissy Mullens
2521 Glenwood
Port Arthur, TX 77642
cmullens@gt.rr.com

Wendy Gardner
(daughter of Linda Clause Glenn)
12/12/69 – 9/8/23 Linda Glenn
752 Bourbon Ave.
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
Glennlinda50@yahoo.com

Please remember our classmates at this sorrowful time.

This will be my last newsletter until closer to the holidays when I can type for a longer amount of time. Keep hanging on, friends. Apparently, we are all in the same boat cruising along the same path.

Stay in touch and contact a classmate,
Linda DeCuir McFadden
lindadmcfadden@yahoo.com
www.tjhs1968.com