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The Yellow Jacket

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Michael Turner - 9/24/25



Mike was born on February 16, 1949, in Port Arthur, Texas, to Dorothy and Ray Turner. Born and raised in Port Arthur, he was a lifelong resident who deeply loved his community. He proudly served his country as an Army veteran, a member of the Texas National Guard, and the Army Reserves.


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Phillip Earl Romero - 11/8/25



Phillip was a Psychiatrist, author, and artist. He passed away peacefully on November 8, 2025. He was 75 years old. Dr. Romero spent most of his life in NYC, where he practiced for more than 40 years.


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  The First Bank in Port Arthur

  John Gates Dairy Farm

  the First Methodist Church located across from Woodrow Wilson Jr. High

  Another view of The Methodist Church with Gates Memorial to the right

  Pleasure Pier Amusement Park 1951


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Bernadette Soubirous

Bernadette (7 January 1844 – 16 April 1879), also known as Bernadette of Lourdes (religious name Marie-Bernarde), was a miller's daughter from Lourdes in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for experiencing apparitions of a "young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby cave-grotto. These apparitions occurred between 11 February and 16 July 1858, and the young lady who appeared to her identified herself as the "Immaculate Conception".
After a canonical investigation, Soubirous's reports were eventually declared "worthy of belief" on 18 February 1862, and the Marian apparition became known as Our Lady of Lourdes. In 1866, Soubirous joined the Sisters of Charity of Nevers at their convent in Nevers where she spent the last years of her life. Her body is said by the Catholic Church to remain internally incorrupt. The grotto where the apparitions occurred became a major pilgrimage site and Marian shrine known as the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, attracting around five million pilgrims of all denominations each year.
She died of tuberculosis on April 16, 1879, at the age of 35.
In 1909, 30 years after her death, two doctors and a nun exhumed her body and reported that, while the crucifix and rosary she was buried with were oxidized, her body was completely intact. They washed and redressed her body then reburied her in a new double casket.
The church exhumed her again in 1919, and the doctor who examined her said, “The body is practically mummified, covered with patches of mildew and quite a notable layer of salts, which appear to be calcium salts … The skin has disappeared in some places, but it is still present on most parts of the body.” Finally, they exhumed her a third time in 1925, sending a few of her ribs to Rome as relics and molding an imprint of her face and hands. They decided that the blackish color of her face might be off-putting to pilgrims, and a light wax mask was in order. Her new face and hands were designed by Pierre Imans, a designer of fashion mannequins in Paris.
They sealed her body in wax and displayed it in the Chapel of Saint Bernadette at the mother house in Nevers, where it remains. St. Bernadette was canonized on December 8, 1933 by Pope Pius IX.



USS Texas at Cherbourg: The Battleship That Changed the D-Day

I have added photos and articles about the battleship Texas on past site updates, but I ran across this documentary and thought it was interesting. Also there are other documentaries there to check out.
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