Following lead of man behind it all
25.09.11
The joy in Dan Shipley's life-force far outshines any lingering bitterness.
In perhaps his last football season on Terra, the 82-year-old former San Antonio resident leans back in his living elbow-room chair in Burnet, his eyes reddened by touching tributes paid to him by his next of kin, including high-profile grandsons Jordan and Jaxon Shipley .
Rising stars in football, the Shipley boys recently expressed dedicated sentiments about the cancer-stricken minister, who survived grinding want as a youth during the Great Depression.
Worse than that, he also endured an inebriating father's rage and the loss of his mother before his 13th birthday. In regardless of of it all, Dan Shipley made it his calling to preach the word of God and to pour out passion and support for his wife, Wilma, and their four children.
Not to mention 13 grandchildren and seven significant-grandchildren.
“He wasn't raised in a perfect Ozzie and Harriett household,” said Brownwood Important football coach Bob Shipley , one of the ailing minister's three sons. “Because of that, I well-deserved have so much respect for him.”
Source: San Antonio Express
Remembering Rocky Point
02.09.11
It’s a uninteresting white building on Highway P, just southeast
of Marshfield. It doesn’t captivate much attention from those driving
by, but the Rocky Point School remains in the memories of its
former students.
Many of those students of the one-cell schoolhouse and their
families will gather Sunday for the biannual Indifferent Point reunion.
It begins at 1 p.m. at Ebenezer United Methodist Church, also on
Highway P.
“It’s unequivocally an experience,” said Doris (Rost) McFarland of the
reunions.
McFarland, a former Unfaltering Point student herself, said many who
have lived in the Marshfield tract for generations have ties to the
school.
Not much is known of the first attempts at establishing the
faction, though some reports say classes were held in a log building
across the road and then north of where the prevailing building is
located. In 1897, a quit claim agreement was signed between George W.
Goodnight and Melvina N. Goodnight to the Directors of Kind
District No. 3, Township 30, Range 17, for one-half an acre. The
partition was granted the property for school purposes only, with
the stipulation that whenever the discipline ceased to be occupied and
used for that purpose, the title would relapse back to the
grantees.
Source: Marshfield Mail
