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MONDAY: Chicken strips, mashed potatoes, gravy, French green beans, dessert.
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A fire broke out in a garage in the 1300 block of West Jeter St. No injuries were reported, the Brownfield Fire and Rescue, Brownfield PD and the Brownfield Electric Dept. were on scene to assist.
Read moreHere in Texas, we are some of the most independent people in the U.S.! I mean really, we won our own independence. At the same time we have some strange and quirky things. We don’t deny, we embrace it! Here is a list of 10 things we’re so devoted to in the Lone Star State. It’s borderline crazy, however why change it?
Read moreThe terrible reach of the Covid 19 (Coronavirus) has not only exposed its potentially lethal embrace to vulnerable populations all over the world, it has also laid bare for all the world to see America’s precarious dependency upon foreign sources for the manufacture of essential raw materials and the dire need to overturn that reliance.
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William ‘Bailey’ Yarbrough ‘91’ passed from this life to his eternal home early Tuesday morning on May 5, 2020. A Celebration of Life followed at 2:00 pm Friday, May 8, 2020 at the Brownfield First United Methodist Church. Yarbrough was born November 27, 1928 in Oplin TX to Louie and Blanche (Collins) Yarbrough. He was born extremely premature and not expected to live the night. He lived a full fun filled 91 years. His family moved between Oplin and Kerns, TX. At a young age, he and his older brother were residents of the Waco Children’s Home. Later, a family relocated him Arizona. While in Arizona he worked several times at the Grand Canyon. He had many tales-to-tell about his excursions. He enlisted in the US Army Air Corp at the age of 17 in September 1946 in Flagstaff, AZ. and served overseas in Japan 30 months. He was discharged from the US Air Force in September 1949. He returned to work at the Grand Canyon and eventually relocated to Baird, TX. He met Mary Ellen Burrow in March 1950 in Clyde, TX and married his wife of 67 years on June 21, 1952 on her 18th birthday. The couple moved from Baird, TX to Denver City, TX in 1954, where he began his 31-year career with Amoco Oil Co. retiring in 1986. He is preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Thomas and Elvie and sister Lois. Survivors include his wife, Mary Ellen Yarbrough, daughter, Rita Murry and husband, Max of Brownfield, son, William Randal ‘Randy’ Yarbrough of Lubbock. Grandchildren, Nathaniel ‘Nate’ Yarbrough of Brownfield and Morgan Bailee Murry of Lubbock. Haylee Potter (Chance), Levelland, Gabriel Murry (Jeanne), Las Cruces, NM, Great-grandchildren, Nathaniel and Ariel Yarbrough both of Lubbock, Rayden, Casen Ashtyn Potter, Dylan and Sephra Murry. In lieu of flowers send memorials to Brownfield Senior Citizens for senior meals and/or Brownfield First Methodist Youth Fund.
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Continuing with the year in review of Terry County sports we will now focus on girls high school basketball. Out of the three schools that represent Terry County, two of the three girls teams went to the playoffs. Brownfield went far, and the Meadow girls got back in.
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