Several ladies from the Piney Grove Baptist Church area are enjoying a Bible Study, “Women of the Bible” led by Wanda Young. Meeting time is 1 p.m. on the first Tuesday of every month. You are invited to attend and bring a friend.
Frankie and Mary Lynn Lambert attended the wedding of their granddaughter Merry Ashlyn Gatewood to Jake Guyette at Christ Church in Memphis on July 26. Merry Ashlyn is the daughter of Todd and Shannon (Hammons) Gatewood of Cordova. After a honeymoon to Barcelona, Spain, the couple will make their home in Memphis where Merry Ashlyn will continue with her law degree through the university of Memphis. Jake will continue to work as an insurance adjuster for Farm Bureau Insurance.
Brynlee Watkins (age 7), daughter of Tracy and Becky Watkins, great-granddaughter of Frankie and Mary Lynn Lambert and granddaughter of Billy and Michelle Watkins and Mike and the late Mitzi Hatch, played in the Golden World Softball Anniversary Tournament in Ruston, La. At the time this article was written, they had played one game which they won 22 to 11, hence the proud parents and grandparents. Prior to this, Brynlee’s team won the Chester County tournament.
Dawn Boykin and her grandchildren enjoyed a trip to Bonham, Texas, to visit family. Highlights of the trip included attending birthday parties for her granddaughter Brooke who turned 16 and her great-grandson Weston who turned two years old. Other highlights of the trip were daily swimming excursions and a trip to Buc-ee’s!
To dispel all doubt Bonham, Texas, (county seat of Fannin County) was not named after the late drummer of Led Zeppelin. Bonham was named after James Butler Bonham (Feb. 20, 1807 – March 6, 1836) of South Carolina, a 19th-century American soldier who died at the Battle of the Alamo. He bravely volunteered to fight for the Texas Revolution, declining any and all payment in return. After impressing Sam Houston, he was quickly promoted to captain, and legend has it that he died while manning a cannon in the Alamo.
