Linda Lucille Brasseux, 75, formerly of Lake Charles, LA was called home to our Lord and Savior on November 14, 2020. She was born in Gilmer, TX on November 18, 1944 to Melvin and Thelma Thompson. She retired from Walmart after 15 years of employment. Linda was an avid reader and really enjoyed reading about the Civil War. In addition, she loved cooking, baking, and adored spending as much time as she could with her daughter and grandchildren (whom her world revolved around).

She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Betty Lively; and brother, Floyd Thompson. Survivors include: her daughter, Katrina Pokluda and husband Allan of Seadrift; grandson, Brent Carpenter and his fiancé Tayler of Lake Jackson; granddaughters, Mikaela Morris and husband Nathan, and Kaitlin Pokluda. She is also survived by her three great-grandchildren, Khloe, Harper and Greyson; brother, Jerry Thompson and wife Sue; along with numerous nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be held Saturday, November 21, 2020 from 9-10 a.m. at the First Baptist Church in Seadrift. Funeral services will follow at 10 a.m. with Rev. Randy Samuels officiating (please wear pink in honor of Breast Cancer awareness). Burial will follow in Seadrift Cemetery.

Marklan Ray Leftwich (Ray), age 53 of Seadrift Texas, passed away on Thursday, October 15, 2020 after a courageous battle with cancer.

Ray was born in Pasadena, Texas on October 27, 1966 to Gail Ray Leftwich (deceased) and Lyn Bullington Leftwich. He is survived by his loving wife, Shelly Scallan Leftwich, his mother, Lyn Bullington Leftwich, brother, Glyn Leftwich and wife Kimberly. He is also survived by his son, Travis Leftwich and three daughters, Christa Pompa, and husband, T.J. Pompa, Felicia L. Floria, Heather Leftwich, one nephew, A.J. Leftwich, numerous cousins and his parents-in law, Forrest and Nancy Pomykal. In addition Ray is survived by his pride and joy, his granddaughters, Chloe Floria, Lily Floria, Everly Pompa and Aubrey Pompa. He loved those little girls and was an amazing Papaw!

He was preceded in death by his father, Gail Ray Leftwich, his paternal grandparents, his maternal grandparents, and an infant son, C.J. Leftwich.

Employed as a Lead Operator in the oil and gas industry on a platform for Wood Group in the Gulf of Mexico, Ray spent two weeks off shore and two weeks on shore. He was extremely knowledgeable, skilled and talented. He took his responsibilities very seriously and attended hundreds of hours in special training and received numerous achievement awards.

Ray loved life. His photos of the beautiful sunrises and sunsets from the offshore platform will always be cherished by his family and friends. Truly a man of many talents, he loved woodworking, Bar- B- Ques, gardening, X-Box gaming, the beach, and cooking; (His world Famous Chicken Wings) will never be forgotten. Ray had a hilarious sense of humor. During visits with family or friends, he would keep everyone laughing and was always the life of the party. He loved all music. Any time a cool tune would play, you would find Ray tapping his toe to the rhythm.

A celebration of Ray’s life will be held at King Fisher Beach in Port O’Connor on Saturday, November 28 from 12:00 noon until 2:00 p.m. The celebration will be casual and a Bar B Que lunch will be served.

Shelly and the family wish to express their sincere appreciation and gratitude to Hospice of South Texas and the staff at M.D. Anderson in Houston.

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John David Tofte, 74, of Seadrift , Texas passed away unexpectedly from a heart attack on October 31, 2020 at Memorial Hermann Hospital of Houston.

John was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota on May 26, 1946 to Clara and Ingvald Tofte. He was raised with his two brothers in Grand Forks and graduated from Central High School. After graduating he attended Wahpeton State School of Science and received a degree in Architectural Drafting. While working for the planning Department for the City of Fargo he obtained his Urban Planning degree from North Dakota State University. John then accepted a position at Moore Engineering in West Fargo as a building inspector. Later he worked for the Cities of Park Rapids and Princeton, MN and Green River, WY as a city planner and economic development director.

John joined the Army National Guard in 1970 and served 6 years.
He married Mary Gross on March 27, 1976 in Lake Park, MN. They had two children and spent most of their years in Fargo, ND. After retiring, John and Mary built a home in Seadrift and spent their winters in Texas and summers in Hensel, ND.

John enjoyed building structures. He was always building something, a garage, garden shed, or finishing the basement rooms of one of the homes where they lived. He especially liked anything associated with water and would spend hours sailing at the lake. After retirement he planned and enjoyed tending the vegetable garden at their home near Hensel, ND. He would go for a walk and meet someone (whether he knew them or not) and would engage in long conversations with them. Anyone who knew John knew he loved to talk.
John is survived by a son, David Tofte of Fargo, ND, a daughter, Jessica(Jeff) Gfeller of Duluth, MN, two granddaughters, Kaitlin and Megan Gfeller of Duluth, a brother Lloyd (Esther) Tofte of Fargo, ND, and a sister-in-law Pat Tofte of Fargo, ND.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Otto Tofte of Sykeston, ND.
A viewing will be held Saturday, November 7, 2020 from 2:30-3:30 at First Lutheran Church in Tivoli. Funeral Services will begin at 3:30 at the church with Pastor Jim Gicklhorn officiating and military honors under the auspices of the Calhoun County Joint Honor Guard.

Words of comfort may be shared with the family at www.richardsoncolonial.com.

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Election Fiasco – Massive Vote Fraud

Anyone paying any attention to how Democrats handle Elections in the last 2 decades instinctively knew Mail-in-Voting was a a Cheat-By-Mail Scam. The Dems promised signature requirements, witnesses for some signatures, postmark dating, ballot security, even ballot tracking in some states, but immediately started law-suits to allow/require counting of unsigned ballots, undated ballots, and there is no ballot security by the USPS. Millions of ballots were lost, stolen, misprinted, destroyed, all “floating around out there” for anyone to try to do something with them.

Dementia Joe told the truth a couple of times during his “Why Bother Campaign” when he bragged about creating “the most extensive and inclusive VOTER FRAUD organization” in history, and he didn’t need your vote, he needed your help after the election (to make the Vote Fraud stick, by riot and intimidation?). Nancy Pelousi kept telling her followers, ““it will look like Trump is winning on election night but when all the votes are counted it will be a Biden win.” The core principle of “democracy”-fair election- has been destroyed by the “Democrat Party” in America, and using the Chinese Plague as an excuse.

There are dozens, even hundreds of reports, by election judges, even Democrat Election workers, and poll watchers taking Videos, of everything from Mail-in Ballots thrown away before reaching the Post Office, Post Office Workers being told to destroy/throw away Trump ballots by Union officials and Post Office Supervisors; “Computer Glitches” transferring vote counts from Trump to Biden; boxes and suitcase of “found ballots” after the polls closed being delivered surreptitiously to Vote Counters; hundreds of thousands of unsigned and undated ballots showing up with only Biden marked, none of the down-ballot races even marked; Many of those Mail-In ballots marked with the same pen and trace evidence of by the same person at the same place; and even Dem Partisans bragging on Facebook and Twitter about destroying “hundreds of thousands” of Trump Ballots and replacing them with ballots pre-marked for Biden or all Dem candidates. A week after the Election, reports are still pouring in. The DoJ has been forced to investigate, even though they are obviously dragging their feet. The “Computer Glitches” are on D-Rat built machines..

Many other Candidates have had their Civil Rights violated. John James, a black ex-US Army officer, candidate for Senate in Michigan, had a several hundred thousand vote lead stolen from him Wednesday morning by a huge dump of illegal Democrat ballots. 6000+ votes were stolen from him and Trump in one small county, by simple reversing the numbers from Trump & James to the D-Rats. That one was caught early because a County Elections officers saw the “State Count by County”and knew it was wrong. This demonstrates the arrogance of the Vote stealing. Computerized voting machines are left hooked up to the internet and can be changed. Many Voting machines are built and programed by companies owned and operated by George Soros , Pelosi family, and known Dem political Operatives. We must have paper ballots, Voter ID, Absentee ballots by application only and for a reason, and honest Voter Registration with proof of Citizenship and Residence, with enough time for Election Supervisors to do required confirmations for all Federal Elections! 3 months before an election sounds about right!

UPDATE: Monday night “rumors” appeared that US Army investigators had seized Servers in Frankfort, Germany, connected to Dominion (and Smartmatic), that were useud to steal the election. The True Election Results are alleged to be Trump won 410-128. There is no Official Confirmation yet, (06:00, Tuesday, 11/17/2020); but I have a tweet clip of Louie Gohmert on OANN – https://twitter.com/derf_anon/status/1328511268593004545 I suspect it will be days as investigations go forward and hundreds of arrests are made before there will be any Official Report. And I wonder how the Enemedia will report this? “Trump has Army seize Vote Counting Computers”? This all sounds too good to be true, the numbers could be before all the fraudulent Mail-In Ballots were counted. But it is proof that the Election was stolen.

This continued Vote Fraud is just feeding the necessity for Separation and Partition between the Constitutional States and the Dem-Soc led States where they are destroying Constitutional Govt, Patriotism in any form, and demonize any Pro-American sentiment, Christianity, or common sense morality. This election has been a clear choice between Pro-Amercan values and Marxist/Globalist Politics. The Vote Fraud shows it to be a choice between Good and Evil. I watched the election being stolen in AZ, WI, and MI early Wednesday morning and later saw the reports of how it was done. Hundreds of Thousands of of illegal ballots added! The Dem-Soc’s handling of this election, blatant disregard for the Constitution or even historical democracy, their anti-America economic, trade, and world “diplomacy”plans, and their post-election threats to punish Trump supporters, Constitutional Patriots, Christians, and anyone else who refuses to kow-tow to their Agenda; should convince anyone who wants Freedom and Liberty for Texas or any other Constitutional conservative State, that we must start to consider Secession and Partition. I see it as TEXIT is taking the lead to Freedom, to Restore the Original Intent to our Constitution, with real enforcement against govt criminality, and the reformation of a new Constitutional Republic. Perhaps, if several, maybe more than half of the States, start Secession movements, the Swamp will decide it is better to pass laws to guarantee our Constitutional Freedoms, instead of more “Intolerable Acts”. Everyone should re-read the Declaration of Independence, and then see where we are today, with the threats of the new Socialist/Globalist Fascist Bureaucracies.

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