Can you believe we are planning the 5th, Fireman’s 4, 4 Mile Run, benefiting the Volunteer Fire Department of Port O’Connor, Texas? In 2016, we again, had over 200 participants and we met our goal of raising $10,000!

SUPPORTERS, WE THANK YOU!
These volunteers do their best to help serve the Port O’Connor community and deserve to have the most effective equipment and supplies. The goal of this benefit is a way to give some support back to those residents who are helping ensure the safety and well being of Port O’Connor.

This year the POC VFD plans to utilize any donations or funding they may receive for the purchase of state of the art compressor to fill air pack bottles, a new chassis for the ambulance and new lockers to better protect their costly turnout gear. The Fireman’s 4 Race is our way of helping the department reach some of those goals and say, “THANK YOU.”

Hope you can join us Saturday, July 1, at the Sanctuary at Costa Grande for a fun filled family event. For more information visit www.firemans4race.com or call 361 935-6335. Register at www.active.com

The Republican Club will meet for lunch, Monday, June 5, at Beijing Buffet in the HEB plaza. Guest speaker is Calhoun County Agriculture Director, Rhonda Cummins. Ms. Cummins will speak about all the special programs and activities planned for this summer. Program begins at 12 noon. Scholarship winners will be introduced. Public is invited.

PORT O’CONNOR – Franklin “Davis” Gordon, 81, of Port O’ Connor, passed away on Monday, April 17, 2017. He was born on July 14, 1935 to the late Alfred S. and Florence Amanda Durham Gordon in Tchula, Mississippi.Davis graduated from the Hermann School of Physical Therapy in Houston. 

Davis established Physical Therapy Services in Port Lavaca which provided physical therapy services to hospitals throughout the mid Gulf Coast region. He later incorporated into Gulf Coast Rehabilitation with its subsidiary Excel Sports Therapy. He continued to provide physical therapy on a contract and individual basis after selling the company in 1997.

Highlights of his physical therapy career included providing pro bono physical therapy services under the auspices of Doctors Without Borders to wounded juveniles from Afghanistan who were staying at Devereux Foundation Center in Victoria after the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan in 1980, and being twice honored by his peers in the Texas Physical Therapy Association. In 1993, Davis received the Ruby Decker Award for Outstanding Physical Therapist of Texas and was the recipient of the Warren C. Smyth Award for Outstanding Private Practice Service in 1994.

Davis was an avid sportsman and outdoorsman with his pursuits ranging from college football in Mississippi and a short stint with the Pittsburgh Steelers to fishing and hunting throughout Mississippi, Louisiana, Nebraska, and Texas. While hunting pheasant in Nebraska, Davis discovered a hunting dog like none he had ever seen before, the German Wirehaired Pointer. After arranging to bring back a puppy to Texas, he raised, bred, and hunted the pointers. His love of fishing led him to build his own boat which he later launched as a line of shallow running boats called El Pescador.

Davis is survived by his loving wife, Karen; daughter Stacy and her husband Johnny Meza of Port Lavaca; sons, Davis Gordon of Lake Jackson and Mitchell Gordon of Atlanta, Georgia; stepson, Keith Pevoto of New Braunfels; grandson John Mark Moeller of Port Lavaca; and nephews Al and John Gordon of Corpus Christi.

In addition to his parents, Davis is preceded in death by his brother Alfred S. Gordon, Jr.

A Celebration of Davis’ life will be held at the Port O’Connor Community Center on June 3, 2017 at 2:00 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the donor’s charity of choice.

SEADRIFT – Melvin Cleo Thompson, 100, of Seadrift passed away May 8, 2017. He was born February 11, 1917 in Gilmer, TX to the late Jim and Nora Sisson Thompson. Melvin worked for Brown and Root as a mill wright. He was known for his love of bass fishing and gardening and was a Deacon at First Baptist Church in Seadrift.
He is survived by his daughter; Linda Brasseux; son, Jerry Thompson; 12 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; 9 great-great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Thelma Thompson and second wife, Lena Thompson; daughter, Betty Lively; son, Floyd Thompson; 1 sister and 1 brother
Funeral Services were held Thursday, May 11, 2017 in First Baptist Church of Seadrift with Brother Marcos Gohlke officiating. Burial followed in Seadrift Cemetery.

Pallbearers were the Deacon’s of First Baptist Church Seadrift. Honorary Pallbearers are Dennis Wittnebert Sr., Marcus Blevins, Mark Wittnebert, Ronald Wooldridge and Terry Maddux.

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