COUNTY LIFE
Celebrating 100 years
Katye A. (Kaiser) Overstreet-Schmitz of Bowie will celebrate a century of laughter, love and dancing as she turns 100-years-old on Oct. 18.
Katye was born the second of eight children to Lewis K. and Pearl Arene Kaiser in Alma, OK in 1918. Her family moved to Bowie from Germany and Altoona, PA, and finally ended up at Doan’s Crossing near Vernon after a long journey. Schmitz was born in Alma, OK, before her family arrived at Doan’s Crossing.
The family moved to the Tage community in Montague County, where her grandfather owned a dry goods store and grocery store.
Katye’s family farmed in the Salona and Pleasant Ridge communities, raising corn, peanuts, cotton and wheat. As a young girl, she was a big help with the farm. She attended a small community school called Lone Star during the farming offseason.
At the age of 16, she married Stephen Henry Overstreet, and the two had seven children, including: Ireta, Frances, Janet, Dorothy, Judy, Steve and Arlene.
Read the full story in the mid-week edition of The Bowie News.
Nocona is preparing for the 74th annual Chisholm Trail Rodeo May 8 and 9 at the Chisholm Trail Arena.
The rodeo will take place at 7:30 p.m. Nightly with the Ryan Ready Band playing for the rodeo dance afterward on Saturday night. Tickets in advance are $12 and $15 at the gate.
All the traditional rodeo events are planned along with non-sanctioned events of junior barrels for 16 and under. There is $250 added each night, a jackpot nightly and contestants have a $50 entry fee. Entries open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 4-5.
The new Chisholm Trail Rodeo Queen and Princess will be crowned during Saturday night’s performance. Read about these young ladies in your Thursday Bowie New.
Clara Anderson
TxDOT is hosting a virtual meeting to review projects included in the 2027-2030 Rural TIP.
The program is at 4 p.m. on May 6 and 11:59 p.m. on May 19, all online at https://bit.ly/4uhDwMG
The Rural TIP is a list of local projects to be funded during the next four years in the Wichita Falls District of the Texas Department of Transportation.
The counties included are Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Montague, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger, and Young. Transportation projects cannot receive federal funding unless they are included in the Rural TIP. This includes projects for private vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, public transport, and commercial vehicles.
A section of Roach Street has been closed for the last few weeks as a new sewer line was installed replacing old clay tile line. It is phase two of multi-phase sewer line project across the city funded through a Texas Water Development Board loan of more than $9.7 million. The project will replace nearly10 miles of aging lines. (News photo by Barbara Green)
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