COUNTY LIFE
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
As a senior in high school, Rachel Knox felt “called” to be a teacher.
Thirty-four years later she looks back on hundreds of children whom she has loved and taught in her classrooms.
Knox retires as a fourth grade science and social studies teacher at Bowie Intermediate. Friends and co-workers helped her celebrate with a reception during the last week of school, the culmination of a career that includes 27 years in Bowie Independent School District. She felt the time was right to retire so she can enjoy more time with her mother, do some traveling and tackle some of those other things a work day does not allow.
Background
Born in Duncan, OK, the Knox family left the state a short 18 months later later landing in Denver after moving from Kansas during her senior year. After graduation she attended the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.
Knox recalls this school began as Colorado Normal School, where in earlier years when women were not allowed to attend college, they could go to a normal school to prepare them to teach the “norms” to children. The school evolved into Colorado State Teacher’s College and then the University of Northern Colorado, where Knox says they had good nursing and business programs.
“For a long time I wanted to be a nurse, but I realized I didn’t care for blood,” laughs Knox. “I also considered physical therapy, but you have to make people hurt. During my high school senior year I felt called to be a teacher. I always liked children and felt like teaching was where God was leading me.”
Read the full feature in your weekend Bowie News.
The Montague County Commissioner’s Court will meet at 9 a.m. on Oct. 12 in the County Courtroom at the Courthouse Annex in Montague.
Commissioners are scheduled to consider issuing a proclamation declaring October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month within Montague County.
The court also will consider accepting $850 in unanticipated revenue for the sheriff’s office generated during National Night Out activities, alongside interlocal cooperation contracts between the Texas Department of Public Safety and Justices of the Peace for Precincts 1 and 2.
An executive session is scheduled to discuss personnel matters pertaining to sewer/septic inspector for the county. Any action would be taken back in open session.
The Oct. 9-11 Art of the Song Music and Art Festival opens Friday night for three days of art and entertainment in downtown Nocona.
The festival opens on Oct. 9 with a Chisholm Trail Art Association Preview Party from 5 to 7 p.m. on Oct. 9 at the H.J. Justin Building.
Come see all the entries for the adult show, which formally opens at 10 a.m. on Oct. 10.
Live music will be played by Full Circle Band.
Also on Oct. 9 enjoy a Nocona Nights Street Dance from 7 to 9 p.m. with the Mark Murphey and Highway 82 Band. Cost is $10 per ticket and $200 for a table seating eight. Bring your lawn chairs.
Read the full schedule of events for the festival in your Thursday Bowie News.
These students are nominees for the 2026 homecoming court at Gold-Burg High School. Homecoming royals will be crowned in pre-game ceremonies before the Bears take on Throckmorton at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 9. Pictured are: Freshmen: Kenzley Foster and Jackson Allen, freshmen; Yareli Aguirre and Jojuan Grace, sophomores; Zara Andrade, junior and Brayden Odom, Kaylie Duncan, both seniors. Not pictured: Caleb Epperson, junior and Keelyn Case, senior.
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