COUNTY LIFE
Preserving, digitizing county records proud legacy for retiring Clerk Henson
By DANI BLACKBURN
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After working for the citizens of Montage County for 22 years with 16 spent at the helm of the county clerk’s office, Glenda Henson will pass the torch as she retires on Dec. 31, 2020.
During her career, Henson started the digitization of the county’s records, moved from the old courthouse to the new annex and began the process of placing records online.
Henson, born out on the Red River, attended Prairie Valley during her 12 years of school. Nocona has been her home all her life.
Her path to county clerk began when she took a part-time job in the county attorney’s office in 1998 as a secretary taking care of the hot check division.
A short time later she moved to the sheriff’s office to work a second part-time job for then Sheriff Chris Hamilton as his communication administrative assistant. Henson remained in the office from 2000 to 2004, when Sheriff Hamilton’s term ended.
“We went our separate ways for two years then in 2006, Valerie Stout, who was the county clerk at the time, resigned and appointed me to fill out her remaining term. I have been in here ever since,” Henson said.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
Jerry Browder recently donated his grandfather’s antique tractor to Tales ‘N’ Trails Museum in Nocona in an effort to perpetuate it past his generation. It has been in his family for 90 years.
By Jerry Browder,
Denton
In 1934, during the Dustbowl and Great Depression in Southwestern Oklahoma, my grandfather, Benjamin Browder of Gould, OK in Harmon County, OK, acquired this new 1934 first year Model A John Deere S/N 410666 from Lowry Malloy Implement Company in Hollis, OK.
Between 1930 and 1935, 750,000 farmers in the U.S. declared bankruptcy. The “Yearbook of Agriculture” for 1934 reads, “Approximately 35 million acres of formerly cultivated land have essentially been destroyed for crop production…. 100 million acres now in crops have lost all or most of the topsoil; 125 million acres of land now in crops are rapidly losing topsoil….”
Read the full history of this tractor and how it came to the museum in your weekend Bowie News. (Courtesy photo)
Visit noradsanta.org to track Santa as he heads out on his worldwide trek tomorrow night. The site has games and other fun activities for the entire family before the kids head off to bed and sleep before the Big Guy arrives in Texas.
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