COUNTY LIFE
By DANI BLACKBURN
Imogene Lynch attributes her long life to one thing – Hard work. She must know a few things as this Forestburg native celebrates her 100th birthday on Jan. 23.
Imogene speaks from experience as someone who put in a lifetime of hard work with her husband, Glen, on their farm and raising a family.
However, there’s a chance her feistiness might also have contributed to her longevity. When asked if she thought she would see the milestone birthday, she’s quick to respond with a “yep” and a twinkle in her eye.
“I need some more time,” she laughed.
Other than the retirement home in Decatur where she has resided the last three years, Forestburg is the only place she has ever called home.
Read the full feature in the weekend 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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