COUNTY LIFE
By BARBARA GREEN
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“From her earliest memories, Patsy was interested in medicine. She felt it in her very soul. As a small child, she bandaged her teddy bears, played with her plastic doctor’s kit and treated her siblings’ skinned knees. Her favorite book was ‘Nancy Nurse,’ and she read it until it was tattered, losing its pages and the color was worn off in places. She was drawn to any information about anatomy or disease processes she could find, and she soaked it in like a dry sponge.”
Those are the opening paragraphs for Linda DeMoss’ book, “Patsy’s Calling,” but it also reflects her own life spent as a nurse and longtime resident in small town Texas, as well as her deep faith in God.
DeMoss self-published her first work of fiction this summer, completing a project she has roughed out many years, but never completed.
About a year and a half ago she decided to pull out that tattered partial manuscript and “do something with that old thing,” laughs DeMoss.
Read the full feature in your weekend Bowie News.
The Back to School Fair for Bowie Independent School District students will be 9 a.m. on July 20 in the high school cafeteria and gym.
The fair will feature free school supplies, haircuts and eye screening and vendors.
The 22nd annual July Jam returns on July 27 to the Bowie Community Center West Hall, 413 Pelham Street in Bowie.
There will be a “chickin’ pickin’ fiddling fun time” as guests will be entertained by amazing fiddling tunes and enjoying a chicken meal with delicious homemade jams because it wouldn’t be July Jam without it.
Tickets are just $15 with the event starting at 6 p.m. The funds raised help provide awards for the Championship Fiddler Competition during Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival on Oct. 5.
This attracts talented musicians from all over to visit downtown Bowie to test their fiddling skills on stage in the Bowie Fire Hall on Oct. 5.
Along with the live fiddling entertainment, come hungry and be ready to outbid your neighbors at the silent auction or just stop by for a great meal, fellowship and soak in the air conditioning.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
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