Lifestyle

Our family visited many beautiful and elaborate temples and saw many strange happenings while living in Japan as a teenager. In some temples people prayed and worshipped snakes. If the snake touched or ate food put in front of them, the person that offered the food thought they was blessed.

Monkeys, rivers, trees, vegetables and even dead ancestors were worshipped in other places.

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By Billie Nast

Caddel-Smith Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas received news that our Registrar, Roberta Himebrook, has been asked to join the State Membership Committee for this term by the State Registrar General.

Roberta was selected “for her invaluable knowledge of DRT and her dedication.” We are so very proud of the good work that Roberta does as our registrar. We are lucky to have her. She is a devoted member and officer, always willing to help others.

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The LaSalle County Fair & Wild-Hog Cook Off court participated in the Cotulla Main Street 4th of July Parade on Saturday, July 1. Representing LaSalle County was Miss LaSalle Celisia Cruz, Runner Up Miss LaSalle Mikayla Aquero, Little Mr. LaSalle Matthew Garcia, Little Miss LaSalle Bella Jo Garcia, Runner Up Milena Perez.

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Dr. Jose A. Garcia and Ashley L. Rodriguez are announcing their upcoming wedding on September 30, 2017 in Boerne. Jose is a former Cotulla High School, Texas State University and University of Texas Health Science Center Medical School graduate. He is currently on his third year of residency as an anesthesiologist at University Hospital in San Antonio. Ashley is a graduate of UT Austin and is currently completing her Physicians’ Assistant degree at Harding University in Arkansas. Jose is the son of Johnny and Letty Garcia of Cotulla. He is the grandson of the late Pablo and Aida Garcia and the late Jose and Anita Villarreal. Ashley is the daughter of Tony and Alice Rodriguez of Richmond, Texas. The couple will reside in San Antonio.

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With her busy schedule as pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Pearsall – and with her two daughters grown – Rev. Linda Montgomery admits to not cooking as much as she did when the girls were living at home. She said that she and her husband, Tim, “eat out a lot now.” Spending less time in the kitchen has meant more time to get immersed in the community that a year ago became home to this active couple and where they celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary last May.

Linda, who has been in the ministry for some 40 years, 20 of them as an ordained minister, and Tim, a retired history teacher, started dating as seniors in high school in Sherman and got married right before their final year at what is now the University of North Texas.

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On July 20, 1947, Edward L. Shull and Patricia Dean Jones stood at the altar of a church in Millett and took their vows as husband and wife. Seven children, 26 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren later, the Shulls remain as committed to each other as they did that day seven decades ago, celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary among scores of family and friends Saturday, June 17, at the Lighthouse Church in Dilley.

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