Obituaries Arthur Lee McClure... Arthur Lee McClure, 88, passed away Wednesday, August 28, 2013, in Fort Worth, Texas. Arthur was born January 8, 1925 to Herbert and Mary (Rogers) McClure on a ranch in west Texas near Santa Anna. He ranched and rough necked until 1956 when he began working for General Motors until his retirement. In 1984, Arthur moved to Bowie where he enjoyed farming, ranching, and gardening. Funeral services were held 11:00 a.m. Saturday, August 31, 2013, in the Drawing Room of the White Family Funeral Home with grandson, Lee McClure, officiating. Burial followed at Elmwood Cemetery in Bowie, Texas. Arrangements are entrusted to the White Family Funeral Home of Bowie. Arthur is survived by his seven children, Barbara Ridley of Keller, Brenda Kure of Bowie, Joyce Stearns of Fort Worth, Bill McClure of Bowie, Betty Walker of Bowie, Brenda Jo LaCour of Sunset, and Janise Harbert of Channing; many grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. 16 Thursday, September 5, 2013 The Shopper Rebecca J. “Becky” Posey... Rebecca J. “Becky” Posey, 68, passed away Sunday, September 1, 2013, in Wichita Falls, Texas. Becky was born March 21, 1945 in Shawnee, Oklahoma to Elgen and Jaunita (Mauldin) Fulbright. She enjoyed visiting friends and playing bingo at the American Legion Bingo Hall. Becky loved to decorate and enjoyed arts and crafts. She was a member of the Ladies Auxilary in Bowie. She will be remembered with love and appreciation as a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. Graveside service was held 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, September 3, 2013, at Elmwood Cemetery in Bowie, Texas. Arrangements are entrusted to the White Family Funeral Home of Bowie. Becky is survived by her three children, Kathy Campbell of Scotland, Rose Holland of Scotland, Robert “Dink” Harris of Archer City; four sisters, Frances Morgan of Bowie, Emma Riddles of Sunset, Lou Ann Gregory of Sunset, Doris Scoggins of Myra; several grandchildren, great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Enjoy a great steak dinner, entertainment and a live auction event to support your Tales ‘N’ Trails Museum by attending the third annual Shebang Fundraiser on Sept. 14th. This year’s Shebang will celebrate Montague County Agriculture, one of the facets of county history celebrated in the museum. Shebang will open at 6 p.m. at the Veranda Inn Events Center, 1523 E. Hwy. 82, across from Tales ‘N’ Trails. Tickets are $50 per Shebang Fundraiser plate or reserve a table of eight for a discount. Please purchase your tickets early because seating is limited. Tickets are available from any director or at the museum. Your ticket will serve up a grilled steak dinner, complete with baked potatoes and all the fixings, green beans, rolls and banana pudding. The evening will feature a live and silent auction with a wonderful array of items provided by area merchants and donors. Some of the handcrafted items in the auction will include a handmade cedar chest, an airplane tour of Montague County, a cowhide, a family history slide show, a Lone Star Quilt, a load of base rock, a three-man wetlands duck hunt, a ride to school on a fire truck and numerous fine pieces of artwork by local and regional artists. Shebang proceeds benefit the exhibits and daily operations of the Tales ‘N’ Trails Museum, the only museum that showcases all aspects of Montague County history. Stop by the museum to pick up your tickets for Shebang, and while you are there, take out a membership or renew your membership, which also helps support the museum. Call 825-5330 to reserve your tickets. Please remember, our history cannot be saved for the future if we don’t protect and preserve it today. GET YOUR COMMUNITY INFO & EVENTS SEEN BY MORE! EMAIL IT TO US AT EMAIL@THESHOPPERONLINE.BIZ Bowie 4-H Kickoff Meeting Looking for a new activity? Looking to meet new people? Looking for Fun? Then come see what Bowie 4-H is all about! Look at some of the many things 4-H can offer you. You can get involved in: Beef, Biological Science, Citizenship, Clothing and Textiles, Companion Animals, Community Service, Computer Science, Consumer Education, Dairy Cattle, Dog Care and Training, Entomology, Family Life Education, Field & Stream, Food & Nutrition, Forestry, Goats – Dairy, Goats – Hair, Goats – Meats, Golf, Health, Horse, Horticulture, Housing/Home Environment, Leadership, Meat Science, Natural Resources, Outdoor Education, Photography/ Videography, Poultry, Public Speaking, Rabbits, Range Science/Management, Recreation, Safety, Sheep, Shooting Sports, Soil & Crop Science, Sport fishing, Swine, Theater and Performance Art, Veterinary Science, Water, Wildlife & Fisheries, Workplace Prep/Careers, Youth Entrepreneurship. Join us at our first meeting at Ozona Bank Building meeting Room on Monday, September 10th at 7 p.m. For more info, contact Garry Green 940-704-6568, Tamie McCollum 940-366-0331, or Kellie Lancaster 940-841-1208 F U N E R A L WHITE FAMILY H O M E Western Heritage Roundup We invite you to the 5th Annual Montague County Western Heritage Roundup on September 28th and 29th in Bowie. Your support is needed in raising funds to benefit the children of Montague County, namely the epidemic number of those suffering from abuse and neglect. Currently we are working through Child Protective Services with over 100 children, who are either in foster care or whose families are being monitored so that they too will not enter the system. We are supporting the operation of Patsy’s House Child Advocacy Center in Bowie, and providing counseling three days a week to kids at risk and in need. The weekend will be packed with fun and excitement for the entire family. This year a wonderful addition to the weekend will be the Western and Ranch Expo with vendors in the Bowie Civic Center, which sits just behind the rodeo arena. The Chuck Wagons will again be set up in Pelham Park. Other events taking place are Music and Old West Stories, the Pedal Tractor Pull for kids (ages 5-12), a sanctioned Bicycle Race, a Trail Ride, Chuck Wagon Lunch, Sheep Dog Exhibition and Pokey the Clown WRCA Jr. Ranch Rodeo. A Cowboy Church on Sunday morning will be provided. In addition, the Montague County Child Welfare Board will be hosting the “Deep in the Heart of Texas” Ranch Coy & Jennifer White Coy RespectfulFuneralWhite Service - Dignified Director Reverently Rendered Phone (940) 59 North 1418 Highway872-9993 (940) 1418 Highway 59 North 872-9993 Bowie, Texas 76230 Fax (940) 872-5949 Bowie, Texas 76230 Shaw’s Funeral Home Respect, Relieve, Remember 301 E. Tarrant Street, Bowie •940-872-1144 Owners: Gregg Shaw, Mike Shaw, Shelly Richey Director Newt Williams Office Manager Brittany Williams Rodeo on both Saturday and Sunday. Check out the website for more details and contact information at www. westernheritageroundup.com. 1300 E. Wise St. Bowie, Texas 76230 940-872-6186 The facebook. Their mom, Mary, made me do it!! I think there are a zillion ways to get to Sanger from our house. We went thru Chico, Bridgeport, Decatur and Krum on the way there, but coming back we went through Krum, Bolivar, Forestburg, and Sunset. I had no clue where I was most of the time. I just kept steering toward the west and north, but it didn’t take any longer than going. I guess I did okay. When we got home I had a ton of grasshoppers in my grill and on the front of my van. I got up this morning early and washed them all off before church. I think the whole grasshopper population of Vashti/Newport was in my radiator! I’m still looking for someone to haul off some brush and take a small tree Shopper wouldn’t start. We were able to get help from Tandy Rater to get it started. Thank you Tandy! You’re a good guy; I don’t care what Gidget says about ya! And, in case you drove by and noticed, I spent the night at Buffalo Springs Sunday night, by myself. It was so nice and quiet and peaceful… no offense Ken. I got lots and lots of organization done to all of my scrapbook belongings. I may spend one more night soon to finish. Someday I will learn how to take only a few things to scrapbook retreats. If anyone ever wants to scrapbook, just give me a shout and we will make a date to scrap til we drop! Looks like Vashti Baptist Church is coming right along. I saw their song leader Email address: email@theshopperonline.biz Website: theshopperonline.biz Buffalo Springs Chatter by Carmen Wood First of all, on behalf of the Eudy family and the Rater family, thank you for your prayers and your words of support. Bodee is in the hospital again on this Sunday, September 1st and the doctors are working with him to get the fluid from around his heart. Please continue to pray for Bodee. We know God will heal him. Prayers ALWAYS work! Preach Rater is coming along, but still having a few hitches here and there. Hang in there guys! Ken and I went to Sanger on Saturday to meet with his family and celebrate his sister’s and his brother’s birthday. The restaurant wait staff sang happy birthday to Ron and Marsha to the tune of the “Chicken Dance”. I got their picture and put it on down; I can pay you in kitties. I have plenty of those! Just take your pick between Graycee, Samantha, Orange Sherbet, Blacky, Orange Supreme, and Tiger Girl. Oh, and Old Yeller Tom Cat. They are good mousers! We went to Decatur Sunday and had a fellowship lunch, which is always fun. Jack Bankhead, Paulette Davis, and I sang “Under His Feet”. I always enjoy singing with those two. Back home Sunday night at Pleasant Mound, we had the rest of the video on Interpretations of the Bible that was produced by some Free Will Baptist Scholars. Bro. Billy and Trish were gone to celebrate their anniversary. Then Ken and I had a mishap with the hatch door of my van, and then his Mustang yesterday and he said after the roof comes gutting it and re-doing inside. He said they weren’t frettin cuz they needed to remodel anyway. See? Sometimes God does know what HE’s doing when He sends us these storms! Wish He would send one that would straighten my tree back the other direction and leave everything else in place. Please pray for our government, our military boys/girls, our diplomats, students/teachers, Tiny/Gene Skelton, disaster victims, Joe Powell, Raymond Poirer, Mary Musgrove (back home after hospital stay), Melinda Love, L.T. Ray, Charlotte Kinsey, Marsha Reeder, Alice Brooks, Ken Jones, RAIN, Brad Fudge, McGees, Raters, Jim/Pat Mathena, Jennifer Scott, Gail Campbell, David Potter, Patsy Berg, Stan Maxwell, Francis Dyer, Bodee Eudy (back in the hospital), Brad Rogers, Tom Miller (had a stint put in and now home), Chris Harris, Carmen, unspoken requests, and the unsaved in our community. Pray for families who need guidance in dealing with their parent’s health issues. Happy Birthday to Tandy Rater on Tuesday, and Jim Stell and Butch Fuller on Wednesday, Happy Anniversary to our pastor and his wife, Billy and Trish Waller, on Tuesday! Hope it’s the best ever! Drive Safe and watch out for the deer, wild hogs, and the vultures! Remember, I need YOUR news! Adellewest@ aol.com or 940-613-4652.