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Services for Jess Brand, Sr., 75, of Redding, CA, formerly of Allen are 10:00 a.m. Saturday at the Allen School Auditorium. Burial will follow at Cedar Grove Cemetery, near Francis.
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Hope wants to remind everyone that Valentine’s Day is Sunday, February 14. She has already picked up one her gifts at Carolyn’s Flower shop here in downtown Allen. Not sure if she is going to keep it or give it to her mom, Heather.
Read moreMy old daredevil friend Bobby Newport of Stonewall could figure anything out — if he wanted to. Even in Ms. Elliot’s 5 grade class, while some of us were mastering how to draw (during class) pictures of those little fighter planes the Germans, Japs and Americans flew, Bobby was wondering out loud about which ones had the biggest motors. Bobby knew that the English had installed (in their Spitfire Fighters) a Rolls Royce engine giving it enough speed to shoot down the dreaded German fighter planes. And he was the one who told those of us that the Luftwaffe would soon have jets.
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