This Week in Canton History...
CANTON HERALD- Aug. 18, 1960:
Big Thursday Parade Start Fair Festivities – A gigantic parade will kick off the Van Zandt County Fair and Rodeo 1960 style this afternoon (Thursday) at 4 o’clock on the streets of Canton. This year’s Fair has all the earmarks of being the best ever presented in the County. The three-day rodeo will take the spotlight as Roy Williams of Alba will provide his best show stock of the year. Queen Sharon Kay Martin, Edgewood will reign over the three-day fair having won the honor in a Queens’s contest Tuesday night at the fairgrounds. The Gladewater Quadrille will be featured at the rodeo during the Friday and Saturday night performances as specialty acts. Regularly featured as Roping, bronc riding, bulldogging, Brahman bull riding and barrel racing will also be unreeled. Admission prices are $1 for adults 50¢ for children.
Funeral services for Rufus H Stanger, 94, were held Wednesday afternoon at the Stanger Springs Presbyterian Church with Rev. Edwin Ray and Rev. Ernest Harris conducting the last rites. Mr. Stanger was born June 22, 1866, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Stanger. He was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church. He was married to Kate Nablock in 1890. She preceded him in death on Dec. 12, 1912. He had spent his life farming in the Ben Wheeler area.
Principle E. H. Cherry dies suddenly; funeral services for Elzie Harley Cherry, 41, Canton High School Principal who died early Wednesday morning at his home after suffering a heart attack will be here at the First Methodist Church this afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. Rev. Joe Ford, pastor and Rev. Reginald Brock of Houston will conduct the final rites. Masonic graveside services will be held at Meadowbrook Memorial Park, Paris at 5 p.m. Mr. Cherry was a 32nd degree Mason. Elsie Harley Cherry was born July 15, 1919 in Lamar County was married to Bernice Jeter Sept. 13, 1940. To this union two sons and two daughters were born.
Little Hope-Moore: Miss Joyce Wilkerson and Leroy Crabtree of the Wentworth Community were married Friday evening at 8 o’clock at the Little Hope Church. Willie Hamblin officiated. The couple will be at home in the Wentworth community.
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