Letter to the Editor

by Joanne Berglund Dickey April, 2020

I graduated from High School in Ft. Worth, my hometown, in 1960 and entered Austin College in Sherman that fall. I didn’t have a car, nor money for gas anyway, so my mode of transportation home and back for holidays was the Greyhound Bus. Its route was through Howe, Texas and all the little towns along Highway 5, now, because it used to be the main thoroughfare before Highway 75 was built.

I, as an 18, 19, 20-year-old college student, would lazily ride that bus thinking, “Are we ever going to get there?” But for some reason whenever we went through Howe, I would always perk up whether I was northbound and nearing Sherman or southbound and having just left Sherman. I knew nothing about Howe, had never really heard of it, and knew it only as a town on the route. However, and the reason I’m reminiscing anyway, one of the features of Howe that caught my eye was the old Presbyterian church which was located where the bank parking lot is now. Perhaps the reason I noticed it was because at the time (the early ’60s) that was my denomination, Presbyterian, hence A.C. So this past week I read with interest and nostalgia the Howe Enterprise article from 1975 that tells about the church being razed by Howe State Bank as it expanded. By that time, I had lived in Howe for 10 years because I had married Norman Dickey, the Coach at Howe.

But little did I know as a college student riding a bus through Howe in the 60’s that I’d be a new resident here, newly married, a wife, become a mother twice, a teacher for 30 years, a grandmother, a widow, and now just me still living for 55 years in my honeymoon cottage, first home here in Howe, Texas, loving small-town living with wonderful friends and neighbors. I don’t have family that lives in Howe, but I do have a wonderful church family, although not Presbyterian, in First Baptist Church, Howe.

Feed My Sheep

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be a community-based Client Choice partners agency here for our working families during this time of need we are a partnership of FUMC Howe, New Beginnings Fellowship of Howe, Community Bible Fellowship Church of Howe and FBC Howe.

For anyone that would like to make donations towards Feed My Sheep Inc. assistance program, there is a dropbox for food items located at 900 South Denny on the parking lot of New Beginnings Fellowship of Howe or monetary donations may be mailed to Feed My Sheep Inc PO Box 398, Howe Texas 75459. But most important human capital of the Lord's hands and feet of volunteers are welcome at any distribution of the First and Third Saturdays from 9 am to noon or Second and Fourth Fridays from 3 pm to 6 pm.

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