Lady Bulldogs B-Ball

Howe’s Tori Williams leaped on the scene Friday in Bonham to lead Howe with nine points. Photo by Michelle Carney.

The Howe Lady Bulldogs (11-14, 4-3) continue their steady improvement and got a shot in the arm from JV callup freshman Tori Williams as she led Howe in points at Bonham Friday night in Howe’s 25-23 win. Williams had nine points and four rebounds to lead the Lady Dogs. Howe’s typical leading scorer Kendall Griffin finished with eight points and five steals.

Full stats: Tori Williams 9 points, 1 assist, 4 rebounds, 2 steals; Jordan Brunner 1 point, 1 rebound; Presley Shockey 1 assist, 5 rebounds, 2 steals; Teagan Stubblefield 2 points, 6 steals; Kendal Griffin 8 points, 2 rebounds, 5 steals; Brynn Riley 1 rebound; Jentri Doty 3 rebounds, 1 steal; Aubrielle West 5 points, 5 rebounds.

Howe vs. Blue Ridge

11-3A Standings

Pottsboro 8-0 Gunter 6-1 Bells 5-3 Howe 4-3 Leonard 3-5 Blue Ridge 1-7 Bonham 0-8

Howe will host Pottsboro Tuesday night and will travel to Bells Friday to attempt to move up in the district seeding.

Howe junior Kendall Griffin (12) drives to the bucket Friday night in Bonham. Photo by Michelle Carney.

name Bledsoe Road stripped away and renamed L.B. Kirby Avenue. She hotly blamed Howe’s current Mayor Bill French for leading the charge to strip the name from Bledsoe.

“I don’t like it. I think it’s a slap in the face. You don’t rename a street when someone is still living,’ said Waller in an upset tone. “You rename a street, maybe, after they die. I think it was because of a grudge from way back years ago and that’s not right.” But local politics weren’t all she was involved with. Her leadership in Howe represented a number of organizations including her work with the First United Methodist Church acting for a time as church treasurer and Sunday school teacher. She was also very much involved with the United Methodist Women, serving as president, secretary, reporter, and in recent years as a member of the Wednesday Workers.

She authored the “Pledge of Allegiance” to the Grayson County flag. She was instrumental in organizing the Howe ISD Band Booster Club, the Howe ISD Athletic Booster Club, the Howe former student’s organization, the Howe Community Library, the Howe Historical Society, the Howe Chamber of Commerce, and the Cannon Cemetery Association, and she served on the boards of all these organizations. She also participated in and

Carrie Waller was inducted into the initial class of the Howe Hall of Honor on April 24, 2015. Staff photo.

served on the boards of the Howe Founders’ Day Parade, the Howe XYZ Senior Citizens Club, the Howe Community Facilities Development Corporation, the Howe Transportation Policy Advisory Committee, the Grayson County MHMR, the Texoma Coalition “Shots across Texas for Kids” campaign, and she served on the boards of the Grayson County Centennial, Bicentennial, Sesquicentennial, and Millennium Committees. She directed the Grayson County Historical Commission and the Grayson County Cancer Society. She was also a member of the Howe Sesame Club, the (Continued on page 6)

Carrie Waller (second from left) in a ribbon-cutting ceremony with then-

Mayor Ray Bledsoe (middle). Courtesy photo.

Howe ISD PTA, the Howe Young Homemakers, the Howe Snap Center’s “Meals on Wheels” program, and the Howe Friends of the Library. She volunteered at the Grayson County Fair and in Wilson N. Jones Hospital’s Auxiliary “Pink Ladies” program. She was a lifelong member of the Loy Lake Livestock Show. She wrote and edited the Howe Centennial Book in 1972 and, together with her husband, she authored the Hall Cemetery Record Book. For her service, she was named Howe’s Citizen of the Year in 1996 and 2002 and received the Howe Chamber of Commerce’s special award for “Showing us Howe” in 2003. She was also named in the 1975 -76 edition of the “Who’s Who of American Women.” At the time of her death, she continued to compile information for the Hall Cemetery Association.

Waller gave the clear advice for those seeking to enter city council or mayor, “Do it to benefit the city and not themselves. A lot of people get on there to say ‘I’m a city councilman’ and they don’t do nothing for the city. But if you're going to run for the council and expect people to vote for you, you should be for the town. You get on there to benefit the town and not yourself.”

Carrie was preceded in death by her husband, J.C. Waller, Jr., her parents, and by three brothers and their wives:

Carrie Waller

Joe Russell McLain and wife Inez, baby Amos Dine McLain, and John Henry McLain and wife Pinky. She is survived by one son, Joe Henry Elliott, of Montreal, Canada, by a nephew, Carry Dine McLain and his wife Lauren, of Arlington, Texas, by a great nephew, a great niece, and two great grandnephews.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Carrie’s honor to the Grayson County Crisis Center (4200 N. Travis St., Sherman, TX 75092; graysoncrisiscenter.org) or the Hall Cemetery Association (P.O. Box 664, Howe, Texas 75459).

Funeral services were held at the First United Methodist Church of Howe on Friday, January 20, 2023, at 10:30 a.m.