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Volume 103 Number 18
S P J S T
Benevolence
H E R A L D
★ Humanity
ISSN —07458800
Lodge 74, Lovelady member celebrates 100th birthday
SPJST congratulates Laura Bynum Tucker, member of SPJST Lodge 74, Lovelady who celebrated her 100th birthday on January 15, 2015. Sister Bynum will now be entitled to all SPJST member benefits with no further dues or assessments. Laura Bynum Tucker was born January 15, 1915, in the Creek community to George and Dollie Bynum. She celebrated her 100th birthday with a birthday party in Paige, Texas, at Paige Community Center on January 10. The Laura Bynum Tucker event was hosted by her seven children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, and friends. Attendees enjoyed finger foods, punch, cake, and ice cream. Laura also received a birthday wish from Governor Rick Perry and a certificate from SPJST. —SPJST—
Promoting SPJST at Praise in the Park
SPJST sales agents Sheri Jackson of Lodge 91, San Jacinto and Kerry Herrington of Lodge 172, Pasadena, are ready to meet and greet guests and promote SPJST on Saturday, April 25 at Praise in the Park in Katy. The event was sponsored by Belhaven University. More on page 6.
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Important Dates ...................................3 Interest Rates.......................................3 Vestnik Graduates Form.....................3 District News .......................................5 Lodge Section......................................6 New Sales Agent..................................9
★ Brotherhood
Memories of Mother
Celestine Darilek was born in 1921
to a large Czech family and grew up in Fayetteville. The famous Ray Baca Band practiced polkas in her backyard when she was a child. After her parents passed away, she moved to Houston to work in people’s homes as a caretaker for their children. In May 1942, she met Rudy Darilek during a Paul Jones at an SPJST dance in Houston. She told us she had admired this handsome fellow for a while because he performed in the Czech plays held at the lodge. They were married on Thanksgiving Day of that same year. After Daddy came home from World War II, they made their home in West University Place in Houston and raised their large family, having eight children in 10 years! Mother’s idea of her children’s entertainment was berry picking. Sunday escapes from the city focused on feast days and polka celebrations in all the small towns out in the country. She was exceedingly proud of her Czech heritage.
Inside This Week’s Vestnik
Reunions ............................................11 Youth Section ....................................14 In Memoriam ......................................17 Czech Culture ....................................18 Advertisements ............................20-21 Lodge Calendar .................................22
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May 6, 2015
Lodge 1 Fayetteville members join hands to clean courthouse
She exhibited her independent spirit when she began sewing for the public in the early 60s because she wanted her own money. She loved all of her sewing ladies and considered them all her special friends. She told Daddy she would never retire from sewing and indeed, altered a pair of pants the week before she passed away. She could make anything out of any piece of fabric, and it always fit perfectly. Additionally, she could make a feast out of the most meager supplies Daddy would bring home from the store. We had amazing kolaches from busted sacks of flour and divine apple pies and banana bread from bruised fruit. Her dill pickles and sauerkraut are legendary. She rarely used a recipe and loved to cook for a crowd. Mother had a special touch at growing everything. She could put a stick in the ground and have a blossom a week later. Her sewing ladies would bring their sick African violets
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Lodge 162 Iowa Colony members adopt-abeach
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Lodge 154 Fort Worth members gather for Easter