Texas Cities

Texas State Featured Florists

Texas Flowers News

Oct 15, 2020

Paul Corya | Obituary | Greensburg Daily News - Greensburg Daily News

P. David (Vanessa) Corya, Greensburg and Matthew Corya, Greensburg; a brother John (Adele) Corya, Greensburg; a sister Mary Ann Tebbe, Houston, Texas; three grandchildren, sister-in-law Betha (Gordon) Smiley, Greensburg; sister-in-law, Chris Maddy, Terre Haute and ten nieces and nephews. Paul was preceded in death by his parents. He was a devoted husband, loving father, and lifelong member of St. Mary's Catholic Church. A funeral Mass and celebration of life will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 8, 2020 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greensburg with Rev. John Meyer officiating. Burial will follow in the South Park Cemetery in Greensburg. In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials be made to Our Hospice of Decatur County or to the St. Mary's Catholic Church Endowment Fund. Online condolences can be made to the family at www.popfuneralhome.com Published on October 5, 2020 ...

Sep 7, 2020

Holy zucchini and stuffed zucchini flowers, we have winners! - Pleasanton Express

First place photo goes to Aaron Castellano, age 3. We think the picture speaks for itself on why he won. Aaron wins a $50 gift card from South Texas Farm and Ranch. The best summer recipe goes to Misty Ramos and Jake Uribe for their stuffed zucchini flowers! If you have not made them, please do as they are delicious. Misty and Jake also win a $50 gift card from South Texas Farm and Ranch. Please call Loni at 830-569-6130. She will mail the cards to the winners. The Pleasanton Express thinks you all are winners. We appreciate your participation. Stuffed Zucchini Flowers Ingredients: • Zucchini flowers • 1 whipped cream cheese package • 1 shredded triple cheddar blend package (fine) • 1 egg yolk • Pinch of cayenne • Salt & pepper to taste • Tempura batter Directions: Blanch flowers in scalding water for a few seconds only. Quickly place in an ice bath then place on lined sheet pan with paper towels. **DO NOT BLOT. You risk damaging and tangling the flower petals. Mix cream cheese, cheddar blend, egg yolk and spices. Using a piping bag or Ziploc with end cut off. Fill with cream cheese filling. Take a flower. Open carefully to expose inner canal and slowly pipe filling. Fold over each petal to close in the filling. Prepare Tempura batter as directed on packaging. Dip flowers in batter and immediately place in hot vegetable oil to fry until lightly golden brown. Remove and drain on paper towel lined pan. Let cool as cheese filling is very hot! Beef Pho Enjoy! **Early in the morning pick the flowers from the zucchini plant that are not attached to a growing zucchini fruit. They are the male flowers. Thank you, Misty Ramos & Jake Uribe You can find the majority of these ingredients at H-E-B, your homemade garden or, if...

Sep 7, 2020

Robert Mercer, CEO who helped win Goodyear War, dies at age 96 - Akron Beacon Journal

Lemmerz. Other non-tire subsidiaries were also sold off. Goodyear eventually sold the Celeron oil and gas business to a Texas company in 1998 for $420 million.Under Mercer, Goodyear introduced its first run-flat tire and also radial racing tires that debuted at the 1987 Indianapolis 500.Decrying takeoversMercer became a critic of Wall Street’s takeover culture, calling a proliferation of hostile takeovers and U.S. securities laws that allowed them "an obscenity."He took part in an "Ethics in America" panel discussion, part of the Fred Friendly Seminars series on PBS, in 1988, where he decried takeover culture."It’s a one-time hit, where we get a spike in the share price and we cash out a corporation instead of operating it as a viable operation sometime in the future," Mercer said. "We have to have a plan that means the corporate will survive, will become more competitive, will increase jobs and enhance value over a period of time and not just a one-shot price."Mercer in "Wheels of Fortune" said he never bought the idea that the shareholder is the owner of a company."They own a piece of paper with the company’s name on it, and they’ll get rid of that paper at the drop of an eighth of a point in the stock price," he said. "Our employees, whether union or otherwise, have a wife or husband and kids and years invested in the company, and they’re looking at investing more years. First and foremost, you have an obligation to your customers. But you have to do the right thing by your employees."Mercer’s background Mercer was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the son of the late Margaret and George Mercer. His father was a Ford dealer and police commissioner in Roselle Park, New Jersey, a New York City suburb.He had a twin brother, Richard, and older brother Donald, both of whom had successful careers in advertising and broadcasting.Mercer won a baseball scholarship to Ohio University but left after one semester when the U.S. entered World War II and he and his twin were drafted into the Navy. Mercer attended officer candidate school at Yale University and received an officer’s commission, and served on the USS Cleveland. He graduated from Yale in 1946 with a degree in mechanical engineering.He is survived by his wife, Mary (Deuel); they married in 1947. That same year he joined Goodyear as a sales trainee, selling conveyor belt and industrial hose in the company’s Duluth, Minnesota, territory that included Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.He was promoted throughout his years at Goodyear and was named company president in 1978, chief operating officer in 1980 and then chairman and CEO in 1983, succeeding Charles Pilliod. He retired as CEO at age 65, with Tom Barrett taking over the top position."It is not an exaggeration to say that the Goodyear of today would not exist without Bob Mercer," said Rich Kramer, Goodyear chairman, president and chief executive officer."As our CEO during the attempted takeover of the company in 1986, Bob stood firm in his commitment to our associates, to the company, to our customers and to the city of Akron. He not only saved the company from an uncertain fate but used the experience to reposition us for growth in the future. Bob added to the legacy of a great American company and planted the seeds for the Goodyear of the future. Everyone in the Goodyear family owes Bob Mercer a debt of gratitude and appreciation."Other activitiesMerce...

Aug 3, 2020

Howard Dungan - Obituary - Legacy.com

Marine Corps, he instead joined the Army Air Forces. Training locations included, Santa Ana, California; Glendale, Arizona; Pecos, Texas; Douglas, Arizona; and Greenville, South Carolina as First Station. In the South andTexas he became more aware of deeper issues of racial inequality than he'd seen in Nebraska, where his family sometimes hosted a visiting African Methodist Episcopal (AME) minister for lunch, and he strove to treat everyone fairly throughout his life. In the chapel on base in Pecos, Texas he married Anita Alene Sibbitt, an accomplished violinist who had graduated from what is now the University of Nebraska at Kearney and taught high school for a year in Yutan,Nebraska. She followed Howard around the country for much of his pilot training, working variously as a butcher's helper, nurse's aid, and store clerk.Howard was later stationed in Hawaii, flying North American B-25 Mitchells. While he was flying missions in B-25s as a First Lieutenant in the 7th Air Force, 41st Bombardment Group, 820th Bomb Squadron out of Okinawa over Japan and Japanese-occupied China, Anita had become a "Rosie the Riveter" and learned gas welding at Ryan Aeronautical in San Diego.After the war she resumed teaching and then guidance counseling, and completed her master's degree at what is now San Diego State University. Howard also completed his bachelor's degree there on the G.I. Bill, and later his master's degree. Both did post-graduate work at the University of Southern California.From 1948 to 1984 Howard was a teacher and guidance counselor in the San Diego Unified School District, with most of that time at Theodore Roosevelt Junior High School (now Roosevelt International Middle School) where he primarily taught geography, social studies, and history, sometimes with what was referred to as a "Mr. Dungan story." Years into retirement, he would still run into former students greeting him and saying, "Mr. Dungan, you told the dumbestjokes and stories!" Howard would ask which one; the former student would repeat it and the context, and then he would reply, "Ah, but you remembered!"Howard and Anita loved to play golf at the Tijuana Country Club and Balboa Park Golf Course, were once active in the Methodist Church in La Mesa, and had a custom home built in Spring Valley where they resided until they passed. They vacationed in Mexico City, and traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and Canada with a succession of travel trailers. These trips were later accompanied by their only child, Michelle Dungan, now a retired California Department of Transportation Associate Environmental Planner. After Anita passed in 2006,Howard eventually resumed trave...

Aug 3, 2020

Obituary: Joseph Walter Fortenberry - Oak Ridge Today

Fortenberry of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and son Thaddeus S. Fortenberry, daughter-in-law Leyla Megrelidze, and granddaughter Asta Eeva Elizabeth of Austin, Texas. Joe leaves his sister Mary Ellen Clark and her husband Don Clark, along with nieces Julie Holland and Terri Kerley of Knoxville and Steffanie Benson-Elliott of Altamonte Springs, Florida; nieces Stephanie Hall and Lindsay Morton and families; and nephews Ryan and Christopher Kittrell and families, all of Atlanta, Georgia. Joe was preceded in death by his mother Stella, his father Joseph Hubert, and his younger sister Debra Fortenberry. Joe will be missed, but the family is comforted knowing that he is free from the pain and discomfort he had experienced for years. A celebration of Joe’s life will be held in June 2021 in Knoxville, Tennessee, with the dates to be determined. In lieu of flowers, donations in Joe’s name to Sacred Heart Home in Hyattsville, Maryland, are welcomed. Sacred Heart is where Joe called home for the last 12 years. The wonderful staff and the Ministry of Sisters, Servants of Mary Immaculate, made Joe feel safe and secure and introduced him to the beautiful teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. The address for Sacred Heart Home is 5805 Queens Chapel Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782. Or click here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=D1jA_d22xFJBaudOVp9rm6FMnFo68BFNswq8ttnGou0HI5wetaCmBwL16o9l0V8ArV43NW&country.x=US&locale.x=US. -- ...