Your Lady Pirates softball team showed up and took care of business this past weekend at the Longview Lobo Classic. They went 5-0 outscoring their opponents 61-3.
I had no intention of writing more on this subject when I finished last week’s article, but several questions were raised by a friend of mine about ballistic gel test. The standard way of testing a round’s bullet is chronograph and ballistic gel.
We’ve all done it. Our bodies do something we haven’t seen them do before, and we rush to the internet for answers. We type out our problems in excruciating detail or do the 900 steps of the WebMD online symptom checker, and we trust the internet to tell us what’s going on. After all, the internet doesn’t lie! At the end, we all get the same answer: we have cancer, we’re pregnant, or we’re already dead.
Just a few days ago, on Feb. 14, 2020, I went for a short walk and started to wonder just how far away Galaxy GNz11 was from my living room couch. I was actually trying to work out a problem of my own making, and hoped thinking about something else would help.
Janet Elise Gibson Loyd, beloved mother and grandmother, passed away peacefully in Longview, Texas on Tuesday, February 18, 2020, after a brief illness. Services was held at 11:00 A.M. on Saturday, February 22, 2020 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Pine Street in Gilmer. Bishop Peter Sullivan will officiate. Visitation was held one hour prior to the service. Burial will follow at Enoch Cemetery in Gilmer. Arrangements are under the direction of Croley Funeral Home. Janet was born on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1931 in the Ebenezer Community near Pittsburg in Camp County, Texas. She was the youngest of nine children of John Harrison and Dora Parker Gibson. She graduated for Pittsburg High School. Although born in neighboring Camp County, Janet spent most of her adult life in Gilmer as a homemaker and a food service employee with the Gilmer ISD. She was a longtime member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She devoted many years teaching in the Primary Children’s origination and working in the church library and Family History Center. She loved genealogy and enjoyed sharing family stories and memories. Jan had a special gift for remembering names, dates, places, and other key facts even from childhood. Much loved by children, she was not only a popular Primary teacher and school cafeteria employee, but also a favorite babysitter for her nieces, nephews, and great nieces and nephews.
