Mr. John Dee Hood age 71, of Leesburg, passed away on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 in Winnsboro. He was born October 20, 1950 to Willie Dee Hood and Elta Lorene Deverell Hood in Leesburg, Texas. He worked as a machinist at Andritz in Pittsburg, attended Calvary Baptist Church in Sulphur Springs, and enjoyed coaching little league baseball, but spending time with his grandchildren was most special to him.
Mrs. Mattie Lucille Hess, age 92, of Pittsburg passed away on Friday, February 4, 2022, in Richardson, Texas. Mattie Lucille Hess was born on Sept 6th, 1929 in Delaware, Arkansas to George Washington Bowman and Mattie Comfort Bowman. She was the last child born to the family which included sisters Bertha and Lee, and brothers Walter, James, Russell, and Doyle.
My ugly heart showed up. And I felt the slap of pride swipe itself in a hundred ways across my soul yesterday. Now I never expected the first slapping attacks at my heart, let alone the dozens that followed.
There is a woman that lives out in Leesburg that has known me since I was just a boy. She has been a friend, a mentor, a prayer warrior and many other things to me over the course of the last five decades. It was in the Sunday morning sermon this week from Pastor Steven Furtick at Elevation Church that God showed me she has also been a blacksmith for me over all these years.
Three candidates are running for the position of Republican Party Chair for Camp County: Donna Hallonquist, Susan Hamilton, and Rex Law.
