Category: The Glimpse

Willie Mae and Aubrey Driscoll are renowned Devine benefactors. Continue reading “Willie Mae and Aubrey Driscoll”

The community of Von Ormy is named for Count Norbert von Ormay, an Austrian nobleman who arrived in the area in 1886 “with twenty servants,” according to the TSHA (Texas State Historical Association), and purchased what became known as the “Castle on the Medina.” Continue reading “Von Ormy, TX should have been named Von Ormay”

On May 13, 1945, just days after V Day, May 8, a ten-year-old boy, Frans Kestemont, was playing outside his home near Huizingen, a town near Brussels, Belgium, when he noticed two bombers flying low. Continue reading “A Memorial Day remembrance”

About two miles west of Devine runs Francisco Creek – now renamed San Francisco Perez Creek. Continue reading “Devine, TX, was known as Nicksville in its beginnings”

“Travis and Anna Byrom,” says Truett, their younger son, “were not the same, not even similar. Continue reading “Travis and Anna Byrom”

This is a motto lived by Angela O. Pichardo on a daily basis.
Continue reading “Angela Ortiz Pichardo”

Malcolm Watson was born in Kingsville, graduated from H. M. King High School in Kingsville in 1968, and attended college for two years at Texas A&I. Continue reading “Malcolm Watson”

In a memory album Lucille Watson created to celebrate their golden anniversary, she reflects on hers and John’s courtship. Continue reading “John Watson and Lucille Briggs Watson”

About his quite adventurous life, Ronald (Ron) Edwards says, “None of it would have been possible without pivotal people that entered my life while growing up in Devine.” Continue reading “Ronald Edwards”

(Quotes and references from tshaonline.org)
Situated about ten miles southeast of San Antonio lies a town site known as Southton, Texas. Continue reading “Southton, Tx, by many believed to be haunted”