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Laura Holt

NEW LONDON VOL. Laura Holt is the newest Volunteer Worker at London Museum and Tea Room. “Today I learned how to make milk shakes. I’ll learn the cash register tomorrow.” She is the daughter of Lynn and Dr. Rene’ Holt of New London, is a 1990 graduate of West Rusk High and earned a 1993 degree in [...]

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Boy Scout troop devastated

     Of the 33 members of a Boy Scout troop active at London, 21 will never again don the uniform which they had so proudly worn as they attended Scout meetings, camps, did special patrol duty, or been of service in so many ways that we have come to depend on them, for a score [...]

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Claude Kerce, New London Survivor

     DESOTO, TX – Claude Joseph “Joe Bo” Kerce worked his boyhood summers in the New London cotton fields through the day, served with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater in World War II, labored for major oil companies after the war and is retired from a former airline company.
     He was also in [...]

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