by Andy Barnes | Oct 5, 2023 | Victoria
Tamara Diaz | tdiaz@vicad.com. Oct 4, 2022 Zac Lentz hobnobbed with former Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy, among others. He wielded power in Texas politics for nearly a half a century, but his heart was squarely with Victoria, his daughter said...
by Andy Barnes | Oct 5, 2023 | Victoria
Tamara Diaz | tdiaz@vicad.com. Feb 10, 2023 YOAKUM — Vanita Cheeves cared for people in emergency health crises for 30 years as a nurse. Now, she cares for the dead. “These are our ancestors. These are the people on whose shoulders we stand,” Cheeves said Thursday....
by Andy Barnes | Oct 5, 2023 | Victoria
Tamara Diaz | tdiaz@vicad.com. Mar 2, 2023 One hundred years ago, in 1923, John L. Smolik joined the Knights of Columbus in Hallettsville. He was the grand knight — the leader of the Hallettsville group — when World War II broke out. During that time, the group...
by Andy Barnes | Oct 5, 2023 | Victoria
By Tamara Diaz | Special to the Advocate. Jun 16, 2023 Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History” looking at the stories behind the hundreds of historic markers scattered about the Crossroads. On a mid-May day in 1902,...
by Andy Barnes | Oct 5, 2023 | Victoria
Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History” looking at the stories behind the hundreds of historic markers scattered about the Crossroads. Most of the land that Riverside Park sits on once belonged to a German immigrant...
by Andy Barnes | Oct 5, 2023 | Victoria
By Tamara Diaz Special to the Advocate. Jul 3, 2023 Texas joined the union of the United States 70 years after the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Victorians were Spaniards, Mexicans and Texians before they...
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