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Gil Treviño and his wife Chris, former Laredoans who now live in the Towers in Park Lane in San Antonio. He's still a rancher in the Laredo area.


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Sheila Glassford, center, invited former Laredoans to the San Antonio Pan American Round Table meeting when it celebrated Cinco de Mayo at the Old San Francisco Steak House. Pictured are Ana Zuñiga, Mary Lou Kahn Holmgreen, Elizabeth Sorrell, and Kristina Glassford Hanley.


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When Prissy DaCamara Hancock of Castroville attended the memorial service for Bessie Lindheim, she stopped by to see Julia Muller Ruhlman, left, her classmate and lifelong friend.


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Mary Louise Lindheim Bennett, California, second from left, met her mother Bess Lindheim's friends at the home of Josephine Brand, right, after the memorial service for her mother. In the photo are Gloria Novoa, Linda Deutsch, and daughter Terry Deutsch.


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Mauro Gallardo of Acapulco, student at TAMIU, Beatrice Vela of the Mercy Hospital nursing staff of Laredo, and friend Maurice Dieteren of San Antonio, visited Elizabeth Sorrell at her home in Helotes recently.

Very impressive was my visit to the Towers, a many-storied retirement place, a la the County Club, where one may buy a condominium for a handsome price. More than half the denizens in the Towers, which overlooks Fort Sam Houston, are retired Army and Air Force officers and their wives. Laredoans living there include Poddie Trautman, Gloria Gonzalez, and Chris and Col. Gil Treviño.
The latter invited me to lunch on a Sunday. Noted the security at the entrance, the marble halls, huge pillars, the crystal chandeliers. Flowers centered every table in the large dining room where we were joined by a retired general, Robert Haynes.
Gil and Chris sold their home in Laredo and all they couldn't use in their new high rise floor condo. They still have their ranch, which they visit every two weeks.
Gil graduated from Martin High, served with The Third Marines in the Pacific, and returned to get his degree from Texas A&M.
His love of animals began with his father's care of the ranch animals as he grew up. He took a degree in veterinary medicine and later taught this subject at A&M.
His hobby is woodworking. I remember seeing in his ranch house a beautiful table which he fashioned of mesquite wood.
On his lapel he wears the insignia of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Chris is from the north, I believe Michigan, her maiden name was Van Dam. She met Gil when she served in the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington. She and Gil have a daughter who lives in Georgia and a son who lives in League City, Texas. I noted their portraits when we ascended to their condo.
Their home is a treasure trove of Persian rugs, crystal, paintings, antiques, and cabinets, one of which holds Gil's collection of amberine glass, an antique glass that is amber and red.
Laredo will miss the Treviños. She was a key worker in the Women's City Club. They served on the museum board, and they also worked for LOVED, Laredo Volunteers for the Elderly Disadvantaged.
As for General Haynes, noted by the laughter at the table, he's witty. He told of being a guest at the ranch of President Johnson. And just now he had come from service at an Episcopal Church, believe it was St. George. He wore on his lapel some numbers: 7 x 70, signifying the number of times we must forgive, he explained.

Laredoans at San Antonio
Pan American
In the glass-ceiling garden room of Old San Francisco Steak House, the San Antonio Pan American Round Table met to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a number of former Laredoans there as guests of Sheila Glassford, an assistant state director.
Her guests included her daughter, Kristina Hanley, Ana Zuñiga, San Antonio attorney Mary Lou Holmgreen, and Elizabeth Sorrell.
The program for the meeting dealt with the history of the Pan American, which aims to promote understanding between the Americas.
We met there the former mayor of San Antonio, Lila Cockrell, and Betty Collins, who worked at the U.S. Consulate in Nuevo Laredo from 1964 to 1970.
Now to tell you a little about Sheila's guest. Ana and Chuy Zuñiga left Laredo for California, where they lived for ten years. They returned to San Antonio to be near their children, Gloria and Quico Canseco, who live in Laredo and have three children, Anni, a senior at Loyola in New Orleans; Quico, a freshman at SMU, and ***. Letti and Roger Bresnahan, attorney, and children live in San Antonio; Luis and Kelly Zuñiga live in the Woodlands.
Ana and Chuy were planning a 27-day tour of the Mediterranean.
Mary Lou Holmgreen, married to Dr. W. Corbett Holmgreen, is an associate municipal judge for Olmos Park and for Fair Oaks Ranch. Their son Alan Holmgreen and wife Destine live in Laredo and have a seven-month-old son; Celia Holmgreen Perez and husband, Anthony, live in La Marque, and Andrew Holmgreen is studying law at the University of Houston. Kristina Glassford Hanley and husband, Robert, have two children, William and Morgan, who are involved in softball and baseball.

Last Farewell
Prior to death, one thinks of the future, where to be buried, and chooses a final resting-place with his or her family.
So it was that Bessie Forgotston Lindheim, 102, who died in California, wanted to be interred with her husband, Milton M. Lindheim.
On May 1, I saw a group of friends, about 30, who gathered at her graveside in the Jewish Rest. Russell Deutsch, a commanding figure who had known Bess since he was a little boy, served as master of ceremonies. Various friends, first, Josephine Daiches Brand, who had been her first friend, gave a farewell. She told of meeting the train in 1926 when Bess arrived armed with a B.A. degree from the University of Texas, ready for the challenge of teaching English at the old Laredo High School.
Bess became head of the English Department at Martin High and even tutored Latin privately. One of her students in Latin was Robert Dwan, now of Tucson, Arizona.
Some of those who followed Josephine with little tributes were Chris Glassford, who read one of his poems; Elizabeth Sorrell, who followed her as head of the English Department; and Bob Levy.
Bess' daughter Louise Lindheim Bennett of California greeted friends, Linda and Seymon Deutsch, daughters Lisa and Terry, Olga and Sam Meyer, Bob and Ellen Levy, Aurora Alexander, Jessie Lee Jacobs and her mother, Roselyn Mandel, Diana and Josephine Lafon, Sue Killam, Barbara Powell, Jean Adams, Sheila and Chris Glassford, Kathy Hrncir, Beatrice Johnson, Julia Watson Jones, Hortense Offerle, Leah Longoria, and Priscilla DaCamara Hancock of Castroville.

Another Laredoan
in San Antonio
"Why did you move to San Antonio?" I asked Mary Frances Phelps Hansen who once taught in Laredo.
Her answer, "The beauty of the countryside." She and Richard (Dick) Hansen are going on a tour of England, particularly the Lake District, home of Wordsworth and Coleridge, famed English poets.
She informed me that Gale Shiffin, formerly Hamilton, who was a teacher at Martin High, has written a book, Echoes from Women of the Alamo, which is now on sale at the Alamo.
When Norman, my son, and his wife Myrene of Colorado Springs came to visit in early June, I shall go to the Alamo and buy the book.