There are times in life when something new comes along and brings with it a flood of good old memories. It comes to us like a familiar friend, warm...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: J. T. SIKES (1929 – 1983)In 1990 President George H W Bush signed the Americans with Disability Act into law protecting the...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: William Wiley George (1795-1862)When you enter the Port Lavaca Cemetery, the Flag Poles and Historical Markers sit right in...

Edward Fred Knipling was born in Port Lavaca, Texas, on March 20, 1909. He was the ninth of ten children born to German immigrant Henry John...

It is hard to imagine when you visit Indianola today that in the mid-to-late 1800s it was a thriving seaport, second in Texas only to Galveston. It...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: John Mark Dierlam (1853-1938)I don’t know if the interest in history is the same for everyone, but for me it was a gift that my...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: John Ronald Paul (1898-1952) was born in Port Lavaca, Texas on December 29, 1898 —the only son of John Adonoto and Aida...

Our visual record of life in Port Lavaca between 1904 and 1914 survives largely through the lens of former local photographer Percy Prentice Parks....

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Daniel James Cuellar (2006-2025)It is not the dates on a tombstone that matter, they just mark the beginning and the end of a...

When someone is described as a firecracker, it means that they are a little package full of energy that is ready to burst and light up the world...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: James D. O’Neil (1873-1951)James Demonet O’Neil, known by everyone as “Mr. Jim,” was born in Port Lavaca on September 14, 1873,...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: “DUBY’ JECKER (1922-2018) When people ask me, “What made you, a young college graduate from Ohio in 1980, choose Port Lavaca,...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Joseph Paul Petrisky was born Yozeph Petricska on December 5, 1913, in Nagy Luchka, a village then located in the northeastern...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: David John Willmann (1956-2017)I have always loved this time of year. The two holidays of the year when the chaos, stress, and...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY (VETERAN’S DAY) Fernley Hilmer Damstrom (1923 – 1945)Fernley H. Damstrom was born on August 19, 1923 to parents Conrad J. and...