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Hico News Review - July 02, 2020 - Page 05

Obituaries

Times past...The picture below is from the Hico News Review, July 3, 1970 (50 years ago)

Madelyn H. Porter Madelyn H. Harper was born in Wheeler County, Texas on February 21, 1926, the second of four children born to Ray and Hazel L. Harper. She passed from this life on April 16, 2020 in Meridian, Texas. A celebration of her life is planned for Saturday, July 11, 2020. Visitation with the family will be at the Iredell Community Center at 10 a.m. with the service to follow at 11 a.m. at the Iredell Methodist Church. Madelyn attended school in Iredell, graduating and marrying James I. Porter in 1943. He preceded her in death in 1993 after 50 years of marriage. She was a homemaker involved in local school, church and community activities. A life-long member of the

Methodist church, she taught Sunday School, was active in the UMW and served as pianist for many years. She is survived by chil-dren Charlotte Myers (Stewart) of Iredell, Texas, David Porter (Sandra) of Stephenville, Texas, and Cindy McCoy (Steve) of Somerville, Texas; sister, Jean Hulbert of Bend, Or-egon; 6 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by her brother Ray-mond Harper and sister Mildred Rabinowitz. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Iredell Meth-odist Church or the Iredell Community Center.

Cody Johnson Endorses J.D. Sheffield

Successful businessman, strong Trump supporter, and former candidate Cody Johnson today announced his endorsement of conser-vative State Representative J.D. Sheffield for re-election to Texas House District 59. District 59 covers eight rural counties in the heart of Tex-as including Erath, Coryell, Comanche, Hamilton, Mc-Culloch, Mills, San Saba, and Somervell Counties. Mr. Johnson and Dr. Shef-field’s combined vote share from the first round is 54% - a winning coalition well above the majority needed for a run-off victory. “Mr. Trump is the reason I got into politics,” said John-son. “I’ve personally met him and I can tell you that Donald Trump and J.D. Sheffield want the same thing for America.” Since the COVID-19 pan-demic hit, Dr. Sheffield has worked hard to treat sick families at his clinic and reached out to his entire dis-trict through text messages, mail, and phone calls to pro-vide help with personal pro-tective equipment, unemploy-

ment, groceries, property tax appraisal appeals, and small business loans. “J.D. Sheffield is a strong conservative who cares deep-ly about our businesses and families. We can fully trust Dr. Sheffield to protect our rural schools, hospitals, and conservative values from ur-ban big money special inter-ests,” said Johnson. “I ran to take on the establishment and it is clear that the establish-ment in Erath County is back-ing Shelby Slawson.” Mr. Johnson joins Gover-nor Greg Abbott, Associ-ated Republicans of Texas, Texans for Lawsuit Reform, the Combined Law Enforce-ment Associations of Texas, Texas Municipal Police As-sociation, Texas Farm Bureau AGFUND, and statewide pro-life groups Texas Alliance for Life and LifePAC in endors-ing Dr. Sheffield. The NRA has also awarded Dr. Sheffield an ‘A’ Rating for his pro-2nd Amendment voting record. Dr. Sheffield and his wife Janice attend First Baptist Church in Gatesville every Sunday morning.

Texas A&M Will Be Test Optional For The 2020-21 Academic Year

By Lesley Henton, Texas A&M University Division of Marketing & Communications

COLLEGE STATION, June 24, 2020 – Texas A&M University today announced that it will not require submission of ACT or SAT scores for freshman applicants for the 2020-2021 academic year. Chris Reed, executive di-rector of admissions, said he and his staff have been actively monitoring the im-pact of the COVID-19 pan-demic on students as they prepare to apply to colleges in the coming year. “Given the continued restrictions on in-person testing opportunities and in light of recent announce-ments regarding halted plans for virtual testing, we recognize that action needs to be taken,” Reed said. “Students may continue to

submit standardized scores from their SAT and/or ACT tests for consideration for admission. Submission of tests scores will not create any unfair advantage or disadvantage for those stu-dents who provide them.” He said the action was taken in the spirit of sup-porting students and in being fair and equitable in admissions decisions. Several working groups are actively evaluating the application review pro-cesses in light of this new policy, and the university will provide more details to students and counselors in the near future. Questions may be directed to the Office of Admissions at admissions@tamu.edu.