Building a Resilient Retirement Portfolio in 2025 By Kent Pendleton• Building a Resilient Retirement Portfolio in 2025 Retirees and those nearing retirement face a familiar dilemma: how to generate dependable income without missing out when markets rally. After years of near-zero yields, fixed-income returns have finally climbed to levels worth considering—and cash isn’t quite as…
Selling Your Home? By Megan Stultz• Want a quick calculation on how much you can expect to profit from selling your home? Just take the selling price and subtract 10% to account for expenses. For example, say you sell for $300,000. You can expect to pay roughly $30,000 leaving your profit around $270,000 (before your…
Last Wednesday, May 7th evening, I was invited to a special Ludwig van Beethoven themed evening in a neighborhood near The Houstonian, the famous resort east of Memorial Park, in Houston. I was given an address to a street worthy of an English Lord, to a mansion with landscaping that would impress Frederick Law Olmsted…
Mary Jeanette Bartram McCormick Mary Jeanette Bartram McCormick, December 14, 1939 – May 9, 2025 After many health struggles, Mary Jeanette Bartram McCormick passed away on May 9, 2025 at the age of 85. She was born on December 14, 1939 in Little Rock, Arkansas and was the daughter of John Lucas Bartram and Mary…
A 187 year old Plat of Montgomery, or ‘New’ Town of Montgomery ‘On the Hill’ drawn by an early Lake Creek Settlement pioneer was recently rediscovered by a former MISD Texas History teacher, Brenda Beaven, and member of the Montgomery Historical Society. The 1838 document, originally signed by William Watters ‘W.W.’ Shepperd, who founded the…
This week’s Veteran is Bill Eustes, who served in the U.S. Air Force from 1951-1953 as an enlisted aircraft and engine mechanic. He then got the Call to Serve The Lord, and entered college to become a Methodist Minister. Eustes was commissioned as an officer Chaplain in 1965-1991 with the U.S. Air Force. His first…
pictured left to right…Carolyn Jamail, Bette Garland, Beckie Endebrock May 3, 2025 was a special day for Thomas Jefferson Stubbs 2523, Conroe chapter member, Bette Garland. She received her 10 year membership pin from the chapter and also an ancestor insignia pin.Her ancestor was William Harry C. Winn, he was born July 12, 1843 and…
Recently, I was invited to visit the Old University Building (OEM) on the campus at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) in Nacogdoches. As Historian, Rebel Joan Of Arc 2721, United Daughters of the Confederacy, there was no hesitation to accept such an invitation. As my husband, Jim, and I made our annual trek to…
Texas House lawmakers approved legislation May 13 that would eliminate the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness next school year. The STAAR test is administered to third through 12th grade students each spring to measure student progress and teacher performance, although critics have said the high-stakes exam causes undue stress for students and does…
Conroe’s engineering department will gain four new positions following the council’s decision to approve the department’s restructuring during its May 8 meeting. What this means The engineering department will now have new positions, including: engineering manager, construction manager, graduate engineers and senior engineering inspector, Deputy City Administrator Nancy Mikeska said during the May 7 workshop…
