If you want a home on Lake Texoma, you see Lezlie Rube. It’s just that simple. There are other realtors of course, but there is only one Queen of Lake Texoma Real Estate. She works under the umbrella of Century21 Dean Gilbert, Realtors, and Gilbert says that she is, “a high energy person with an enthusiastic positive outlook on life.”
Author: Dan Acree
Model Behavior
Jeff, Tiny, and Kevin like to build models of spacecraft. Really, really, expensive models.
Charlie Christian
It is not too far a stretch to say that everybody who plays the electric guitar owes something to Charlie Christian. He was born in Bonham in 1916, but when his father, a waiter, suddenly became blind in 1918, the family moved to Oklahoma City. Christian began his musical career on the cornet, but soon gave it up for his father’s favorite instrument, the guitar.
Emory “Johnny” Perry
It seems appropriate that one of the voices behind the Doo-Wop classic “Cherry Pie,” Emory Perry, grew up on Music Street in Sherman. “Everybody on Music Street played an instrument,” he said. His mother took in extra work to make the $45 to buy him an alto saxophone.
Texas Swing and Bill Boyd
Bill Boyd was born in Fannin County, Texas. He was one of Hollywood’s first “Singing Cowboys.”
Since 1872: Chapin Title Co.
Chapin Title Company traces its roots back to the 1800’s when the city of Sherman was a rural, undeveloped area. The year was 1872, the city of Sherman was booming. Almost 6,000 people called it home, and others were streaming in steadily to grasp the opportunities the rich prairie soil promised.
Willie Jacobs & The Strikes
At the end of one spring semester, when Willie Jacobs was in school at North Texas in Denton in the mid 1950’s, a friend and classmate ask him if he would like to join a band he was forming to play around Wink, Texas for the summer. “No,” Jacobs told Roy Orbison, “you’re never going to make any money in the music business; I’m going to the wheat harvest.”
Fishing Lake Texoma
Fishing on Lake Texoma took on a new twist when the lake got its first stock of Striped Bass. A species known for its voracious appetite and extreme power, stripers, or rockfish or linesiders or rollers or squidhounds or greenheads or, if you are of an ichthyologic bent, Morone sasatilis, are saltwater fish that spawn in fresh water.
Remembering Dr. Sara
After 38 years of marriage, the doctors P.T. and Sara Swamy had discussed most every subject—including death. Sara’s mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, as well as her aunt, lived well past 90, and Sam, as Sara affectionately called her husband, was sure he would precede her in death, but a automobile accident took Sara’s life on June 17, 2005, the day after her 62nd birthday.
Grayson’s Attic
Every old house had an attic.
Grayson County has a big attic on Walnut Street in Sherman. It’s called the Red River Historical Museum.