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Meeting highlights wartime news

by | Feb 6, 2025 | Latest

The Farmersville Furlough, a wartime publication, was highlighted at the January Historical Society meeting.

Despite late January’s freezing temperatures, Farmersville Historical Society members gathered to kick off a new year of event planning, fundraising and more.

Also at the meeting, members Winnetta Morrow and Marty Shelton gave a presentation titled “Farmersville in WWII and the 1940s.”

The material for the program was compiled using the society’s oral history documents and “The Farmersville Furlough,” a compilation of WWII-era newsletters.

For more on this story see the February 6, 2025 print, or digital edition of The Farmersville Times. Subscribe today and support local journalism in your community.

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