June 21, 2009

Patricia Lang Backest

Classmate Patricia Lang Backest passed away in Leander, TX on Thursday, June 18, 2009, after a lengthy illness. Visitation will be held at Rose-Neath Funeral Home - Southside Chapel, 2500 Southside Drive, Shreveport, LA, on Sunday, June 21, 2009 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm. A funeral service celebrating Pat's life will be held on Monday, June 22, 2009 at 10:00am at Rose-Neath Southside Chapel. Interment will follow at Centuries Memorial Park.

We do not have any address info for Pat in our alumni records. However, if I can find a home address for her I will provide that info to any classmate who lets me know they want it. You can sign the Guest Book for Pat and find more details in the obituary about the funeral services by clicking on the link below. Please keep her family in your prayers.

Published in the Shreveport Times on 6/21/2009.

June 15, 2009

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June 14, 2009

Doris Marie Tuminello Askins

Doris Marie Tuminello Askins, 72, passed away Friday, June 12, 2009 in Houston, Texas. Doris is the sister of classmate Mary Lynn Tuminello Johnson. Visitation will be Monday, June 15, 2009 from 6:00-9:00pm at Klein Funeral Home. A Vigil will be held at 7:00pm, Monday, June 15, 2009 at Klein Funeral Home. A Funeral Mass will be held 10:30am, Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at Prince Of Peace Catholic Community, 19222 Tomball Parkway, Houston, Texas.

If you need a home address for Mary Lynn please drop me a note. Her email is available online in the class directory. You can use the link below to sign the Guest Book. Please keep Mary Lynn and her family in your prayers.

Published in the Houston Chronicle on 6/14/2009.

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Joycelain Bryant

The June 14, 2009 Times has the obituary for Joycelain Bryant, the step-mother of classmate Seldon A. Bryant. Mrs. Bryant was 91, and died Monday, June 8, 2009, at Willis Knighton Hospital after a lingering illness.

We don't have a home mailing address for Seldon but we do have his email address listed in the online email directory under his nickname "Butch." You may also use the Times Guest Book to express your condolences. Click on the link at the bottom of this article to go to the Guest Book.

Please keep Seldon and his family in your thoughts and prayers.

Published in the Shreveport Times 6/14/2009.

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June 04, 2009

Trip To Gatlinburg, TN

I received a note today from Jimmy Stockard of the FP Class of 1953. They are planning a bus trip to Gatlinburg in September 2009 and have invited anyone from other FP classes to participate. There's too much info to post here but if you are interested I can email it to you. If interested, drop me a note.

June 03, 2009

New Malware Attack Infecting Web Sites

Sometimes you can't help but wonder if its worth the effort to try to have a web site. That's especially true when your read that Security firm Websense has issued an advisory warning about malicious code being added to web sites that redirects visitors to other web sites. The other web sites try to infect the diverted PC with malware. If the site can't find a browser weakness it can exploit it tries to trick the user into downloading a Trojan virus. As Charlie Brown would often say, "Good Grief."

Chances are folks who are at the most risk of having a browser weakness are those that use the older browsers rather than the newer versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome browsers. Most folks using our web site have Internet Explorer 6 or 7. If you wish to update those IE browser versions you can find a link directly to Microsoft in an ad associated with the April 2009 blog article titled "For Your Information." If you don't see an IE 8 ad by that article clicking on the title to the article should activate the ad. That's the "context related" advertising you sometimes hear about. Sorry, but I am not aware of any ads in the class blog with direct links to the other major browsers.

If you experience any unusual "events" while using the class web site close your web browser and run your Internet Security software. Then, please let me know what happened, and if your Security software found anything, and what the virus was named if that info was available.

Hopefully, we won't have any problems. But it wouldn't be wise to ignore the possibility. Above all, don't even consider downloading anything to your computer that some web site that you didn't even open on purpose "tells you" that you need to download.

If you have any questions please drop me a note.

June 01, 2009

Wedding of RD & Betty Molcany Barber's Son

I received a note from Betty Molcany Barber with the following message:

This is what the Barber family was doing in March on Friday the 13, 2009. We were in Las Vegas at the Flamingo Hotel celebrating the wedding of our youngest son, Scott. Camilla Fulco Doughty and Johnnie Ross McKinney joined us for the happy time. Mom and Dad Barber hope that grandkids won't be too many years away now!

Betty also sent several photos taken at the event. They are posted in Album 02 on the Photos web page. They are numbered as 95-97.