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His funeral in Bonham, Texas was a large spectacle attended by numerous VIPs, most notably President John F. Kennedy, former presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, and vice president (and future president) Lyndon B. Johnson. Hundreds of members of Congress and numerous other dignitaries attended the funeral.
Late in his career, McMillan was a scout for the Montreal Expos based in Bonham. [2] McMillan was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 1971 and was subsequently inducted into the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame and the Ohio Baseball Hall of Fame. McMillan died on November 2, 1997, at the age of 68, having collapsed in his kitchen. [2]
The funeral of longtime House Speaker Sam Rayburn was held in Bonham, Texas. Two former American Presidents (Truman, Eisenhower) and one future one (Lyndon B. Johnson) joined President Kennedy sitting together at the services in the small northeast Texas town. [93] Born: Anthony Warlow, Australian opera singer; in Wollongong
Allmond was born on May 2, 1923, in Fannin County, Texas, near the town of Bailey. Her parents were Arthur M. Allmond and Lou Cole Allmond. The youngest of four children, she was raised on a cotton and corn farm. Though the family farmed for a living, they also performed music, and Allmond sang publicly for the first time at the age of four.
Captain Forrest Rosecrans "Tex" Biard (December 21, 1912, in Bonham, Texas [1] – November 2, 2009 [2]) was an American linguist in the U.S. Navy codebreaking organization during the Second World War. A pre-war student of Japanese, Biard's translation work is considered to have been an important part of American military success.
Joe Melson was born in Bonham, Fannin County, Texas, United States.He was reared on a farm until he was sixteen. He attended high school in Gore, Oklahoma, and in Chicago, Illinois, before he returned to Texas to study at the two-year Odessa College in Odessa, the seat of Ector County.
Rex B. Williams (May 12, 1918 – September 8, 2007) was an American football player.. Born in Bonham, Texas, Williams attended Sherman High School in Texas and played college football for Texas Tech from 1937 to 1939.
He was a football coach at Hardin College in Wichita Falls, TX and at Taft and Bonham High Schools in Texas. He later worked as a welding inspector with the Michigan Department of Transportation and was chairman of the Vincennes Housing Authority. [1] He died in Vincennes, Indiana in 1988. [3]