James R. Buggs Jr., 90, passed away on December 29, 2023, in Gulfport, Mississippi. He was born on June 12, 1933, in Ruston. James was married to his late wife, Bettye Jean Buggs.
Franklin âThe pretty ones call me Frankieâ Meyer, 86, passed away on Monday, January 11, 2021 at EdenHill Communities due to natural causes.
As a fourth-generation Texan who was born January 17, 1934, the son of Daniel W. Meyer and Dora Conrads Meyer, he was delivered by midwife in a cabin near the Comal River crossing at W. Lincoln Street, New Braunfels, Texas.
He grew up in areas including Martindale - where his grandfather produced a highly-regarded variety of cotton seed - Carrizo Springs, and other towns in South Texas where his mother taught English to Spanish-speaking first and second-graders. He enjoyed being the only boy in Home Economics classes at San Marcos High School and he studied mathematics at Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now Texas State) before enlisting in the United States Air Force.