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Jun.22.2021
The Bankhead Highway, also known as the Broadway of America, stretched from Washington, DC to San Diego, California, and was one of the nation’s earliest transcontinental highways. In 1917, the Texas Highway Department designated the 850 miles of the Bankhead Highway within Texas as State Highway 1. The Bankhead Highway was originally named for John H. Bankhead, a senator from Alabama.
If you have a collection of old family pictures from the 1910s and 1920s, you may have a photograph of an early automobile with relatives dressed up in suits, hats, and dresses commemorating their first cross-country drive. Because of an increase in highway travel, new economic resources developed along the Bankhead Highway, including repair garages, gas stations, diners, cafes, tourist camps and courts, hotels, road markers, and bridges.
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It was the perfect place to form a friendship built on faith.
“She’s really a God-loving person,” Karen said of Deborah.
But so far, 2021 has put Deborah’s faith to the test.
In January, her mother passed away after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s.
Deborah had been her mom’s caretaker for the last eight years.
Credit: Deborah Menezes
One month later came a cruel twist.
Deborah’s husband, Fred Burnette, had a sudden massive heart attack.
“The only blessing I have is that we were together,” Deborah said. “We’d just gone to bed and I told him I loved him.”