Crackers and Butter
Jane Council Once when I was a kid, just in the first or second grade, I went to Jane Council's home to play for a while after school. She lived very near the school.
Her mother made us a snack to eat. It was such a common thing that I can't believe I never had it before. She just spread butter on plain old saltine crackers! I went nuts over that. We always had butter and crackers at my home but for some reason I had never been introduced to that delicious snack. I had crackers with peanut butter a lot but never with butter.
Jane's dad was the owner of council's meat market. You would think her mother would have made us some kind of a meat sandwich. But anyway, she was a hero in my mind for that snack. I still once in a while make myself some crackers with butter--actually, margarine. Sometimes the simplest things are the best!
posted by kyra lafain @ 3/15/2011 12:30:00 PM
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I was in DAR with Jane several years ago. Her husband was burned in an accident and died a few years later. The last I heard, I think she was living in Corpus Christi.
Thought you might like to see these obits:
THE PARIS NEWS, 23 May 1966: 'Roger B. Council, 68, a retired grocer and market man, who lived at 236 20th SE, died in a Houston hospital, Monday at 7:30 a.m. Fry and Gibbs here have direction of services. Mr. Council leaves his wife, the former Grace L. Stephenson; two children, Logan Blake Council, Salt Lake City, Utah; and Mrs. Jim Beauchamp Sharp, Paris; seven grandchildren; a brother, Frank Council, 630 E. Price St., Paris, and two sisters, Mrs. Jess L. Boynton, and Mrs. Edward B. Townsend, both of Pine Bluff, Ark.'
LAMAR COUNTY ECHO, Thursday, February 17, 1983, p.4: 'Mrs. Roger (Grace) Council of Bryan died there at 11 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8. Memorial services were held Saturday in Bryan at Hiller Funeral Home with Dr. John J. Walker officiating. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 14, at Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Raymond Armstrong officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Mrs. Council was born May 17, 1900, in Paris, a daughter of Andrew and Fannie Mae McHam Stephenson. She attended Paris schools and married Roger Council on Sept. 4, 1921 in Paris. Mr. Council died June 28, 1966. She was a longtime member of First Christian Church in Paris and of its Loyal Builders Sunday School Class. She was active in the Christian Women's Fellowship and had served as its president. She was also active in Parent-Teacher Association work and was a former member and officer of the American Legion Auxiliary. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Jim B. (Jane) Sharp of Paris; one son, Logan B. Council of Bryan; these grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. (Susan) Vaughan of Paris, Mr. and Mrs. Basim Jisha of Dallas; Dr. Steve Sharp of Shreveport, La., Mr. and Mrs. W. B. (Barbara) Roman III of Bryan, Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. (Patricia) Wright of Copenhagen, Denmark, Miss Deborah S. Council of Dallas and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Robert Council of Dallas, and seven great-grandchildren. Pallbearers were Jimmy Biard, John W. (Dub) Williams, Louis B. Williams, John Biard III, Frank Council and Tony Booth.
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