Author: Howe Enterprise

Graveside services for Jimmy Nichols Fagala, 74, of Howe, TX, will be held 11:00 a.m Friday at Hopewell Cemetery in Lamar County with Pastor David Tappe officiating. The family will receive friends at Mt. Tabor Sumner Methodist Church following the service. Arrangements are under the direction of Waldo Funeral Home in Sherman, TX.

Jimmy passed from this life into the loving arms of his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Tuesday, January 06, 2015, surrounded by his loving family, at Beacon Hill in Denison, TX.

Jimmy was born in Chicota, TX on October 12, 1940; the son of O.W. and Ruby Helen Nichols Fagala. He served in the United States Air Force. He married Jo Ann Wisely on January 16, 1960 in Sumner, TX. Jimmy retired from the Department of Public Safety in Texas after 30+ years of service. Since retirement, he enjoyed gardening, working on Cub Cadet Tractors and taking his granddogs on “Hunts”. He always had a project in the works and could fix most anything.

He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Jo Ann Fagala of Howe, TX; daughter, Janell Cook and husband Mark of Howe, TX; son, Jeff Fagala and wife Amanda of San Antonio, TX; three grandsons, Drew Fagala, Zach Fagala and Trent Fagala; one sister, Patsy Momary; sister in law, Pauline Fagala and sister-in-law, Judy Bryan and husband Paul. Jimmy is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one sister, Mildred Edwards and two brothers, Gene Fagala and Robert Fagala.
The family night will be held 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Thursday at Waldo Funeral Home in Sherman, TX.

The family would like to extend a special Thank You to the staffs of Beacon Hill and Heart to Heart Hospice for going above and beyond in the loving care of Jimmy.

In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy can be made in the form of a donation to the American Cancer Society or any favorite charity.

The online register book may be signed at waldofuneralhome.com

For the second straight day, workers have found objects under the floor as the remove it to prepare for concrete.  Of the most peculiar items so far was a photo of an unidentified girl. She turned out to be Heather Johnson Dhane and the photo was not from the 1970’s as speculated earlier today, but from 2003.  Other items were insurance documents from 1964 and harwdare receipts from 1966.

It was 1940, and Mame Roberts’ vision was almost complete.  She had completely transformed Howe from a weeded passerby town to the most beautiful small town in Texas.  An article in the June, 1940 edition of The Rotarian captures Roberts and her amazing transformation of Howe.

Daffodils will bloom around Howe in the spring thanks to the Howe Girl Scout troops.  They helped out Keep Howe Beautiful with their efforts.  Full story in Monday’s edition of The Howe Enterprise.

photo courtesy of Keep Howe Beautiful

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Those that have Cable ONE may have noticed that your KXII programming is back.  Cable ONE made this announcement on their Facebook page:

“We are pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement with Gray Television to restore Cable ONE’s carriage of Gray Television channels to our line up. We are currently in the process of restoring these channels. We appreciate your patience while we worked to come to an agreement that we believe is fair for everyone.”

Residents that are still subscribers of Cable ONE will now be able to watch the Dallas Cowboys playoff game tomorrow.

With the back and forth finger-pointing that’s going on between CableOne and KXII, a local Howe graduate Chris Cavender, who owns Cavender Home Theater, seems to be one of the few winners in the deal.  Cavender is seeing a jump in DISH Network sales since the announcement came out about CableOne no longer carrying the local channel.

Cavender is a local DISH Network retailer that provides the same service and same cost as the big company.  The only difference is that Cavender’s customers are supporting local small business by calling him instead of an 800 number.  However, Cavender wants people to not get upset and just order anything.

“Those situations never work out as well for the customers in my opinion. We want to take care of these people. They are our friends, our neighbors, our school mates and family. I really mean that.” said Cavender.  “The problem I usually hear about with unhappy DISH customers stems from a poor installation. The majority of ads you see are not from local dealers but from regional marketers that use contract installers to handle the installs. Those guys are always in a hurry to get to the next job and are never around to answer questions or fix problems. Order local from local people and get local service. Sounds simple but most people do not know that it makes a difference who you order from and it is your choice.

DirecTv and DISH are both reputable companies. And both are very large.
What we do as a DISH retailer is make sure our customers understand what they will be getting, answer any questions or concerns and supply installation with our local installers that care about their customers. We have a local show room that people can come to for a face to face experience and can see how it all works. Come in and grab the remote and see for yourself just how cool the DISH system is to use.

Tv contracts and occasional outages are unfortunate but do happen to every provider in the pay TV industry. CableOne has a recent history of giving up on trying to settle issues with programmers. Last March they took off 15 channels from ViaCom such as TV Land, Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1, BET, and many more. They never put them back on. It is rumored that a similar situation is brewing between CableOne and NBC Universal. DISH has negotiated settlements this year with CBS, Turner, CNN, and many more. DISH is negotiating now with Fox News, not to be confused with the Fox Broadcast Network. All our local channels are intact. We will have the Cowboys playoff game for sure.”

 

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