{"id":1334,"date":"2023-01-07T23:05:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T23:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/?page_id=1334"},"modified":"2023-01-07T23:08:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T23:08:25","slug":"calvin-stokes-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/calvin-stokes-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Calvin Stokes Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Calvin (Bill) Story, son of Louis and Pallie Green Story, was born at his father’s farm at Wesley Chapel, west of\u00a0Crockett,\u00a0Texas\u00a0on October 15, 1918. When he was a few weeks old, his family left the community of his paternal grandparents, Sam Houston and Rebeca Waller Story, and bought a farm in the Sunset Community east of Grapeland where Bill and his three brothers and two sisters grew up. His school career began at Enon where he attended for three years before transferring to Grapeland schools. About this time he learned the benefit of applying his own mind to make deductions. On Christmas morning he was pleased to find a beautiful red wagon left for him under the decorated tree. Later he was surprised to find wagon tracks right to the front steps so he reversed the way, following them down the road to the home of his maternal grandparents, John Calvin and Mary Lou Browning Green. He had discovered Santa’s hiding place, and perhaps the very secret of the old, red-suited fellow’s identity. After graduating from\u00a0Grapeland\u00a0High School, Bill attended\u00a0Sam\u00a0Houston\u00a0State\u00a0Teachers College\u00a0in\u00a0Huntsville\u00a0from October 1941 through October 1945, he served in the First Calvary Division of the United States Army, twenty-eight months of which were spent in the Pacific area including\u00a0Australia,\u00a0New Guinea,\u00a0Admiralty Islands, and the Phillippines. He was with the unit that freed the prisoners at Santa Tomas University in Manilla and received the Bronze Star Award. The war over, Bill returned to\u00a0Sam\u00a0Houston\u00a0State\u00a0to complete work on a degree in speech and to his part-time job in Duke & Ayres.<\/p>

\"Sam<\/p>

He sang in the college choir and had the lead in several plays produced by the drama department. In April of 1946, Bill married Williene Smith, a native of\u00a0Huntsville, daughter of Mary Traylor and William Bradley Smith, graduate of\u00a0Huntsville\u00a0High School\u00a0andSam\u00a0Houston\u00a0State\u00a0Teachers College. She had been employed by Dow Magnesium Corporation in\u00a0Freeport, Humble Oil and Refining Company in Houston, and the United States Employment Service at\u00a0Huntsville. After teaching one year at\u00a0Corrigan\u00a0High School, Calvin returned to\u00a0Sam\u00a0Houston\u00a0College\u00a0to earn a masters degree in chemistry while Williene taught a course in freshman English and one in sophomore English at the Country Campus. Bill then taught six years at\u00a0Nacogdoches\u00a0and seven at\u00a0Tyler,\u00a0Texaswhile using the summer to study at the\u00a0University\u00a0of\u00a0Houston;\u00a0Baylor\u00a0University\u00a0at\u00a0Waco;\u00a0American University,\u00a0Washington, D.C.;Colorado\u00a0Agriculture\u00a0College\u00a0at\u00a0Fort Collins,\u00a0Colorado;\u00a0Colorado\u00a0State\u00a0University\u00a0at\u00a0Colorado Springs; and the\u00a0University\u00a0ofColorado\u00a0at\u00a0Boulder. During the next nineteen years, Calvin worked as science consultant and head of the Science Curriculum Development Department at the Texas Education Agency at\u00a0Austin. He served as President of both the Texas Science Supervisors Association and the National Council of State Science Supervisors. Williene taught twenty-two years, twenty of which were with handicapped students at\u00a0Tyler\u00a0and\u00a0Austin\u00a0while training over twenty-five student teachers. Children born to this union were: C.S. (Happy), Jr. on March 9, 1947; James William, February 7, 1950; Mary Camille, June 14, 1953; and Andrea Lyn, July 9, 1963. Happy, Navy Veteran of four years in submarines, is a graduate of\u00a0Southwest\u00a0Texas\u00a0State\u00a0University\u00a0in law enforcement and works as ballistics specialist with the Austin City Police. He is married to the former Judy Keel who also attended\u00a0Southwest\u00a0Texas\u00a0State\u00a0and now works in the school offices at Round Rock,\u00a0Texas.<\/p>

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Their children are Adam Bradley, born March 14, 1976 and Scott Emery, born September 24, 1978. James, who holds a B.S. degree in business and a masters degree in city planning from the\u00a0University\u00a0of\u00a0Texas, worked several years at Austin National Bank and a consulting firm and is presently employed with the State Comptroller’s Department. His wife, nee\u00a0Doris Ann Lane, also had two degrees from U.T. and is a registered nurse. Their son, Jason McLane, was born May 17, 1985. Camille majored in home economics at U.T. and taught several years in private kindergartens before retiring to be with son Joseph William who was born April 2, 1981. Her husband, John Noell, another U.T. graduate with two degrees, is president of his own engineering company. Having married Robert Wiliam Clark on July 7, 1984, Andrea is continuing her studies in special education at\u00a0Stephen\u00a0F.\u00a0Austin\u00a0State\u00a0University, specializing in visual impairments. She has just completed her internship with the\u00a0Cris\u00a0Cole\u00a0State\u00a0Center\u00a0for the Blind in\u00a0Austin. Bob has transferred from U.T. to finish his major in English at\u00a0Nacogdoches. All of the Story children, graduates of various high schools in\u00a0Austin, played in the band and all were active in scouting, both boys achieveing the rank of Eagle Scout and earning God and Country Awards while both girls received comparable merit badges. This whole family has been active in the work of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and has participated in the different choirs. Bill sang with the Ben Hur Chanters of the Shriners. Bill is executive secretary of the Science Teachers Association of Texas and mixes hauling, hay building fences, and seeing to the cows with these duties. He is a past patron of the\u00a0Augusta\u00a0order of the Eastern Star where his wife is secretary. His standing in the Masonic Order is of a forty-year duration and he is Worshipful Master of the Augusta Lodge. Both of these Storys take part in Sunset Christian Church activities and the Houston County Historical Commission. Williene is a member of the Daughters of theRepublic\u00a0of\u00a0Texas. Retirement in\u00a0Houston\u00a0County\u00a0is delightful and Bill is still as pleased about it as his beloved beagles who have room to roam and chase rabbits.<\/p>

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Calvin Stokes Story Family History Calvin (Bill) Story, son of Louis and Pallie Green Story, was born at his father’s farm at Wesley Chapel, west of\u00a0Crockett,\u00a0Texas\u00a0on October 15, 1918. When he was a few weeks old, his family left the community of his paternal grandparents, Sam Houston and Rebeca Waller Story, and bought a farm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1334","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1334\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}