Taylor County Veterans Memorial and Plaza plaque

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The Taylor County Veterans' Memorial and Plaza was made possible by generous gifts from these patriotic friends and by those who purchased bricks in the Memorial Plaza. Dodge Jones Foundation County of Taylor Tax Increment Finance District of the City of Abilene In Memory of Pete and Mittie Elliott and John R. Hamil by Elliott-Hamil Families Abilene Bar Association Greathouse Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Kris Seale Barber Foundation In Memory of Henry Hart Mrs. A. B. Shelton By Judge & Mrs. Jess Holloway Abilene/Big Country Central Labor Council Abilene Cultural Affairs Council Abilene High School Drama Department Abilene Jaycee Foundation … continued below

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Belden, Dreanna L. August 7, 2005.

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The Taylor County Veterans' Memorial and Plaza was made possible by generous gifts from these patriotic friends and by those who purchased bricks in the Memorial Plaza.

Dodge Jones Foundation
County of Taylor
Tax Increment Finance District of the City of Abilene
In Memory of Pete and Mittie Elliott and John R. Hamil by Elliott-Hamil Families

Abilene Bar Association Greathouse Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Kris Seale Barber Foundation In Memory of Henry Hart Mrs. A. B. Shelton
By Judge & Mrs. Jess Holloway

Abilene/Big Country Central Labor Council
Abilene Cultural Affairs Council
Abilene High School Drama Department
Abilene Jaycee Foundation
Abilene Reporter-News
In Memory of Taylor County Veterans Service
Officer Dan Garcia
By Abilene Vietnam Grunts Association
And the Taylor County Veterans Services Office
Abilene Police Officers Association
AEP-West Texas Utilites Co.
Mr. & Mrs. James M. Alexander
American State Bank
Arrow Ford, Inc.
Bank of America
Mr. & Mrs. Grady Barr
The Beckham Family
Bill Reed Distributing
Dr. & Mrs. Price Brock
Mr. & Mrs. Lee Caldwell
Mr. & Mrs. Joe Ed Canon
Mr. & Mrs. John C. Chalmers
Disabled American Veterans
Brig. General & Mrs. Pintard M. Dyer
Mr. Charles E. Erwin
In Memory of Dr. Allen Maurice Fain
By Mrs. Lourene Fain and Mr. & Mrs. Fred Lee Hughes
First National Bank - Baird
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Galbraith
In memory of Louis S. Gee
By the Gee Family
In Memory of TSGT Donald E. Gursky, US Air Force
Judge and Mrs. Lee Hamilton
Mr. & Mrs. Ray Howe
In Memory of Fred C. Hughes
By his sons Fred Lee and Harold
In Honor of Fred Lee Hughes
By Mrs. Wanda Hughes
State Rep. & Mrs. Bob Hunter
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald L. Johnson
Mr. & Mrs. Bennie R. Jones
Kiwanis Club of Abilene
Kiwanis Club of the Key City
Chaplain Bill Libby
Raymond & Gloria McDaniel
Judge & Mrs. George Newman
Non-Commissioned Officers Association
North's Funeral Home
Lt. Col. & Mrs. William L. Page
J.M.Parker Foundation
Robert Patton
Mrs. Wayne V. Ramsey
The Senter Family
Southwest Abilene Rotary Club
Commissioner & Mrs. Chuck Statler
Talyor County Employees
Mr. & Mrs. Scott L. Taliaferro
Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Thomason, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Tiffany
James D. Tittle
Commissioner Jack & Nelva Turner
In Memory of Keith Wells, Robert J. Wright,
Kenneth Day, M.D., John Womble,
William D. Grosvenor
By Mr. & Mrs. William P. Wright, Jr.

Taylor County Veterans' Memorial and Plaze Committee
James D. Tittle, Chair
Harwell Barber, Co-Chair Woody Gilliland, Co-Chair

Victor Carrillo, County Judge
Lee Hamilton, County Judge
Jess Hollway, County Judge
George Newman, County Judge
Jack Turner, Commissioner
Lynn Barnett
Mike Hernandez
Sue Hoffman
Bill Libby
Norris Lineweaver
Sherri Statler
Jimmy DeFoor, VSO
Dan Garcia, VSO
Gerald Garrett, VSO
Nebra Peters, VSO
Jack Townsley, VSO
Terry Gilbreath - Sculptor

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Belden, Dreanna L. Taylor County Veterans Memorial and Plaza plaque, photograph, August 7, 2005; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5255/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .

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