- A1982-044.0001
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Group of people doing some work with room full of books. |
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- A1982-044.0002
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Group picture of ladies. |
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- A1982-044.0003
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Group picture of men in suit. |
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- A1982-044.0004
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Bird view of a town. |
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- A1982-044.0005
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Bird view of a town. |
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- A1982-044.0006
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Twelve members of Kleberg county hospital in the pic have completed 100 hours of voluntary work and capped by Mrs. Jeffie Langwell, Hospital administrator. |
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- A1982-044.0007
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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500 hours pins- Mrs. J.J Weisman, at right, received a pin during a special hospital Auxilary awards ceremony Monday night for completing 500 hours service at the local hospital. |
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- A1982-044.0008
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Members of Kleberg County hospital Auxiliary receiving pins for 100 hours of service in 1964 during a recent awards ceremony included, left to right front row, Mrs. Bunyon Davidson, Mrs. Milton Leary, Mrs Arch Durham, Mrs. George Revia and Mrs L.W.Adams Jr. on the back row. |
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- A1982-044.0009
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Members of Kleberg County hospital Auxiliary receiving pins for 100 hours of service in 1964 during a recent awards ceremony included, left to right front row, Mrs. Bunyon Davidson, Mrs. Milton Leary, Mrs Arch Durham, Mrs. George Revia and Mrs L.W.Adams Jr. on the back row. |
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- A1982-044.0010
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Top Award- Mrs. Floyd Porterfield, left, recieves a 1000 hour pin from Mrs. L.W. Adams, Jr. for the number of hours she served at the kleberg county hospital Auxiliary. |
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- A1982-044.0011
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Serve 100 hours- Mrs. Ben South, at left, director of nurses at Kleberg County Hospital. |
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- A1982-044.0012
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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500 Hours PINS - Mrs. J J Weisman, at right, received a pin during a special hospital Auxiliary awards ceremony Monday night for completing 500 hours service. |
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- A1982-044.0013
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Receive pins- Mrs. Leonard Kemp(left), president of the kleberg County Hospital Auxiliary, and Mrs. Jeffie langwell, Hospital administrator, are shown with three auxiliary members who received pins tuesday night for service at the hospital. |
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- A1982-044.0014
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Group picture of ladies Volunteers Capped. |
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- A1982-044.0015
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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1500 hour pin - Mrs. Nettie Parterfield. |
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- A1982-044.0016
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Group picture of ladies. Auxiliary awards. |
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- A1982-044.0017
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Hospital Auxiliary Officers |
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- A1982-044.0018
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Dee Dee O'brien receives award |
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- A1982-044.0019
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Hospital Auxiliary Officers |
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- A1982-044.0019
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: Photo file
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Two receive 500- Hour Pins |
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- A2018-052.0001
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: 1 / H-4-3
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History of Melba and Robert Gafford including news articles on their wedding in Gulfport, Mississippi, Robert's service in the Texas Guard, their grocery store in Kingsville, and their daughter Cathy, attending nursing school. |
- A2018-052.0002
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: 1 / H-4-3
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Beef Processing Reports from King Ranch to Gafford grocery Store. |
- A2018-052.0003
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: 1 / H-4-3
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News articles of the Kingsville Boy Scouts and the Society of the Order of the Arrow, the Hospital Auxiliary and a memorandum of the Texas A&I University Alumni Association. |
- A2018-052.0004
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: 1 / H-4-3
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Correspondence to Bob Gafford from Congressional leaders thanking him for his support. Letters are included from William P. Clements, Jr., Lloyd Bentsen, John Tower, Solomon P. Ortiz, and E. (Kika) de la Garza. |
- A2018-052.0005
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: 1 / H-4-3
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Copy of the White House Address of the President (Gerald Ford) to the Joint Session of Congress - The House Chamber, October 8, 1974. |
- A2018-052.0006
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: 1 / H-4-3
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News articles on local events and people including:
* Dr. R.D. Perry, an A&I professor of mathematics,
* Lowell Franklin "Sonny Wilkinson who worked at King Ranch and as a real estate appraiser and salesman,
* Earl Able who was a restaurateur and theater organist in San Antonio , * Charles Frederick Haas, prominent oil man and outstanding athlete and * Gleneva Marie Wilhemina Bruning Fischer who worked at Kleberg First National Bank and attended Trinity Lutheran Church in Kingsville. |
- A2018-052.0007
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: 1 / H-4-3
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News articles on local events and people including:
* 'Doc" Perry, who operated an electric motor shop from 1940 to 1990 in his garage
* An email from Gerald Dooson James, a retired A&I Chemistry professor and engineer.
* An email from Don Amsden, a natural Gas Engineer who graduated from A&I in 1948
* An email from Alan Dale "Punky" Goerner, a Major in the United States Air Force
* Memorial program for Gerald R. Hood at the Riviera United Methodaist Church |
- A2018-052.0008
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: 1 / H-4-3
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News articles on local events and people including:
* News clipping, from the Brahma Round up, November 13, 1942, "Cavazos Goes to meeting at Corpus."
* News clipping, unknown paper and date, "Snow, Recruits Flooded Lackland AFB During Blitz of '50-51."
* News article, Kingsville Record, December 30, 1990, "Pharmacist Sentenced to Federal Prison Term."
* Email about Dr. Paul W. Treptow, Jr. who was a professor of engineering at Texas A&I.
* Email on the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo
* Article on the Frio River Flood - "The One Hundred Year Flood, 2002." |
- A2018-052.0009
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: 1 / H-4-3
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Bundle of newspaper clippings on the Kenedy Ranch from the Corpus Christi Caller Times published from December 16-19, 1984. |
- A2018-052.0010
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: 1 / H-4-3
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Issue of the Atlantic, April 1957, "Captain King of Texas, the Man Who Made the King Ranch," by Tom Lea.
ssue of Texas Monthly, October 1980, "The King Ranch, the Last Frontier Empire Confronts the Modern World," by William Broyles, Jr.
Copy of above article |
- A2018-052.0011
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: 1 / H-4-3
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Newspaper Clipping on General Richard E. Cavazos including
* San Antonio Express, "Twilight for the General."
* "Local Resident Recollects General Richard Cavazos."
* Kingsville Record, November 5, 2017, "Kingsville's Four-Star General Dies."
* Kingsville Record, November 12, 2017, "Richard E. Cavazos."
* More about Army General Richard Cavazos from the San Antonio Evening News. |
- A2018-052.0012
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: STA Photo File / A2018-052
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Gafford Nuptials
March 13, 1952
Gulfport, MS
Bob and Melba Faye Gafford |
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- A2018-052.0013
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: STA Photo File / A2018-052
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Bob Gafford & Czech Simach - 1946 |
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- A2018-052.0014
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: STA Photo File / A2018-052
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Bob Gafford & Melba Roper- 1945 -Wife of Les Roper |
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- A2018-052.0015
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: STA Photo File / A2018-052
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Seaman 2nd Class USN WW-2 -Howard Gafford
1944 |
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- A2018-052.0016
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: STA Photo File / A2018-052
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Buck SGT. Robert H. Gafford
Texas National Guard
Roy Terrell - Captain
Lauro Cavazos - 1st Lt.
Steve Cavazos - 2nd Lt.
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- A2018-052.0017
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: STA Photo File / A2018-052
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Bob Gafford
Bull Dolphin Port Aransas, Texas - 1962
Off shore with Capt. Jack Frances
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- A2018-052.0018
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: STA Photo File / A2018-052
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Scouting Activities Scrapebook
Troop 374
First Christian Church
1963-1973
Scout Masters:
Art Swan
Earl Fletcher
Bob Gafford |
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- A2018-052.0019
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: STA Photo File / A2018-052
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Scouting Activities Scrapebook
Troop 374
First Christian Church
1963-1973
Scout Masters:
Art Swan
Earl Fletcher
Bob Gafford |
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- A2018-052.0020
- Collection: Robert and Melba Gafford Family Collection
- Location: STA Photo File / A2018-052
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Scouting Activities Scrapebook
Troop 374
First Christian Church
1963-1973
Scout Masters:
Art Swan
Earl Fletcher
Bob Gafford |
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