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By JODY BATES::
• Special to The GoIden Eagle
ol. Sidney Loveless has a;dozen
things he wants to tell you — _ t - "
and keeping them straight is. your -
job. = ,
He has an infectious interest in
everything, especially if it is historical,
about Texas A &M University, his family
or horses. If you happen to wrap all 1
those into one project, you can have a
wondrous conversation.
For the past several months, Loveless,
83, has been working to obtain a histori-
cal marker for their-home, at, 206 Lee t
Ave South in College Station. The ,,
.. , ,
plaque° iuld arrive any day now. '
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"We b the Tiomd '1.$.46, after I -
returned from World War II. We had
what I call the Honeymoon House over
on Suffolk (two blocks away) and we had '
seven acres between Villa Maria, Cavitt
and Dellwood, where we planned to
build a place for horses, dogs and kids, "_
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Loveless said. `
"I came to Texas A &M in 1934 as a .
Golden Eagle photo/ Jody Bates
transfer student from University of
Texas, where I had 100 hours in liberal Sidney Loveless is working to get a historical marker for his home at 206 Lee Ave.
arts. I'd had strong influence from a South in College Station.
Coolidge High School English teacher, providing beans and bullets," he said.
who convinced me the only way to get great believer in planning ahead. p rov g
out of the Central Texas cotton fields He graduated with a bachelor of sci- The cavalry came to the rescue in the
was with a good education. ence degree in agriculture and a bathe- form of Aggie officer E.M. Burnett, who
"My older sister and I rode six miles for of science degree in biology. He also shifted him to his horse unit. He served
on horseback to school. When the next had taken some business law and math in the Mediterranean, finished up in
sister was ready to start school, we had because, to support himself, he had Italy and returned to the East Coast.
to switch to a buggy and, finally, there switched to dairy husbandry, production "Janet and the kids met me in
were five of us. We followed the T & BV and manufacturing so he could work for Niagara Falls while I waited to be reas-
train line into Mexia. We called it the
35 cents an hour in the campus dairy, signed or deactivated," he said.
'Tater and Bean Vine,' but it was really located near the train station on the Again, his ties with A &M helped him
the Texas and Brazos Valley train. Our west side of the tracks. the separation sergeant was an
horse walked so slow, we almost got hit "I wanted to be a dairy route sales- Aggie.
at a crossing. man. Borden was advertising a job at Loveless served 32 years as a reserve
1 "I transferred to A &M because I could $90 a month," he said, but fate had officer, but was able to come back into
i see the war coming, so I wanted a com- other plans — including a June bride. the insurance business in College
mission. When I graduated in 1938, I "Hershel Burgess ran Seaboard Life Station right away. That was when the
was an Army second lieutenant and an Insurance company and. in the middle family began thinking about building a
active Reserve officer. I liked to ride ,ii n i -nir;r v ^ar, be offered me work. house in Bryan and 206 Lee Ave. came
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horses and shoot, so I had volunteered Ile .:a:- a t+ . i [ie influence for the next on the market.
• to assist as an instructor in the campus four years, until 1 was called for active "The Manor House, as it was called,
e ROTC cavalry's twice- weekly drill peri- duty in January after Pearl. Harbor in Turn to HISTORY, Page 11
• ods," he said, noting that he was a 1942. I became a depot supply officer
s t + +, a
land near the airport, called Pleasant
HzstorY Acres. "We had our horses there and soon
people were asking us to teach riding. 1 T e Can 1
Daughter Joan;was:15, so she started a
summer riding school at 6:30 a.m., so I
had been built in 1937 by', W.T. Carter, could be there to supervise, and she -
the first state chemist on campus, and ran it for 29 summers," Loveless said.
his wife Mamie, who worked as an They also added camping to the rid
extension agent." ing and shooting.
Mrs. Carter had used a lot of her
new ideas in the house — an arched "I wanted to help kids love the out-
front door, a cathedral beamed ceiling doors."
in the living room and china cabinets Their children also have done well.
in the dining room that were built in. Joan is a physical therapist, Sydney
When the cupboard doors were shut, Jr. "Buzz" works for Dow Chemical,
it looked like wood paneled walls. It William does office reconstruction in At Aerofit, we know the
had screened porches on the south and Dallas and Bob is safety manager with
west sides of the house to catch the Conoco in Denver. throughout every sto
breeze. There are four grandchildren and a
"The bricks were made by slaves for great- grandchild. Aerofit's state of th
a physician's home in Wheelock in the
mid -1800s and the Carters had them Failing eyesight and hearing caused senior progn
moved here for the building of the Lee Loveless to stop the classes in 1987.
Street house. They are so soft, you can Now, he uses special glasses devised water aerobics ar
scratch them with a fingernail," for artists for his reading and history
Loveless said. research. have potluck
In the 1950s, when their children He has a Civil War and military his-
were teenagers, they enclosed the west tory library to work from and was
porch for a family TV and game room. president of the Waco Civil War Round
In 1955, the family lost a 14- year -old Table. kft�
niece, who was accidentally shot and He also was active in re- enactments,
killed. having the complete uniform for a cav
The incident prompted them into airy officer serving west of the
starting a Gun Safety School on their Mississippi.
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