Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
V.F.W Post burned the mortgage on hall in 1975
Reported in The Record 37 years ago was an occasion of considerable significance to Odessa Post #7395 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars– its members had burned the mortgage.
The event had taken place at the annual Veterans Day dinner in the V.F.W. Hall. It signified the final payment of $1,000 on the V.F.W. Building, previously named the Finney Building, one of the oldest structures in downtown Odessa.
D.M. Hemmerling, a signer of the original mortgage on the building with Mr. and Mrs. Al Wagner, Bob Lubold Jr., V.F.W. commander, Larry Erichsen, senior vice commander, and Don Hasse, junior vice...
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