Dr. C. M. Dugger, optometrist of Huntsville, is moving to Edna in the near future and will have his office in the new LaBauve Building to be constructed adjoining the new home of the Faires Drug Company, also soon to be built where the Variety and Gift Shop now stands. Dr. Dugger is the son of the Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Dugger. His wife is the former Miss Charlotte LaBauve. They will build their new home on property recently purchased next to the LaBauve apartments. Rejoicing in the C. M. Dugger home at this time is double because their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon “Swede” Nelson are moving their little family to Edna. The property they bought for their home is across the street from Mrs. Geo. F. Simons’ home. Bess and “Swede” have made their home in Vermillion, South Dakota, the past three years.

Edna Weekly Herald, January 13, 1949
 

Dr. C. M. Dugger Opens Offices in Edna.

Dr. C. M. Dugger opened his offices for the practice of optometry, Monday, March 7th. Temporary location of the offices is above the Faires Drug Store. He will move to the new LaBauve building when it is completed.

This is the first time Edna has been offered the services of a full time, resident optometrist, an advantage few towns its size have.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Dugger, Dr. Dugger was born and reared in Edna. He was co-captain of the Edna High School football and basketball teams and also served his class as president. He graduated in 1936.

Mrs. Dugger is the former Charlotte LaBauve, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. LaBauve. She is a native of Edna and lived here until her marriage to Dr. Dugger in 1939 when she returned with him to Chicago where he was studying at the Northern Illinois College of Optometry.

Preparatory to entering this college, he spent one year each at Schreiner Institute, Kerrville, and A. and I at Kingsville. After his graduation from the College of Optometry, he established his practice in Hillsboro.

The following year, he volunteered for service in the United States Army. He served in the Medical Corps three and a half years. Stationed in the South-Pacific area for 32 months, he devoted his entire time to optometric practice.

After his discharge from the army, he moved to Huntsville where he resided three and a half years.

Edna Weekly Herald, March 10, 1949
 

Edna Weekly Herald, March 3, 1949
 

Edna Weekly Herald, August 4, 1949
 

Dr. C. M. Dugger

Edna—Funeral services for Dr. Charlie Milton Dugger, 71, of Edna, who died Tuesday in Victoria following a short illness, will be at 2 p. m. Thursday at the First Baptist Church of Edna.

The Rev. Joe Webb and the Rev. Harry Johnson will officiate.

Burial will follow in the Memory Gardens of Edna under the direction of Slavik Funeral Home.

Pallbearers will be Herbert Lee Melton, Wayne White, Harry Hafernick, Callaway Vance, Dr. Bill Hodges, Jarrell Brown and Lincoln Edwards.

Honorary pallbearers will be the men of Faires Drug Coffee Club, men of the Dugger Deer Camp;, and W. H. Fitz, Burt Wiegand, Steele Simons and Jerry Jacobs.

He married the former Peggy Jo Jones on Oct. 24, 1980 at the First Baptist Church of Edna.

Surviving are his wife, Peggy Jo Dugger of Edna; a daughter, Ginna Johnson of Edna; a son, Johnny Dugger of Edna; three stepdaughters, Michael Diane Lee of Orange and Judy Hess and Janet Satterwhite, both of Pasadena; a sister, Bertha Arthur of Austin; and 12 grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Charlie and Mittie O’Daniel Dugger; his first wife, Charlotte Dugger; a sister, Elizabeth Ramsey; and a brother, Carroll Dugger.

Those who wish may make memorial contributions to the American Diabetes Association or the charity of their choice.

Victoria Advocate, April 12, 1990

Charlotte Dugger

Edna—Mrs. Charlotte L. Dugger, 58, of Edna, member of a pioneer Jackson County family, died Wednesday in a local hospital following a brief illness.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Thursday at the Edna Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Richard Stone and the Rev. Russell Moon officiating, and with Mrs. Jane Webster as organist.

Burial will be in Edna Memory Gardens under direction of the Slavik Funeral Home.

Pallbearers will be Callaway Vance, Floyd Schiewitz, Hugh Ottley, Lon Drushel, Herbert Lee Melton Jr., Walter Dollar, Ronald Clinkscales and Gifford Hodges; honorary pallbearers will be Jerry Jacobs, Steele Simons, George Buhler, Jerry Mumme, Wayne White, Dr. Bascom Hayes, Herbert Smith, Johnny Garrett, Noel Clark, W. H. Fitz, and all directors of the Jackson County State Bank.

Mrs. Dugger was born March 6, 1921, in Edna, a daughter of the late Clyde LaBauve and Virginia LaBauve. She was the wife of Dr. C. M. Dugger, local optometrist and rancher, and a member of the Edna Presbyterian Church.

Surviving, in addition to her husband, are her mother, Mrs. E. C. LaBauve of Edna; a daughter, Mrs. Ginna Fitch and a son, Johnny Dugger, both of Edna; and five grandchildren.

Victoria Advocate, December 20, 1979

Edmond Clyde LaBauve                                 Virginia LaBauve
 

Funeral Services Are Held for C. M. Dugger, Prominent Ednaite

Grief stricken relatives and friends who overflowed the First Methodist Church attended the funeral services of C. M. Dugger, 74, prominent Edna citizen, Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock. He died Monday at 9:30 a. m. at his home at 309 South Pumphrey St., following a six week illness.

Rev. I. E. Walker officiated and burial was in Edna Cemetery. Pallbearers were Norton Wells, Steele Simons, Callaway Vance, Gifford Hodges, Eldred Bergstrom and Sam Craig. Slavik Funeral Home had charge of arrangements.

A large outpouring of floral offerings, the closing of many business houses during the hours of the funeral and contributions in his name to his favorite Methodist Church organizations and activities attested to the popularity of Mr. Dugger. His demise has been the cause of much sorrow among the residents of the city and county.

Mr. Dugger was born March 30, 1882, in Caldwell County near Lockhart, a son of C. J. Dugger and Ivvie Lowder Dugger, deceased. He followed farming until he became 31 years of age and then moved with his family to Jackson County, settling at Edna.

He farmed here in early days, at one time operated a gin, was a garage employee for several years and in recent years had been in the real estate business. He still retained his farming interests at the time of his death. His real estate offices were in the Guaranty Abstract Co. building at 116 West Main St. He also served as county treasurer during World War II.

An ardent church and community worker, Mr. Dugger served in practically every official capacity at the First Methodist Church. He was Sunday School superintendent, chairman of the Board of Stewards, past president of the Methodist Men’s Club and a past president of the Board of Trustees of the church.

He also served for years on the school board and for several years was president of the board. He was a director and a faithful worker in the chamber of commerce, a member of the Rotary Club. He also was a tireless worker for the Jackson County Fair and Texana Days celebration, for several years soliciting, almost by himself, all the advertisements for the fair catalogue in the Edna area. He was a Mason and member of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Two of his pet projects were the Edna Coffee Club, a group of business and professional men who meet daily at a local café at 9:10 a.m. for fellowship, the Moss Ranch Hunting Club near Llano. He was president of the coffee club and was top man of the hunting party of some 12 or 14 Jackson County men who hunted on the Moss Ranch lease for over 20 years.

He and his wife, Mrs. Mittie Dugger, an astute business woman, slowly built up a string of rent houses and apartments in the vicinity of their home in the western edge of Edna that has become known as “Duggerville.” The Dugger home in the hub of this property became a friendly haven for all the neighbors.

It was through his real estate business that Mr. Dugger became so well known outside Edna. Persons coming in for apartments and homes always found him friendly and courteous. Regardless of whether or not he had a certain place lister, he always would take the time to drive a prospective newcomer to Edna around the town to show them rental units. And it was not uncommon for Mr. Dugger to stop a total stranger and invite him to have a friendly cup of coffee at the coffee club sessions. In this way he made many staunch friends for the City of Edna and frequently was referred to as the city’s good will ambassador.

Mr. Dugger is survived by his wife; a son, Dr. C. M. Dugger of Edna; two daughters, Mrs. Bertha Gibson of Austin and Mrs. Gordon Nelson of Edna; a sister, Mrs. H. E. Middleton of Edna, and 11 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

Edna Herald, November 22, 1956

Allie Milton “Mittie” Dugger
Methodist Church Services Held for Mrs. C. M. Dugger

Funeral services were held Saturday at 4 p. m. at the First Methodist Church in Edna for Mrs. Allie Milton “Mittie” Dugger, 73, the widow of the late C. M. Dugger, prominent Edna real estate man. Rev. I. E. Walker, former pastor of the Methodist church here, officiated.

Interment was in the Edna Cemetery,. Pallbearers were Waldo Schroeder, Robert Raney, Norton Wells, Eldred Bergstrom, Gifford Hodges and Calloway Vance.

Mrs. Dugger passed away about 9 a. m. April 3, in an Austin hospital, following an illness of three months. She was born July 31, 1885 in Austin, and formerly lived in Lockhart. She had lived in Edna since November of 1913.

She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Gordon Nelson of Edna and Mrs. Frank Gibson of Austin; a son, Dr. C. M. Dugger of Edna; and eleven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Edna Herald, April 9, 1959
 

Mary E. Ramsey

Edna—Mary Elizabeth Ramsey, 65, of Austin died Tuesday in Austin.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church of Edna with the Rev. Russell Moon officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens of Edna under direction of Slavik Funeral Home.

Mrs. Ramsey was born in Edna April 28, 1917, and lived in Edna until after the death of her first husband, Gordon Nelson, in 1967.

She was a graduate of Edna High School and attended the University of Texas. She had been purchasing clerk for the Richardson Pail Co. in Austin.

Surviving are her husband, Lt. Col. (Retired) Carl D. Ramsey of Austin; four daughters, Linda Beth Johnson of Hardin, Jo Ann Jones of Houston, Barbara Barth of Allen and Cindy Boyles of Richardson; three sons, Ted Nelson of Wausay, Wis., Chuck Nelson of Bay City and Jimmy Nelson of Austin; a sister, Mrs. Howe (Bertha) Arthur of Austin; a brother, Dr. C. M. Dugger of Edna; and 12 grandchildren.

Victoria Advocate, April 20, 1983

Gordon W. Nelson

Edna—Gordon William Nelson, 50, of 318 Pumphrey St., owner of Nelson’s Studios and a correspondent for The Victoria Advocate, died at 1:30 a. m. Thursday in a Victoria Hospital following a one-day illness.

Mr. Nelson, who was born Nov. 26, 1916, in Sioux City, Iowa, was a past president of the Mid-Coast Photographer’s Guild and was a member of First Methodist Church and Edna Lions Club. He was a former clerk at the local post office.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Friday at First Methodist Church with the Rev. J. W. Griffin and I. E. Walker officiating. Burial will be in Edna Cemetery under the direction of Slavik Funeral Home.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Dugger Nelson of Edna; his mother, Mrs. Tena Nelson of Vermillion, S. D.; two daughters, Mrs. Carroll Dean (Linda Beth) Johnson of Westminister, Calif. and Mrs. Arthur (Jo Ann) Jones of Houston; three sons, Ted Gordon Nelson, Charles Dugger Nelson and James Milton Nelson of Edna; a sister, Mrs. L. J. Rayborn of Vermillion, S. D.; a brother, Carl Nelson of Woodland Hill, Calif. and three grandchildren, Belynda Carol and Darryll Dean Johnson of Westminister, Calif. and Arthur William Jones Jr. of Houston.

Pallbearers will be Norton Wells, W. H. Fitz, Eldred Bergstrom, Steele Simons, George B. Leftwich and Ray L. (Andy) Anderson.

Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Mid-Coast Photographer’s Guild.

Victoria Advocate, May 5, 1967

Carl David Ramsey, Lt. Col. Retired, U. S. Army

Carl David Ramsey, Lt. Col. Retired, U. S. Army, passed away March 4, 1988, at his residence at Van Alstyne.

He was born June 12, 1909, in Stanton, Texas. He enlisted in the U. S. Army September 29, 1926. He served as an officer in World War II and the Korean War. He was a resident of Austin for 30 years.

Services will be at 2:00 PM, Sunday afternoon at Flesher Funeral Home Chapel. Interment in the Van Alstyne Cemetery.

Survivors include four daughters, Barbara Barth of Van Alstyne, Cindy Boyle of Richardson, Texas, Joan Jones of Houston and Linda Beth Johnson of Hardin, Texas; three sons, Ted Nelson of Wausau, Wisconsin and Chuck Nelson of Bay City, Texas, James Nelson of Austin; one sister, Sue Carlisle of Huntsville; 14 grandchildren.

Austin American-Statesman, March 6, 1988