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One summer he caught a 12 pound redfish at five mile branch, and although he’s still fishing almost daily when he weather is right, the filling station operator hasn’t brought in a red to break that record he set as a young boy.
Charles was born and raised in the El Campo area although he graduated from Garwood High School in 1938. His father, a registered pharmacist owned and operated a drug store in El Campo for 44 years before he sold out and retired recently.
Now able to say he’s been in the filling station business in Palacios longer than anyone else, Faktor moved here in 1946 while roughnecking with the Texas Company.
He was working on a rig drilling at Olivia. When the crew moved out, he stayed and bought the Sinclair Service Station on Main Street now operated by C. H. Chatham.
After his graduation from high school at Garwood in 1938, Faktor went to Sul Ross College at Alpine and majored in animal husbandry with a minor in biology.
He received a permanent teaching certificate upon his graduation there in 1942, but the practice teaching session had already turned him against a career in education, so he went to work for the U. S. Public Health Service.
Faktor, who is a stocky, curly black-headed man, worked for the health service for four years stationed at Galveston during the summer and San Antonio during the winter.
Quitting to start roughnecking for the Texas Company in 1945, he met a Sour Lake girl in Beaumont and she is now his wife, Maudie. They have two girls, Pamela Sue, eight, who is in the second grade; and Charlene, 10, who is an invalid.
He sold the Sinclair Station in 1951 and worked for G. T. Brooking until his present station, the Phillips 66 station at the Y, was completed and he took over there in July of 1952.
Faktor hired Tony Morales two months after he started operating the Sinclair station and the employee is still working at the Phillips 66 station, on Fakor’s payroll.
Floundering was one of Faktor’s favorite sports until he broke his pelvis bone in an accident in 1948. His father bought him his first floundering light on his eighth birthday, and the lad floundered all night.
His biggest night floundering was on a section of land near Galveston where he and a friend gigged 81 of the fish in one night.
Faktor caught his largest trout only last year, weighing five and a half pounds. The biggest fish he’s caught on a hook and line was a 65 pound gar landed off the Baptist Encampment fishing pier.
His other sport interest lies in softball, although he hasn’t played the game since high school days. Faktor has sponsored a softball team in city competition here for the past four years.
His teams won both the first half, second half and championship in league play three seasons back and won the first half of competition summer before last.
This summer they had a rough season.
Faktor still says his hobbies are fishing working on fishing tackle and shrimping. He’s added a “Y” Sports Shop to his service station business and specializes in repairing broken reels.
“I suppose I should say selling gasoline is my favorite occupation, but I’d rather go after those shrimp,” he said.
Palacios Beacon, November 8, 1956 |
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T. A. Castleton, Sinclair agent was over from Bay City Monday checking in Charles H. Faktor as the new manager of the local station. Mr. Faktor, a resident of Palacios the past year, is familiar with all work connected with a service station and asks former customers to give him a call and also invites new ones to try the Sinclair Station when their car needs gas, oil or a thorough grease and wash job. The phone number is 170.
Palacios Beacon, May 12, 1949 |
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Chas. H. Faktor To Open Phillips '66' Station Monday Chas. H. Faktor will open the new, modern Phillips 66 Station at the "Y" on Highway 35 north of Palacios on Monday, July 21. The building has an Arkansas Flagstone front with the pillars of split material of the same rock. Opening day will find gifts for both young and old, with additional prizes for the motorists registering at the new station. The fisherman visiting Palacios will find the needed tackle ne needs at the new station. Many other items will be handled by the manager. Mr. Faktor will be assisted at the station by Tony Morales, who will assist in a pick-up and delivery wash and grease service.
Palacios Beacon, July 17, 1952 |
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200 Registered…On opening day of Faktor’s new service station on Monday. S. B. Buffaloe (car-less Sell) won the grand prize of a wash, grease and polish job. Joe Huffman, Bob Lincecum, and Fred Goppert were other winners of door prizes. Charles and Tony were assisted on opening day by Frank Hurley, Phillips 66 distributor from Bay City. Failing to get my tokens—will see youse guys later.
Palacios Beacon, July 24, 1952 |
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Miss Charlyne Ardelle Faktor, 27, a resident of the Richmond State School in Richmond, Texas passed away Thursday, November 21, 1974.
She was a native of El Campo, and former resident of Palacios.
Graveside funeral services were held at 3:30 p. m. Friday, November 22, 1974 at the Pine Ridge Cemetery in Sour Lake, Texas.
Dick Robbins, Chaplin of Richmond State School officiated. Services were under the direction of Carroll-Wallace Funeral Home in Beaumont, Texas.
Survivors include her father, Charles H. Faktor of Sour Lake; one sister, Mrs. D. L. Overstreet of Sour Lake and her grandfather, Martin J. Faktor of El Campo.
Palacios Beacon, November 26, 1974 |
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Funeral services for Mrs. Pamela Overstreet were held July 11 at Carroll-Wallace Funeral Home in Beaumont. Interment was in Pine Ridge Cemetery in Sour Lake, Texas.
Pam, daughter of Charles Faktor and the late Mrs. Maudie Faktor, was born in Palacios September 9, 1948, and raised here for many years, moving to Sour Lake in 1961 after Hurricane Carla destroyed their home. She passed away in Shreveport, La. on July 9, 1976.
Pam is survived by her father, Charles Faktor; her husband, Danny and Dan Jr.
She was preceded in death by an infant daughter, her sister Charlene and mother, Maudie Faktor.
Palacios Beacon, July 22, 1976 |
Charles
Faktor, as a lad of five or six, started coming to Palacios each
summer to visit his grandparents and fish in the bay and river
waters of this area.
