ROCKDALE HOMECOMING

04/20/2021

87th City of Rockdale Annual Homecoming
Sunday, June 13, 2021
Patterson Civic Center
609 Mill Avenue
[near Fair Park]

The noon meal will be catered by the award winning Brett's Backyard Bar-B-Que of Rockdale. $15 / plate.

Please RSVP with the number of BBQ plates required by the 15th of May. Send RSVPs to . . .

Homecoming 2021
P. O. Box 509
Rockdale, Texas 76567

9 a.m. Time for coffee and donuts, and registration. Please take advantage of the opportunity to visit with friends, and to browse through our Homecoming historical books.

11:30 a.m. Please be seated in the dining area. One table at a time will go thru the food line.

Again, please RSVP no later than the 15th of May if you want to reserve one or more plates. This will help the Committee make appropriate plans for the food.

After lunch there will be . . .

:: presentation of the 50 year graduates, i.e., the Class of 1970 and the Class of 1971

:: recognition of the Jones family of the Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home

:: a time to gather for group pictures

Officers :: Debby Currey, Barbara Gross, Pat Watson, Janice King

The Homecoming Committee is always interested in any current or former residents of Rockdale who would be willing to assist with planning and organizing of future gatherings.

One more time, please RSVP by the 15th of May if you want one or more BBQ plates.

05/19/2020

2020 Rockdale Homecoming has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus Pandemic.

05/17/2018

The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 14, 1936 Page: 1 of 12 . . . click the link to read the rest of the story regarding the Centennial Homecoming . . . https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth694766/m1/1/

03/19/2018

1874 :: Rockdale at Two Weeks of Age . . . click on this link --> http://rockdale-myhometown.blogspot.com/2014/03/1874-rockdale-at-two-weeks-of-age.html

"Rockdale, my hometown, is Texas' heart and significant part of its soul," George Sessions Perry wrote in his book, Texas: A World Unto Itself. Perry wrote with lifelong affection about his hometown, first as a novelist and later as a magazine journalist. He describes the pioneers of Rockdale...

02/28/2018

http://rockdale-myhometown.blogspot.com/2014/02/1874-name-derived-from-rock-prairie.html

. . . After a pleasant run of three hours over one of the best railroads in the South, at 12 m. we arrive at our destination, the terminus,...

02/09/2018

Galveston Weekly News, February 9, 1874 . . . http://rockdale-myhometown.blogspot.com/2012/02/1874-birth-of-rockdale.html . . . facebook is messing up today . . . click on the link instead of the image automatically generated by facebook (which I cannot remove, and which for some unknown reason is NOT going to the link I posted)

"Rockdale, my hometown, is Texas' heart and significant part of its soul," George Sessions Perry wrote in his book, Texas: A World Unto Itself. Perry wrote with lifelong affection about his hometown, first as a novelist and later as a magazine journalist. He describes the pioneers of Rockdale...

02/07/2018

http://rockdale-myhometown.blogspot.com/2012/02/1875-rockdale-in-news.html

Rockdale, February 6. Yesterday, the 5th, was the first anniversary of the city of Rockdale. The day was celebrated by the usual everyday b...

01/25/2018

http://rockdale-myhometown.blogspot.com/2011/01/1885-death-of-dr-milton-antony.html

On this date in the history of our hometown . . . the 25th day of January . . . in the year 1885 . . . Dr. Milton Antony dies in Rockdale, ...

11/28/2017

http://rockdale-myhometown.blogspot.com/2017/11/1912-new-awnings.html

Another string of new drop awnings is this week being placed and Regal Rockdale will thereby be made to look still more "regaler." Mrs. J...

09/30/2017

Rockdale Telephone Switchboard . . . photo dated 07 July 1921 . . . click on the photo to view comments . . . https://www.facebook.com/TexasImages/photos/a.353239004727680.97501.353233884728192/802032883181621/?type=3&theater

Rockdale, Tx.
Rockdale Telephone Switchboard circa 1928.
Supervisor (shown) was Faye Landis Oldham, the past owner of this photograph). Rockdale is located northeast of Austin.

09/25/2017

In memory of Bill Dessens . . . who was born on this date in the year 1930 . . . and graduated from RHS in 1947 . . . he attended Homecoming in 2012 for his 65th Class Reunion . . . https://new.findagrave.com/memorial/131497094