The Web Site is dedicated to those people of Lueders and the surrounding communities who so diligently followed a policy of hard work, ethics, morality and Christian beliefs that produced another group of people who today are living out their autumn years after a life time of appreciation for the foundation given them by the people of Lueders, Texas during those years of the thirties, forties, fifties and into the sixties.

The author of this web site at age 2 years 6 months first moved to the Post Oak Community in January 1937 and then into Lueders in August of 1943 at age 9.

Today, nothing but, fond memories exist in the mind of this author.

AND for whatever he is, the credit belongs to those people of Lueders, Texas as it was all of them who played a role in his upbringing.

Growing up in the Post Oak Community holds fond memories of those first school years in a three room country school house where a large coal burning stove kept us warm.

No electricity, no running water but, a great two holer outhouse and fond memories of nothing but, wide open spaces and acres and acres of country side for a young boy to explore.

Moving into town provided electricity, running water and a bath room in the house.

AND lots and lots of other girls and boys to play with.

Also provided a bunch of parenting because every adult in Lueders was looking out for you. Do something you shouldn't and your parents knew it before you got home.

Those who turned you in for wrong doings were the same ones you could turn to in time of need.

Lueders was a community of hard working ethical people who respected and cared for each other and those virtues were driven into the youth of the community.

Being located near the Clear Fork of the Brazos River, the Lueders boys of the late forties and fifties played and practically lived on the river with forts and hideouts from one end to the other.

Nothing like the courage it takes to swing off the highest bank and drop off into the middle of the Clear Fork at the Old Swimming Hole.

AND O" the fun we had playing in the cotton gins and among the bales and bales of cotton on the cotton wharf at the Train Depot.

Walking across the railroad bridge brought great pangs of anxiety with thoughts of being caught by a Freight Train or the Doodle Bug.

Placing pennies on the rail road tracks or watching the steam locomotives put sand on the tracks to stop the wheels from spinning while trying to get a long freight train moving was all in a day of fun.

Nothing like sneaking inside the Oil Refinery in town and blowing the steam whistle in the middle of the night.

AND how great it was to take peanut butter, crackers and a gallon can of peaches from the school lunch room and have a feast sitting on the guard rail of the river bridge and then toss the evidence of our mischievousness into the river.

Although Modern Transportation and Farm to Market Roads caused Lueders to decline in population and commerce in the early sixties, the quarrying and processing of Lueders Limestone is today a booming business and farming in the area remains a productive resource.

Also remaining in abundance is the wonderful memories of those who were privileged to grow up in a community of people that looked after one another and its children which provided a foundation to produce ethical and morally sound citizens of today.

THANK You Lueders, Texas

AND, the Memories Roll On as Reflected:...   HERE