Family of the Month – June 2019
Dan and Pat Murphy The Murphys have been active parishioners for years. If you dropped by Holy Spirit’s recent Vacation Bible School, you saw Dan helping out. If you take […]
Dan and Pat Murphy The Murphys have been active parishioners for years. If you dropped by Holy Spirit’s recent Vacation Bible School, you saw Dan helping out. If you take […]
Jim Russell Jim has just about reached the figurative halftime of a challenging KC assignment – serving as a council officer and as the ultimate assembly officer. He’s one fraternal […]
Dan and Betsey Schneider You’ll recall Dan experienced a horrific accident at our April 5 Lenten fish fry during which he fainted, having donated blood earlier that Friday, and fell […]
It’s World Series Time – All Hands on Deck Brothers, Next week the Cedar Hill Baseball Association season culminates with the League’s World Series starting Wednesday, June 19th and going […]
MINUTES OF GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGKOFC COUNCIL 8157 June 4, 2019 The meeting called to order at: 7:30 PM by Grand Knight Tom Greco. The Grand Knight opened the meeting with […]
EMT First Responders Appreciation Day During EMT Appreciation week on Thursday May 23rd, 2019 the Knights of council 8157 showed our appreciation for EMT and First Responders by assisting them […]
MINUTES OF GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGKOFC COUNCIL 8157 May 7, 2019 The meeting called to order at: 7:30 PM by Grand Knight Tom Greco. The Grand Knight opened the meeting with […]
Mike and Susan Fitzgerald Mike moved to Dallas from his native Minnesota, attending St. Thomas Aquinas in 1980 when a co-worker invited him out on a double blind date. The […]
Newsletter April 2019 Edition 38 All the Council events and activities of the last quarter.
A Life Well Lived Father Eugene Okoli’s wonderful eulogy during the April 5 funeral Mass for our brother, SK Andy Goza, noted that some people wondered if Andy had a […]
Eric Conner Eric is second-generation Knight. He recalls the excitement of he and his brother staying in a hotel in Wichita Falls on the weekend that their father, Nathaniel Rex […]
MINUTES OF GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGKOFC COUNCIL 8157 April 2, 2019 The meeting called to order at: 7:30 PM by Grand Knight Tom Greco. The Grand Knight opened the meeting with […]
Serious Accident At Fish Fry A serious accident occurred at our fish fry this past Friday, April 5th. As the fish frying got underway Brother knight Dan Schneider fainted and […]
Gerald and Toni Jacob The Jacobs have lived in DeSoto for 14 years and are enjoying semi-retirement. Gerald, who retired from the U.S. Navy in 2007 following 22 years, splits […]
Jorge Ruiz You might not know that Jorge often wore a cycling helmet years ago. He was a serious rider, traversing hundreds of miles on weekends. These days, we know […]
MINUTES OF GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGKOFC COUNCIL 8157 March 5, 2019 The meeting called to order at: 7:30 PM by Grand Knight Tom Greco. The Grand Knight opened the meeting with […]
Doug and Diana Maddox At our February general membership meeting, Doug joined our officers group when he was voted in as the new warden. Doug and his family moved to […]
Greg Warr Greg admits that he enjoys working with “spread sheets and numbers.” So it wasn’t a stretch when Allen Reitmeier approached him years ago to handle the financials of […]
MINUTES OF GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGKOFC COUNCIL 8157 February 5, 2019 The meeting was preceded by a 30-minute presentation on CERT, an emergency response organization currently serving Duncanville, Cedar Hill, DeSoto, […]
Some 30 years ago, Chris Edwards asked Cecilia Leigh Hookings out for a first date on a Wednesday, took her to Campisi’s on Mockingbird Lane on Friday and decided on […]
MINUTES OF GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGKOFC COUNCIL 8157 January 8, 2019 The meeting called to order at: 7:30 PM by Grand Knight Tom Greco. The Grand Knight opened the meeting with […]
Our Annual Appreciation Dinner Once a year our council gathers to show our appreciation to our member knights and their spouses for all the hard work they contribute throughout the […]
A rare situation has come up where the football playoffs game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Los Angeles Rams is happening at the same time as our Appreciation Dinner. […]
John Balasa Twenty-two years in the U.S. Army made John well acquainted with the upside of male camaraderie, John notes. So after years of helping at Holy Spirit’s 5:30 Saturday […]
On Tuesday December 12, 2018, Council 8157 Grand Knight Tom Greco, accompanied by Membership Director Keith Archer and Chancellor Jorge Ruiz presented a check for $3,500 to Leonardo Zapata, the […]
Newsletter January 2019 Edition 37 All the Council events and activities of the last quarter.
Paul made the relatively “short trip,” in terms of transfer distance, from Council 7736 over at St. Jude in Mansfield. He joined the Knights eight years ago while in Maryland […]
Happy New Year! I hope your holidays were GREAT. It’s time for that New Year’s Resolution. As your health guy, I want to encourage everyone to be optimistic and resolve […]
Hector Rubio Hector is one of those 8157 members who’s rarely seen at the monthly meetings but makes his presence greatly felt “out in the field.” He enjoys contributing his […]
David and Veronica Ybarra The Knights of Columbus tenet of devotion to family is rarely more evident than in the Ybarra home in Waxahachie. For the past seven years, David […]