by Tracy Gupton | Mar 25, 2025
By Tracy Gupton I have really enjoyed thumbing through the yellowed pages of the scrapbook put together by Mogene Clayton 100 years ago. My fellow Columbia Heritage Foundation board member Karen Rowold Mostyn was kind enough to loan me her grandmother’s book of...
by Tracy Gupton | Mar 6, 2025
By Tracy Gupton Funeral services for former Columbia Roughnecks Athletics Director and Head Football Coach Ed Derrich will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 7, 2025, at St. John the Apostle Catholic Church, 807 Loggins Drive, in West Columbia. Ed, who is a former...
by Tracy Gupton | Feb 26, 2025
Membership is open to anyone who attended school in West Columbia, from the 1920s to the present day. All existing members of the Columbia Heritage Foundation are encouraged to put making a payment on your annual dues to CHF on your to do list. The Board of Directors...
by Tracy Gupton | Feb 18, 2025
By Tracy Gupton Robert Dixon would have celebrated his 78th birthday last month. The former longtime West Columbia city councilman passed away at the age of 62 September 29, 2009, at Cornerstone Hospital in Houston surrounded by his loving family. But what a unique...
by Tracy Gupton | Feb 9, 2025
By Tracy Gupton With the entire nation preparing today to watch Super Bowl 59 on TV, I find myself not really caring who wins. I’m pulling for the Philadelphia Eagles because their quarterback, Jalen Hurts, played high school football in Channelview, which isn’t too...
