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I Remember Papa by Willa Burr Humphreys Hansen (Granddaughter who lived with Papa and Mama many years) Papa was a very quiet man of few words, always there in the background but very low key. He has an interesting past: he came to Bennett Printing Company in Paris, Texas from Georgia as a strikebreaker. He was foreman of the binding there from the late 1920s until about 1944. Bennetts moved to Dallas and half the town of Paris moved with them. Everybody in the family worked for Papa in the bindery; even I did some part-time work there. Uncle Dubs (Albert Elam Chewning, son of Mama and Papa) Fred and Freddie Beacham (daughter and son-in-law), Edna and Henry Richardson (daughter and son-in-law) all worked at one time for Papa. In the days before television, we all sat around the radio and listened to all our favorite shows. One of Papa's favorites was "Amos and Andy." He got the biggest kick out of it. We all did. It was hilarious. He also loved the horse races. In the 1930s we had Arlington Downs and also a track at Fair Park. He and Mama, Edna and Henry, Fred and Freddie, and even me, went to the races all the time. I remember when I was in the fifth grade I had a bad time with arithmetic; it was hard for me. I cried over it. Papa very patiently explained long division. Finally the light dawned and I got it! He was always ready to help when I needed him. I remember Papa having his friends from Bennetts – the salesmen and other top men in the office – over a few times a year for poker. He really enjoyed those get-togethers. He was a genial host. In the evenings, after he got home from work, he always sat on the front porch, feet propped up on the bannister, smoking his cigar, wearing his hat. He was a fine figure of a man with a full head of hair, and very little gray in it even in his 70s. He had a wry and dry sense of humor, with a touch of sarcasm thrown in. Also a sweet, lop-sided smile. Papa had a bad gall bladder and refused to have an operation; also he had arthritis. He worked until he was 71, I think, riding the street car back and forth to work. One day he came home and went to bed and never got up again. Mama nursed him, and he died a year later, in 1945, at age 72. It was a very sad time for all of us.

Printing Business Veteran Succumbs Albert S. Chewning, 72, who had been in the printing business since he was 17 years old, died at a local hospital Saturday after a lingering illness. Chewning, whose home was at 7060 Day, was born in Chambers County, Ala., and became a printer at Atlanta, Ga. He came to Texas in 1921 and became associated with the Bennett Printing Company at Paris, Lamar County. In 1923 he moved to Dallas and was in charge of the com- pany's bindery department. Survivors include his wife, Jessie B. Chewning; a son, Major A. E. Chewning, Dallas; three daughters, Mrs. J. D. Rogers, Rowlett; Mrs. F. H. Beacham and Mrs. W. H. Richardson, Dallas; two brothers, W. H. Chewning, Corsicana, and Rob Chewning, Dallas; two sisters, Mrs. Freeman Peavey, Haskell, and Mrs. W. L. Donald, Selman City, Rusk County, and nine grandchildren. –obituary, Dallas Morning News, Nov. 18, 1945