----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara B. Rollins" <rollinsb@co.taylor.tx.us> To: <BREEDLOVE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 3:27 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} Clint Breedlove and the Breedlove Dehydration Plant > Our Rotary club's program today was about Breedlove Dehydrated Foods in > Lubbock, Texas. I had heard of it before but knew little about it. They have > a web page at http://www.breedlove.org. More information can actually be > found at http://www.lubbocklegends.org/breedlve.htm. The plant was listed in > the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest charity food > bank. > > I talked to the representative of the food bank, and he said the > organization was named for the family that owned Breedlove Air Field outside > of Lubbock who donated the land. The plant was eventually built elsewhere > but they use the Breedlove land for an apple orchard now. > > A member of the club said when he was in Lubbock shortly after the war, > students at Texas Tech would go there for flight lessons since the GI bill > would pay for them. > > Both men believed the name of the man was Clint Breedlove. His widow and her > new husband donated the land. > > Does anybody know where Clint Breedlove fits in and if that is the right > name? I've searched the archives of this list and my own Breedlove file and > found no clues. Thanks. > > Barbara Breedlove Rollins > barbara@sharpwriters.com >
"Barbara B. Rollins (by way of Tom Jones)" wrote: > Our Rotary club's program today was about Breedlove Dehydrated Foods in > Lubbock, Texas. I had heard of it before but knew little about it. They > have a web page at http://www.breedlove.org. More information can actually be > found at http://www.lubbocklegends.org/breedlve.htm. The plant was listed > in the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest charity > food bank. > I talked to the representative of the food bank, and he said the > organization was named for the family that owned Breedlove Air Field > outside of Lubbock who donated the land. The plant was eventually built elsewhere > but they use the Breedlove land for an apple orchard now. > A member of the club said when he was in Lubbock shortly after the war, > students at Texas Tech would go there for flight lessons since the GI bill > would pay for them. > Both men believed the name of the man was Clint Breedlove. His widow and > her new husband donated the land. > Does anybody know where Clint Breedlove fits in and if that is the right > name? I've searched the archives of this list and my own Breedlove file > and found no clues. Thanks. William Clent Breedlove was son of Eugene Malcolm Breedlove, grandson of John P. Breedlove, g-grandson of Richardson Breedlove, gg-grandson of Martin & Elizabeth Carr Breedlove. Lubbock Airport's first manager was Clent Breedlove, an aviation pioneer, who had been an army aviator and test pilot. Hope this helps. Tom King Shop online without a credit card http://www.rocketcash.com RocketCash, a NetZero subsidiary