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The Hillman Husky Story

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The Hillman Husky Story           We were living in San Angelo, Texas in 1970 when I received a call from a little church in Lockney, Texas up in the Panhandle asking if I would come to Lockney and conduct a singing school at their church.   I was to teach church music mornings and evenings and then preach twice on Sundays.   Of course, I was eager to do that because I had conducted several singing schools in the past but I had been away from teaching singing for several years while we were living in the Northwest.   My singing school experience goes all the way back to when Mary and I were kids at home.           My Dad loved gospel music and he made sure that Mary and I went to every singing convention and singing school that was anywhere nearby.   The first singing school that I remember was in about 1936 and was held at the old Mitchell Creek Baptist Church (The...