Mrs. Laura Bush (then the first lady of Texas) poses with Steve Brown after the North Richland Hills Public Library was awarded the 1997 Texas Book Festival Award.
The Lacy and Lois Stewart home, pictured here in 1989, was built in the Smithfield area in 1958. The four-acre plot was also the site for the Smithfield reunion for many years.
Nathan Lacy Stewart was born in Olney, Texas, on June 22, 1925. He went to school in Jal, N.M. through the third grade. After his father died, the family moved to Smithfield, Texas, where he began the fourth grade.