Tomball Centennial #11, The Hospital & The Mayor Traditional Cache
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Tomball Centennial #11, The Hospital & The Mayor
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TOMBALL CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION CONTINUES...A Season of Firsts
The original site of land given to Tomball residents for it's first hospital facility.
TOMBALL GIVES LIFE & PROSPERITY TO RESIDENTS
"Allen Hidalgo (A.H.) Keefer is remembered mainly as a banker with a charitable nature. When the Guaranty Bond State Bank opened in 1921, Keefer was its first president. Years later, A.H. set up a checking account at the bank in order to help local families who needed financial assistance. Goodfellows of Tomball was the name on the account, and anyone could contribute funds.Keefer recognized the importance of having a town newspaper. He made a personal loan to publishers of a weekly Tomball paper so they could buy a larger printing press. Keefer knew Guaranty Bank would not have authorized a loan since the bank had difficulties with other newspapers in the past.
A.H. covered the cost of the printing press because the paper’s future depended on it.
In 1948, Mr. Keefer and three other men were Tomball Hospital Land Committee members. Their job was to find a suitable location within city limits for a
hospital; no site existed. After the four men discovered three adjacent acres just beyond Tomball’s northeast boundary, they bought the property
with their own money, and then gave it to the city.
A.H. Keefer was the first mayor of Tomball (1933-1934), he was the first president of the Rotary Club (1945), he was on the first board of directors for the Tomball Country Club (1950), and he was a stockholder in the town’s first telephone company. Keefer Road bears the name of the banker whose involvement in the community benefited so many people."
Profile written by Phyllis Wolford.
Any accompanying illustrations and associated copy are the property of the Tomball Centennial
Commission, Ken Walden, and Phyllis Wolford.
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