GOBER COMMUNITY CLUB
Beginning sometime in the mid-1960s, an early version of the Gober Community Club, then called Gober Improvement Club, was formed as part of the Texas A&M University Extension Service community improvement initiative. The group originally met in the Gober school. Monthly meetings were held starting in the 1960s, usually involving a "covered dish" menu and programs such as cooking demonstrations, farm tours, film viewings, and music programs.
Early plans for the group included sponsoring farm tours, promoting soil sample testing, sponsoring school improvements, and encouraging new families to move to the community. An ice cream supper and watermelon supper were July and August meeting staples. Records show that the annual BBQ began as early as 1968, grossing $638.82 that year.
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The Gober school burned in September 1973. Soon after, the school's ag building was remodeled and converted to what is now the Community Center.
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Today the Gober Community Club meets on the second Monday of each month to share a potluck style meal of different monthly themed foods. Annual programs include the Gober BBQ, ice cream social, and fall festival. Funds raised from annual events help maintain the Gober Community Center. We hope to see you and your family at one of these events!
Gober Community Center pictured above
Photographer unknown
“I do not know whether there are any boundaries to Gober or not, but acre-wise or by the square mile it must be a pretty big place, and you must not judge the small cluster of churches, the post office, a garage, and the now closed Woodson grocery. Gober is more than that. Gober is an area, a farming area. Not only that, but it is a closely knit area of what I have heard, since boyhood, was some of the best farm land in this whole country. Black land, it is, and it hasn’t been washed to the clay like some areas not too far away which no longer grow the feed and fiber that make its people prosperous. Many of these people saw fit to move away to make their livelihood in industry and the 40-hours week. Gober people have it both ways: they grow good crops, cattle, and work in industry, too.”
The Wolfe City Mirror, Thursday, April 5, 1979
Written by Everett Woodson