The first veteran to make a donation toward the establishment of a Motley County Veterans Memorial, to be located on the Courthouse Square in Matador, is Hal Dean Hines of Fort Collins, Colorado.
Lt. Hines served in the U.S. Navy as a pilot during the Vietnam War. He was born in Motley County on Nov. 27, 1941, and lived in Matador, where he attended school in first and second grades. Hines later at…