Bellville Times

Otis Fredrick Graf was born in Piney Community, March 5, 1917. Otis died Feb
23, 2006 in Austin.
Otisıs elementary school years were spent at Piney School, a one room school
house. Otis was a social justice role model beginning in his boyhood, when,
at an early age, he refused to join other boys to pick up rocks tossing them
into the windows of the African-American school. As a youngster, Otis
thought Negro children deserved the same right to an education as he and his
white pals.
On his first day at Bellville High, Miss Louise Louwien, seeking to
determine the abilities of students from one r