Memorial Day 2010 - We Miss You

Today is our day set aside to thank all the men and women and their families who have suffered and died in the fire of combat so that we may enjoy our freedom. We should not forget and God Bless America.

Today we also remember our family and friends that have passed away by going to the cemeteries and placing new flowers on the graves. The cemeteries always look so colorful for the next few weeks.

Mom and I made it to Martha, Blair and Corinth last wk but Don and I haven't made it to Amber. But we remember!

Some pictures of Dad in the military.

Dad in the Air Force in Wichita Falls, TX 1942

Dad with his Mom and Dad

Dad, Mom and Uncle Orvis McGuffin

Dad's brother Cortis Martin in Navy

Dad's brother, Gilbert Martin in Navy, 1919

Clyde & Cortis in Navy.  Dad's brothers

Audrey and Pauline's tombstone in Amber Cemetery

Walter Noakes, Don's brother in the Amber Cemetery

Alumni Weekend - More pictures

Information compiled by Jimmy Kay on the "Class of 1970" in 2010.

Those that came:  Lanny Bilbrey, Celia (Blake) Nippert, Marcelia (Chadwick) Rodger, Jimmie Kay (Coffman) Crouch,  James Craig, Gary Davidson, Jennifer (Duffy) Gilliland, Sherry (Fails) Avery, Donna (Griffin) Stewart, Joe Griffis, Warren Griffis, Brenda (Hart) Ellis, Jim Keating, Marsha (McElroy) Griswold, Vicky (Martin) Noakes, Janis (Maxfield) Parton, Don A. Miller, Gary Nippert, Sharon (Patton) Callen, Dale Rogers, Ann Sappington, Debra (Skaggs) Hawkins, Sue Ann (Smith) Rubio,  Donna (Smoot) Yoes, Kay (Stock) Davis, Ray Stover, Nancy (Tinsley) Lankford, and Janie (Veach) Landers. (28)

Those who could not attend but still sent their best wishes and/or information:  Delwin Allen, Pam (Bell) Young, James Blondell, Maxcel Jackie Cayton, Rusty Fisher, Lella Ann (Fowler) Womack, Tommy Goodman, Belinda (Hartwell) Barton, Tracie (Holt) Mayabb, Lacreta (Johnson) Moore, Linda (Lenaburg) Graumann,  Phil Lowery, Marsha (Miller) McDuff, Tommy Morrison, Gary Osborn, Carla (Parks) Link, Tonya Patrick, Allen Reagan, Steve Rosenbaum, Shelley (Ross) Johnson, Holly (Scott) Johnson, Mike Skalicky, Sheila (Stowe) Kerbo, Jerry Struck, and Leeann Wade. (25)

There were 61 in our graduating class and 6 have passed away, (Susan (Brignon) Bond, Robert Ross, Jr., Tim Stover, Larry Thompson, James Woodruff, and Jerry Don Pence) which leaves us 55. 

Out of the 55 remaining classmates, we couldn’t find 2, (Caroyln Jo Blanscet and Gary Taylor), 28 showed up and 25 could not attend.

Brenda Hart, Ann Sappington, Jimmy K Coffman, Celia Blake, Warren Griffis, Gary Davidson, Donna Griffin, Don A. Miller

Donna Smoot, Sue Ann Smith, Ann Sappington, Marsha McElroy

Lanny Bilbrey, Jimmy Callen, Sherry Fails

Kay Stock & Nancy Tinsley

Celia Blake & Warren Griffis

Lanny Bilbrey, Vicky Noakes, Jimmy Kay Coffman, Ann Sappington

Marcelia Chadwick, Sherry Fails, Marsha McElroy, Vicky Martin, Jennifer Duffy

Marcelia Chadwick, Sherry Fails, Marsha McElroy, Jennifer Duffy

Ray Stover

Sue Ann Smith, Barbie Stover, Sherry Fails

Brenda Hart, Gary Davidson, Sue Ann Smith, Vicky Martin

Mother and Daughter (Celia Nippert & Barbara Blake)

Janis Maxfield, Sharon Patton, Celia Blake & Barbara Blake

Jimmy Kay Coffman

Jimmy Keating, wife & Don A. Miller

Joe Griffis, Jimmy Callen & Celia Nippert

Jimmy Kay Coffman, Marsha McElroy & Janis Maxfield

Nancy Tinsley, Donna Smoot, Jennifer Duffy, Kay Stock

James Craig & Donna Griffin

Lanny Bilbrey & Gary Davidson

Class Photo (mine turned out blury) If anyone has a good digital I would like to have it.

Sherry Fails, Donna Smoot, Jennifer Duffy, Marcelia Chadwick

Vicky Martin, Marsha McElroy, Sharon Patton & Janis Maxfield. 1970 photo recreated 2010

Debbie Skaggs, Joe Griffis, Warren Griffis, Sherry Fails, Jimmy Kay Coffman, Ann Sappington

Gary Davidson, Sharon Patton, Marcelia Chadwick, Sue Ann Smith

Joe Griffis, Debbie Skaggs, Ann Sappington, Celia Blake 

Marsha McElroy & Sharon Patton

Joe Griffis, Janis Maxfield, Vicky Martin

Joe Griffis, Debbie Skaggs, Marsha McElroy, Janis Maxfield, Vicky Martin

Joe Griffis, Debbie Skaggs, Marsha McElroy, Janis Maxfield,Sharon Patton, Ann Sappington, Celia Blake

We had three cars for our 1970 class,Celia's convertible,  Gary Davidson's pickup (eight of us rode in the back), & Jimmy Kay's truck.

Riding and waving to the public in downtown, Mangum

We won 3rd place in the parade!!!

Eating hamburgers under the porch of the library.

Marsha's sister took this one as we were leaving after the music downtown.

Self portrait of Ann Sappington, Vicky Martin, Celia Blake, Sharon Patton, & Marsha McElroy