April 28, 2017 Coats Museum News
The date on the Daily Record showed that it was March 8, 1962. The news inside printed that Lillington High School took the title for the Harnett County Champs in basketball by a score of 78-44 over Coats. Was this for the boys or girls team?
I do know for sure that several residents from Coats had had their names drawn for the April Civil term of the Superior Court. Those names posted were Joe Lee Weaver, Fleming Brewington, Earl L. Stewart, Julius Roland Adams and Corbett Coats (Daily Record Mar. 9, 1962).
When the paper prints the names of local students who have made the Principal’s List or Dean’s List at the various county schools or colleges throughout the state, do you peruse the lists to see if any students that you know might have earned a place on those lists? Do you read when special notification of other recognitions is printed? If you had done that in 1962, you would have discovered that Norma Lee Johnson of Coats was selected by a faculty-student committee at East Carolina College as the most outstanding student teacher of the 1961-62 term. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Johnson. Considering the outstanding record she had accomplished at Coats High, did that recognition surprise you?
Births of babies, hospital patients, and military activity made the Mar. 12, edition of the Daily Record. Good Hope Hospital was the place of birth for the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Ray Byrd. The Mar. 9th birth noted that the mother was the former Dorothy Holland. Mr. and Mrs. Carl S. Capri had welcomed a son on Mar. 10th. This mom was the former Gail Johnson. Several Coats folks were hospitalized in Good Hope also. Mrs. Helen Dixon and Mrs. Evelyn Beasley were named from Coats. Bruce D. Lucas, Seaman Apprentice, USN, was serving aboard the tank loading ship USS Suffolk for two months operational training in the Caribbean area. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Lucas (Daily Record Mar. 12, 1962).
Beatrice Smith of Dunn and Jimmy Ferguson of Coats were married on March 10th in Dillon, S.C. They made their home in Coats. Elsewhere, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Anthony Gregory had welcomed a daughter on Mar. 13th. The mother was the former Sue Jones. Another familiar name to become parents was Mr. and Mrs. Roland Byrd on March 16th. The mother was the former Lena Ann Johnson (Daily Record Mar. 16, 1962).
Does anyone recognize those names? Was Wayne the brother of Kenneth and Linda Gregory (Weeks) who started her own trucking business and actually drove many of those monstrous t trucks? What about Roland? Do his parishioners call him Dr. Roland Byrd? I do know that he visited the museum several years ago and shared that he went to what is now the Coats Museum, but formerly was a two room school and later a rental property. I think he said he went there to pray for the renters or possibly share scripture with the family. There are lots of success stories about Coats students (Daily Record Mar. 16, 1962).
A name that has been familiar to generations of Coats folks and beyond is that of M.O. Phillips. He was instrumental in the building of the Agricultural Building on the old Coats campus, the Coats cannery, the Coats Community Building and the conversion of the old school into the museum. In 1962, he shared with the Dunn Kiwanis Club that 93 percent of the people in the U.S. are dependent in one way or the other on the soil for their livelihood (Daily Record Mar. 20, 1962).What would be the percentage in 2017?
It was party time for the Eddie Parrish couple. To celebrate their 50th Wedding Anniversary, Mrs. Mabel Langdon, Charles Parrish, Glenwood Parrish, Edsel Parrish, G. L. Parrish and the couple’s children honored them with a reception. Mrs. Parrish was the former Eula Honeycutt of Benson.
Miss Jo Carol Penny, Mr. and Mrs. Nassie Dorman and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dupree had spent the weekend in Augusta, Georgia visiting Donnie Dorman who was stationed at Camp Gordon (Daily Record Mar. 27, 1962).
The volunteers have a special place in their hearts for Mr. Louis Dupree. Many years ago, he put his collection of model cars on display in the museum when we had a car show on the Heritage Square. Later he made a call telling us that he had something he wanted to give to the museum but we would have to take some strong men to his house to load his gift. It was a wood stove that had never been used and along with it, he gifted some cast iron cooking containers. That wood stove always catches the eye of visitors who recall their memories of the one they had or one grandma used all her life to cook the best biscuits on earth especially when a hole was poked into one and filled with molasses or a cold piece of link sausage was added to a biscuit after a long day in the classroom.
Do you recall reading about Nora Etta Avery? Nora was crowned “Miss Erwin”. Nora had graduated from Coats High in 1961 and was a freshman at Campbell. Do any of her classmates recall what talent Nora had at the pageant and what she wore during that talent presentation? Another question-how many Coats girls have competed in NC state pageants?
I do know that a wedding was in the making for Miss Nancy Louise Dupree and Dwight Edwin Tripp. He was son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Tripp of rural Dunn and she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Dupree (Daily Record Mar.27, 1962).
U.S. Senator Sam J. Ervin was to speak at Coats Father- Son Banquet. Elsewhere, Barbara Langdon was surely preparing for her entry into the “Miss Dunn” beauty pageant. She was first of ten contestants to enter. She was named twice the Student of the Month and was a 1961 Coats High graduate and was also a Campbell College freshman (Daily Record Mar. 29, 1962).
Mr. Steven Parrish had reason to celebrate. It was his 69th birthday. Grandmother Stewart (M.C.) also was celebrating the visit of her granddaughter, Sherry Lou Moore of Cary. She was Ann Stewart Moore’s daughter. Wonder if Sherry Lou attended the birthday party of Dave house who was feted on his 12th birthday by Mrs. Dave House (Daily Record Apr. 3, 1962).
Nathan B. Hughes, 74, of Coats, had died on Wednesday. Mrs. Allen Byrd, Mrs. Marvin Byrd, Mrs. Preston Thornton, and stepdaughter, Mrs. Hester Williams of Coats, survived him. The edition of the paper reported that the jurors for the Superior Court May term were pulled. The lucky jurors were James Roberson, W.J. Stancil, J. Herman Stewart, David Whittington, Edward McLeod, William Addison and Robert Paul Gauldin. Were farmers transplanting tobacco in May?
Read the following to see if you recall these names. The Coats PTA had met with Mrs. McRay Stewart presiding. The slate of officers for 1962-63 was presented and they were Mrs. Julia Stewart, president; Mrs. Rupert Parrish, vice-president; Mrs. Virginia Penny, secretary; and Mrs. Mary Cole, treasurer.
Mrs. Lattie Marshburn of Garner and Mrs. Naomi Hudson were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Stewart whose granddaughter Judy Stewart, a student of Woman’s College, joined the guests (Daily Record Apr. 6, 1962).
The museum is always buzzing with activity on Thursdays of each week. That is the day the volunteers give tours to individuals and groups, collect or return display items, research, file current newspaper items about the Coats area, scan old pictures and enjoy the conversations of locals who just drop in to talk history. Seven from the Coats Senior Center took a tour and what a delight it was to watch them share their memories.
The museum is so blessed to have friends of the museum who believe in the future of it. Ralph Denning, one of our board members who drives down from Raleigh often to visit his sisters-Peggie Pope and Carolyn Barnes, has remembered his deceased classmates in the Coats High School Class of 1963 with a donation to Coats Museum Endowment. Thank you, Ralph.
Robie Butler is an “Unsung Hero” to many organizations. He volunteers for VITA, Kiwanis and is treasurer of the Coats Museum and Kiwanis Club of Coats. Jennifer Flowers is a lady who also puts in many tireless volunteer hours to the community so she can appreciate what Robie does. Jennifer has given an honorarium to the Coats Museum to honor Robie’s giving of his time for the betterment of society.
The date on the Daily Record showed that it was March 8, 1962. The news inside printed that Lillington High School took the title for the Harnett County Champs in basketball by a score of 78-44 over Coats. Was this for the boys or girls team?
I do know for sure that several residents from Coats had had their names drawn for the April Civil term of the Superior Court. Those names posted were Joe Lee Weaver, Fleming Brewington, Earl L. Stewart, Julius Roland Adams and Corbett Coats (Daily Record Mar. 9, 1962).
When the paper prints the names of local students who have made the Principal’s List or Dean’s List at the various county schools or colleges throughout the state, do you peruse the lists to see if any students that you know might have earned a place on those lists? Do you read when special notification of other recognitions is printed? If you had done that in 1962, you would have discovered that Norma Lee Johnson of Coats was selected by a faculty-student committee at East Carolina College as the most outstanding student teacher of the 1961-62 term. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Johnson. Considering the outstanding record she had accomplished at Coats High, did that recognition surprise you?
Births of babies, hospital patients, and military activity made the Mar. 12, edition of the Daily Record. Good Hope Hospital was the place of birth for the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Ray Byrd. The Mar. 9th birth noted that the mother was the former Dorothy Holland. Mr. and Mrs. Carl S. Capri had welcomed a son on Mar. 10th. This mom was the former Gail Johnson. Several Coats folks were hospitalized in Good Hope also. Mrs. Helen Dixon and Mrs. Evelyn Beasley were named from Coats. Bruce D. Lucas, Seaman Apprentice, USN, was serving aboard the tank loading ship USS Suffolk for two months operational training in the Caribbean area. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Lucas (Daily Record Mar. 12, 1962).
Beatrice Smith of Dunn and Jimmy Ferguson of Coats were married on March 10th in Dillon, S.C. They made their home in Coats. Elsewhere, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Anthony Gregory had welcomed a daughter on Mar. 13th. The mother was the former Sue Jones. Another familiar name to become parents was Mr. and Mrs. Roland Byrd on March 16th. The mother was the former Lena Ann Johnson (Daily Record Mar. 16, 1962).
Does anyone recognize those names? Was Wayne the brother of Kenneth and Linda Gregory (Weeks) who started her own trucking business and actually drove many of those monstrous t trucks? What about Roland? Do his parishioners call him Dr. Roland Byrd? I do know that he visited the museum several years ago and shared that he went to what is now the Coats Museum, but formerly was a two room school and later a rental property. I think he said he went there to pray for the renters or possibly share scripture with the family. There are lots of success stories about Coats students (Daily Record Mar. 16, 1962).
A name that has been familiar to generations of Coats folks and beyond is that of M.O. Phillips. He was instrumental in the building of the Agricultural Building on the old Coats campus, the Coats cannery, the Coats Community Building and the conversion of the old school into the museum. In 1962, he shared with the Dunn Kiwanis Club that 93 percent of the people in the U.S. are dependent in one way or the other on the soil for their livelihood (Daily Record Mar. 20, 1962).What would be the percentage in 2017?
It was party time for the Eddie Parrish couple. To celebrate their 50th Wedding Anniversary, Mrs. Mabel Langdon, Charles Parrish, Glenwood Parrish, Edsel Parrish, G. L. Parrish and the couple’s children honored them with a reception. Mrs. Parrish was the former Eula Honeycutt of Benson.
Miss Jo Carol Penny, Mr. and Mrs. Nassie Dorman and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dupree had spent the weekend in Augusta, Georgia visiting Donnie Dorman who was stationed at Camp Gordon (Daily Record Mar. 27, 1962).
The volunteers have a special place in their hearts for Mr. Louis Dupree. Many years ago, he put his collection of model cars on display in the museum when we had a car show on the Heritage Square. Later he made a call telling us that he had something he wanted to give to the museum but we would have to take some strong men to his house to load his gift. It was a wood stove that had never been used and along with it, he gifted some cast iron cooking containers. That wood stove always catches the eye of visitors who recall their memories of the one they had or one grandma used all her life to cook the best biscuits on earth especially when a hole was poked into one and filled with molasses or a cold piece of link sausage was added to a biscuit after a long day in the classroom.
Do you recall reading about Nora Etta Avery? Nora was crowned “Miss Erwin”. Nora had graduated from Coats High in 1961 and was a freshman at Campbell. Do any of her classmates recall what talent Nora had at the pageant and what she wore during that talent presentation? Another question-how many Coats girls have competed in NC state pageants?
I do know that a wedding was in the making for Miss Nancy Louise Dupree and Dwight Edwin Tripp. He was son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Tripp of rural Dunn and she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Dupree (Daily Record Mar.27, 1962).
U.S. Senator Sam J. Ervin was to speak at Coats Father- Son Banquet. Elsewhere, Barbara Langdon was surely preparing for her entry into the “Miss Dunn” beauty pageant. She was first of ten contestants to enter. She was named twice the Student of the Month and was a 1961 Coats High graduate and was also a Campbell College freshman (Daily Record Mar. 29, 1962).
Mr. Steven Parrish had reason to celebrate. It was his 69th birthday. Grandmother Stewart (M.C.) also was celebrating the visit of her granddaughter, Sherry Lou Moore of Cary. She was Ann Stewart Moore’s daughter. Wonder if Sherry Lou attended the birthday party of Dave house who was feted on his 12th birthday by Mrs. Dave House (Daily Record Apr. 3, 1962).
Nathan B. Hughes, 74, of Coats, had died on Wednesday. Mrs. Allen Byrd, Mrs. Marvin Byrd, Mrs. Preston Thornton, and stepdaughter, Mrs. Hester Williams of Coats, survived him. The edition of the paper reported that the jurors for the Superior Court May term were pulled. The lucky jurors were James Roberson, W.J. Stancil, J. Herman Stewart, David Whittington, Edward McLeod, William Addison and Robert Paul Gauldin. Were farmers transplanting tobacco in May?
Read the following to see if you recall these names. The Coats PTA had met with Mrs. McRay Stewart presiding. The slate of officers for 1962-63 was presented and they were Mrs. Julia Stewart, president; Mrs. Rupert Parrish, vice-president; Mrs. Virginia Penny, secretary; and Mrs. Mary Cole, treasurer.
Mrs. Lattie Marshburn of Garner and Mrs. Naomi Hudson were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Stewart whose granddaughter Judy Stewart, a student of Woman’s College, joined the guests (Daily Record Apr. 6, 1962).
The museum is always buzzing with activity on Thursdays of each week. That is the day the volunteers give tours to individuals and groups, collect or return display items, research, file current newspaper items about the Coats area, scan old pictures and enjoy the conversations of locals who just drop in to talk history. Seven from the Coats Senior Center took a tour and what a delight it was to watch them share their memories.
The museum is so blessed to have friends of the museum who believe in the future of it. Ralph Denning, one of our board members who drives down from Raleigh often to visit his sisters-Peggie Pope and Carolyn Barnes, has remembered his deceased classmates in the Coats High School Class of 1963 with a donation to Coats Museum Endowment. Thank you, Ralph.
Robie Butler is an “Unsung Hero” to many organizations. He volunteers for VITA, Kiwanis and is treasurer of the Coats Museum and Kiwanis Club of Coats. Jennifer Flowers is a lady who also puts in many tireless volunteer hours to the community so she can appreciate what Robie does. Jennifer has given an honorarium to the Coats Museum to honor Robie’s giving of his time for the betterment of society.