April 8, 2022 Coats Museum News
The calendar displayed that it was October of 1989 and Belle’s Notes from Coats shared that Ed and Grace Penny of Route One, Coats had celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary. She also wrote that Pat Cooke Godwin was adding to the growth of downtown Coats. Pat was planning to open a beauty shop in the site of the Fleetwood Adams Barber Shop on Main Street. Other news in the notes was Ruth Barefoot had won the caramel nut cake baked by Mary Langdon for the Senior Center’s Harvest Ball (Daily Record Oct. 13, 1989).
Happy and sad news appeared in the October 17th edition of the Daily Record. Alicia Collier was showing off the harvest she had for sale from her garden off N.C. Highway 55 Elsewhere, Wanda Sue Lee, 27, of Benson, had died. She was survived by her mother, Ann Hayes and her stepfather, Billy Hayes; her father, J. LaVerne Lee and stepmother, Cora Lee; ten siblings; maternal grandmother, Annie Phillips; and paternal grandmother, Pearl Hair.
Wade Isaacs of the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation presented the Coats Rescue Squad with a Resusci-Annie Unit for them to use in their 4 CPR trainings. Captain Ricky Ennis, Sandy Ross, Sherwood Williams, and Melody Bulla were some of the rescue Squad members on hand to accept the gift (Daily Record Oct. 20, 1989).
Retired Army Staff Sgt. Sherrill T. Denton, 58, of Coats, had died. Jewel Grimes Denton survived her husband. His sons were Larry Denton, Christopher Denton, and Michael Denton and his daughters named were Pamela and Judy Denton. His brothers were Don, James, William, and Ralph Denton.
Did Sherrill and Jewel have any twins born into their family? Jewel and Judy Grimes were my childhood neighbors for several years. They were the first twins that I had ever known as friends. They however were not identical in looks because Jewel had blonde hair while Judy had brown. This was also the first time that I ever had a friend who had been very ill to the point that it was necessary to amputate her leg. I wrote about her illness many columns back and shared how the people in Coats and surrounding areas gave money to Jewel‘s parents and made it possible to fulfill her twin Judy’s wish to Santa Claus for an artificial leg for Jewel so they could play together.
To answer my own question-yes, he did have twin granddaughters-Tonya and Tiffany Denton who were both beautiful and talented students.
It was time for the CACC to announce the Business Focus of the Week. They had selected one that was owned and operated by Brenda and Keith Gregory. The Coats Family Video had several employees –Karen Dollar, Shelia Gregory, Stephanie Faircloth, Trisha McCauley, Tessa Danenburg and Terri Avery (Daily Record Oct. 24, 1989).
Who remembers Jerome Ray? Jerome was quite a football player. In fact the paper printed that he took care of the scoring in the Coats youth football team’s homecoming game against Angier. The 14-8 win extended Coats’ lead in the Harnett County Recreational Municipal League with a 4-1 record.
Belle Williams also wrote some bad news for the town. The Coats Terre Hill Manufacturing Company was closing after many years in the Coats Community. On a happier note she shared with her readers that Rhonda Carol Pope, daughter of Sammy Pope and JoAnn Pope had married Michael John Kuzma in Newark, NJ. The local folks attending the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. Gail Pope, Mr. and Mrs. Norfleet Gardner, and Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hayes and their daughters of Dunn. The local ladies in the wedding party were Foy Pope Summers, Denise Williams Weaver, and Heather Hayes.
Belle had added Grace Dixon, Lucy Weaver, Shirley Fuquay, Edna Ennis, Shirley Stephenson, and Lester Williams to the get-well list (Daily Record Oct. 31, 1989).
In doing research at the Daily Record for There and Back on a Paper Canoe, the November and December editions of the paper were not available to research; hence, the news about Coats is missing for November and December of 1989.
The year was 1990-the year in which Iraq invaded Kuwait and recession lightened its grip. Manuel Noriega surrendered to US officials. Marion Barry, mayor of the District of Columbia, was arrested on drug charges. President Bush sent $1.23 trillion budget to the Congress. Nelson Mandela emerged from a quarter of a century of imprisonment. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came out of their shells in a new movie.
President George Bush declared he would eat no more broccoli. New Kids on the Block, Millie Vanilli, Vanilla Ice, and M.C. Hammer proved that after all those years; rock n roll could still create headlines. Real estate values declined. As hundreds of thousands of American troops headed for the Persian Gulf, there was a new fascination for thing military. Patriotism made a comeback. Box offices hits were Pretty Woman and Ghost.
Numbers in 1990 announced that there were 249, 632, 692 people in America- up 10.2 percent over 1980. VCR’s were found in 70 percent of the US homes and cable television was in 60 percent of the American homes. There were 703 homicides in the Washington, DC area. Gas sold for $1.282 a gallon.
The Savings and Loans bailout cost the US Treasury $180 billion. Spending on health care topped $650 billion, yet 30 million Americans lacked medical insurance. Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2nd and the US deployed combat aircraft to the Middle East to defend Saudi Arabia from Iraq. Bush warned that the US was on “the brink of war”.
Popular words in and phrases in 1990 included The Donald, yuppie flu, NC-17, Don’t have a cow, man!, Desert Shield and Recession. The Infiniti and Saturn were two new cars (Dickson, Paul. From Elvis to E-Mail, Massachusetts: Merridian-Webster: 1999, pp.311-317).
However, much was happening of interest in the Coats community. Mrs. Hermie Turlington’s brother had died. James R. Denning had died in Wade (Daily Record Jan. 1, 1990). David Bain, also of Coats, had a brother, Donnie W. Bain to die on Sunday. Geraldine Williams Stevens, 65, had died on Saturday. Jimmy Stevens of Coats was her son. She was wife of Earl Stevens. Happy news was shared about Clarence and Sue McGill of Coats. Their daughter, Terri McGill Grimes was to marry John Robert Reaves. Terri was a 1978 Coats high graduate (Daily Record Jan. 2, 1990).
Sandra Cole Ryals, 40, and Melissa Ryals were treated at Good Hope Hospital in Erwin as the result of a collision of their vehicle with a tractor trailer. They were then transferred to NC Memorial hospital as the result of the accident.
Fifty-six years is a long time to be married but I bet it didn’t seem so long to this couple. Carlie and Agatha McLamb had celebrated the 56th anniversary on Dec. 23rd. Elsewhere Carson Gregory and Carolyn Messer were home from the hospital (Daily Record Jan. 4, 1990).
Patsy and Stacy Avery were keepers of the museum last Sunday and welcomed several out of town visitors. Elton Corbett of Durham who serves as the DAV Chapter Service Officer/Adjutant for the Schackner Whitley Chapter#21 and Cinda Montgomery of Raleigh took lots of pictures and asked many questions. The Kent Hudson family came from Cary and Bailey’s Crossroads for a tour. Kent’s young grandchildren –Hudson and Bailey-were quick to give all the correct answers about cotton seeds and rightly so since Kent’s dad Mack Reid Hudson and Granddaddy Bernard Hudson owned the Grove Cotton Gin at Bailey Crossroads.
Sandy Howard visited the museum on Thursday and gave memorials for her friends -Alice Lou Roberts and Jean and Michael Parrish while Ralph and Lorena Denning, Robie and Lynda Butler and H.L. and Gayle Sorrell have memorialized Charles Douglas Ennis. Thank you to all these folks who show their generosity over and over.
Tomorrow will be a great day as the museum board and volunteers welcome the CHS Class of 1973 when some will do shrubbery trimming before the classmates and teachers enjoy a cookout and tour.
The calendar displayed that it was October of 1989 and Belle’s Notes from Coats shared that Ed and Grace Penny of Route One, Coats had celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary. She also wrote that Pat Cooke Godwin was adding to the growth of downtown Coats. Pat was planning to open a beauty shop in the site of the Fleetwood Adams Barber Shop on Main Street. Other news in the notes was Ruth Barefoot had won the caramel nut cake baked by Mary Langdon for the Senior Center’s Harvest Ball (Daily Record Oct. 13, 1989).
Happy and sad news appeared in the October 17th edition of the Daily Record. Alicia Collier was showing off the harvest she had for sale from her garden off N.C. Highway 55 Elsewhere, Wanda Sue Lee, 27, of Benson, had died. She was survived by her mother, Ann Hayes and her stepfather, Billy Hayes; her father, J. LaVerne Lee and stepmother, Cora Lee; ten siblings; maternal grandmother, Annie Phillips; and paternal grandmother, Pearl Hair.
Wade Isaacs of the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation presented the Coats Rescue Squad with a Resusci-Annie Unit for them to use in their 4 CPR trainings. Captain Ricky Ennis, Sandy Ross, Sherwood Williams, and Melody Bulla were some of the rescue Squad members on hand to accept the gift (Daily Record Oct. 20, 1989).
Retired Army Staff Sgt. Sherrill T. Denton, 58, of Coats, had died. Jewel Grimes Denton survived her husband. His sons were Larry Denton, Christopher Denton, and Michael Denton and his daughters named were Pamela and Judy Denton. His brothers were Don, James, William, and Ralph Denton.
Did Sherrill and Jewel have any twins born into their family? Jewel and Judy Grimes were my childhood neighbors for several years. They were the first twins that I had ever known as friends. They however were not identical in looks because Jewel had blonde hair while Judy had brown. This was also the first time that I ever had a friend who had been very ill to the point that it was necessary to amputate her leg. I wrote about her illness many columns back and shared how the people in Coats and surrounding areas gave money to Jewel‘s parents and made it possible to fulfill her twin Judy’s wish to Santa Claus for an artificial leg for Jewel so they could play together.
To answer my own question-yes, he did have twin granddaughters-Tonya and Tiffany Denton who were both beautiful and talented students.
It was time for the CACC to announce the Business Focus of the Week. They had selected one that was owned and operated by Brenda and Keith Gregory. The Coats Family Video had several employees –Karen Dollar, Shelia Gregory, Stephanie Faircloth, Trisha McCauley, Tessa Danenburg and Terri Avery (Daily Record Oct. 24, 1989).
Who remembers Jerome Ray? Jerome was quite a football player. In fact the paper printed that he took care of the scoring in the Coats youth football team’s homecoming game against Angier. The 14-8 win extended Coats’ lead in the Harnett County Recreational Municipal League with a 4-1 record.
Belle Williams also wrote some bad news for the town. The Coats Terre Hill Manufacturing Company was closing after many years in the Coats Community. On a happier note she shared with her readers that Rhonda Carol Pope, daughter of Sammy Pope and JoAnn Pope had married Michael John Kuzma in Newark, NJ. The local folks attending the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. Gail Pope, Mr. and Mrs. Norfleet Gardner, and Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hayes and their daughters of Dunn. The local ladies in the wedding party were Foy Pope Summers, Denise Williams Weaver, and Heather Hayes.
Belle had added Grace Dixon, Lucy Weaver, Shirley Fuquay, Edna Ennis, Shirley Stephenson, and Lester Williams to the get-well list (Daily Record Oct. 31, 1989).
In doing research at the Daily Record for There and Back on a Paper Canoe, the November and December editions of the paper were not available to research; hence, the news about Coats is missing for November and December of 1989.
The year was 1990-the year in which Iraq invaded Kuwait and recession lightened its grip. Manuel Noriega surrendered to US officials. Marion Barry, mayor of the District of Columbia, was arrested on drug charges. President Bush sent $1.23 trillion budget to the Congress. Nelson Mandela emerged from a quarter of a century of imprisonment. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came out of their shells in a new movie.
President George Bush declared he would eat no more broccoli. New Kids on the Block, Millie Vanilli, Vanilla Ice, and M.C. Hammer proved that after all those years; rock n roll could still create headlines. Real estate values declined. As hundreds of thousands of American troops headed for the Persian Gulf, there was a new fascination for thing military. Patriotism made a comeback. Box offices hits were Pretty Woman and Ghost.
Numbers in 1990 announced that there were 249, 632, 692 people in America- up 10.2 percent over 1980. VCR’s were found in 70 percent of the US homes and cable television was in 60 percent of the American homes. There were 703 homicides in the Washington, DC area. Gas sold for $1.282 a gallon.
The Savings and Loans bailout cost the US Treasury $180 billion. Spending on health care topped $650 billion, yet 30 million Americans lacked medical insurance. Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2nd and the US deployed combat aircraft to the Middle East to defend Saudi Arabia from Iraq. Bush warned that the US was on “the brink of war”.
Popular words in and phrases in 1990 included The Donald, yuppie flu, NC-17, Don’t have a cow, man!, Desert Shield and Recession. The Infiniti and Saturn were two new cars (Dickson, Paul. From Elvis to E-Mail, Massachusetts: Merridian-Webster: 1999, pp.311-317).
However, much was happening of interest in the Coats community. Mrs. Hermie Turlington’s brother had died. James R. Denning had died in Wade (Daily Record Jan. 1, 1990). David Bain, also of Coats, had a brother, Donnie W. Bain to die on Sunday. Geraldine Williams Stevens, 65, had died on Saturday. Jimmy Stevens of Coats was her son. She was wife of Earl Stevens. Happy news was shared about Clarence and Sue McGill of Coats. Their daughter, Terri McGill Grimes was to marry John Robert Reaves. Terri was a 1978 Coats high graduate (Daily Record Jan. 2, 1990).
Sandra Cole Ryals, 40, and Melissa Ryals were treated at Good Hope Hospital in Erwin as the result of a collision of their vehicle with a tractor trailer. They were then transferred to NC Memorial hospital as the result of the accident.
Fifty-six years is a long time to be married but I bet it didn’t seem so long to this couple. Carlie and Agatha McLamb had celebrated the 56th anniversary on Dec. 23rd. Elsewhere Carson Gregory and Carolyn Messer were home from the hospital (Daily Record Jan. 4, 1990).
Patsy and Stacy Avery were keepers of the museum last Sunday and welcomed several out of town visitors. Elton Corbett of Durham who serves as the DAV Chapter Service Officer/Adjutant for the Schackner Whitley Chapter#21 and Cinda Montgomery of Raleigh took lots of pictures and asked many questions. The Kent Hudson family came from Cary and Bailey’s Crossroads for a tour. Kent’s young grandchildren –Hudson and Bailey-were quick to give all the correct answers about cotton seeds and rightly so since Kent’s dad Mack Reid Hudson and Granddaddy Bernard Hudson owned the Grove Cotton Gin at Bailey Crossroads.
Sandy Howard visited the museum on Thursday and gave memorials for her friends -Alice Lou Roberts and Jean and Michael Parrish while Ralph and Lorena Denning, Robie and Lynda Butler and H.L. and Gayle Sorrell have memorialized Charles Douglas Ennis. Thank you to all these folks who show their generosity over and over.
Tomorrow will be a great day as the museum board and volunteers welcome the CHS Class of 1973 when some will do shrubbery trimming before the classmates and teachers enjoy a cookout and tour.