August 13, 2021 Coats Museum News
Folks at the Coats Baptist Church-do you remember Sonny and Dean Sweatman who were members of your church at one time? Do you recall when the couple shared slides taken during their years while they served as Missionaries in Zambia, Africa? Belle in Notes from Coats also shared with her readers that Geraldine Cooke was home after surgery and Mildred and Harry Wheeler had enjoyed an extended vacation to the Outer Banks, D.C. and Maryland.
Belle also reported that Kathy Weissinger and her Aunt Jewel Johnson honored Denise Williams with a miscellaneous shower. Lee Pollard, son of Joey and Barbara Pollard, and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Baxton Pollard, had celebrated his third birthday. Flossie Parrish had stayed with relatives in Raleigh and took in the Raleigh Christmas Parade. J.D. and Maude Norris and Delbert and Edna Lockamy had vacationed in the mountains. Belle told that the couples were amazed at the ice on part of the bushes but not all of them. Edna had to investigate and found it happens when fog settles on the rhododendrons, it often turns to ice.
M.T. and Doris Strickland were busy at the IGA bagging up groceries for the holiday cooks. Birthday wishes went to Dudley Langdon, William Earl Spivey, Judy Williams, Shelton Ennis, Harold Campbell, Daywood Langdon, Hoyt Stephenson, Exie Ragan, Mary Langdon, Colby Stevens, Marilyn Ennis, Thomas Lee Johnson, Edna Ennis, Kenneth Keene, and Tamera Parrish.
Anniversaries were celebrated by several local couples- Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Langdon, Mr. and Mrs. Kemp Stewart, and Mr. and Mrs. Graham Turlington (Daily Record, Dec. 1, 1987).
The December 2, 1987 edition of the Daily Record printed that Denise Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Bernice Miller of Route One, Benson, and William (Billy) Robert Surles, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. William Robert Surles, Sr., were married in Benson.
Lori Moore of Coats was one of the merit scholars to receive a scholarship from the J.A. King and Co. Foundation. She was one of the five students who participated in a five-week program research project at NCSU.
How many of you recognized that name? Lori is the daughter of Devon Moore and Jo Ann Langdon Moore Reynolds. Lori attended the North Carolina School of Science and Math in Durham for her last years of high school. Lori married Mark Langdon, son of Kent and Edna Collier Langdon. Dr. Lori Moore Langdon was just voted the Best Doctor in Harnett County. Naturally those of us who know these folks are so proud of Dr. Lori and the many other doctors who attended the Coats School.
In more Notes…Belle wrote that out of town guests to Coats for the Thanksgiving holidays were Flossie Parrish’s brothers from Florida, Maryland, DC and Raleigh. Mrs. Ophelia Roberts also had visitors. Shearon Roberts Gustafson and her husband, Dr. Bo Gustafson, were in Coats from Florida. Other visitors were Jeff and Linda Stewart and sons –Bill and Bob- who were home to visit H.A. and Rachel Turlington and Tony and Anna Belle Stewart.
Also visiting Rachel and H.A. Turlington were Laura and Tommy Denning who also visited the Doc Denning family while in town.
Wonder how proud the Turlington family was to share that their son, Henry Turlington, had received his Doctorate Degree in Animal Science in Swine Nutrition.
The Coats Motor Company had spruced up their parking lot with pretty lights without the help of their secretary, Peggy Senter, who had had eye surgery. Gene Stewart and son Don Stewart had done a good job even without Peggy. Don Smith had gained a new daughter-in-law over the Thanksgiving holidays.
Another opportunity for readers to discover who was living in the Coats area in December of 1987 was recorded with Belle Williams extending happy birthday and anniversary good wishes in her Coats Notes in the Daily Record. Mavor Jones, Hermie Turlington, Terry Lee, Zack Dorman, Kenneth McLamb, Andrea Currin, Leona Alphin, Matthew Penny, Jarvis Alphin, Lisa Shearin, Ronnie Ennis, Carmen Barnes, Betty Ruth Williams, Alice Hawley, Leroy Stewart, Jimmy Lee, Wade Turlington, Ihrie Wiggins, Helen Lee and Scott Meece.
Anniversary wishes were sent to Mr. and Mrs. Fernie Lee, Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Turlington, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Byrd, Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Stephenson, Mr. and Mrs. Linwood Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Avery, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Roy Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Spears, and Mr. and Mrs. M.O. Phillips.
The Coats School Group-S.E.E.K was conducting a membership campaign.. Officers for the 1987-88 year were Doug and Barbara Christen, chairpersons; Doug and Sharon Stevens, vice-chairpersons; Ronnie and Sue Parrish-treasurers, and Joan Stanley, secretary (Daily Record Dec. 3, 1987).
Tom Suiter, Raleigh WRAL TV anchorman, honored the Coats youth football and cheerleading programs as a special guest. Roman Knittle was honored as the most MVP and the 110 Percent Award for the Coats Midgets. Brian Davis swept honors as Best Lineman on both Offense and Defense; Charlie Stevens was named Best Offensive player; and Brian Harmon was tops in Defense. Robbie Davis was honored as MVP in the Peewee program while Robbie Pope was named the Most Improved player. Jerome Ray took the Coach’s Award and David Pope was top Offensive player while Brandon Norris won the Defensive Award.
The Coats Midget cheerleaders were the 1987 Harnett County champions. Greg Stevens, chairman of the Coats Recreation Advisory Council, gave the welcome while Commissioner Frances Avery gave the invocation. Mark Penny. President of the Coats Recreation Booster Club, introduced Mr. Suiter and Doug Stevens, Recreation Director, was Master of Ceremonies.
Don’t you wish they had named the members on these football teams as well as the names of the winning cheerleaders? We do, however, know that April Dixon and Vanessa Dorman had enjoyed being contestants in the Carolina Sweetheart Pageant in Erwin.
Hilda Pope had to answer the phone at work now by saying “Rose and Graham Funeral Home”. The business had changed names when Winn Graham, son-in-law to Jimmy Rose, became his partner. F.P.Cade and Grace Cade, former Coats residents, visited Coats and were pleased with all the changes they saw in Coats.
Mrs. Exie Smith was honored in the home of her daughter, Kathryn Phillips and her husband, M.O. Phillips, on the occasion of her 90th birthday. The Carey Franklin Memorial Sunday School Class at Pleasant Memory Church, under direction of Mr. Donald Johnson, entertained the senior citizens of the church. Mr. Donald Bennett brought his ventriloquist friend, “Andy”, to entertain also.
Keith Parrish, Willie Mae Parrish, Rebecca Parrish, Ruth Parrish, Wilma Byrd, and Belle Williams went to Florida for the funeral of Emory Winbery, Jr. Was he a relative of the Parrish family? I do know that Mrs. Odell Ryals and Mrs. Bessie Stone had died.
We would love to see you at the Coats Museum and we do encourage you to be safe since some in the Coats area have tested positive for the virus.
Folks at the Coats Baptist Church-do you remember Sonny and Dean Sweatman who were members of your church at one time? Do you recall when the couple shared slides taken during their years while they served as Missionaries in Zambia, Africa? Belle in Notes from Coats also shared with her readers that Geraldine Cooke was home after surgery and Mildred and Harry Wheeler had enjoyed an extended vacation to the Outer Banks, D.C. and Maryland.
Belle also reported that Kathy Weissinger and her Aunt Jewel Johnson honored Denise Williams with a miscellaneous shower. Lee Pollard, son of Joey and Barbara Pollard, and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Baxton Pollard, had celebrated his third birthday. Flossie Parrish had stayed with relatives in Raleigh and took in the Raleigh Christmas Parade. J.D. and Maude Norris and Delbert and Edna Lockamy had vacationed in the mountains. Belle told that the couples were amazed at the ice on part of the bushes but not all of them. Edna had to investigate and found it happens when fog settles on the rhododendrons, it often turns to ice.
M.T. and Doris Strickland were busy at the IGA bagging up groceries for the holiday cooks. Birthday wishes went to Dudley Langdon, William Earl Spivey, Judy Williams, Shelton Ennis, Harold Campbell, Daywood Langdon, Hoyt Stephenson, Exie Ragan, Mary Langdon, Colby Stevens, Marilyn Ennis, Thomas Lee Johnson, Edna Ennis, Kenneth Keene, and Tamera Parrish.
Anniversaries were celebrated by several local couples- Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Langdon, Mr. and Mrs. Kemp Stewart, and Mr. and Mrs. Graham Turlington (Daily Record, Dec. 1, 1987).
The December 2, 1987 edition of the Daily Record printed that Denise Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Bernice Miller of Route One, Benson, and William (Billy) Robert Surles, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. William Robert Surles, Sr., were married in Benson.
Lori Moore of Coats was one of the merit scholars to receive a scholarship from the J.A. King and Co. Foundation. She was one of the five students who participated in a five-week program research project at NCSU.
How many of you recognized that name? Lori is the daughter of Devon Moore and Jo Ann Langdon Moore Reynolds. Lori attended the North Carolina School of Science and Math in Durham for her last years of high school. Lori married Mark Langdon, son of Kent and Edna Collier Langdon. Dr. Lori Moore Langdon was just voted the Best Doctor in Harnett County. Naturally those of us who know these folks are so proud of Dr. Lori and the many other doctors who attended the Coats School.
In more Notes…Belle wrote that out of town guests to Coats for the Thanksgiving holidays were Flossie Parrish’s brothers from Florida, Maryland, DC and Raleigh. Mrs. Ophelia Roberts also had visitors. Shearon Roberts Gustafson and her husband, Dr. Bo Gustafson, were in Coats from Florida. Other visitors were Jeff and Linda Stewart and sons –Bill and Bob- who were home to visit H.A. and Rachel Turlington and Tony and Anna Belle Stewart.
Also visiting Rachel and H.A. Turlington were Laura and Tommy Denning who also visited the Doc Denning family while in town.
Wonder how proud the Turlington family was to share that their son, Henry Turlington, had received his Doctorate Degree in Animal Science in Swine Nutrition.
The Coats Motor Company had spruced up their parking lot with pretty lights without the help of their secretary, Peggy Senter, who had had eye surgery. Gene Stewart and son Don Stewart had done a good job even without Peggy. Don Smith had gained a new daughter-in-law over the Thanksgiving holidays.
Another opportunity for readers to discover who was living in the Coats area in December of 1987 was recorded with Belle Williams extending happy birthday and anniversary good wishes in her Coats Notes in the Daily Record. Mavor Jones, Hermie Turlington, Terry Lee, Zack Dorman, Kenneth McLamb, Andrea Currin, Leona Alphin, Matthew Penny, Jarvis Alphin, Lisa Shearin, Ronnie Ennis, Carmen Barnes, Betty Ruth Williams, Alice Hawley, Leroy Stewart, Jimmy Lee, Wade Turlington, Ihrie Wiggins, Helen Lee and Scott Meece.
Anniversary wishes were sent to Mr. and Mrs. Fernie Lee, Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Turlington, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Byrd, Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Stephenson, Mr. and Mrs. Linwood Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Avery, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Roy Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Spears, and Mr. and Mrs. M.O. Phillips.
The Coats School Group-S.E.E.K was conducting a membership campaign.. Officers for the 1987-88 year were Doug and Barbara Christen, chairpersons; Doug and Sharon Stevens, vice-chairpersons; Ronnie and Sue Parrish-treasurers, and Joan Stanley, secretary (Daily Record Dec. 3, 1987).
Tom Suiter, Raleigh WRAL TV anchorman, honored the Coats youth football and cheerleading programs as a special guest. Roman Knittle was honored as the most MVP and the 110 Percent Award for the Coats Midgets. Brian Davis swept honors as Best Lineman on both Offense and Defense; Charlie Stevens was named Best Offensive player; and Brian Harmon was tops in Defense. Robbie Davis was honored as MVP in the Peewee program while Robbie Pope was named the Most Improved player. Jerome Ray took the Coach’s Award and David Pope was top Offensive player while Brandon Norris won the Defensive Award.
The Coats Midget cheerleaders were the 1987 Harnett County champions. Greg Stevens, chairman of the Coats Recreation Advisory Council, gave the welcome while Commissioner Frances Avery gave the invocation. Mark Penny. President of the Coats Recreation Booster Club, introduced Mr. Suiter and Doug Stevens, Recreation Director, was Master of Ceremonies.
Don’t you wish they had named the members on these football teams as well as the names of the winning cheerleaders? We do, however, know that April Dixon and Vanessa Dorman had enjoyed being contestants in the Carolina Sweetheart Pageant in Erwin.
Hilda Pope had to answer the phone at work now by saying “Rose and Graham Funeral Home”. The business had changed names when Winn Graham, son-in-law to Jimmy Rose, became his partner. F.P.Cade and Grace Cade, former Coats residents, visited Coats and were pleased with all the changes they saw in Coats.
Mrs. Exie Smith was honored in the home of her daughter, Kathryn Phillips and her husband, M.O. Phillips, on the occasion of her 90th birthday. The Carey Franklin Memorial Sunday School Class at Pleasant Memory Church, under direction of Mr. Donald Johnson, entertained the senior citizens of the church. Mr. Donald Bennett brought his ventriloquist friend, “Andy”, to entertain also.
Keith Parrish, Willie Mae Parrish, Rebecca Parrish, Ruth Parrish, Wilma Byrd, and Belle Williams went to Florida for the funeral of Emory Winbery, Jr. Was he a relative of the Parrish family? I do know that Mrs. Odell Ryals and Mrs. Bessie Stone had died.
We would love to see you at the Coats Museum and we do encourage you to be safe since some in the Coats area have tested positive for the virus.