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  • February 24, 2023

Coats Museum Honorariums and Memorials Endowment Fund
(Post 2020 Reported with Building Fund)

2020 Honorariums
2020 Memorials
Joe Giles (2)
Alice Thornton Johnson
​Nell Penny Williams (2)
​Oscar Harris
​Katie Owen Morgan


2019 Honorariums
Becky Ennis Adams (2)
Patsy Avery
Hilda W. Pope
Lynda Daniel Butler (2)
Patsy Avery (2)
​Hilda Pope (2)
​Lynda & Robie Butler


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2019 Memorials
Leron Parrish
Lois Adams
Sue Johnson Richey
​Roy Penny
Jonah C. Johnson (4)
Nell Penny Williams
Alice Thornton Johnson
​Graham Young Turlington
​Laine Coats Massengill
​David Roy Denning  
​Kress "Bill" Williams (3)
​Alice & Jonah Johnson
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​2018 Honorariums
Coats Museum Volunteers (2)
Gerri Stephenson Honeycutt 
Gayle Johnson Sorrell (4)
Becky Ennis Adams (2)
​Dorothy Watson Denning
H.L. Sorrell, Jr.
​Robie Butler
Lynda Daniel Butler (2)
​Hilda Williams Pope
Patsy & Stacy Avery
​2018 Memorials
Willa Dean Pope Powell (2)
Hazel Pope Tart
Benny Ray Weaver
Stacy Blake Penny
Dr. James Valsame
Betty Bowling Gregory
Alice Thornton Johnson (2)
Dan C. Honeycutt
Wynona Godwin Ennis (2)
​Nell Penny Williams
Faye Moran Fish
​Joyce Parrish Turner
Oliver Benton "Pete" Ennis, Jr.
Jonah C. Johnson
Kress "Bill" Williams
Wayne Edward Richey
Kress "Bill" & Nell Penny Williams
Jonah C. & Alice Thornton Johnson
Billy Howard Sorrell (2)
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2017 Honorariums
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Gayle Johnson Sorrell (6)
H.L. Sorrell, Jr. (2)
Florine Penny
​Becky Adams (2)
Robie Butler
Lynda Daniel Butler (2)
Hilda Pope
Lynda & Robie Butler
Coats Woman's Club Ladies

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​2017 Memorials
Emma Elizabeth Beasley Guy (2)
​Lisa Holiday Freeman
Alice Thornton Johnson (2)
Tommy Williford
​Classmates of 1963
​Annie "Polly" Parrish
​Katherine Stewart Wasserman
​Juanita Ogburn Hudson
Nell Penny Williams
James Carroll Lee
Berlon Parrish
Jonah C. Johnson, Sr.
Kress "Bill" Williams
Donald "Donnie" Matthews
Pearlie Poole Tart
Brookie Sorrell West
Florine Johnson Penny (2)
Grace Stewart Penny
Bill & Magdalene Pleasant Howard
Kress "Bill" & Nell Penny Williams
Jonah & Alice Thornton Johnson

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2016 Honorariums
Becky Adams (2)
Hazel Gunter Sorrell
Leron Parrish
Patsy Avery
​The Class of 1966 at Coats High School
Gayle Johnson Sorrell (5)
​Lynda Daniel Butler (2)
​Robie Butler 
​H.L. Sorrell, Jr.




2016 Memorials
Eloise Rowland
Rebeth Mitchell
Rupert Honeycutt
W.C. Humphrey, Jr.
Connie Mack Johnson
Joey Travis Johnson
Harold Thomas Williams
Nell Penny Williams 
Rudolph F. Miller
Etheline Carroll Faulkner
Hazel Gunter Sorrell
Alice Thornton Johnson (2)
Verle Pollard Flowers
Mary Pope McLamb
Lela Pope Turlington
Judy Avery Norris
​Rachel Stephenson
Kress "Bill" Williams
Jonah C. Johnson, Sr.
Robert Lee Turlington
Kress "Bill" & Nell Penny Williams
Jonah & Alice Thornton Johnson
​Charles Edward Denning (2)
2015 Honorariums
Becky Ennis Adams (2)
Gayle Johnson Sorrell (4)
Patsy Smith Avery
Lynda Daniel Butler
Patsy & Stacy Avery
Robie & Lynda Daniel Butler

2015 Memorials
Mary Gregory Stevens (2)
James Dennis Adams (2)
Kenneth Johnson (2)
Jonathan "Jo" Lynn Lee
Cecil Vernon Parrish
Jerry Tyndall
Carsie Denning, Sr. (3)
Hazel Denning Williford
Pauline Johnson Daniel
Alice Thornton Johnson (2)
Neill McKay Salmon, Jr.
Jonah C. Johnson, Sr. (2)
Mack Reid Hudson
Carlie C. McLamb, Sr.
Jean Wood Harris
James Allison "Barlow" Langdon, Jr.
James Delma Grimes
Nell Penny Williams
Henry Arthur "H.A." Turlington, Jr.
William R. "Bill" Pope
Kress "Bill" Williams
Edward Stuart Turlington
Jonah & Alice T. Johnson
Kress "Bill" & Nell Penny Williams
Carl Williams (2)


2014 Honorariums

Coats Museum
H.L. Sorrell, Jr.
Becky Ennis Adams (2)
Gayle Johnson Sorrell
James Delma Grimes 
Mack & Juanita Hudson                                                   

Patsy Avery
Charles Edward Denning
Lynda Daniel Butler (2)


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2014 Memorials

Nina Miller Barnes
William Marshall Wright
Alice Thornton Johnson (3)
Dyan Lee Denning 
Wesley Pleasant
Dorsey Wade Daniel
Jonah C. Johnson, Sr. (3)
Lottie Godwin Pollard
Ann Dorn
Nell Penny Williams (3)
Lloyd "Tom" Stephenson (2)
Erma Louise Ennis Godwin
Jesse Clifton Alphin, Sr.
Allene Wheeler Alphin
Kress "Bill" Williams (2)
Delaney Turlington Ingraham
Rupert Nye Honeycutt
Beverly B. McLean


2013 Honorariums

Allene Turlington Honeycutt
Becky Ennis Adams (2)
Lynda Butler
Gayle Johnson Sorrell
Patsy & Stacy Avery


2013 Memorials

James W. "J.W." Coats
Brandon Russell Denning
Lottie Godwin Ennis
William A. "Bill" Johnson
Lynwood Tyson Stancil
Hazel Morgan Barnes
Frances Kelly Langdon (2)
Robert Davis "Bob" Warren
Lisa Freeman
Louise S. Smith
Mildred Mallard Jenkins
Rev. Ronnie Byrd
Edna West Sorrell
Alice Thornton Johnson
Eugene Stewart
Ruth Williams
Howard Lentis Sorrell
Pearl Tart Lumley
Christine Stewart Akerman Parrish
Nell Penny Williams
Alice Thornton Johnson
Maude Penny Sorrell
Jonah C. Johnson 
Kress "Bill" Williams
Ida Wilkins Campbell
Polly Poole Hudson
Robert "Bobby" Wells
Evangeline Stewart
Shelton Benson
Jonah C. & Alice Thornton Johnson
Julia Parker Stewart
Olivia Bird Dorn Kennedy
Nell Penny & Kress "Bill" Williams
Nelson Currin
Allene Turlington Honeycutt


2012 Honorariums

Lynwood & Linda Stancil 
Lynda  Daniel Butler (2)  
Becky  Adams    
Kiwanis  Club of Coats, Inc.  



2012 Memorials

Hettie Mae Clifton Ennis
John Moses Mewborn
Reba Pope Byrd
George Walter Scott 
Helen  Adams Stewart  
Jonah  C. Johnson, Sr.  (2) 
Moody Taft Strickland  
Lamas  Denning   
Isobel  Wolf
Nell Penny Williams 
Hoover  Adams
Alice Thornton Johnson
Maude Penny Sorrell
Curtis  Williams
May Marshbanks
M.T.  Strickland  
Laura  Betts  
Wadeford D. Coats
M. P.  Lee, Sr.       
Kress  "Bill" Williams
Mary Everett Stewart  
Mabel Turlington Hayes
Edith  Bone Sorrell 
Margaret Daniel  Baker    
Joseph  "Joe" A. Lee, Jr.
Bill & Nell Penny Williams
Jonah & Alice Johnson
Lentis & Maude Penny Sorrell

2011 Honorariums

Austin Bryan Sorrell
Elizabeth Eckert Sorrell
Becky Ennis Adams (2)
Gayle Johnson Sorrell (2)
Lynda Daniel Butler
Margaret Stewart House
Kiwanis Club of Coats
Dennis & Becky Adams
Joe Tart, PA
Lynda & Robie Butler
Gayle & H.L. Sorrell
Edwin Sorrell Smith
Blair Johnson Smith
Christina Lenee Sorrell Smith
Hazel Tart
Wayne & Sue Richey





2011 Memorials

Allison Jones
Mary Lynn Batchelor
Agnes Dixon Hall (2)
Charles Blake Gregory
William "Bill" Boyd
Brooke Byrd Pope
Clem Gray
Leslie Watts Hardison
Alice Thornton Johnson (2)
Audrey Stewart
Rosa N. Jackson
Michael Hudson
Edward Lewis
Jonah C. Johnson (2)
Mark Parrish (3)
George Walton "Tiny" Weeks
Maude Penny Sorrell
Howard Lentis Sorrell
F. Junius Denning
Kress "Bill" Williams
Jonah & Alice Johnson
Kress "Bill" & Nell Penny Williams

2010 Honorariums

Billy Howard Sorrell
Margaret Stewart House
Lindsay Stephenson
JoAnn Ennis Turlington
Patsy Smith Avery
Norfleet & Barbara Gardner
Kiwanis Club of Coats
Becky Ennis Adams (2)
Gayle Johnson Sorrell
Christine Stewart Parrish
Lynda Daniel Butler
Gayle & H.L. Sorrell
2010 Memorials

Sue Turlington Clayton
Mildred Pope Wheeler
Rachel Tripp Turlington
Nell Penny Williams (2)
Rev. Carl Dixon
Rufus Edwin Penny
Juanita S. Godwin
Sgt. Adam Ginett
Diane Sorrell Hardison
Kress "Bill" Williams (2)
Jonah C. Johnson (2)
Henry Graymon Powell
Mary Holmes Coats (4)
Jonah & Alice Johnson (2)
Franklin D. Stewart
Anne Tucker Moore
David Moore

Tony Pope
Delbert Lee Lockamy
Gene Baker, Jr.
Earl Ray Denning (2)
Alice Johnson Beckett
Sherrill Thomas Coats (2)
Agatha W. McLamb (3)
Nell Penny Williams (2)
Betty Talley Pleasant
William Robert Strickland, Jr.
Lillian C. Bowden (2)
Don F. Denton
Sarah Stephenson Dupree
Alice Thornton Johnson (2)
Nathan Pope

2009 Honorariums

Kiwanis Club of Coats
Lynda Butler
2009 Memorials

Lunette Ennis Coats
Jasper Henry Holmes, Jr.
Laura Lee Johnson Ennis
David Knox
Edgar Poe Raynor
Joyce Farmer (10)
JoAnn Rosser Fox Bacon
Ruth Denton Moore
James Johnson
Grace Matthews Dixon
Ola Williams Barefoot
Jonah C. Johnson
Nell Penny Williams (8)
Kress "Bill" Williams


2008 Honorariums

Christine Stewart Parrish (2)
Kiwanis Club of Coats (2)
Harnett County Unrestricted Fund


2008 Memorials

Charles Weaver
Sarah Skiles
John Stephenson
Roena Honeycutt
Bill Howard  (2)
Virgil Wasserman
Milton Roberts
J.C. Johnson (2)
Dr. W.R. Sorrell
Beulah Ennis
Betty Williams
Daywood Langdon
Patrick Jenkins
Lydia Tart Williams

2007 Honorariums

Christine Parrish
Carsie Denning
H.L. Sorrell
Robie & Lynda Butler
Nell Penny Williams
Julia Parker Stewart
Earl Denning
H.L. & Gayle Sorrell
Juanita Hudson (3)
Madeline Gayle Sorrell
Kiwanis Club of Coats
Joseph L. Tart



2007 Memorials

Alice T. Baggett (3)
Bruce Tart
Ruby Parrish (2)
H. Tallie Dupree
Mary L. Denning (6)
Florence Grimes
Thelma Turlington Wilson
Peggy Fisher
Grace Oldham
Muriel Dorman
Thelma P. Johnson (4)
Maxine Coats
Clifford Regan (3)
Jimmie Vaughn (4)
Ruby Creech
Billy Cruikshank
Albert Gregory (6)
Harrington Morrison
Dean Hall (5)
Grace Matthews
Magdalene Howard
Alex Daniel
Russell Lamm
Estelle Williams
Addie Sheppard
Dennis Turlington
Eunice Hannah Carpenter (3)
Kress "Bill" Williams
Foy S. Matthews
Aaron Pope

2006 Honorariums
Coats Museum
Kiwanis Club of Coats 
Lions Club of Coats
2006 Memorials

R.D. Turner
Lindsey Tart
Doris Taylor
Silas Faulkner
P.J. Johnson
Lottie Lamm
Kizzie Williams
Bonnie Cooper
W.J. Bryan Dorn
Joe Penny
Dorothy Penny
Dorothy Valsame
Billie Jean Garriss
Wade Turlington
Clester Johnson
J.D. Norris
Izola Stephenson
Robie Dixon
Exie Reagan
Norma Lee Wilkins
Armeta Johnson
Johnnie Williams
Loomis Reid Penny
Alton Derle McGee
J.W. Johnson
Charles W. Matthews
Tom E. Turlington
Banks Pollard
Janie Denning
Bobby Sauls
Lib Nordan
Leon Barefoot
Dennis Turlington
Keith Stewart
Dorothy Johnson
Michele Adamczyk
Callie Williams
Jerry McLamb
Ben Spears
Mary H. Ennis
Ruby Johnson