June 3, 2016 Coats Museum News
It was May and the 1958 graduates had said their final farewells to Coats High School. Do you recognize the names of the following graduates: Joe Hough Atkinson, Bernie Mack Byrd, Patricia Lane Byrd, Joy Dan Clayton, Clara Ernestine Creech, Donnie Gene Dorman, Elizabeth Ann Dorman, Linda Sue Ennis, Rebecca Ann Ennis, Thomas Ogburn Ennis, Jerry E. Fish, Dorothy Merl Godwin, Carson Wade Gregory, Jr., Linda Honeycutt Stanley, Jerry Garland Huff, Joyce Jean Jernigan, Joyce Evelyn Johnson, Norma Lee Johnson, Paul Junior Johnson, Joseph Matthews Knox, Sue Ellen Langdon Eason, Linda Catherine Lawrence Lewis, Nancy Blanche Lucas, Max Gerald Matthews, Betty Lou Moore, Kenneth Wayne O’Neal, Jo Carol Penny, Anthony Woodrow Pope, Barbara Ann Pope, Charles Linwood Sorrell, Jacqueline Stephenson, Ruth Stephenson, Shelby Stephenson, Barbara Lynne Stewart, Wayne Stewart, Janie Elizabeth Underwood, Billy Ray Weaver, Bobby Louis Weaver, Jerry Whittington, Julia Ann Whittington, Eleana Reid Wilburn, Carl Williams, and Mattie Frances Wood (1958 Echoing Memories –Coats High School).?
This I do know. Buck Currin had died at 55 in Duke Hospital. He was instrumental in the marketing of tobacco in Harnett County. Elsewhere in the area, the Buies Creek HD Club had met at the home of Mrs. Howell Stewart and Mrs. Joe Penny, Jr. presided (Daily Record May 27, 1958).
Rep. Carson Gregory was re-elected to the N.C. House after he defeated Woodrow Hill of Dunn. Bill Warren in the District 2 Commission seat overcame Jarvis Pleasant while Haywood Roberts defeated Fred Thomas by 14 votes for the HCBOE seat.
Ingram E. Tart of rural Dunn had died early Sunday morning at Betsy Johnson Hospital. He was as elder in the Grove Presbyterian Church in Dunn. He was a retired farmer and carpenter. His wife Mrs. Rosella Hobson Tart survived him. His three sons were Carl, Clarence and Lawrence Tart. His two daughters were Mrs. Ray Wood and Mrs. Weldon Dorman. Do the names sound familiar? Was more than one of them a building contractor?
Death had come and taken another person well known to area residents. Mr. Richard Nordan, 39, had died at the home of his parents, Elder and Mrs. Frank Nordan. His siblings were Mrs. Herman Elliott, Mrs. Paul Benson, Mrs. Felton West and Mr. Lindell Nordan.
The good news in the paper, among all the sadness of death announcements, was the graduation list from Campbell College. The local graduates were Fred Elliott, Robert Glenn Stewart, Larry Wilson Johnson, Carolyn Ann Butler, Gwendolyn Dixon and Delores Harmon (Daily Record June 3, 1958).
Remember that Lea Joy Johnson had received a scholarship to Woman’s College. She had made the news again and this time sharing that she had entered the Miss Dunn Pageant (Daily Record June 9, 1958).
Erastus C. “Rass” Faulkner, 73, of rural Angier, had died at his home on Sunday. He was a member of the Pleasant Memory Church but funeral services were at Oak Grove with burial in the church cemetery. His wife Dora Alice Faulkner survived him. His daughters were Mrs. Lee Jones and Mrs. Reba Stancil. Allen, Paul, and Silas were sons of the deceased. Mrs. Rosa Eva Matthews was his sister (Daily Record June 10, 1958).
Carson Gregory, Jr. was injured in a baseball game and was taken to Duke to undergo an operation. Better news was that Jerry Denning and Ernestine Creech were united in marriage by her uncle, Rev. J.D. Capps. Mrs. Alvis Ennis and Patricia Byrd presented music. Mrs. Jean Dagenhart, the bride’s sister, attended by wearing a blue taffeta and chiffon dress. Other attendants were Julia Ann Whittington, Jackie and Shelby Stephenson and Dura Faye Barbour. Donna Gayle Dagenhart was flower girl. Charles Denning was best man and ushers were Harold Dagenhart and Benton Stephenson. The bride entered the church wearing gown of satin and lace.
George Benton Nordan, 83, of rural Coats, had died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lee Stone. His daughters were Mrs. Herman Stone, Mrs. Ralph Gregory, Mrs. Lee Ann Griffin, Mrs. David Avery, Mrs. Laura Guy, and Mrs. Mack Gower of Alaska. His five sons were Lexie, James, George, Lawrence and Worth Nordan (Daily Record June 16, 1958).
Carson Gregory, Jr. had undergone brain surgery from a baseball injury. His doctors had marveled that the young Gregory had lived. The Rass Faulkner family had lost him only a few weeks back when they now were confronted by the death of their mother. The service was at Oak Grove Baptist Church where Rev. J.T. Lewis officiated. In addition to her children, siblings-Herbert, Herbie, Charlie and Annie Cutts survived her. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Turlington were honored on their 65th wedding anniversary. The Turlingtons were married at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry H.Penny, in upper Johnston County in 1893 (Daily Record June 18, 1893).
Another death in the region saddened several families in the Coats area. Floyd L. Denning, 71, farmer of rural Angier, had died at Erwin Hospital on a Saturday. His funeral services were at the Bethel PBC by Elder Frank Nordan and Elder Blaney Godwin. Burial was in the church cemetery. He was survived by his wife, Tempie Dixon Denning, and five children: Mrs. Glen Dupree, Mrs. Melvin Daniel, Festus Denning, Junius and Lamas Denning (Daily Record June 19, 1958).
How many of you remember when home economics was taught mainly to girls in high school and sometimes was taught for three years? Can you recall a teacher who taught the subject? I do know that Miss Evadeane Ingram had taught Home Economics at Coats and she married J.L. Jones, Jr. and left the faculty. Who followed her? Did you know there was a time when the home economics students prepared lunches for the students at Coats School and they also prepared the food for the Junior Senior Banquet?
If you didn’t remember Miss Ingram, maybe you remember Willie Stewart, seaman, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Tyson Stewart. Willie was serving at the U.S. Naval Base in Roto, Spain- the Navy’s new overseas shore installation under construction (Daily Record July 1, 1958).
The Daily Record reported that a Coats man had drowned in an Iowa gravel pit while swimming with several other truck drivers. In 1952, he had been seriously injured to the point he remained in the hospital for approximately two years. He was survived by his mother, Mrs. Gertie Barbour of Coats. His three sisters were Mrs. Mary Catherine Wood, Mrs. John E. Norris, and Cynthia Barbour. His brothers were Bennie and Wilson Barbour along with half brothers, James and Ralph Barbour (Daily Record July 2, 1958).
The United Press bureau saw the picture of Lea Joy Johnson in the Daily Record and wrote to Hoover Adams a note-“If a doll like that came in second place, for goodness sakes, tell me who won first place.”(Daily Record July 11, 1958)
Rev. Louis Morgan became pastor at the Coats Methodist Church while a Coats Baptist Church girl, Sybil Beasley, attended the 1958 National Meeting of FHA (Daily Record July 14, 1958).
The museum volunteers are continuing to scan and display wedding and 50th wedding anniversary pictures in the museum. Pull out those picture albums and drop by the museum any Thursday to have your pictures scanned. The volunteers are also collecting veteran stories for the museum publication of the Red, White and Blue, a collection of information about those who served our country in the military. Those stories are too good not to be preserved for future descendants.
Thank you , Ann Jones, for giving a generous donation to the museum in appreciation to the many folks who give their time to collect, share and preserve all aspects of the Coats area heritage. Part of Coats heritage is the large number of men and women who have served our country in the military. Museum volunteer Kathy Weeks and Brian Davis devoted much time on the square placing small flags displaying the names of our deceased heroes from the Coats area for Memorial Day. The volunteers will place these flags again, along with flags naming our living veterans, on the Coats Heritage Square in November for Veterans Day.
It was May and the 1958 graduates had said their final farewells to Coats High School. Do you recognize the names of the following graduates: Joe Hough Atkinson, Bernie Mack Byrd, Patricia Lane Byrd, Joy Dan Clayton, Clara Ernestine Creech, Donnie Gene Dorman, Elizabeth Ann Dorman, Linda Sue Ennis, Rebecca Ann Ennis, Thomas Ogburn Ennis, Jerry E. Fish, Dorothy Merl Godwin, Carson Wade Gregory, Jr., Linda Honeycutt Stanley, Jerry Garland Huff, Joyce Jean Jernigan, Joyce Evelyn Johnson, Norma Lee Johnson, Paul Junior Johnson, Joseph Matthews Knox, Sue Ellen Langdon Eason, Linda Catherine Lawrence Lewis, Nancy Blanche Lucas, Max Gerald Matthews, Betty Lou Moore, Kenneth Wayne O’Neal, Jo Carol Penny, Anthony Woodrow Pope, Barbara Ann Pope, Charles Linwood Sorrell, Jacqueline Stephenson, Ruth Stephenson, Shelby Stephenson, Barbara Lynne Stewart, Wayne Stewart, Janie Elizabeth Underwood, Billy Ray Weaver, Bobby Louis Weaver, Jerry Whittington, Julia Ann Whittington, Eleana Reid Wilburn, Carl Williams, and Mattie Frances Wood (1958 Echoing Memories –Coats High School).?
This I do know. Buck Currin had died at 55 in Duke Hospital. He was instrumental in the marketing of tobacco in Harnett County. Elsewhere in the area, the Buies Creek HD Club had met at the home of Mrs. Howell Stewart and Mrs. Joe Penny, Jr. presided (Daily Record May 27, 1958).
Rep. Carson Gregory was re-elected to the N.C. House after he defeated Woodrow Hill of Dunn. Bill Warren in the District 2 Commission seat overcame Jarvis Pleasant while Haywood Roberts defeated Fred Thomas by 14 votes for the HCBOE seat.
Ingram E. Tart of rural Dunn had died early Sunday morning at Betsy Johnson Hospital. He was as elder in the Grove Presbyterian Church in Dunn. He was a retired farmer and carpenter. His wife Mrs. Rosella Hobson Tart survived him. His three sons were Carl, Clarence and Lawrence Tart. His two daughters were Mrs. Ray Wood and Mrs. Weldon Dorman. Do the names sound familiar? Was more than one of them a building contractor?
Death had come and taken another person well known to area residents. Mr. Richard Nordan, 39, had died at the home of his parents, Elder and Mrs. Frank Nordan. His siblings were Mrs. Herman Elliott, Mrs. Paul Benson, Mrs. Felton West and Mr. Lindell Nordan.
The good news in the paper, among all the sadness of death announcements, was the graduation list from Campbell College. The local graduates were Fred Elliott, Robert Glenn Stewart, Larry Wilson Johnson, Carolyn Ann Butler, Gwendolyn Dixon and Delores Harmon (Daily Record June 3, 1958).
Remember that Lea Joy Johnson had received a scholarship to Woman’s College. She had made the news again and this time sharing that she had entered the Miss Dunn Pageant (Daily Record June 9, 1958).
Erastus C. “Rass” Faulkner, 73, of rural Angier, had died at his home on Sunday. He was a member of the Pleasant Memory Church but funeral services were at Oak Grove with burial in the church cemetery. His wife Dora Alice Faulkner survived him. His daughters were Mrs. Lee Jones and Mrs. Reba Stancil. Allen, Paul, and Silas were sons of the deceased. Mrs. Rosa Eva Matthews was his sister (Daily Record June 10, 1958).
Carson Gregory, Jr. was injured in a baseball game and was taken to Duke to undergo an operation. Better news was that Jerry Denning and Ernestine Creech were united in marriage by her uncle, Rev. J.D. Capps. Mrs. Alvis Ennis and Patricia Byrd presented music. Mrs. Jean Dagenhart, the bride’s sister, attended by wearing a blue taffeta and chiffon dress. Other attendants were Julia Ann Whittington, Jackie and Shelby Stephenson and Dura Faye Barbour. Donna Gayle Dagenhart was flower girl. Charles Denning was best man and ushers were Harold Dagenhart and Benton Stephenson. The bride entered the church wearing gown of satin and lace.
George Benton Nordan, 83, of rural Coats, had died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lee Stone. His daughters were Mrs. Herman Stone, Mrs. Ralph Gregory, Mrs. Lee Ann Griffin, Mrs. David Avery, Mrs. Laura Guy, and Mrs. Mack Gower of Alaska. His five sons were Lexie, James, George, Lawrence and Worth Nordan (Daily Record June 16, 1958).
Carson Gregory, Jr. had undergone brain surgery from a baseball injury. His doctors had marveled that the young Gregory had lived. The Rass Faulkner family had lost him only a few weeks back when they now were confronted by the death of their mother. The service was at Oak Grove Baptist Church where Rev. J.T. Lewis officiated. In addition to her children, siblings-Herbert, Herbie, Charlie and Annie Cutts survived her. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Turlington were honored on their 65th wedding anniversary. The Turlingtons were married at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry H.Penny, in upper Johnston County in 1893 (Daily Record June 18, 1893).
Another death in the region saddened several families in the Coats area. Floyd L. Denning, 71, farmer of rural Angier, had died at Erwin Hospital on a Saturday. His funeral services were at the Bethel PBC by Elder Frank Nordan and Elder Blaney Godwin. Burial was in the church cemetery. He was survived by his wife, Tempie Dixon Denning, and five children: Mrs. Glen Dupree, Mrs. Melvin Daniel, Festus Denning, Junius and Lamas Denning (Daily Record June 19, 1958).
How many of you remember when home economics was taught mainly to girls in high school and sometimes was taught for three years? Can you recall a teacher who taught the subject? I do know that Miss Evadeane Ingram had taught Home Economics at Coats and she married J.L. Jones, Jr. and left the faculty. Who followed her? Did you know there was a time when the home economics students prepared lunches for the students at Coats School and they also prepared the food for the Junior Senior Banquet?
If you didn’t remember Miss Ingram, maybe you remember Willie Stewart, seaman, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Tyson Stewart. Willie was serving at the U.S. Naval Base in Roto, Spain- the Navy’s new overseas shore installation under construction (Daily Record July 1, 1958).
The Daily Record reported that a Coats man had drowned in an Iowa gravel pit while swimming with several other truck drivers. In 1952, he had been seriously injured to the point he remained in the hospital for approximately two years. He was survived by his mother, Mrs. Gertie Barbour of Coats. His three sisters were Mrs. Mary Catherine Wood, Mrs. John E. Norris, and Cynthia Barbour. His brothers were Bennie and Wilson Barbour along with half brothers, James and Ralph Barbour (Daily Record July 2, 1958).
The United Press bureau saw the picture of Lea Joy Johnson in the Daily Record and wrote to Hoover Adams a note-“If a doll like that came in second place, for goodness sakes, tell me who won first place.”(Daily Record July 11, 1958)
Rev. Louis Morgan became pastor at the Coats Methodist Church while a Coats Baptist Church girl, Sybil Beasley, attended the 1958 National Meeting of FHA (Daily Record July 14, 1958).
The museum volunteers are continuing to scan and display wedding and 50th wedding anniversary pictures in the museum. Pull out those picture albums and drop by the museum any Thursday to have your pictures scanned. The volunteers are also collecting veteran stories for the museum publication of the Red, White and Blue, a collection of information about those who served our country in the military. Those stories are too good not to be preserved for future descendants.
Thank you , Ann Jones, for giving a generous donation to the museum in appreciation to the many folks who give their time to collect, share and preserve all aspects of the Coats area heritage. Part of Coats heritage is the large number of men and women who have served our country in the military. Museum volunteer Kathy Weeks and Brian Davis devoted much time on the square placing small flags displaying the names of our deceased heroes from the Coats area for Memorial Day. The volunteers will place these flags again, along with flags naming our living veterans, on the Coats Heritage Square in November for Veterans Day.
