March 23, 2018 Coats Museum News
Do you recall from last week that we mentioned the Coats Junior Order was planning a pageant to pick the 1969 Miss Coats Junior Order and was to be crowned by the 1968 Miss Neta Lee. The Daily Record May 13, 1969 edition printed that members of the Coats Jr. Order had plans to attend the State Jr. Conference in Scotland Neck. Miss Gennie Sorrell, the new Miss Coats Jr. Order, would make her first appearance with the Jr. Order. Gennie played “Bells of St. Mary’s” and “Cotton Picking Boogie” on the piano. She was daughter of Billy and Genevieve Thornton Sorrell. Genevieve was daughter of Wilhemina Barbour Thornton and Jim Thornton, the country music entertainer. Gennie’s great-grandfather was Major Barbour, a charter member of the Jr. Order unit of Four Oaks. Gennie was an outstanding student in her church and school in Garner (Daily Record May 21, 1969).
W.D. Franklin was proud to announce the engagement of his only daughter, Vickie Carol Franklin, to Kenneth Wayne Price, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Price, Jr., of Erwin. The bride-elect was a 1965 graduate of Coats and a junior at NCSU. Her fiancé’ was a junior at UNC Chapel Hill (Daily Record May 21, 1969). Who remembers when Mr. Willie Franklin operated his country store near Campbell University?
I do know that Mr. James L. Parrish, 59, a retired farmer of Coats, had died on Tuesday. Mrs. Lubie Austin and Mrs. Ola Stewart were his sisters. Another Parrish also made news in the same May 14, 1969 edition of the Daily Record. Keith Parrish was elected president of the Coats Student Council after a vigorous campaign.
Linda Odom, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.L. Barefoot of Coats, was surely proud of her husband, Sergeant Joseph R. Odom, for being named Outstanding Airman at Keesler, AFB, Mississippi (Daily Record May 15, 1969).
Mrs. J. D. Lamm and Mrs. Ed Penny gave a surprise organ musical recital on Sunday night at the home of Mrs. Clayton (Annie Ruth) Stewart. Sporting a gift of a corsage of red roses, the honoree, Mrs. Annie Ruth Penny Stewart, played several organ selections during the evening. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs. Max Beasley and Dewayne, Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Beasley, Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Lamm, Mr. and Mrs. Tony Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Fleetwood Adams and daughters Lynn and Denise and their friend, Carol Barefoot, Mrs. Louise Jackson, Clayton Stewart, and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Penny. Don’t you know that was a fun time?
The Coats High baseball team had won the Harnett County Baseball Championship. The team defeated Boone Trail by 9-3. Mike Smith, the successful coach, was surely proud of the good work of Don Ennis when he made a homerun and tripled to help Coats to the victory. Likewise, the team surely had to be proud of Coach Mike Smith who tied with Al Black for the “Coach of the Year in Harnett” (Daily Record May 20, 1969).
Ray Godwin, 35, a radio announcer, had died in Pittsboro. His services were held in the Coats Cemetery. He was survived by his mother, Mrs. Myrtle Godwin and his grandmother, Mrs. Cornelia Godwin of Coats (Daily Record May 20, 1969). Why do these names sound familiar?
The Coats Booster Club honored their athletes and cheerleaders at a ham meal. Johnny Cements, freshmen coach at NCSU, was the speaker. The following students received special awards. Best Offensive Football-Jeff Turlington; Best Defensive Football-Craig Matthews; Most Valuable Player-Jerry Langdon; Best Offensive Baseball- Barry Butts; Best Defensive Baseball-Jimmy Ennis; Most Valuable Baseball-Don Ennis; Most Valuable Basketball-Kay Fish; Sportsmanship Girls-Debbie Ennis; Most Improved-Mary Ellen Johnson; Best Defensive Boys Basketball-Bruce Barefoot; Most Valuable Basketball-Wayne Matthews; Sportsmanship-Steve Faircloth; Most Valuable in Golf-Barry Butts; Most Valuable in Track-Donald McKoy; Most Outstanding Girl Athlete Gale Ennis; Most Outstanding Male Athlete-Don Ennis. Does anyone recall what award Andy Parrish received at the event (Daily Record May 23-25, 1969)?
Bailey is a very prominent name in the area around Bailey’s Crossroads. Lee Bailey, one of the older Bailey men, had died at the age of 71. The retired Benson carpenter had passed on Friday. His services were held at the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church. He was the husband of the late Vivian Buffalo Bailey, a beloved teacher at Benson. He was survived by Waylon, J. Clem, Roscoe, Wade and Lindell Bailey (Daily Record May 26, 1969).
The athletic banquet was nice and the awards were in the hands of the talented recipients, but the baseball season had continued as the team worked toward a first state Class A diamond title. Bruce Barefoot had 2 for 4 at bat including a double while Don Ennis struck out 12 Red Springs batters in getting the win (Daily Record May 26, 1969).
Delano Whittington was moving on up in the CPL Co. to become district accountant in Henderson. A native of Harnett County, he had begun to work at CPL in 1958. He was a Coats High graduate and a 1964 graduate of Campbell College (Daily Record June 3, 1969).
The passing of time had brought the graduation exercises to the 1969 seniors at Coats High. Those to begin a new journey were Bruce Barefoot, Tomi Barefoot, Joan Bryant, Jo Ann Bryant, Barry Butts, Sharon Byrd, Christine Campbell, Dana Coats, Penny Coats, Randy Cooke, Lynda Daniel, Carolyn Denning, Jerry Dennis, Clyde Ennis, Don Ennis, Jimmy Ennis, Jone Ennis, Marilyn Ennis, Phil Ennis, Alice Faircloth, Steve Faircloth, Kay Fish, Louise Flowers, Karen Gregory, Shelia Hargis, Blanche Harris, Mike Hudson, Johnny Jackson, Tom Jackson, Sybil Lamm, Marilyn Langdon, Helen Lockamy, Dwight Maness, Harry Matthews, Tim McKinnie, Jackie McKoy, Keith McLeod, Earlene McNeill, Martha Moore, Danny Norris, Elizabeth Norris, Randy Page, Andy Parrish, Gary Penny, Truelah Pleasant, Randy Rambeau, Barbara Ray, Danny Roberts, Donald Roberts, Larry Ryals, Rudolph Sanders, James Spears, Pam Stephenson, Ann Stewart, Jackie Stewart, Kemp Stewart, Ricky Suggs, Billy Tart, Danny Turlington, Jeff Turlington, Tony Turlington, Jo Ann Upchurch, Pat Wagner, Betsy Weaver, Linda Weaver, Frances Weaver, Tony Weaver, Pat West, Gayle Wilkins, Janice Williams, Richard Williams and Pam Wolf (Echoing Memories, 1969).
That was an amazing group of students who went in all directions after their graduation from Coats and most of them impacted the arenas in which they chose. One of those graduates of 1969 planned a wedding and a walk down the church aisle. Truelah Pleasant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.A. Pleasant, was to marry William Battle Wagstaff, Jr. (Daily Record June 5, 1969).
Two members of the Coats baseball team had made the All-State Class A Nine team. They were outfielder Barry Butts and utility outfielder Don Ennis. The Coats team had won the county and district championships (Daily Record June 9, 1969). Question-what is an utility outfielder? Was Don not a pitcher?
I do know that Mrs. Inez Poole, Mrs. JoAnn Moore and Virginia Lilly were hospital patients. Mrs. Moore was a new mother and the wife of Devon Moore (Daily Record June 11, 1969).
Gerald Hayes, Jr. who had just received his law degree at Wake Forest University was to begin his practice with attorney D.K. Stewart of Dunn (Daily Record June 11, 1969).
Melvin Dorsey Daniel, 55, of Coats, had died early on a Wednesday in Good Hope Hospital. He was a native of Oxford and was the son of the late Matt Daniel and Maude Brooks Daniel. Melvin was a member and deacon of the Coats Baptist Church and Grove Township ASC Committee. His services were held at the Coats Baptist Church with Rev. Howard Beard, Rev. R.O. Byrd and Rev. Herbert Baker. Burial was in the Lakeside Memorial Gardens. He was survived by his wife-Thessie Denning Daniel; two sons-Dorsey W. and Richard Daniel; two daughters –Jeanette (P.J.) Johnson and Lynda Daniel. He had one brother Thomas and three sisters-Mrs. Woodliff Partin, Mrs. Harold Partin and Mrs. Mrs. Harold Hague (Daily Record Oct. 29, 1969).
Joe and Hannah Tart’s friends continue to honor the memory of Joe’s mom-Mrs. Hazel Pope Tart. Herring Carpet and Interiors, Ronald and Joy Coats, Randy and Rhonda Stephenson and Gary Denning have sent donations to the Coats Museum. Also the Coats High Class of 1962 has honored the memory of their classmate, Lee Roy Williams. The volunteers at the museum are so appreciative of the varied and generous ways that former students come forth to support their local heritage through the Coats Museum.
Do you recall from last week that we mentioned the Coats Junior Order was planning a pageant to pick the 1969 Miss Coats Junior Order and was to be crowned by the 1968 Miss Neta Lee. The Daily Record May 13, 1969 edition printed that members of the Coats Jr. Order had plans to attend the State Jr. Conference in Scotland Neck. Miss Gennie Sorrell, the new Miss Coats Jr. Order, would make her first appearance with the Jr. Order. Gennie played “Bells of St. Mary’s” and “Cotton Picking Boogie” on the piano. She was daughter of Billy and Genevieve Thornton Sorrell. Genevieve was daughter of Wilhemina Barbour Thornton and Jim Thornton, the country music entertainer. Gennie’s great-grandfather was Major Barbour, a charter member of the Jr. Order unit of Four Oaks. Gennie was an outstanding student in her church and school in Garner (Daily Record May 21, 1969).
W.D. Franklin was proud to announce the engagement of his only daughter, Vickie Carol Franklin, to Kenneth Wayne Price, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Price, Jr., of Erwin. The bride-elect was a 1965 graduate of Coats and a junior at NCSU. Her fiancé’ was a junior at UNC Chapel Hill (Daily Record May 21, 1969). Who remembers when Mr. Willie Franklin operated his country store near Campbell University?
I do know that Mr. James L. Parrish, 59, a retired farmer of Coats, had died on Tuesday. Mrs. Lubie Austin and Mrs. Ola Stewart were his sisters. Another Parrish also made news in the same May 14, 1969 edition of the Daily Record. Keith Parrish was elected president of the Coats Student Council after a vigorous campaign.
Linda Odom, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.L. Barefoot of Coats, was surely proud of her husband, Sergeant Joseph R. Odom, for being named Outstanding Airman at Keesler, AFB, Mississippi (Daily Record May 15, 1969).
Mrs. J. D. Lamm and Mrs. Ed Penny gave a surprise organ musical recital on Sunday night at the home of Mrs. Clayton (Annie Ruth) Stewart. Sporting a gift of a corsage of red roses, the honoree, Mrs. Annie Ruth Penny Stewart, played several organ selections during the evening. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs. Max Beasley and Dewayne, Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Beasley, Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Lamm, Mr. and Mrs. Tony Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Fleetwood Adams and daughters Lynn and Denise and their friend, Carol Barefoot, Mrs. Louise Jackson, Clayton Stewart, and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Penny. Don’t you know that was a fun time?
The Coats High baseball team had won the Harnett County Baseball Championship. The team defeated Boone Trail by 9-3. Mike Smith, the successful coach, was surely proud of the good work of Don Ennis when he made a homerun and tripled to help Coats to the victory. Likewise, the team surely had to be proud of Coach Mike Smith who tied with Al Black for the “Coach of the Year in Harnett” (Daily Record May 20, 1969).
Ray Godwin, 35, a radio announcer, had died in Pittsboro. His services were held in the Coats Cemetery. He was survived by his mother, Mrs. Myrtle Godwin and his grandmother, Mrs. Cornelia Godwin of Coats (Daily Record May 20, 1969). Why do these names sound familiar?
The Coats Booster Club honored their athletes and cheerleaders at a ham meal. Johnny Cements, freshmen coach at NCSU, was the speaker. The following students received special awards. Best Offensive Football-Jeff Turlington; Best Defensive Football-Craig Matthews; Most Valuable Player-Jerry Langdon; Best Offensive Baseball- Barry Butts; Best Defensive Baseball-Jimmy Ennis; Most Valuable Baseball-Don Ennis; Most Valuable Basketball-Kay Fish; Sportsmanship Girls-Debbie Ennis; Most Improved-Mary Ellen Johnson; Best Defensive Boys Basketball-Bruce Barefoot; Most Valuable Basketball-Wayne Matthews; Sportsmanship-Steve Faircloth; Most Valuable in Golf-Barry Butts; Most Valuable in Track-Donald McKoy; Most Outstanding Girl Athlete Gale Ennis; Most Outstanding Male Athlete-Don Ennis. Does anyone recall what award Andy Parrish received at the event (Daily Record May 23-25, 1969)?
Bailey is a very prominent name in the area around Bailey’s Crossroads. Lee Bailey, one of the older Bailey men, had died at the age of 71. The retired Benson carpenter had passed on Friday. His services were held at the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church. He was the husband of the late Vivian Buffalo Bailey, a beloved teacher at Benson. He was survived by Waylon, J. Clem, Roscoe, Wade and Lindell Bailey (Daily Record May 26, 1969).
The athletic banquet was nice and the awards were in the hands of the talented recipients, but the baseball season had continued as the team worked toward a first state Class A diamond title. Bruce Barefoot had 2 for 4 at bat including a double while Don Ennis struck out 12 Red Springs batters in getting the win (Daily Record May 26, 1969).
Delano Whittington was moving on up in the CPL Co. to become district accountant in Henderson. A native of Harnett County, he had begun to work at CPL in 1958. He was a Coats High graduate and a 1964 graduate of Campbell College (Daily Record June 3, 1969).
The passing of time had brought the graduation exercises to the 1969 seniors at Coats High. Those to begin a new journey were Bruce Barefoot, Tomi Barefoot, Joan Bryant, Jo Ann Bryant, Barry Butts, Sharon Byrd, Christine Campbell, Dana Coats, Penny Coats, Randy Cooke, Lynda Daniel, Carolyn Denning, Jerry Dennis, Clyde Ennis, Don Ennis, Jimmy Ennis, Jone Ennis, Marilyn Ennis, Phil Ennis, Alice Faircloth, Steve Faircloth, Kay Fish, Louise Flowers, Karen Gregory, Shelia Hargis, Blanche Harris, Mike Hudson, Johnny Jackson, Tom Jackson, Sybil Lamm, Marilyn Langdon, Helen Lockamy, Dwight Maness, Harry Matthews, Tim McKinnie, Jackie McKoy, Keith McLeod, Earlene McNeill, Martha Moore, Danny Norris, Elizabeth Norris, Randy Page, Andy Parrish, Gary Penny, Truelah Pleasant, Randy Rambeau, Barbara Ray, Danny Roberts, Donald Roberts, Larry Ryals, Rudolph Sanders, James Spears, Pam Stephenson, Ann Stewart, Jackie Stewart, Kemp Stewart, Ricky Suggs, Billy Tart, Danny Turlington, Jeff Turlington, Tony Turlington, Jo Ann Upchurch, Pat Wagner, Betsy Weaver, Linda Weaver, Frances Weaver, Tony Weaver, Pat West, Gayle Wilkins, Janice Williams, Richard Williams and Pam Wolf (Echoing Memories, 1969).
That was an amazing group of students who went in all directions after their graduation from Coats and most of them impacted the arenas in which they chose. One of those graduates of 1969 planned a wedding and a walk down the church aisle. Truelah Pleasant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.A. Pleasant, was to marry William Battle Wagstaff, Jr. (Daily Record June 5, 1969).
Two members of the Coats baseball team had made the All-State Class A Nine team. They were outfielder Barry Butts and utility outfielder Don Ennis. The Coats team had won the county and district championships (Daily Record June 9, 1969). Question-what is an utility outfielder? Was Don not a pitcher?
I do know that Mrs. Inez Poole, Mrs. JoAnn Moore and Virginia Lilly were hospital patients. Mrs. Moore was a new mother and the wife of Devon Moore (Daily Record June 11, 1969).
Gerald Hayes, Jr. who had just received his law degree at Wake Forest University was to begin his practice with attorney D.K. Stewart of Dunn (Daily Record June 11, 1969).
Melvin Dorsey Daniel, 55, of Coats, had died early on a Wednesday in Good Hope Hospital. He was a native of Oxford and was the son of the late Matt Daniel and Maude Brooks Daniel. Melvin was a member and deacon of the Coats Baptist Church and Grove Township ASC Committee. His services were held at the Coats Baptist Church with Rev. Howard Beard, Rev. R.O. Byrd and Rev. Herbert Baker. Burial was in the Lakeside Memorial Gardens. He was survived by his wife-Thessie Denning Daniel; two sons-Dorsey W. and Richard Daniel; two daughters –Jeanette (P.J.) Johnson and Lynda Daniel. He had one brother Thomas and three sisters-Mrs. Woodliff Partin, Mrs. Harold Partin and Mrs. Mrs. Harold Hague (Daily Record Oct. 29, 1969).
Joe and Hannah Tart’s friends continue to honor the memory of Joe’s mom-Mrs. Hazel Pope Tart. Herring Carpet and Interiors, Ronald and Joy Coats, Randy and Rhonda Stephenson and Gary Denning have sent donations to the Coats Museum. Also the Coats High Class of 1962 has honored the memory of their classmate, Lee Roy Williams. The volunteers at the museum are so appreciative of the varied and generous ways that former students come forth to support their local heritage through the Coats Museum.