May 17, 2024 Coats Museum News
It was July of 1994 and surely the temperatures verified it to be another hot day in the Coats area. Likely some farmers were checking out the cotton fields to see if a cotton blossom was to be found. Blooms do appear around the fourth of July-right? Maybe others were enjoying a watermelon or two from the patch-they did call it a watermelon patch?
This I do know. Several people in the Coats area were on the go while others may have wished that they could have been. Belle in her “Notes from Coats” shared the following names of those who were either shut-ins or in the hospital: Agatha McLamb, Goldie Ammons, Dorothy Johnson, Clarence Johnson, Louise Ennis, Mattie Walker, Louise McLamb, Carvis Barnes, Joy Renfrow and Bernice Bayles.
Those on the go list were Hilda, Gail and Kevin Pope who had attended the Thrashers reunion in Denton, NC. where they had a parade of very old tractors, steam engines and Aunt Bee’s old Studebaker (Daily Record July 7, 1994).
Baseball is still in full swing as Coats I swept a doubleheader from Coats II to win the Eastern Harnett Junior Tar Heel League baseball championship. All-stars were named for Coats I and II. On Coats I, the following were named: Adam Ennis, Gary Walden, Ashley Stewart, Jeffrey Stewart, James Norris, Chip Prevatte, Garyen Denning and James Blackman.
From Coats II, these boys were named All-stars-Thomas Hamilton, Steven Tart, Corey Turlington, Clint Stevens, Jonathan Tart and Travis Weaver. Coaches were head coach Don Ennis, Ronnie Tart, Carsie Denning, Jr., and Jody Pollard (Daily Record July 11, 1994).
Heloise E. Holmes, 73, died on Monday after an extended illness. She was the daughter of Lynn and Attie Peterson Ennis. Rev. Jesse Mooney held her services at the Rose and Graham Funeral Home Chapel in Coats. Three daughters- Beth H. Kilgo, Francine Williams and Lindy Edwards, survived her. William Lynn Ennis was her son. Evelyn E. Ennis was her only sister.
The Rev. Carey D. Watkins and Mucie H. Watkins of Coats celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the historic Spring Hill House in Raleigh. Who remembers when he taught in Junior High at Coats School?
Surely many of you remember Grady Matthews. In 1994 he celebrated his 65th birthday. The sad thing about that birthday was that he was a patient in Rex Hospital. Another memorable event occurred at the home of Garner Rose Ennis where 25 people from Coats Baptist Church enjoyed a cookout.
Yellow ribbons had blown in the breeze to welcome home James Denning from Wake Medical Center where he underwent by-pass surgery. Bryant Norris had spent several days at Rex Hospital. Other shut-ins were Lillian Bowden, Garland Whittington, Debby Pollard, Clyde Stone, Margaret Johnson, Willie Mae Parrish, Eula Byrd and Edna Mae Parker.
Willie Joyner had received terrible news that two of her siblings and their spouses were involved in an accident with a tanker filled with gasoline. A sister and sister-in-law were killed instantly while the other two in the car were expected to be ok. Fortunately the tanker did not explode or they all would have been killed (Daily Record July 14, 1994).
The Coats Chamber of Commerce honored the Coats Police officers with a breakfast. Police Commissioner Max Beasley and Mayor Tim McKinnie, CACC President Teddy Byrd, Nelson Baird, Larry Ryals, Keith Parrish, A.L. McKoy and Douglas Brownie were among those present (Daily Record July 15, 1994).
I am sure that many who returned to Coats for the 1979 Coats High School class of that year were saying such things as “I can’t believe it has been 15 years” or maybe they said, “You have not changed one bit” or may be a few whispered, “Who is that over there with so and so?”
The eighteen members of the class who attended the reunion at Frisco Bay were Michael E. Pope, Charles Coats, Lewis Whittington, Michael T. Pope, Forrest Fleming, Jack Barefoot, Dee Langdon, Michael Beasley, Trent Sorrell, Ricky Ennis, Jennifer Faircloth, Paulette Holland, Susan Gonzalez, Diedre Barnes, Cindy McGee and Barbara Dragg (Daily Record July 19, 1994).
If the class had a reunion this summer, what reunion number would be on the invitation?
Last week was very busy at the museum. We had Chester Hartwell from the Angier Museum drop in on his way to visit the Dunn Museum also. The former New Yorker who now resides in the Angier area very much wants the town to have a museum that is worthy of their growing area. Our visitor from Australia was delightful. She was mother-in-law of Howard Bridges’ son.
It was July of 1994 and surely the temperatures verified it to be another hot day in the Coats area. Likely some farmers were checking out the cotton fields to see if a cotton blossom was to be found. Blooms do appear around the fourth of July-right? Maybe others were enjoying a watermelon or two from the patch-they did call it a watermelon patch?
This I do know. Several people in the Coats area were on the go while others may have wished that they could have been. Belle in her “Notes from Coats” shared the following names of those who were either shut-ins or in the hospital: Agatha McLamb, Goldie Ammons, Dorothy Johnson, Clarence Johnson, Louise Ennis, Mattie Walker, Louise McLamb, Carvis Barnes, Joy Renfrow and Bernice Bayles.
Those on the go list were Hilda, Gail and Kevin Pope who had attended the Thrashers reunion in Denton, NC. where they had a parade of very old tractors, steam engines and Aunt Bee’s old Studebaker (Daily Record July 7, 1994).
Baseball is still in full swing as Coats I swept a doubleheader from Coats II to win the Eastern Harnett Junior Tar Heel League baseball championship. All-stars were named for Coats I and II. On Coats I, the following were named: Adam Ennis, Gary Walden, Ashley Stewart, Jeffrey Stewart, James Norris, Chip Prevatte, Garyen Denning and James Blackman.
From Coats II, these boys were named All-stars-Thomas Hamilton, Steven Tart, Corey Turlington, Clint Stevens, Jonathan Tart and Travis Weaver. Coaches were head coach Don Ennis, Ronnie Tart, Carsie Denning, Jr., and Jody Pollard (Daily Record July 11, 1994).
Heloise E. Holmes, 73, died on Monday after an extended illness. She was the daughter of Lynn and Attie Peterson Ennis. Rev. Jesse Mooney held her services at the Rose and Graham Funeral Home Chapel in Coats. Three daughters- Beth H. Kilgo, Francine Williams and Lindy Edwards, survived her. William Lynn Ennis was her son. Evelyn E. Ennis was her only sister.
The Rev. Carey D. Watkins and Mucie H. Watkins of Coats celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the historic Spring Hill House in Raleigh. Who remembers when he taught in Junior High at Coats School?
Surely many of you remember Grady Matthews. In 1994 he celebrated his 65th birthday. The sad thing about that birthday was that he was a patient in Rex Hospital. Another memorable event occurred at the home of Garner Rose Ennis where 25 people from Coats Baptist Church enjoyed a cookout.
Yellow ribbons had blown in the breeze to welcome home James Denning from Wake Medical Center where he underwent by-pass surgery. Bryant Norris had spent several days at Rex Hospital. Other shut-ins were Lillian Bowden, Garland Whittington, Debby Pollard, Clyde Stone, Margaret Johnson, Willie Mae Parrish, Eula Byrd and Edna Mae Parker.
Willie Joyner had received terrible news that two of her siblings and their spouses were involved in an accident with a tanker filled with gasoline. A sister and sister-in-law were killed instantly while the other two in the car were expected to be ok. Fortunately the tanker did not explode or they all would have been killed (Daily Record July 14, 1994).
The Coats Chamber of Commerce honored the Coats Police officers with a breakfast. Police Commissioner Max Beasley and Mayor Tim McKinnie, CACC President Teddy Byrd, Nelson Baird, Larry Ryals, Keith Parrish, A.L. McKoy and Douglas Brownie were among those present (Daily Record July 15, 1994).
I am sure that many who returned to Coats for the 1979 Coats High School class of that year were saying such things as “I can’t believe it has been 15 years” or maybe they said, “You have not changed one bit” or may be a few whispered, “Who is that over there with so and so?”
The eighteen members of the class who attended the reunion at Frisco Bay were Michael E. Pope, Charles Coats, Lewis Whittington, Michael T. Pope, Forrest Fleming, Jack Barefoot, Dee Langdon, Michael Beasley, Trent Sorrell, Ricky Ennis, Jennifer Faircloth, Paulette Holland, Susan Gonzalez, Diedre Barnes, Cindy McGee and Barbara Dragg (Daily Record July 19, 1994).
If the class had a reunion this summer, what reunion number would be on the invitation?
Last week was very busy at the museum. We had Chester Hartwell from the Angier Museum drop in on his way to visit the Dunn Museum also. The former New Yorker who now resides in the Angier area very much wants the town to have a museum that is worthy of their growing area. Our visitor from Australia was delightful. She was mother-in-law of Howard Bridges’ son.