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                                                                                         ​September 4, 2020 Coats Museum News
The month of May 1985 continued to be displayed on Daily Record articles and shared the obituaries relevant to the Grove-Coats Township. Lula Coldin of Coats had mourned the death of her sister, Mrs. Mary Emma Womble Green, 68, of Fayetteville (Daily Record May 232, 1985).
Jacob Moore, 70, of Route One, Benson, had died. He was survived by his wife, Mrs. Florence Norris Moore; sons-James Sherrill, Donnie Jake, Jackie Lee, Durwood Shelton, and Charles Ray Moore. His siblings were Silas, John, Enoch, Isaac, Mrs. Sarah Hudson, Mrs. Naomi Temple, and Mrs. Mary Stevens.
A second obituary was recorded in that same May 27, 1985 edition of the Daily Record. Mrs. Clyda Young Dupree, 74, of Angier had died. She was survived by daughters-Mrs. Donna D. Gaskin and Mrs. Janet D. Adams and two sons- Ronald Dupree and Johnny Lee Dupree. Her sisters were Mrs. Leta King, Mrs. Christine Dupree, Mrs. Cleo Johnson, and Mrs. Edna Kelly and brothers were Millard and Colon Young.
Denise Williams was the 1985 All-Area high school softball team Player of the Year. Penny Weaver had earned that title in 1984. The two young women played well on the team as it defended its Carolina Conference title under Coach Dan Honeycutt (Daily Record May 29, 1985).
The May editions of the Daily Record continued to record obituaries of local citizens. Mrs. Ellie Cook Barbour died at age 73. Of the many who survived her, two were from the Coats area. Stepson Melvin Barbour and her sister, Mrs. Lena Stanley were both from Coats.
Many from the Coats area were patients at Good Hope Hospital in Erwin. Among them were Jerry Coleman Bryant, Thelma Gregory Johnson, Fay Wise and Dorothy Godwin Coats.
 Mayor Godfrey Beasley, Executive Secretary of the NC Public School Maintenance Assoc., had been elected NC state representative for the Southern School Plan Management Assoc. Elsewhere, Mark Williams had the distinction of being on the All-Area baseball team for the second season (Daily Record May 30, 1985).
Death is always a sad event for families but to lose someone at a young age has to result in the family asking “Why?” I don’t know if that was the case when Donnie Earl Thornton, 28, of Coats died. I do know that he was survived by his wife, Lela Harper Thornton, and siblings-James W. Thornton, Shelton Gene Thornton, Joyce Powell, Betty Davis and Barbara Tew (Daily Record May 31, 1985).
Baseball and softball continued to make the news. The members of the Coats High School Softball Team were Foy Pope, Leslie Johnson, Tonya Wood, Amy Parrish, Elaine Ennis, Rhonda Pope, Andrea Ennis, Tara Johnson, Tina Dunston, Alice Ann Roberts, Shannon Lucas, Penny Weaver, Denise Williams, Cindy Matthews, Christie Gregory and manager-John Weaver- under the leadership of Coach Dan Honeycutt.
The school bus drivers in Harnett County gathered for the end of year recognitions. They had had another safe year. Also present were School Superintendent R.A. Gary, School Board Chairman Gerald Hayes, and Norfleet Gardner, Director of the Transportation for the State Board of Education (Daily Record June 4, 1985).Who were the Coats student bus drivers?
In Coats, Dennis Pope and Robert Eason were busy seeing that the new garbage truck proved to be worth the $17,000 chassis purchased by the town. The “packer” or back of the old truck was added to the new chassis. Mr. Pope was the Coats Public Works Director who was honored in 1985 for 10 years of exemplary service. The town also purchased a new $75,000 fire truck.
Athletic awards were presented to Coats students. Those receiving awards were Dion Blue, Foy Pope, Amy Parrish, Dana Barnes, Wanda McDuffie, Rhonda Pope, Denise Williams, Andrea Ennis, Clay Stephenson, Shannon Lucas, Penny Weaver, Tara Johnson, Alex Gregory, Stephen Rambeau, Maurice Hayes, Jesse Dixon, Toby Stevens, Terry Dibella, Darryl White, Kenneth Clevenger, Mark Langdon, Will Pope and Mark Williams.
Mark Langdon, son of Kent and Edna Langdon, was valedictorian and Foy Pope, daughter Gail and Hilda Pope, earned salutatorian for the 1985 graduating class. The marshals were Tonya Eason, Kathryn Gaskins, Amy Parrish, Andrea Ennis, Rhonda Pope, Gary Meadows, Steven Lane, Stephen Rambeau, and Chief Marla Langdon (Daily Record June 5, 1985).
Death had taken Mrs. Malissa McKoy of Maryland, formerly of Coats. She was survived by her son- Cornell McNeill and her sister- Mrs. Della M. Wright (Daily Record June 6, 1985).
The Coats Museum volunteers continue to acknowledge and thank the many friends and family of Joe Tart as they remember Joe with memorials to the museum. They come from near and far. Dana and Randy Byrd, Gary Denning, Walter and Rhonda Edwards, Kent Hudson, Jr., Elaine Marshall, Timothy Morris, PA, James and Janet Slusser, Joseph and Laila Turlington, James and Lena Honeycutt, James Honeycutt, Jr. and family, Brent and Angela Cassiday Tate, Claire, Nick and John Casssidy. Also we wish to share that Hilda Pope has remembered her former church and Kiwanian friend - Betty Johnson, with a memorial. Thanks  to all of you  from the folks who love the Coats Museum.