CLASS OF 1958

 

 

Anyone from other classes wishing to attend are welcome.  You can send the registration to David Maddox as indicated on the form.

 

 

 

 

 

Class of 1958's 45th Reunion

held at the old State Theater on Main Street

Row 1

Reba Isaacs, Elizabeth Turner, Audrey Foster Herd, Charlotte Sanders Nelson, Sara Dell Thomas Halm, Mary Helen Kyle Chapin 

Row 2

Patsy Herriage Strand, Sandra Schiflett Armstrong, Ellen Burger Nicholas, Sonia Gordon Turnbow, Amelia Stonekirk Wright, Janet Burks Gerard, Anne Hagans Rousey, Elayne Tignor Vick, Mary Katherine Ray Heaton, Waldene Trim Nevil, Nelda Phillips Perdue,  Frances White Reeder, Hazel Bernethy Means, Theda James Fenstermacher, Judy Hoover Gohlke 

Row 3

Angelo Weda, Hancy Harris Hatch, Barbara Clift Francis, Marion Richards Ivey, Horace
Benedict, Jerry Jones, Jack Melvin, Ronald Joe Clapp, David Maddux, Jerry Hopper, Earnie Louis, Donna Moore Lane, Ann Morgan Henderson, Brenda Dyer Carver, Garland Nevil, Jay Buckner  

Row 4

Cal Hedgpeth, Gary Bob Mosse, Barbara Gameson Atnip, Hazel Campbell Shiflett, Carol Volpert Castelli, Mary Bruton Smallwood, Elaine Weger DeFratus, Pat Wright Hedgpeth, Opal Ulch Bradshaw,  Jimmy Raper, Jim Brown, Judy Odeneal Cheek, Virginia Watson, David Markham 

Row 5

Thurman Johnson, Bob Rutledge, Donna Johnson Merrell, David Nelson, Gene Wineinger, David Harlan, Laurel McCune Goodman, Kenneth Arthur,  Charles Holder, Donald Crowell, Larry Meaderis, Jackie Hunt, Lyn Massey, Chuck LaFoy, Frankie Waymire, C J Ransom, Billy Killough, Darrell Burnett, Walter Smith, Billy Carr, James Knight, Horace Groff, Richard Ellison

 

 

 

C. J. Ransom & Father James Knight

 

  

Father James Knight passed away January 12, 2007.

See the Gone But Not Forgotten page.

 
 

 

 




Members of the Class of 1958 were the first class of eighth graders to attend the old high school on Main Street in 1953-54 when it became McDaniel Junior High. They also were freshmen again at the new high school on Mirick Avenue the next year.

About 40 women from that class now are living in Denison and the list continues to grow as classmates retire and move back home.

Twenty of the women classmates kicked up their heels at a lunch and get together in early August at the Meadows of Wesley Village Community Center.

Bettye Farley Blair and Waldene Trim Nevil hosted the trip down memory lane and everyone brought a favorite salad and spent the afternoon sharing food, their lives and memories of the last 69 years.

Six of the group attended Sam Houston School that had its own cheerleading squad, the “Cowgirl Cheerleaders” in 1952-53. Other schools represented at the gathering were Layne, Raynal, Lamar, Peabody, Golden Rule, Central Ward and St. Xavier’s.


 



 

 

 

Readying for group photo


From top left: Janet Burks Gerard, Anne Hagans Rousey,

    Dell Thomas Halm, Charlotte Sanders Nelson

 

 

From top left: Dell Thomas Halm, Nelda Phillips Perdue,

  Elayne Tignor Vick

 

Carl Linsteadt

 

David Markham and David Maddux
 

Class of ’58, 2003 reunion: Jerry Strickland, Judy Hoover

 Gohlke, Charles Sherrard (deceased)

 

Lyn Massey

 

Audrey Foster Herd and Garland Nevil having a good laugh

 

 

Some classmates at the gathering who went to Central Ward Elementary: From left: Jerry Stricklin, Charles Sherrard (deceased) Nelda Phillips Perdue, Janet Burks Gerard, Brenda Dyer Carver, Dell Thomas Halm, David Maddux, Gary Bob Mosse, Elayne Tignor Vick, Walter Smith (behind).

 

 

C J Ransom

 

 

 

 

Luncheon for Women of Class of ‘58

 

In early August of 2006, Judith Waldene Trim Nevil and Betty Farley Bair held a luncheon in Denison for women living in town and from the surrounding area of the class of ’58. They came early and stayed late, catching up with each other since the last reunion in the fall of 2003.

 


Most of the attendees are in this photo:

Back row from left:  Judy Hoover Gohlke, Elane Weger Defratus, Patricia Callaway, Audrey Foster Herd, Patricia Hales Smith (standing in back), Juanita Fulce Swindell, Martha Jackson, Judith Waldene Trim Nevil, and Marilyn Kretsinger.

Front row from left: Betty Farley Bair, Ellen Nicholas Burger, and Mary Katherine Ray Heaton. Not pictured: Elayne Tignor Vick and Carol Burchett Troxell.

 

Audrey Foster Herd and Judy Hoover Gohlke took care of the sign-in book at the luncheon.

 

Carol Burchett Troxell, Betty Farley Bair, and Marilyn Kretsinger talk about how long it’s been since they were together.

 

 

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