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JUNE 30, 2006
Where
Are They
Now?
Catch up with old friends through this
special publication of
The Moultrie Observer
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Index
NAME
PAGE
Marjorie Alexander..............................................................26
Ruth Alexander ....................................................................8
George Babanats Jr. ..........................................................10
Syvil Beinert........................................................................14
Michelle and Jef Bell ............................................................4
Nadine Bowden ..................................................................16
Maxine Brown ....................................................................24
Sheryl Johnson Burkett ......................................................12
Timothy Carroll......................................................................8
Casey Clark ........................................................................10
John Copeland....................................................................22
Michael Covington ................................................................4
Bill Cunningham..................................................................26
Harold and Annie Holloway Davis ........................................6
Kay Beckner De Lama ..........................................................4
Z. Monroe Dismuke ............................................................28
Fred and Charlotte Dunlap ..................................................6
Anna and Clint Fleetwood ..................................................26
Jim Fountain ......................................................................26
Donna Graham ..................................................................10
Lorna Green and family ......................................................16
Christina and Frankie Gunn..................................................8
Patrick Harper ......................................................................8
Donald Harrod ......................................................................4
Michael Holloway................................................................18
Odessa Hooker ..................................................................12
John Hughes ........................................................................6
Lawrence Hyde ....................................................................6
David James ......................................................................26
Buffy Jenkins ......................................................................12
Jackie Jenkins ....................................................................26
David Joiner ..........................................................................6
William Lee ........................................................................10
Joan Lewis ............................................................................8
Loretta Lipsey ....................................................................24
Jack and Mabel Lockard ......................................................4
Shandanh McClendon-Thomas ........................................10
Clif McCraken ....................................................................18
DaLeeta Mullaley ..................................................................4
John Parker ........................................................................14
Robert and Lacy Parker......................................................20
Richard and Amy Parker ....................................................18
Lugene Patilla Sr.................................................................26
Calvin Pearson....................................................................28
Azilee Powell ........................................................................8
Janet Pugh..........................................................................20
Ginger Reeves ....................................................................10
Bill Ross ................................................................................4
Beth and Stephen Scott........................................................6
Dwayne Sears ....................................................................14
Melissa Sensi........................................................................6
Cynthia Shinnick ................................................................12
Ginger Soud........................................................................22
Janet Stephens ..................................................................18
John and Bobby Swanson..................................................16
Sally Talton..........................................................................26
Jesse Thomas ......................................................................4
Alvin Tillman........................................................................16
Jon Wheeler........................................................................20
Rodney Williams ..................................................................4
Victor Williams ....................................................................20
William Wills Jr. ..................................................................24
Friday, June 30, 2006
Where are they now?
Right here, of course!
The Moultrie
Observer set out a
few weeks ago to
compile a directory
of our friends and
neighbors who have
left Colquitt County
as they followed their
own paths into the
world. Our success is
wrapped in the pages
you hold in your
hands.
Nearly 70 former
Colquitt Countians
replied to our
requests, and we
have included their
information here.
Many provided
addresses, telephone
numbers or e-mail
addresses to allow
their old friends to
contact them. Others
chose not to but did
share what they’ve
been up to in their
professional or personal lives.
Some responded
with a simple list of
facts, such as those
requested by forms
printed in The Moultrie Observer, while
others sent in stories,
letters or essays,
such as the one printed on Page 4 about a
Pennsylvania pilot
who lived in Moultrie
while training at
Spence Field during
World War II.
At left is an index
of the former
Colquitt Countians
who responded to our
call, alphabetized by
their surnames. Look
closely; some of our
old friends married
after they left us.
The Observer is
grateful for the participation, and to the
former neighbors
who have moved
away we offer a
beloved Southern
greeting: Y’all come
back now, ya hear!
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to our
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would like to thank the
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A story of old friends
orene Harrell, a resident of
The Golden Apple Assisted
Living Home in Moultrie,
asked me to write this information up so that she could share it
with the people of Moultrie and
stress how important old and new
friends are as we go through life.
Here is her story.
Early in 1945, Mrs. Harrell
rented a room to a young Army
Air Corps pilot and his wife. The
couple’s name was Jack and
Mabel Lockard. Jack was a B-17
pilot and had flown 35 missions in
the European Theater in World
War II. As he completed this mission, he was sent to Spence Field.
At this point in time, Mrs. Harrell’s husband was also away in
service to his country.
Mrs. Harrell opened her home
to the Lockards and immediately
set about making them welcome
to the community and to her
home.
Mrs. Harrell had three young
L
KAY TILLMAN
BECKNER DE LAMA
Kay Tillman
Beckner De Lama
The daughter of Ben and
Pearlie Tillman, Kay De
Lama lived in Moultrie and
Ellenton until she was 8
years old. “There was 11 of
us children,” she wrote. “My
twin brother and I are the
youngest. His name is Ray
Tillman.”
De Lama has been a Realtor since 1985 in Tampa, Fla.
She’s married to Ron De
Laman, who is also in the
real estate business. She has
two sons, Richard H. Beckner and Darby Joe Beckner.
“When living in Georgia,
my two best friends were
Kay Aulton and Shirley
McCraney,” De Lama said. “I
am sure they both are married and I have no idea who
to. My first grade teacher
was Mrs. Mullis. My family
all went to the Buck Creek
Baptist Church. Some of our
family there was the Emory
May family and the Paul
Brazel family.
You can write to her at
5212 Holland Ave., Tampa,
FL 33617. Her phone number
is (913) 263-8353.
Jesse Thomas
Jesse Thomas graduated
from Moultrie Senior High in
1968 and from Norman College in 1970. Now a resident
of Cobb County, Thomas is a
29-year employee at Bell
South, working in the corporate finance department.
“My best memories about
living in Moultrie would be
the lessons on life learned
from my employer and customers while I worked at
John Strong’s Grocery in
northwest Moultrie from
1961 through 1970,” he said.
DALEETA MULLALEY
DaLeeta Mullaley
DaLeeta (Cayton-Dunn)
Mullaley lived in Moultrie
from 1977 to 1988. She graduated from Colquitt County
High School in 1980. She left
Moultrie to move to Jack-
children who graciously accepted
the Lockards in their family. Mrs.
Lockard shared in an article for
her town’s newspaper on Oct. 22,
2000, that after a few weeks of
knowing the Harrells, she and
John were allowed to take Lillie
Ann, 4 years old, to a restaurant
downtown to dinner. Lillie Ann
and Mabel both had blond hair
and all the folks told them how
dear their daughter was. It
thrilled both of them as they had
no children of their own.
The Lockards and the Harrells
had many family outings together
and the Lockards became a very
important part of the Harrells’
extended family.
The Lockards moved to Pennsylvania several months later as
Jack was discharged from the service. They got busy with home
folks, jobs, college, raising family
and neglected to keep in touch
with the Harrells.
Fifty years later, Mrs. Lockard
sonville, where she lived for
16 years
She now lives at 212
Riverbend Road, Ormond
Beach, FL 32174 with her
husband and four of her six
children. Her first grandchild is due any day now.
Mullaley is a supervisor
for a large mortgage company in Lake Mary, Fla.
She said she has several
friends who still live in
Moultrie, but she doesn’t
get to visit as much as she’d
like. Her brother moved to
Tifton and her mother to
Jacksonville, so no family
remains here.
“I do miss small town life
and the closeness of the
true friends that I have
there,” she said. “When I do
come home I am truly
amazed at how much Moultrie has changed!”
Bill Ross
“My fondest memories
are of Moultrie 1969-1977
when I worked for Mr. Doug
Turner at WMTM-FM,” said
“Country Boy” Bill Ross.
found an address on a picture of
Mrs. Harrell and sent a card with
the notation “If this reaches you,
please respond.”
A brother-in-law lived next to
the old address and received the
card. He took the letter to Mrs.
Harrell and she was so excited to
learn of the Lockards’ whereabouts. She wrote a long fat letter
to Mabel Lockard with an update
on her family.
They now keep in touch by
exchanging letters and pictures.
Lillie Ann in now just Ann and
has children and grandchildren of
her own.
Mrs. Lockard writes, “With all
our travels and the many folks we
have met in the last 50-some-odd
years, Lorene, Anne, Bobby, Freddie and Janet [Harrell’s other
three children] have a very special place in my heart.”
— Submitted by
Sandra G. Askew
“Gosh, I wish I could bring
back that experience. The
folks in all that area were
great neighbors and my
family really enjoyed living
there. I been from coast to
coast on the radio and can
truthfully say my time in
Moultrie was really fun and
I wish I had stayed instead
of leaving for a radio job in
Atlanta.”
Ross is the DJ for the
afternoon oldies show on
WGFS in Covington, Ga.
You can e-mail him at billrossads@yahoo.com.
Michele and Jef
Bell
Michele Bell, formerly
Michele Caudill, was raised
in Doerun but moved away
in 1990. Her parents are Darlene Bell and the late Ronald
Bell.
“I have too many fond
memories to list, although
most of my fondest memories were with my family
working the farm and the
smell of dirt and cooked
tobacco,” she said. “My dad
was a tobacco grower for
many many years.”
She married Jef Bell, formerly of Moultrie, who is
now retired from the Navy
and works for Lockheed
Martin. They now live in
Key West, Fla.
“I am a phlebotomist
working for Community
Blood Centers of South
Florida, a very rewarding
job,” she said. “I work a
mobile unit so we travel
up and down the Keys
daily.”
The couple has two children, Jeffery, 15, and Megan,
11.
“We all love living here
in Key West but are also
very tired of the hurricanes,” Michele Bell said.
“Our daily scenery consists
of the beautiful waters, wild
dolphins and manatees.”
Michael Covington
Michael Covington lived
in Moultrie twice but only
briefly, at ages 2-3 and 5-6,
but he has kept in touch with
the town through relatives
there.
“My memories of Moultrie are very pleasant and I
always enjoy coming back,”
he said. “It is a jewel of a
town. My best memories are
of attending Mrs. Morgan’s
kindergarten and then R. B.
Wright Elementary School
(where I went straight into
second grade with Mrs.
Lofton, 1963-64), living in the
split-level house diagonally
across from the school, and
hanging out with my friend
Mac (James) Gaston up the
street on Pine Avenue.
(Where is *he* now?)”
“I also remember eating
lemon icebox pie at the Gold
Leaf Restaurant; getting lost
in Trinity Baptist Church;
shopping at Murphy's;
spending a silver dollar at
Rhoden's (back when a silver
dollar was just a dollar); taking a tour of the Moultrie
Observer back in the days of
Linotype machines; and
checking out books at the old
public library, which was
downtown and whose red
brick had not yet been painted over.”
In 1964 Covington’s family moved to Valdosta, and
“after one thing and another,” he is now a professor at
the University of Georgia
and an active writer of
books and magazine articles. Visit him on the Web at
www.ai.uga.edu/mc.
Donald Wayne
Harrod
Donald Harrod left Moultrie in 1970 to work with
Beck Welding in Lancaster,
Pa. He’s now a production
manager with the company.
You can write to him at
702 E. Madison St., Lancaster, PA 17602.
Rodney Williams
Rodney Williams moved
from Atlanta to Moultrie in
the late ’60s and lived here
until 1978.
“We lived off Highway
133 on a road that is now
named after my grandfather,
Earl Hall,” Williams
recalled. “My early years
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Fred and Charlotte Dunlap
Where
were spent around farm life,
which I enjoyed, second to
fishing. When I was 16 or 17
we moved into town near
Moultrie High School, on
First Street.”
Williams now lives near
Ocala, Fla., with his wife,
and works as a licensed
mortgage broker as well as
investing in real estate. They
expect their first grandchild
in late June or early July.
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DAVID JOINER
David Joiner
David Joiner graduated
in 1966, went into the Army,
then attended college. Now
he is married and lives in
Stone Mountain, Ga.
Joiner’s father was a doctor in Moultrie who died in
1991; his mother died in 2003.
One of his brothers owns
Moultrie Paint Center, and
another, Bobby, lives in
Doerun.
“One of my fondest memories,” he said, “is the smell
of popcorn and peanuts
drifting from under the east
side stands at a Friday night
football game at the ‘Mack.’
It is a different world today
and though I no longer live
in Moultrie, I do follow it
closely with the Internet.”
Melissa K. Sensi
Melissa Sensi, formerly
Melissa Lynn Kent, was
born in Colquitt County and
lived in Moultrie until 1994
(except when she was away
at college in Valdosta, where
she earned a degree in psychology.
In 1994 she moved to
Rome, Italy, the home of her
husband. They lived there
until 2 1/2 years ago, when
they moved to the countryside near Rome. The couple
has three children, ages 13,
11 and 9.
“I am a homemaker full
time and teacher of English
as a foreign language occasionally,” she said. “I also
occasionally work as a tour
guide.”
“Among my fondest memories of living in Moultrie
involve those with my family celebrating Halloween,
Christmas and Thanksgiving, since most homes are
brightly decorated during
this time,” she said. “I also
have very fond memories of
the Festival on the Square
and the Expo. I also greatly
enjoyed my senior year of
high school at Pineland High
School.
Sensi visits Moultrie
every summer and plans to
be here this summer as well.
HAROLD AND ANNIE
HOLLOWAY DAVIS
Harold and Annie
Holloway Davis
Harold Davis graduated
from Moultrie High School
FRED AND CHARLOTTE DUNLAP
for Negro Youth in 1950 and
his wife, Annie Mavis Holloway, graduated from
William Bryant High School
in 1955.
“Since leaving Moultrie
in the early ‘50s, our travels
have taken us to many
states in the USA and overseas,” Davis said. “We currently reside in Bellevue,
Neb.”
Davis retired from the
Air Force in 1985 and from
First National Bank of
Omaha in 1996. They have
three children who also
reside in Nebraska.
“We follow happenings
in Moultrie via the Internet,” Davis said.
John F. Hughes
John Hughes lived in
Moultrie from 1959 through
1968, and his parents lived
here until their deaths in
1993 and 2000.
“We relocated to Moultrie with Bridgeport Brass,”
Hughes said. “While I only
attended school in Moultrie
for one year, I had many
friends in the MHS class
of 1964. Attending high
school in Florida, I followed
the state-championshipbound Packers from a distance.
“One of my most vivid
memories was watching my
first high school football
games in the fall of 1959. All
during high and college, I
received The Observer and
still occasionally check the
Internet edition. With parents both gone, I will probably not get to Moultrie as
often as I would like. And I
do appreciate being kept up
to date through the Class of
1964 e-mail network. Great
job by Hugh Lofton.
“We have lived in Dallas
since 1978. My wife, Trish, a
Chicago native, and I have
three children. I spent a
career in corporate finance
and am now involved with a
foundation that supports
our local Jesuit high
school.”
Fred and Charlotte Dunlap are retired and living in
Hoschton, Ga.
We left Moultrie in 1969 to live in Tallahassee, Fla.,
due to employment opportunities. After 14 years in
Tallahassee, we were transferred to Baton Rouge, La.,
(1983) and remained there until retirement in September of 2003. In October of 2003 we moved to our current address about 40 miles northeast of Atlanta. Our
current location puts us halfway between Moultrie
and our daughter in the Charlotte, N.C., area.
Growing up in Moultrie, Fred Dunlap was once a
paperboy for The Moultrie Observer and later worked
during high school for Belk-Hudson on the square. I
graduated in 1954 and attended North Georgia College
and Auburn.
Charlotte Dunlap graduated in 1958.
After our marriage in 1958, we moved to Albany,
then Americus, and later Thomasville; we returned to
Moultrie in November 1960. Fred worked with Friedlanders and later, Swift & Co. Charlotte worked with
Belks and also the City of Moultrie.
In 1964, our daughter, Sandy, was crowned “Little
Miss Moultrie.” Our son, David, was born at the old
Vereen Memorial Hospital in 1968.
Having worked in downtown Moultrie, we once
thought we knew everyone in town. We have visited
our families frequently through the years and are
amazed when we go about town at how few people we
now know or recognize. We still think of Moultrie as
one of the prettiest places around when the dogwood
and azaleas are blooming in the springtime.
Lawrence J. Hyde
Lawrence Hyde came to
Moultrie in 1958, right out of
college, and was a teacher
and coach at the Moultrie
Senior High School for two
and a half years. It was in
Moultrie where he met and
married the former Claire
Duggan.
“Since leaving Moultrie, I
have worked for the Center
for Disease Control and the
US Environmental Protection Agency,” Hyde said. “We
have lived in Augusta, Ga.,
Winter Park, Fla., Birmingham, Ala., New Orleans, La.,
and Atlanta, Ga. I also did
assignments in Dover, Del.,
and Austin, Texas.”
The Hydes live in
Cartersville, Ga. They have
two children, Diane and
Lawrence; and two grandchildren, Graham and Denton Smith.
“I would love to hear from
my former students, football
players, tennis players and
swimmers,” Hyde said. “I
am interested in knowing
how your life has turned out.
Please write me at 45
Latimer Lane N.W.,
Cartersville, GA 30121.”
Beth and Stephen
Scott
Loy “Beth” Carter Scott
and her husband, Stephen
Scott, both graduated from
Moultrie High School in
1972.
“We left to attend college
that same year, but I guess
we really didn’t leave until
1976 when we graduated,
married and moved to the
metro Atlanta area,” said
Beth Scott.
Beth Scott is chief financial officer for a specialty
contracting and engineering
firm; Stephen scott is construction manager for a
petroleum equipment company. They have three children.
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Where
Beth Scott was born in
Moultrie. Stephen Scott
moved here with his family
in 1966, and his father,
David Scott, still lives
here, as do many of their
friends.
“I have a lot of good, fun
memories of dating and getting to know my husband,”
Beth Scott said. “Sweet
memories of my parents,
walks with my grandfather
who lived with us until his
death, childhood friends,
the Christmas lights on the
square, church and school
choirs.”
Stephen Scott said his
best memories included
“dating and marrying my
wife; my father; all of the
Recreation Department
sports; golf at Sunset Country Club.
You can write to them at
4960 Chatsworth Lane,
Suwanee, GA 30024.
ed Ellenton Elementary,
Rita Creek Elementary
and Norman Park High
School. She was a member
of Buck Creek Baptist
Church.
She and her husband
lived in several different
places, including Anchorage, Alaska and Phoeniz,
Ariz. After he retired from
the military, they settled in
Cobb County, Ga.
She said her best memories would include fresh
vegetables, country living
and a much slower-paced
life.
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Patrick Harper
Patrick Harper, who
grew up in Moultrie and
attended Colquitt County
High School from 1984 to
1986, left Moultrie in 1986 to
attend college.
Now he lives in Atlanta,
works in the staffing industry and coaches his two sons
in AAU basketball.
Harper says his best
memories of Colquitt County are of attending Mother
Easter Baptist Church, playing basketball everyday and
“eating my mother’s outstanding cooking.
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Joan Lewis
Joan Lewis, who lived in
Moultrie from June 1977 to
May 2003, moved to Baton
Rouge, La., after her father
died so that she could be
close to her son and his family.
She has worked in a
bridal shop there for two
years.
Both of her children
grew up and graduated
from Moultrie. Her daughter, Felieca Cato Cordle
lives in Winter Park, Fla.,
and her son, Jon Cato, lives
in Baton Rouge. Jon Cato
has a son and daughter
“whom I just adore,” she
said.
You can write to Lewis at
18252 Lake Myrtle Drive,
Baton Rouge, LA 70817.
Her e-mail is
lewisbj@cox.net.
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wife, Shannon Yazzie Carroll, also active duty U.S. Army, and his daughter, 17-month-old Zoey
Danielle Carroll. You can write him at 7350 Ryan St., Fayetteville, NC 28314.
Christina and
Frankie Gunn
Christina Zimmerman
Gunn and her husband,
Frankie Gunn, both grew
up in Moultrie.
They married in 1997
after dating during their
junior and high school
years.
“We had our first child in
2000, which is when we
moved to Chipley, Fla.,”
Christina Gunn said. “I am
a job developer/Counselor I
Calvin Pearson
AZILEE TILLMAN POWELL
Azilee Tillman
Powell
Azilee “Sue” Tillman
Powell, daughter of Ben and
Pearly Tillman, now lives in
Powder Springs, Ga. she has
two sons and five daughters;
three of them live in Florida and the rest in metro
Atlanta.
Powell met her husband
in 1951 while he was stationed at Moody Air Force
Base, and she left Moultrie
about that time. She attend-
My name is Calvin Pearson and I currently live in Omaha, Neb.
I graduated from Moultrie High School For Negro Youth in 1956 and joined the USAF in August of that
year. My father’s name was James Pearson and we lived at 516 Fifth Ave. N.W. in Moultrie. I retired from the
Air Force in 1986 after a 30-year career. I received my bachelor’s from Bellevue University in business
administration in 1989. I worked as the human resources manager for the Douglas County (Omaha, Neb.)
Head Start program from 1991-2005, retiring in January of that year.
Almost yearly, my family and I return to Moultrie to visit family and/or attend class reunions. We will
be attending the Ram Roundup again this year in July.
My sister, Ella J. (Pearson) Swain, worked for many, many years at the home of the former publisher of
The Observer, Max Nussbaum. My father worked at Swift and Company for many, many years and he
walked to work every day as did so many other men who worked at Swift.
During the summer vacations, I remember working with the Roberts in cotton and tobacco. I believe
that now there is a road named for Mr. Roberts. I remember his sons, Bud and Bo.
My mother, Mrs. Willie Belle Pearson, worked for many years as manager of the school cafeteria at
Moultrie High School For Negro Youth.
I remember being late for school many mornings as we only lived one block away from school.
In 1955, my junior class gave the first prom in the gymnasium, now named for Mr. A. F. Shaw, the former
football coach at MHSFNY.
There were eight children in my family and we all attended MHSFNY and five graduated from the
school. There are four siblings remaining and we are all coming to the Ram Roundup this July.
at the Chipley One Stop
Career Center, and Frankie
is a self-employed drywall
contractor.”
They now have two children, Makayla and Destin
Gunn.
Christina Gunn said
their best memories were
their friends and all the
times they shared.
Ruth Schreiber
Alexander
Ruth Schreiber
Alexander was born in
Moultrie in September
1943. Her parents were
Abe and Maggie
Schreiber, and Ronnie
Schreiber is her brother.
She graduated from
June 1961 and then graduated from the School of
Journalism at University
of Georgia in June 1965.
She left Moultrie in
December 1965 and
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Lawrence Franklin
Alexander. They have one
daughter, Marci Ilene
Alexander Rudolph born
in June 1968. They moved
to Nashville, Tenn., in
July 1970.
Ruth Alexander is an
independent insurance
agent and works for Managed Benefits, Inc. Her
home address is 3803
Hillmeade Court,
Nashville, TN 37221. Her
home phone number is
(615) 356-7742 and her
home e-mail address is
lfa@comcast.net.
“I cherish my childhood memories and feel
very fortunate to have
been raised in such a
wonderful community,”
Ruth Alexander said.
GINGER MCQUEEN REEVES
WITH HER SON, JOHN WALTER MCQUEEN REEVES
Ginger McQueen Reeves
Ginger McQueen Reeves graduated from
Colquitt County High School in 1984 and from
Wesleyan College in 1988.
She taught school for 15 years in Clayton
County and another in Fayette County before
becoming a stay-at-home mom in 2004.
She married John T. Reeves in 1990, and their
son, John Walter McQueen Reeves, was born in
May 2004.
She is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Walter McQueen — both long time residents of
Colquitt County.
“My father was born in 1902,” she said. “There
is life after 60; he was 88 when he passed away.”
Among her favorite memories:
• Sharing with her mother a milkshake made
by Miss Betty in Watson’s drug store.
• Riding around the farm in the “hog truck”
with my father.
• Getting a hamburger at Johnnie’s drive-in.
“Once my father had one of the ladies working
there to take a hamburger to Jack, who was in the
truck. She returned inside to let him know that
there was no one in the truck. He told her just to
‘poke it through the crack in the back, and he’d
get it.’ Jack was our dog. Daddy was known for
making folks laugh.”
• Riding around town on Christmas Eve to see
the lights on the square.
Queen on Friday nights
and going to the skating
rink or just a nice drive
on a open back dirt
road.”
You can write to him
at Vaw-123 Unit 60138
FPO AE 09507-6409.
Casey Clark
WILLIAM GARRY LEE
Casey Clark of Norman Park is an active
duty U.S. Navy aviation
structural mechanic
third class. He left Moultrie July 9, 2002, and is
currently serving aboard
the USS Enterprise, an
aircraft carrier in combat operations in support
of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Clark is stationed in
Norfolk, Va., where he is
happily married and the
father of two children,
Tyler and Alexis. He
recently re-enlisted for
four years.
Clark’s parents are
Henry and Kathy Clark,
who still live in Colquitt
County.
“My best memory of
Colquitt County would
be the Christmas lights
on the square,” Clark
said. “I still go by there
every time I visit during
the holiday season. Other
good memories would be
eating ice cream at Dairy
William Garry Lee
William Lee, a 1968
graduate of William
Bryant High School, left
Moultrie when he joined
the Army in 1969.
He now lives in Fayetteville, N.C., where he
works for the Department of Defense and is
soon to retire from
there.
Lee said he has
returned to Moultrie for
the Ram Round-Up in
past years but he isn’t
sure yet whether he’ll be
back this year. With his
retirement coming up, he
said he may consider
moving back to Moultrie
because he has family
here, but he also has family in Fayetteville.
at 631 Riverfront Lane,
Fayetteville, NC 28314 or
e-mail wlee16@nc.rr.com,
or
william.lee2@na.amedd.
army.mil.
Shandanh
McClendon-Thomas
Shandanh McClendonThomas describes her self
as a veteran of Moultrie
and of the United States
Air Force.
A 1995 graduate of
Colquitt County High
School, McClendonThomas left Moultrie in
1996 to join the Air Force.
She’s now a staff sergeant
with 10 years of service,
and she’s stationed at
Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. She’ll be
headed to Spokane,
Wash., for her next
duty assignment in the
fall.
She is married to
Andre Thomas Sr., and
they have two children,
Jaida, 6, and Andre Jr., or
“AJ,” 2.
“My fondest memories
of Moultrie have to be my
high school years as a
cheerleader when I
cheered the Colquitt
County Packers to victory
in the 1994 State Championship,” McClendonThomas said. “Upon
retirement I plan to move
back near Colquitt County to enjoy those times
that I remembered so
dearly. I have lost touch
with so many friends of
the past and would love to
catch up with them.
PSC 80 Box 20482, APO,
AP 96367 (678) 967-4754,
and her e-mail address is
dre_shan4life@hotmail.c
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George Nick
Babanats Jr.
George Nick Babanats
Jr., son of Ruby G.
Babanats and the late
George Babanats Sr., is
now a commercial general contractor in Tampa,
Fla.
Babanats lived all his
young life in Moultrie. He
graduated from Auburn
University then joined
the Navy in 1970. He
returned many, many
times to visit his parents.
He said his best memories about growing up in
Moultrie include “riding
my bike all over, picking
blackberries on the sides
of many back roads and
Friday night football
games.”
You can write to
Babanats at 3301 W. Paris
St., Tampa, FL 33614.
“About two years ago,
my mother moved to
Alabama to be near my
brother,” Babanats said.
“Up to that time, there
have been Babanats in
Moultrie for about 90
years or more.”
You can write to Ruby
Babanats at 2096 Montreat Circle, Vestavia
Hills, Ala. 35216, or to
Nick Babanats’ brother,
Robert Lee “Bob”
Babanats, at 2217 Gay
Way, Vestavia Hills, Ala.
35216.
Ruby Babanats is
retired and lists her best
memories as raising two
sons in a simple time and
era. Bob Babanats is an
engineer.
Donna Anderson
Graham
Donna Graham,
daughter of the late John
and Frances Anderson of
Funston, graduated from
Moultrie Senior High in
1975. She was married for
25 years but is now
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Odessa W. Hooker
My name is Odessa Walker Hooker, oldest daughter of the late Anderson and Pauline Walker.
In 1947, I graduated from Mouitrie High School for
Negro Youth, and I graduated from Paine College,
Augusta, Ga. in 1951. At the University of Cincinnati,
I earned a master’s degree in supervision and administration (M.Ed.) and became an educator.
I married my childhood sweetheart, Homer Hooker. We have five children: three sons and two daughters. We also now have four grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren. Our children earned among
themselves 13 degrees.
My education career spanned 31 years in Georgia,
South Carolina and Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1990, I
retired from education as an administrator and
accepted a job as coordinator of the Fund for Independent Schools of Cincinnati, Inc. (FISC). This is a
program that provides scholarships for minority stuODESSA HOOKER
dents in Cincinnati. In that capacity, I co-founded a
program in Cincinnati called Summerbridge Cincinnati, Inc. Summerbridge Cincinnati, now called
Breakthrough Collaborative, employs talented high school and college students to
teach middle school students and prepare them for rigorous, academic high school
work. When I resigned in 2003 both of them were strong and successful.
In 2003, I published my first book, “With Heads Held High: Legacy of My Southern
Parents.” (You can read about the book at densmorereid.com). In July, 2004, after 49
years in Cincinnati, I moved to Atlanta to be near my great-grandchildren. And in
October, 2005, I was summoned back to Cincinnati to be honored as the cofounder of
Summerbridge Cincinnati. The event was held at The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. My new book, soon to be published, is titled, “Premier African
American Role Models of Cincinnati.”
During the 49 years I lived in Cincinnati, I received many honors as an educator
and for my involvement in community affairs. In 1993, I was named one of 10 Cincinnati Enquirer Women of the Year. The leading newspaper in Cincinnati, The Cincinnati Enquirer sponsors this event each year. Community members are asked to nominate women who have made a difference in the community. Votes are tallied by The
Enquirer staff; the 10 top vote-getters are honored. I came in as the top vote-getter in
1993. In July 2001, I was presented an award as one of five Teachers of Excellence at
the 23rd General Synod of The United Church of Christ.
My teaching experience ranged from preschool to college. This past school year, I
volunteered as a tutor for third graders at one of the elementary schools here in
Atlanta. When I left Cincinnati, I told my friends that I was moving to Atlanta to prepare my great-grandchildren for kindergarten and find a kindergarten that is prepared for them. I have taught the oldest great-granddaughter, 5 years old, how to read.
She wiil enter kindergarten knowing how to read, and with a beginning understanding of writing and mathematics.
Another crowning occasion for this year was the premiere performance of our oldest son’s composition, “Sinai Symphony,” it was performed by the DeKalb Symphony
Orchestra, April 4, 2006. Douglas is a professional engineer, and music is his avocation. Our middle son, David Anderson, is an attorney and a minister. He is on the staff
of First Congregational Church United Church of Christ, where I was elected vice
moderator this year.
I thank God for good health and enjoyment of life. This year, in September, I hope to
celebrate my 76th birthday.
Odessa W. Hooker
132 Cottsford Drive. SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30331
(404) 699-2247
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divorced.
Her daughter, Brittany
Graham Barton, 22, and
granddaughter, Abigail
Elizabeth Barton, still
live in Moultrie. Graham’s 4-year-old son,
William Eric Joyner, lives
with her in Granite City,
Ill., just outside St. Louis,
Mo. She’s lived there for
five years now, and she
works as a long-term care
nurse at a facility in
Caseyville, Ill.
“I very much want to
come back to my roots in
Moultrie, Ga., when I can
because I love and miss
Georgia very much and I
need to be closer to my
daughter and granddaughter and want my
son to know the true
meaning of what it is to
be Southern and have the
kindness and gentleness
of the southern people,”
Graham said. “As they
say, ‘There is no place like
home.’”
for the Appling County
Primary School for 23
years. She has given various educational workshops to other teachers,
including a workshop for
The Early Learning Conference in Atlanta.
Burkett has released
her first children’s CD,
titled, “Our Childhood
Songs and Games.” She
sings the national anthem
at games, memorials, veteran occasions, and even
for the Democratic Conference held in Appling
County for Mark Taylor.
She travels around the
state singing at various
churches, festivals, school
assemblies, and summer
library programs. She is
working on her second
children’s CD and a gospel
CD, and she is publishing
a book.
“My treasured memories of Moultrie are my
days in school,” Burkett
said. “I miss my friends
and loved ones. I left Moultrie in 1983. I married and
moved to Surrency.”
Burkett is married to
Castine Reginald Burkett,
whom she met in Moultrie, and they have one
child, Gabrielle Burkett.
140 Burkett St., Surrency,
GA 31563.
Cynthia Shinnick
SHERYL JOHNSON BURKETT
Sheryl Denise
Johnson Burkett
Sheryl Burkett, a 1972
graduate of Moultrie
Senior High, now lives in
Appling County.
She has been a teacher
Cynthia Gray Shinnick
graduated from Moultrie
High School in 1977. She
now owns Cyn, Inc, a
graphic design and production company she
established in 1988 in Las
Vegas, Nev. She lives with
her husband, Steve;
daughters, Jennifer Flowers and Megan Shinnick;
and granddaughter, London Taylor Reed, at 8416
Willow Point Court, Las
Vegas, NV 89128.
BUFFY JENKINS
Buffy Jenkins
Buffy Peacock Jenkins
left Moultrie in 2003. She’s
now a stay-at-home mother of two, ages 13 and 4,
and she’s “the proud wife
of a U.S. soldier!”
“I would have to say
that my best memories of
Moultrie would have to be
during the Christmas seasons,” she said. “I also
looked forward to the
lights on the square and
parades during that time.
It is a blessing for me to
come back home during
that time and make new
memories with my own
family.”
Her grandparents, the
Rev. and Mrs. James
(Schot) Sellers and Bessie
Crown; her parents, Felton and Judy Peacock; and
her brothers, David and
Shane Zimmerman, still
live in the area.
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AN ESSAY BY JOHN C. PARKER JR.
y name is John C. Parker Jr. and I
was born in Moultrie on Sept. 5,
1936 in the old hospital on West
Central Avenue. My parents were John C
Parker Sr. and Eugenia Parker. We lived at
the end of First Street Southeast about two
houses down from the old Friedlander
home.
My father was the city attorney for a
number of years and served as the representative from Colquitt County to the Georgia Legislature and also served three terms
as the Speaker Pro Tem until his untimely
death in 1940. Following his death, my
mother sold the house and built a small
frame house at the corner of First Street
Southeast and Seventh Avenue; it is still
there today. We moved in just about Pearl
Harbor Day. For a short time while this
house was being built, we lived in some
apartments about a half block further from
town on First Street.
Ronnie Schrieber, whose father ran a
shoe store on Main Street on the square,
lived in the apartment just below us, and
this started a friendship that lasted for
many years. We played ball together almost
every day.
During the war years, 1941-1945, I
remember things were scarce, especially
anything with metal, and collecting scrap
iron was quite common. You couldn’t buy a
car or bicycle or cap pistol. Food was
rationed too. I can still remember the red
and blue tokens that were assigned to us by
the government, one for meat and the other
for other goods.
Across the street from us lived the John
Harvey family. Mr. Harvey ran Harvey’s
supermarket on First Street on the square
just down from Friedlander’s. His children
were named Billy, Betty and Kala. Just up
the street lived Charlie Isom and Frank
Pidcock III. Billy, Charlie, Frank and I
played together quite often — touch football, hide and seek, and such other games
as we could devise.
Those years were noted for the
western movies that played every
Saturday. Billy, Charlie, Frank and I would
take off almost every week to see them.
Such stars as Roy Rogers, Gene Autry,
Red Ryder, Johnny Mack Brown, Sunset
Carson, Jim Steele, Hopalong Cassidy,
The Cisco Kid, Lash LaRue and many
others were my favorites. These names
are probably unknown now to this generation.
M
SYVIL TILLMAN BEINERT
Syvil Tillman
Beinert
Syvil Tillman Beinert
was born in Moultrie in
1939 to Ben and Pearlie
Tillman. She went to
school at Ellenton Elementary and two years at
Moultrie High. She married Joe Beinert in 1958;
they have a son, Fritz
Beinert, and a granddaughter, Krista Beinert.
She has been a real estate
agent for Century 21 for
the past 20 years.
You can write her at
8517 Dee Circle,
Riverview, FL 33569. Her
phone number is (813) 6772142, and her e-mail
address is syvil@verizon.net.
Dwayne B. Sears
Dwayne Sears, the
youngest son of Robert L.
Sears of Norman Park,
left Colquitt County in
1984.
He is now a senior master sergeant in the U.S.
Air Force. He is the production superintendent
for the 53rd Airlift
cross the street from us
lived the John Harvey family.
Mr. Harvey ran Harvey’s supermarket on First Street on the
square just down from Friedlander’s. His children were named
Billy, Betty and Kala. Just up the
street lived Charlie Isom and
Frank Pidcock III. Billy, Charlie,
Frank and I played together
quite often — touch football,
hide and seek, and such other
games as we could devise.
A
I learned to swim (along with many
other people)at the old YMCA on First
Street Southwest. Mr. Kenny was the director and he probably taught most of the
young crowd how to swim. He was a kind,
fine man and was very popular with everyone.
After the war, we started going to summer camp up at Pine Mountain, Ga.
What an experience we all had there.
Swimming in the lake, archery, crafts, softball, canoeing, etc. Sadly, the state took
over the site and created Roosevelt State
Park.
One of my best friends growing up was
Charlie Powell Jr. His father owned all the
movie theaters in town and we’ve stayed
friends for life. The Powells lived on South
Main Street, about two houses past 11th
Ave.
After World War II ended, Moultrie built
the city swimming pool and youth center
on the southwest side of town. What a difference these facilities made! We were sure
lucky to have these sites in our teen years. I
don’t know where we would have hung out.
Also, Sunset Country Club was built as a 9hole course. My uncle gave me a starter set
and I started learning the game. My father
before me was an avid golfer (I am still
playing 2 or 3 times a week) and this early
beginning led to my playing on the high
school golf team. Sunset has now become a
first-class course.
At about this time, Moultrie had no
junior football leagues. Dr. R.C. Gresham,
pastor of the First Baptist Church, started
a junior team for about 10-12-year-olds. The
purpose was to teach sportsmanship, competition and, of course, the fundamentals
of the game. Well, he was highly successful. We played games with Georgia Military Academy, Athens YMCA and several
other teams. All who participated learned a
lot about themselves and the “Game of
Life” in addition to football skills. Leon
Manley also was an assistant coach.
Moultrie began to excel in sports during
this time. “Knuck” McCrary was the head
football coach assisted by Jim Nolan who
also coached the varsity basketball team.
Ike Aultman coached “B” team football
along with Tom White.
I graduated in the class of 1954, a
wonderful group of people. Some of my
close friends in high school were Price
McLean Jr., Eddie Moncrief, Broughton
Williams Jr., Allen Jennings, James Gregory, Bill Wills, Mike Moye and Sonny
Daniels.
During my junior and senior years, our
group of friends would hang out downtown
on the corner of the square where the
Crystal Pharmacy was located. I couldn’t
tell you the number of hours we spent
there but it was considerable and a good
time was had by all. We were real “Drug
Store Cowboys.”
Moultrie was, to my mind, a superb
place to grow up. It was just the right size
where you knew a lot of people and had lots
of friends. I consider myself lucky to have
been reared there. Best of all, I met my
wife there. She was in the class of 1955 —
Flora Jane Fowler. Her father was the manager of Swift & Co for a number of years.
We were married in Moultrie at the First
Baptist Church on July 2, 1960, by the Rev.
Byler.
After high school, I attended Auburn
University on the co-op plan but worked in
Moultrie on alternate quarters living at
home with my mother, I worked with the
state highway department while co-oping
out of the office on Second Avenue Southeast. This lasted until about 1959 when I
graduated from Auburn.
I really lost my connection with Moultrie in 1975 when I had to move my mother
from where she had lived for about 50 years
to South Carolina to be near us. At that
point I no longer had any living relatives
left in Moultrie.
My wife and I are both retired now.
I
You can write to Parker at 1622 Fernwood-Glendale Road, Spartanburg SC
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Squadron at Little Rock
Air Force Base, Ark.,
where he resides with his
wife, Tina, and two
daughters, Heather and
Chelsey.
Sears said his favorite
memories of Moultrie
and Colquitt County are
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Nadine Bowden grew
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County in 1942. Her best
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western movies.
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born near Reed Bingham
State Park at Ellenton
Jan. 28, 1934. He went to
grammar school in Ellenton and Norman Park and
joined the U.S. Marine
Corps Jan. 5, 1954, and
was sent to Korea after
boot camp.
Tillman now lives in
Bushnell, Fla., but still
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at that time and they left
when he accepted employment with the Federal
Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
They spent 32 years in
Birmingham and Selma,
Ala., before moving to
Greensboro, N.C.
Both of their sons were
born at the old Vereen
Memorial Hospital.
“We have wonderful
memories of the years we
spent in Moultrie and the
friends we shared that
time with,” they wrote.
“We are now retired and
Submitted photo
CHRISTMAS EVE FOR THE GREENS: The Green family, photographed Christmas Eve 2005. Front row from left are Tim Green,
Andrew Green, Lorna Hildebrant Green, Elizabeth Green, Rebekah Green O’Dell and John Green. Back row, on the couch, are
Frank Green, David Green and Robby O’Dell.
Lorna Hildebrant Green
My name is Lorna Hildebrant
Green. My family moved to Moultrie in 1975 and I graduated from
Moultrie High School in 1977. I
loved moving here. I made so
many wonderful friends and really enjoyed my time at MHS. I am
so thankful to all of the folks who
accepted me, and loved me, and
made me one of the class of ’77.
After high school I went to college and did not move back to
Moultrie until 1995. At that time
my husband became the pastor of
Hopewell Baptist Church. We
moved to Moultrie with our six
children, who at that time ranged
in age from 4 to 13. We lived in
Moultrie until 2004, so those children basically grew up in Moultrie. They were involved in baseball, softball, piano, etc.
However the experience that
has had the greatest impact on all
of them was being involved in the
C.A. Gray and CCHS choir programs. Kathy Wright and Charlotte Cook have had a lasting
impact on my children's lives.
They taught them the basics of
music and singing, but they have
also influenced them in many
other ways. They have given
them the opportunity to stand in
front of a crowd and perform,
and see that they can live through
it. They have taken them to a
variety of locations all over the
world and expanded their horizons. They have loved them and
guided them through many years
of school.
When we moved to St Louis
our boys were welcomed into the
choir program with very open
arms, due to their training and
education. Then when the work
ethic they learned at C.A. Gray
and CCHS became evident they
became leaders in those choirs.
Andrew even made the choir that
was equivalent to Acapella when
he was in 9th grade — because he
was a Green and that Green had
learned to sing in Moultrie.
Moultrie is a great place to
raise your children. The community pulls together and provides
what those children need to grow
and learn. We miss Moultrie and
still think of it as home and will
be back often to visit.
The Green family is spread out
over four states now, and that is
not fun for Mama, but Moultrie is
still one place we can come and be
together remember all of the
good times.
Frank and Lorna Hildebrant
(class of '77) Green live in St
Charles, Mo. Frank works for
Boeing Corp. as an engineer.
Lorna continues to work for
CRMC.
Rebekah Green O'Dell is married and lives in Savannah. She
has taught high school biology
for the past two years at Calvary
Day School. She is taking a break
from teaching next year and will
be presenting her parents with a
grandchild sometime in early
2007. Her husband, Robby, is an
engineer at Gulf Stream.
Lizzy Green graduated May
2006 from Valdosta State University with a degree in interior
design and is looking for a job.
She is focusing on the Savannah
area so she can hang around and
be the wonderful "Aunt Liz."
Cadet Third Class Tim Green
is a second year cadet at the United States Air Force Academy in
Colorado. He plans to major in
civil engineering. This summer
he will learn to jump out of airplanes.
John Green is a sophomore at
Mississippi College in Clinton,
Miss., majoring in pre-med biology.
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living in Sun City Hilton
Head, which is really in
Bluffton, S.C., halfway
between Hilton Head and
Beaufort.
“Our son Chip and his
family (wife Julie and
daughters Mary Kate, 7,
and Elizabeth, 5) live in
Atlanta where he is a partner in Buckhead Capital
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GA 31047 and has a wife
and three children. His
phone number is (478) 9883708. He is a program
manager for the Department of Defense and
works at Robins Air Force
Base.
Janet Hood
Stephens
Janet Stephens left
Moultrie in 1982, after her
marriage to Jerry
Stephens. She now lives in
Palatka, Fla.
Stephens said she was
a member of the first
graduating class when the
high school was built at its
present location. Another
favorite memory is her
church family at Hopewell
Baptist Church.
Still in Moultrie are her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Hood, and her sister
and brother-in-law, Dr.
Clyde and Debra Lamon.
Stephens is a homemaker.
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FROM LEFT ARE LEAH PARKER, AMY DOROUGH PARKER, LAUREN PARKER AND RICHARD PARKER.
Richard and Amy Parker
CLIF MCCRACKEN
MICHAEL HOLLOWAY
Michael Holloway
Michael Holloway
moved from Moultrie in
1980, right after graduation.
He now lives at 211 Canvass Back Trail, Kathleen,
Clif McCracken
Clif McCracken lives
in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He
graduated from Colquitt
County High School in
1979.
“After studying art history in the U.S. and Italy, I
am currently the associate director of Griffin
Richard Parker and
Amy Dorough Parker
both graduated from
1974. They married in
1978 and moved to
Alabama. They currently live in Russellville,
Ala.
Richard graduated
from the University of
North Alabama and
New Orleans Baptist
Theological Seminary.
He has worked as a stu-
Gallery Ancient Art in
Boca Raton, Fla.
(www.griffingallery.net).
We sell ancient artifacts
from cultures of antiquity such as Greek, Roman,
Egyptian, preColumbian, the Holy
dent minister for the
past 27 years and has
served as minister of
students and education
at First Baptist Church
of Russellville since
1989. He is author of the
book, “Character: Old
Testament Characters
Encounter God,” and
fills in occasionally as
morning DJ at Christian radio 91.3 WFIX.
Amy received her
secretarial science
Land, the Near East, and
the Far East,” he said.
Clifton L. McCracken,
3200 N. Ocean Blvd. #407,
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33308.
degree at Moultrie Area
Vocational-Technical
School in 1975. She
worked at the Alabama
State Department of
Transportation for 10
years and has worked as
secretary at Russellville
High School since 1994.
Richard and Amy
have two daughters,
Lauren and Leah. Lauren recently graduated
from the University of
North Alabama and is a
nurse at ECM Hospital
in Florence, Ala. Leah is
a junior at UNA majoring in English and secondary education. She
is president of the Baptist Campus Ministries
at UNA.
Richard and Amy
say that their fondest
memories of Colquitt
County were their days
in the youth group at
First Baptist Church of
Moultrie.
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VICTOR WILLIAMS
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Victor Williams from Doerun is a soldier in the U.S. Army, stationed in Illinois. He was in the Colquitt County High School Class of
1986.
Where
Jon Wheeler
Jon Wheeler was born
and raised in Moultrie.
He graduated in 1996
from CCHS and was a
member of the County
Rescue Squad and Funston Volunteer Fire
Department.
Wheeler’s mother still
lives in Moultrie while
his father resides in
Baker County, and his
brother and sister-in-law
live in Thomas County.
“Currently we are living in Michigan and I am
serving in the Michigan
Army National Guard on
active duty,” Wheeler
said. He is married to
Carrie Wheeler and they
have two children, Katy
and Anna. Wheeler’s email is jonathan.wheeler1@gmail.com.
Janet Christie
Pugh
Janet Pugh left Moultrie in 1971. She is now a
semi-retired medical
transcriptionist in
Columbus.
Her best memories of
Moultrie and Colquitt
County include Moultrie
High School in the 1940s
and Georgia-Florida
League baseball games.
You can write her at
6158 Miller Road, Columbus, GA 31907.
Robert (Rob) and
Lacy (Michelle)
Parker
Rob and Lacy Parker
left Moultrie in 1992. They
now live in Panama City
Beach, Fla., where they
designs weapon systems
for the U.S. Navy — Rob as
a civilian mechanical
engineer and Lacy as a
civilian electrical engineer.
You can write them at
3116 Laurie Ave., Panama
City Beach, FL 32408
Rob’s father, Robert
Parker, still lives in Moultrie, and Lacy’s mother,
Linda Sands, lives in
Doerun.
Rob Parker said his
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Lacy Parker remembers the relaxing and
beautiful country living.
“Also, marrying my
high school sweetheart,
Rob Parker.”
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John R. Copeland
John Copeland, son of Dr. Lanny R.
Copeland, was born in Albany and
raided in Moultrie. He left Moultrie in
1986 after his parents separated.
“I have so many wonderful memories of Moultrie,” he said. “Riding
bikes near Mr. Dougan’s pond with
Jason and Kevin Blanton. Playing ‘kick
the can’ after dark on hot summer
nights. Fishing in the pond behind Dr.
D.W. Adcock’s house. Going fishing
with my dad at Warrior Creek Plantation. I really miss the small town
atmosphere. People were always friendly and knew your name. I hope one day
to return for a visit with my wife and
son.”
Copeland has been employed with
Chandler Property Management in
Bowling Green, Ky., for more than five
years. He handles real estate management and investment; right now he
oversees 1,000 multi-family housing
units.
He has been married almost nine
years and has a 3 1/2-year-old son, Egan
Ross. A daughter is due in September.
You can write to him at 1709 Park St.,
Bowling Green, KY 42101.
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JOHN COPELAND, RIGHT, HUNTING WITH HIS FATHER, DR. LANNY COPELAND IN RISING SUN, IND., IN MAY.
My favorite memories of Moultrie/Colquitt County
AN ESSAY BY GINGER SOUD
I moved to Moultrie in December 1952 and entered the fifth grade. I lived in the community until June 1960. Following graduation from Moultrie Senior High School
I moved to Jacksonville, Fla., where I was born, and remain here to the present time. I am married and have three adult sons and one very special granddaughter; and
I work as a real estate broker.
My sister, Margaret O’Neal, and her family continue to live in Moultrie and are my ties to the city. My brother-in-law, the late Wallace O’Neal Sr. was a native of
Colquitt County and loved his hometown very much.
My best memories of Moultrie center on the many wonderful people who touched my life during those important years. I had great friends in elementary, junior
high and high school, and they and their families contributed significantly to my life. We had dedicated teachers who were serious about their work. In school, the
girls never had any concern about being assaulted by our male classmates; or being shot by another student. We were made to work hard but it was a safe and happy
environment. I loved being a majorette and member of the band and attending the football games.
I remember that we would walk from school to the youth activities at Memorial Baptist Church. At these activities I remember my dedicated leaders who taught us
many important things, including memorizing Bible verses, which I can still quote! Of course, as we walked we always stopped by The Crystal Drug Store to eat their
delicious steamed hot dogs. I never eat a hot dog that I do not think of those at the drug store!
I remember the many days I spent at the municipal swimming pool, tennis court and Girl Scout Hut, which we enjoyed. I have served two terms in local elected
office here and now realize that Moultrie had a very good city and county government.
Thank you citizens of Moultrie; I owe you a debt of gratitude.
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William R.
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Where
MAXINE TILLMAN BROWN
Maxine Tillman
Brown
Maxine Brown was
born to Ben and Pearlie
Tillman in 1936 and lived
in the Ellenton area and
later moved to Moultrie.
She attended schools in
Ellenton and Norman
Park and later on one year
at Moultrie High School
before moving to Tampa,
Fla.
“We lived in the Ellenton area when I was
young,” Brown said, “and
I remember all the pecan
trees in the yard and having to sweep yards each
Saturday. That was a real
dread each week.
“All my sisters and
brothers used to play in
the trees and in a pond
nearby,” she recalled. “We
would put a wash tub in
the pond and get in it and
another kid would shove
it across the pond. That
was our make believe
boat. Now I live on a river
and have a real boat!
“We also enjoyed fishing in Little River, which
was only a short walk
through the wooded area
and fields. We always
looked forward to the
train coming through our
fields blowing its horn as
it came through.
“Another good memory
is attending the Buck
Creek Baptist Church
each Sunday and then on
Wednesday night.”
Brown moved to
Tampa in 1954 and still
lives there. Her professional life has been in
office work and the past 25
years as a real estate
agent, but she’s now semiretired.
She is married to Marvin Brown and they live at
11210 Winn Road,
Riverview, FL 33569. Her
e-mail address is
maxib2@juno.com.
Loretta (Coley)
Lipsey
My name is Loretta
(Coley) Lipsey. I am a 1963
graduate of Moultrie
High School and am happily married to Wayne
Lipsey, a 1961 graduate of
Moultrie. We married in
1966 and have been happily married now for 40
years and hoping for at
least that many more.
We are the parents of
two children, Anthony
Wayne (Tony) Lipsey and
Laura Montene Lipsey
Hayes. They both live
within 10 minutes of us.
Tony and his wife, Angie,
have three children: Taylor Nicole Lipsey, 13; Trey
Anthony Lipsey, 11; and
Bailey Christina Lipsey.
Laura and her husband,
Matt, have five children:
Kayla Rene Hayes, 14;
Kendall Montene Hayes,
11; Courtney Danielle
Hayes, 8; Cassidy Brooke
Hayes, 6; and Rhett
Matthew Hayes, 2.
Wayne graduated college in 1966 and went to
William R. Wills Jr.,
M.D., moved from Moultrie in 1954 after graduation from Moultrie High
School.
He entered college at
Mercer University in
Macon, followed by
enrollment in 1958 at
the Medical College of
Georgia in Augusta,
where he received his
MD degree in 1962. He
interned at Fitzsimmons Hospital in Denver, Colo.
By this time he was
in the military. He
served with the 2nd
Infantry Division at
Fort Benning, then with
the 1st Infantry Division at Ft. Riley, Kansas,
after which he served in
Vietnam in the Medical
Corps for a year.
When Wills left the
army, he practiced medicine in Douglas, Ga.,
and retired in 1998.
Wills’ parents were
W. Ralph Wills, the
assistant plant manager
work in Atlanta for International Harvester Company and is still with that
company today, although
it changed its name to
Navistar International.
We now live in Brandon,
Fla., just outside of
Tampa.
Wayne and I both were
born and raised in
Colquitt County. His
father and his wife still
live in the house where
Wayne was raised. His
brother, Johnny Lipsey,
lives in the area too. I
lived out in the country at
Rosehill and the road we
lived on is now Coley
Road named after my
family. I still have one sister living in or near Moultrie, Cleone Coley Boyd.
DR. WILLIAM R. WILLS JR.
of the Swift and Co.
plant, and Vann P. Wills,
a nurse at Vereen
Memorial Hospital.
Wills married
Sophie Barrett Cohen
from Waynesboro, Ga.,
and they are the parents
of five children and
grandparents of 18. He
We come home for a
visit whenever we can.
Moultrie will always be
home to us no matter
where we go or how long
we are gone. I consider it
a blessing to have been
raised in Moultrie and
wish my children could
have known the joy of
growing up in a small
town like Moultrie. My
kids and grandchildren
love to come there for a
visit and never want to
leave once we get there.
There are so many
wonderful memories of
being raised in Colquitt
County that it is hard to
pin down just one. I guess
I would have to say that
being raised on the farm
holds the most memories
has one sister,
Elizabeth Vann Wills
DeKranis of Palm
Coast, Fla.
“My fondest remembrances,” Wills said,
“are the classmates of
1954; the First Baptist
Church with Dr. R.C.
Gresham, pastor; the
for me. I would not trade
the upbringing I had for
anything in this world. It
was a lot of hard work living on a farm but the
knowledge I took away
from there will last a lifetime and is worth more
than gold to me. I always
loved going into town and
walking on the concrete
fence around the court
house, eating with my
grandmother on special
days at Napier’s restaurant, going to the movies
at the Colquitt Theater,
and to the drive-in as well.
My very first job was
working at Butler’s shoe
store. I loved cruising
around town on Friday
and Saturday nights with
Wayne, running into our
employment at many of
the drugstores around
the square; highlights
occuring on the court
house square; working
in the tobacco warehouses; and relatives
who lived in Moultrie —
and the many friends
we had as I grew up.”
friends and sharing such
wonderful times together.
On Mother’s Day we
were up for Wayne’s dad’s
90th birthday and we
spent nearly and hour at
the courthouse square
just sitting on the benches, taking pictures, and
letting our grandkids
walk on the concrete wall
like we did as children.
Our current address is
Wayne and Loretta
Lipsey, 1806 Cherry Ridge
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Where
BILL CUNNINGHAM
JIM FOUNTAIN
Bill S. Cunningham
Jim Fountain
Bill Cunningham
graduated from Doerun
High School and joined
the U.S. Navy in 1944. He
retired as the electrician
foreman at Puget Sound
Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Wash.
His favorite memories
include growing up on
the farm with his parents, Clyde and Louise
Cunningham, and two
brothers, Robert and
Clyde; going to New
Elm Baptist Church,
especially homecoming
Sunday; and attending
reunions of Doerun High
School.
at 6618 S. Wapato St.,
Tacoma, WA 98409.
Jim Fountain, son of
James and Dea Fountain,
left Moultrie for college in
1997. He is now a social
worker in Lavonia, Calif.
His favorite memory is
competing in the Battle of
the Bands with Joshua
Generation.
184 Park St., Lavonia, CA
30553.
Lugene Patilla Sr.
Lugene Patilla left
Moultrie in 1962. He’s
now retired from WhiteWestinghouse and the
Columbus City Schools in
Columbus, Ohio.
“My school years were
my best memories,” Patilla said. “We had the best
teachers the world had to
offer.
“I still have a lot of
kin in Moultrie,” he
added. “I return every
two years for the Ram
Roundup.”
You can write Patilla at
3741 Foraker Drive,
Columbus, OH 43219. His
e-mail address is
twc6144765219@earthlink.net.
His phone number is
(614) 476-5219.
Marjorie Horne
Alexander
Marjorie Alexander
left Doerun in 1953. Her
daughter, Charlotte
Wingate, and her brother,
Preston Horne, and their
families still live in the
area, as do other
relatives.
Alexander is now a
retired banker in Ocean
Springs, Miss.
Among her best memories are growing up on
the farm in Doerun,
attending high school in
Colquitt County and
working at Braswell
Jewelers and Watson
Drugs.
S
Anna and Clint Fleetwood
David James
David James, a 1983
graduate of Colquitt
County High School, has
been in the U.S. Army for
22 years and nine months.
A sergeant first class (E7), James is a traffic management coordinator
assigned to Fort Eustis,
Va.
His e-mail address is
james_4616@msn.com.
Fort Benning. He is a convoy escort platform commander and has been
deployed four times to
Iraq or Kuwait; he’ll be
heading for his fifth
deployment in September.
Jenkins said his best
memories of Moultrie
and Colquitt County
are “spending time with
my dad fishing in some of
the best ponds around!”
His grandparents,
Bobby and Mary Hampton and Ellen Smith; his
parents, Jackie and Patsy
Jenkins; and a sister,
Kristie Castleberry, still
live in the area.
You can write to
Jenkins at 852-B Terry
Drive, Fort Benning, GA
31905.
ally Free Talton was born and raised in
Doerun. She graduated from Doerun High
School in 1966 and went from there to Valdosta State College (now University) until 1968. She
then married David Talton (now deceased) from
Valdosta and they moved to Tallahassee, Fla. They
have two children, Andrea, 25, and Matthew, 23.
The Taltons were divorced in 1986 and Sally Talton
moved to Jacksonville, Fla.
She worked with General Motors Acceptance
Corp for 32 years before retiring in 2001. During
this period with GM, she lived in Tallahassee,
Jacksonville, Valdosta and Jacksonville again.
Since her retirement, she works part-time and is
self employed “and life is wonderful.”
“Some of my family is still in Doerun and I love
to visit,” Talton said. “It was a great experience
growing up in a small town during the ’60s. Life
was peaceful then and my friends and I had a lot of
fun. I played basketball for five years under the
great coaching of J.C. Fincher (Pfessor) and was
always proud of our teams. I was a member of
Doerun Baptist Church where I was in attendance
every Sunday. Our social life revolved much
around the church and we kids often rode in a
packed car to Moultrie after church. Riding
around and around the old Brazier was the thing
to do then, to see and be seen. I had friends from
Moultrie as well as Doerun and it was fun to see
them at the Brazier.
“Back then, ‘riding around’ was the thing to do.
Gas prices were so much lower and when we were
bored, we rode around.”
Among her favorite memories were coming
home from visiting relatives in Thomasville
around Christmas and seeing the Christmas lights
on the courthouse square.
You can write to her at 4733 Gemini Drive N.,
Jacksonville, FL 32217. Her phone number is (904)
737-0213 and her e-mail address is
Seminole_sally@yahoo.com.
JACKIE JENKINS JR.
Jackie Jenkins Jr.
Jackie(Jay) Jenkins Jr.
left Colquitt County in
2000. He’s now a U.S.
Army solder stationed at
Anna Fleetwood, daughter of James and Dea
Fountain, left Moultrie for college in 2001. She now
lives in Tallahassee, Fla., and works at Father
Flanagan’s Girls and Boys Town.
Her husband, Clint Fleetwood, the son of Mark
and Connie Fleetwood of Moultrie, also works at
Father Flanagan’s Girls and Boys Town.
Anna’s favorite memories of Moultrie include
“library time with Ms. Norma (McKellar), gymnastics with Ms. Pat (Murphy) and 4-H with Ms. Zona
(Medley).” Clint’s favorite memories are community and high school plays.
You can write to them at 2762 Hollyhock Hill, Tallahassee, FL 32303.
ANNA FLEETWOOD
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Z. Monroe Dismuke Jr.
n 1945 I ran way from
requested us to do.
home with forged
I wrote my Dad from
papers and joined the
there and told him I was
Merchant Marines. The
fine and to not worry. He
papers include a forged
had no idea what I was
birth certificate. This
doing.
birth certificate is on file
With the loading comin Moultrie, Georgia, at
plete we left California
the county court house.
and started for the PhilipThe only place that I
pines. The trip took a long
knew to enlist was New
time; I think it was 27
Orleans, La. With money I days. When we arrived we
saved up I started hitchanchored off of Red
hiking to New Orleans.
Beach, which was about
After arriving there I
five miles from the town
went
of
y brothers
through the
Tacloban,
process and
Leyte. Red
found my sea
got my seaBeach is
wallet
and
the
man’s
were Genmoney I had earned eral
paper and
after asking and they showed it
MacArthur
around
came
to Dad. He had a
where the
ashore and
hard
time
believing
best place
there was a
to get a ship where I had been
monument
and most
to him
and how much I
said
had earned. He and there.
Mobile,
I enjoyed
I took the money to my stay
Ala.
the bank and he
I took a
there. I
bus to
opened me a saving swam most
Mobile and
.
account. After buy- everyday
joined the
One day I
ing some things for decided to
National
Maritime
swim
my brothers, Dad
Union and
and the house I had around the
after a couship. That
on deposit $1,300.
ple days I
was not a
got a berth
good idea,
on board the SS Moccasin but a 16-year-old doesn’t
Gape as wiper. Wiper is
think of danger, so in I
the lowest job in the
went and was doing great
engine room. The Moctill I passed the stern of
casin Gape was a new T2
the ship. The tide was
tanker.
going out and it was takThe first trip was to
ing me with it. As luck
Texas for fuel for the Navy would have it I swam parand we took it from there
allel to the ship and was
to Quincy, Mass. Then
able to get to the sternpost
back to Texas for another
that has the rudder fasload of fuel for Navy
tened to it. My fingerprint
ships. It took about two
is still imbedded in that
weeks to load the ship,
rudder. I climbed up on
and then we headed for
the rudder and waited for
the Panama Canal and
slack tide and then swam
out in the Pacific.
back to the ship’s ladder. I
A week or so later we
didn’t go swimming for a
were routed back to Richlong time after that.
mond, Calif., where we
After our time in the
changed some of the
Philippines we went up to
cargo the Navy had
the area between Oki-
I
M
took a bus to Mobile and joined the
National Maritime Union and after a
couple days I got a berth on board the SS
Moccasin Gape as wiper. Wiper is the
lowest job in the engine room. The Moccasin Gape was a new T2 tanker.
I
nawa and the Philippines
to refuel Navy ships; most
were minesweepers. They
were cleaning the minefields the Japanese had
laid. I had a great time
watching the small ships
running alongside our
ship, which was much
larger. We spent several
weeks refueling those
ships.
After completing the
task we were ordered to
Japan. We went into
Tokyo Bay and there were
about 800 ships there: battleships, aircraft carries
and many other types.
We went ashore and
you would not believe the
destruction; as far as you
could see was nothing but
destroyed buildings. I was
amazed at the number of
people out on the streets
cleaning and doing business. The 5th Air Force
sure did a number on that
city.
After a couple weeks
we were ordered back to
the Philippines to pick up
sailors who had spent 30
months or longer. Most
were off ships that had
been sunk. Our ship had a
dry cargo hole and it was
converted into sleeping
quarters for the sailors;
there were over 50 of
them.
The Navy sent extra
rations for them and our
cooks were not used to
their ration and the food
was not very good. The
Navy men made such a
fuss that they took over
the galley and they sure
could make C rations
taste good.
We left for home and 27
days later we were in
Houston, Texas and it
sure looked good to those
Navy men.
The ship paid off after
a few day and I bought a
ticket for home. My dad
was sure glad to see me
and I was glad to be home.
He thought I was working
for a trucking company.
Where
Calvin Pearson
My name is Calvin Pearson and I
currently live in Omaha, Neb.
I graduated from Moultrie High
School For Negro Youth in 1956 and
joined the USAF in August of that year.
My father’s name was James Pearson
and we lived at 516 Fifth Ave. N.W. in
Moultrie. I retired from the Air Force
in 1986 after a 30-year career. I received
my bachelor’s from Bellevue University in business administration in 1989. I
My brothers found my
sea wallet and the money
I had earned and they
showed it to Dad. He had a
hard time believing
where I had been and how
much I had earned. He
and I took the money to
the bank and he opened
me a saving account.
After buying some things
for my brothers, Dad and
the house I had on deposit
$1,300.
Dad took my seaman’s
papers and hid them so I
would not go back to sea.
After several days I told
Dad I had to go back to the
ship and pick up some
stuff I had left.
I managed to get my
seaman’s papers and went
to Mobile and signed on
the SS Virginia. This was
early in 1946 and I was
still underage. I signed on
as the second pump man
and machinist, a 17-yearold with a chief ’s rating.
I had a great time on
the Virginia. We left for
Durban, South Africa,
and when we crossed the
equator I was initiated in
the order of Neptune’s
sailors.
We arrived in Durban
after about 31 days sailing. Durban’s a beautiful
city; it looks like Miami
worked as the human resources manager for the Douglas County (Omaha,
Neb.) Head Start program from 19912005, retiring in January of that
year.
Almost yearly, my family and I
return to Moultrie to visit family
and/or attend class reunions. We will
be attending the Ram Roundup again
this year in July.
My sister, Ella J. (Pearson) Swain,
worked for many, many years at the
home of the former publisher of The
Observer, Max Nussbaum. My father
worked at Swift and Company for
many, many years and he walked to
work every day as did so many other
men who worked at Swift.
During the summer vacations, I
remember working with the Roberts in
Beach and the people are
very friendly. We spent
two weeks there unloading oil and we had some
oil for Lorenzo Marques,
Portuguese East Africa. It
was a two-day trip, with a
two day visit.
From Portuguese East
Africa we went up to the
Persian Gulf and into the
River Euphrates to a port
below Baghdad. After
loading was done we
headed for England by
way of the Suez Canal. We
docked in Bristol, England. After discharging
the oil we returned to the
Persian Gulf for more oil
for England. The trips
through the Suez Canal
were a great experience
for me.
We had a change of
routes. We left England
for the Island Curacao
and we made two or three
round trips between
Curacao and England The
last trip from England
was to the good old USA. I
arrived Oct. 10 and was
paid off the Virginia.
That ended my life at
sea. On Oct. 30, 1946, I
enlisted in the USAF and
retired in 1966 as a master
sergeant.
I now live in New Bern,
N.C.
cotton and tobacco. I believe that now
there is a road named for Mr. Roberts. I
remember his sons, Bud and Bo.
My mother, Mrs. Willie Belle Pearson, worked for many years as manager of the school cafeteria at Moultrie
High School For Negro Youth.
I remember being late for school
many mornings as we only lived one
block away from school.
In 1955, my junior class gave the
first prom in the gymnasium, now
named for Mr. A. F. Shaw, the former
football coach at MHSFNY.
There were eight children in my
family and we all attended MHSFNY
and five graduated from the school.
There are four siblings remaining and
we are all coming to the Ram Roundup
this July.
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