Looking Back
90 YEARS AGO March 16, 1934 The senior play “Crintz Cottage”, staged at the Scuna Valley High School Friday night of last week, was enjoyed by all present. Those taking part in the play were Queda French, Judith Vickery, Clara Denley, Leroy Hodges, Ella Ruth Helm, Obed Brewer and Frances McCormack. Who’s Who in the Senior Class at C.H.S.: Best Students, Louise Brassel and Robert Rounsaville; Ladies’ Men, Ephriam Walker and Glynn Purdy; Cutest Girls, Irene Terry and Elsie Kincaid; Best Girls Sport, Georgia Logan and Ida Pittman; Best Boys; Sport, Fred McCormack and William Chapman; Best Dressed Girls, Audie Lambert and Irene Terry; Prettiest Girls, Irene Terry and Audie Lambert; Best Looking Boys, Robert Rounsaville and William Chapman.
85 YEARS AGO March 17, 1939 The following is a list of the Yalobusha County School Trustees as elected for 1939: Benwood: B.F. Wilson, R.J. Murphee and T.L. Bryant; Dividing Ridge: J.S. Jones, Elton Byford and Price Wright; Coffeeville: V.H. Arrington, H.I. Perkins, Sellers Denley, Loyd Farmer, and John M. Brewer.
80 YEARS AGO March 17, 1944 William Edwin Wommacks, 74, was laid to rest Monday at Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery in the community where he spent a long useful life. Four sons of Mr and Mrs. E.E. Tribble: Claude, Eugene, Herbert, and Gerald, are now in service.
75 YEARS AGO March 17, 1949 Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sessums, Mrs. Reed Farmer, Mrs. F. E. Collins, Mrs. C. C. Pate, Mr. and Mrs. Q. T. Crowson and George Denley, teachers from the Coffeeville School, will attend the Miss. Educational Association Meeting in Jackson this weekend. Mrs. Carrie Stepp received a telegram this week from her son, Pfc. John L. Womack, stating he was sailing Thursday on the C.S.A.T. Taylor for Germany.
70 YEARS AGO March 18, 1954 Funeral services for Mrs. William Tommy Denley, aged 72, were at Mt. Nebo Church Sunday, March 14. In the District Coral Festival at Oxford last Friday, the ensemble from Coffeeville, composed of Shirley Vickery, Lynn Hunt, Jean Breedlove, Barbara Branum, Chetty Pate and Sister Pittman, was given a rating of “Excellent”.
65 YEARS AGO March 12, 1959 Betsy McCormack, Lou McCormack, Vera Edwards, Jean Landereth, Lura Wortham, and Christine Breedlove were selected as a ensemble from the Coffeeville High School Chorus and had an special part in the annual festival held in Oxford March 6-7. Gaines Walker died in the Grenada Hospital Thursday evening, March 12, after a short illness. Charles Vickery of Coffeeville was Master of the Ceremonies for the Spring Formal Ball, outstanding event at NWJC.
50 YEARS AGO March 14, 1974 Mrs. Karen Rotenberry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rotenberry, has been chosen to receive a Taylor Medal in Elementary Education at the University of Mississippi. Mrs. Mary Jones Floyd, 89, wife of H. K. Floyd, died Saturday morning, March 9, at her home in Grenada. She was the mother of Mrs. R. E. (Juanita) Pittman of Coffeeville.
45 YEARS AGO March 15, 1979 Brad Peeples, of Coffeeville, was initiated recently into the University of Mississippi Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. Mr. and Mrs. David Allen Porter announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Teresa Ann, to Mr. Virgil Ralph Persick of Gross Tete, Louisiana. Charles Michael Bailey, 18 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Bailey, of Scobey, was killed early Thursday, March 8, when he fell under the wheel of a tractor on a cattle ranch in Tillatoba.
40 YEARS AGO March 15, 1984 FROM COFFEE TIME: The snow early last Saturday was picturesque and not too cold- melting away by noon. We had about a inch of snow, but the tempeture was in the mid-thirties and most of it melted as it came down.
20 YEARS AGO March 18, 2004 Richard Hall with Mississippi Beef Processing announced that the beef processing plant, Oakland, is scheduled to open in June. Mable Lorraine Wright, 85, retired food service manager, died Wednesday, March 10, 2004, at the Yalobusha County Nursing Home.
15 YEARS AGO March 12, 2009 Mrs. Gertrude Strange, 97, of Coffeeville, died Thursday, February 19, 2009 at her residence. She was born November 16, 1911, to Henry and Lillian May Langham Brassel.
10 YEARS AGO March 13, 2014 Ollie Mae Spearman, age 88, died Monday, February 24, 2014, at her home in Coffeeville, MS. She was born May 22, 1925 in Yalobusha County, MS to the late Lizzie Ford and Spencey Lyons. Brad and Kelly Ayers of Dallas, TX are proud to announce the birth of a son, Preston Asher Ayers, born on March 4, 2014, at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
