Looking Back June 27, 2024
90 YEARS AGO
July 20, 1934
George Wilbourn of the Gray Rock Community left Wednesday for New Orleans to accepted a position on a Marine boat. He will start to work Friday and be gone several months. Mr. Jeff Roberts, who has been in business at Shady Springs, has moved to town and opened up in a new grocery store and café in the building opposite The Courier Office. Jack Spier and Billy Pate have returned to their homes from the Grenada Hospital where they recently underwent appendicitis operations. Miss Kate Chapman and Miss Hazel Jackson left for Memphis Wednesday for a visit with Miss Vida Mae Johnson, who is in training in the Baptist Hospital.
80 YEARS AGO
July 14, 1944
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Williams of north of town received the sad news Wednesday night that their son, Lt. Arthur F. Williams, Jr., wa killed in action June 29th. Cecil Brower who is still in the Army Hospital in Italy after being wounded the second time, was recently awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster.
85 YEARS AGO
July 31, 1939
The Watermelon Queen will be chosen this week. The three entries from Coffeeville are Misses Mildred Sayle, Audie Lambert and Kathryn Denley. J. C. Sides has been named Legion Commander.
75 YEARS AGO
July 31, 1949
Tillatoba, Mississippi – The Tom E. Dame store building, fixtures and all continents were destroyed by fire of undetermined origin early last Sunday morning. A notice was received this week on the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago office, announcing the promotion of Mr. A. K. Burt to Special Agent at Champaign, Illinois.
70 YEARS AGO
July 22, 1954
Jerry Denley and Roy Bennett Stevens of the Junior Department of the Methodist Church, are representing their department at Camp Lake Stevens this week. Edward Earl Strange arrived home Sunday from San Diego, California, where he was discharged from the Navy. Mrs.Clide V. Landreth, Sr., Oakland, was elected secretary of the Mississippi Home Demonstration Council in the annual session at State College this week.
65 YEARS AGO
July 23, 1959
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Burns of Oakland are the proud parents of a fine girl born July 15, in the Water Valley Hospital. She has been named Lydia Karen. The John Collins home a few miles northeast of town, was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin Saturday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Preston Pryor and four children were living in the house, no one was there at the time. John Daniel York is on the Dean’s List for the Spring Semester from Mississippi State University.
60 YEARS AGO
July 23, 1964
Owen Riddick is attending the National Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge State Park, Pennsylvania, and was selected as the jamboree correspondent. Miss Margaret Woodall left Friday night, July 17 from New York by jet for “Study Aboard Tour”. She will visit the countries of Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, Holland and England.
55 YEARS AGO
July 24, 1969
Sandra Gordon, Fran Parker, Linda Tierce, Ruth Moore, Ginger Hartley, and Maggie Barton, from Coffeeville High School, are among the thousand cheerleaders attending the 1969 Mid South Cheerleaders Institute at the University of Mississippi. Mississippi Public Service Commissioner D. W. Snyder announced that the Bryant Rural Water Association has been given the greenlight to begin work immediately on my $44,000 F. H. A. finance water system. Instrumental in getting the work started were George M. Night engineer, Mrs. Jenny Lynn Fernandez, Mrs. Rebecca Broadstreet and Sam Waits, attorney. The Coffeeville Little League Tigers have had a good 1969 season. They are David Scobey, Jon Hovey, Robert Earl Upchurch, Wayne Tierce, Darrell Dean, Louise Riddick, William Sanders, Hank Riddick, Carl Ray Upchurch, Tony Harrison, Bo Johnson, Charles Martin and Johnny Kimbrough.
45 YEARS AGO
July 26, 1979
Lori Brower, a senior at Coffeeville High School, was one of the 21,500 young women and men home economics students who attended the Future Homemakers of America 33rd Annual Leadership Meeting this month in Washington, D. C
As a result of several years planning and work done by those who instigated and formulated the Yalobusha Water and Dewer District, Inc., the residents of Pine Valley are now enjoying cool clear drinking water, and the rest of the families deserve by those waterlines will be hooked up on or before September 1. The beautiful all white wedding uniting Miss Stephanie McCellan and Ronald “Bubba” Defer was performed at Camp Ground Baptist Church June 9, 1979.
20 YEARS AGO
July 22, 2004
Morris C. McKee, 87, retired area manager for TVEPA, died at Baptist Memorial Hospital North Mississippi Oxford, Tuesday, July 13, 2004. Eugene W. Hutchins, 92, retired shop foreman for John Deere and former Justice of the Peace, died at his daughters home in Lauderdale, Mississippi on Monday, July 19, 2004 Pam Adams returned home Thursday after a stay of several days in Baptist Hospital East in Memphis for tests and treatment. Leona McCammon is in serious condition at Graceland Nursing Home in Oxford. Her room number was 56.
15 YEARS AGO
July 23, 2009
Mrs. Mary Gladys Brandon Pittman, 94, of Coffeeville, passed away Saturday, July 18, 2009 at her residence. She was born May 2, 1915. She was a homemaker and a faithful member of the Coffeeville Church of Christ. Sally Irene Tribble Hill, age 92, at Tillatoba, died Monday, June 29, 2009 at Grenada, Mississippi.
10 YEARS AGO
July 24, 2014
Bobby Gene Stone, 74, died Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at the Mississippi State Veterans Home in Oxford, Mississippi. He was born to James and Ardelle Litton Stone in Water Valley on May 8, 1940 and served in the US Army. Carol Pittman Bell, age 76, of Coffeeville, Mississippi died Monday, July 21, 2014 a Yalobusha General Hospital in Water Valley, Mississippi.
