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90 YEARS AGO
January 24, 1936
Col. and Mrs. A. A. Bryant and Miss Clyde and Carl Bryant spent the first part of the week in Jackson attending the inauguration of Go. White.
King George, V, 70, of England, died Monday night. The Prince of Wales, 41, will assume the throne being known as Edward VII.
Little Miss Ollie Mae Spearman, of Sunnyside community, was out of school last week with mumps.
Mrs. V. H. Arrington is entertaining the Book Club this afternoon in Eades Grocery Store.
75 YEARS AGO
January 19, 1951
Mr. Q. T. Crowson resigned Tuesday night as Superintendent of Coffeeville School to become a candidate for County Superintendent of Education.
J. B. Majure was elected President of the Coffeeville Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night.
Bobby Pittman, Luke Roberts, Jr., Bobby Gene Burney, Paul Jones, Clyde Hugh Johnson, and John Daniel York, who have enlisted in the Navy left Sunday for San Diego, California.
Misses Emma Jean Serio and Quida Vick of Grenada visited homefolks here Saturday.
70 YEARS AGO
January 19, 1956
Ms. Kate McLavy, received word that her brother, W. T. York, is still wearing a cast from a broken leg sustained in a car wreck recently. He fell last week and broke the other leg in the knee.
Friends and customers have been missing Aaron Gorden from the store and other places for the past several days since he’s been at home sick.
Funeral services for Walter L. Castleberry of Wichita, Kansas, formerly of Memphis, were held at Elam Church, east of Coffeeville, Monday, January 16.
Misses Sue Pittman and Nan Pate, Bobby Pitman, David Brower and John L. Basinger of NWJC were home for the weekend. Miss Sue Vaughen came home with Sue and Nan for the weekend.
65 YEARS AGO
January 19, 1961
A pall of gloom spread in this community early Sunday morning, January 15, 1961 as report come from Kennedy Hospital, Memphis, that Walter Eades had died.
Mrs. Alma Denley attended the funeral of her mother, Mrs. Josie Spears Wright, of Big Creek Communty, who died Monday afternoon at home after a long illness.
Jay Gore, a native of Coffeeville, but a resident in Grenada since 1913, died in the Grenada Hospital Wednesday, January 11 after a long illness.
60 YEARS AGO
January 20, 1966
Officials and employees of the Bank of Water Valley and the Coffeeville Office honored Mrs. Eleanor Riddick with a surprise party at Lois’ Cafe Thursday night, January 13, as a gesture of appreciation for 23 year of service as a bank clerk in the local office.
Mrs. Katie Spears Gray, who would have celebrated her 92nd birthday last Thursday, passed away Wednesday, January 12, at her home in the Mt. Nebo Community.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Shaw of Coffeeville are announcing the birth of a son, their first child, who arrived Tuesday, January 11, in St. Joseph Hospital, Memphis. He was named Jeffrey Verelle.
This community was shocked early this (Wednesday) morning when news came that Mrs. Evie Kilgore had died of a heart attack.
Tildon Monroe McKnight, retired farmer of Oakland, died Sunday, January 16, at the East Tallahatchie General Hospital after a short illness.
