Looking Back 3/19/26
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80 YEARS AGO
April 5, 1946
Fizhugh L. Brooks, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Brooks, of the Walthall section has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
State College, Miss. — Floyd Boyle, Jr., 4-H Club boy of Coffeeville, Yalobusha County, showed the senior and grand champion Jersey cow at the district livestock show at Batesville last week.
Dr. Ralph Criss has accepted a place with Dr. Avent at the Grenada Hospital and will begin his duties there when the elder Dr. Criss gets back on his feet.
75 YEARS AGO
April 5, 1951
Mr. Luther Harrison, present supervisor of beat five, has authorized us to announce him for re-election to that important office.
As of April 1, 1951, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Boyd have purchased “Kennedy’s” Grocery and Cafe on Main Street from Mrs. Estelle Kennedy and are now operating the store under the same trade name.
Mrs. Minnie Chapman, a longtime resident of our community, died in Bramlett Hospital, Oxford, Monday, April 2, 1951, at the age of 78.
On the 12th Grade Honor roll are the names of Martha Anne Walker, Betty Rounsaville, Ruth Vickery, Modenia Gardiner and Bobbie Jean Tribble.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pate are announcing the arrival of a baby daughter born Thursday morning in the Grenada Hospital.
70 YEARS AGO
April 5, 1956
Vernell Edwards, Captain of the Coffeeville girls’ basketball team, and Henry Dean Gray, captain of the Coffeeville boys’ basetball team, received plaques at Yalobusha Booster Banquet here Monday, signifying them as “Champions of Yalobusha County”. The Coffeeville Jug Band, composed of George and Richard Ayers, Bill York, James Edwards, Gerald Williams, Bud Shaw, Morris Holloway, and Ralph Armstrong furnished the music.
Betsy McCormack, Tommy McCormack, Terry Denley, Edward Woodall, Jr., Betty Bryant, Donna Bailey and Christine Breedlove, high school pupils of Mrs. V. M. Bell, represented Coffeeville School and community in the District Piano Festival in Oxford last Saturday morning.
Luke Purdy showed the champion duroc gilt with Hubert Clark, the owner of the reserve champion at the Northwest Livestock Show at Batesville March 26-28. Others receiving ribbons were Harry Duvall, Billy Morgan, Dean Herron, John Wood, Kay Tatum, James Clay House, Mike Shaw, James Ernest Cook, Billy Rowsey, Frankie Davidson, Frank Berle Brooks and William Lewis Cook.
65 YEARS AGO
April 6, 1961
The Yalobusha County 4-H Junior Poultrty team place 2nd in the District at the Northwest Mississippi Livestock and Poultry Show at Batesville March 27-30. They are Carson Burns, Sammy McCracken, Jerry Adams and Robert Wolfe, Assistant County Agent.
Mrs. Minnie Lee Schmitz Fly, widow of the late George Stephen Fly, died at her home in Coffeeville Wednesday afternoon, March 29.
60 YEARS AGO
April 7, 1966
Athletic Scholarship awards given by the Coffeeville Chamber of Commerce went to Karen Rotenberry and Rodney Gray and outstanding student awards given by the Lions Club went to Jeff Herron and Kay Parker.
Candidates enter races — Ford Jones announces for Supervisor Beat 1, Dariel Koonce in race for Supervisor Beat 5; Frank Pate seeks 3rd term as Beat 1 Supervisor; Gerald Chatham seeks DA office.
45 YEARS AGO
April 2, 1981
Miss Jennifer Bailey, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bailey of Scobey, was re-elected district Treasurer of Block 1 Sub-District C of the FHA at the District meeting held last Thursday at Lafayette High School.
For the third consecutive year Derrick Jenkins, sixth grade school student at Oakland Elementary School, was named the champion speller in competition with the other schools in Yalobusha County.
After putting in 21 years of service as a lineman for Tallahatchie Valley Electric Power Association, Leroy Logan retired March 1, 1981.
40 YEARS AGO
April 10, 1986
Lori Brower of Jackson, Mississippi has been selected as one of 1985’s Outstanding Young Women of America.
Mrs. Mary Thornton, accoumpanied by her twin sister, Mrs. Madge Bratton of Grenada, returned home Friday, March 21, after a 10-day tour of Europe.
Sammy Chandler enters Nashville Auto Diesel College on March 20, 1986.
Hilliard Griffin killed a 14 1/2 pound turkey gobbler early Saturday morning. The turkey had an 8 inch beard.
William Vance Boyle, 76, retired farmer, died Friday, April 4, at the Yalobusha General Hospital in Water Valley. Funeral services were held Sunday, April 6, at New Hope Baptist Church.
Silas Clifton McGee, 61, of Calhoun County, died Saturday, April 5.
