July 27, 2006 RSS feed / Personalities

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Virginia Lee King marries Robert M. Willingham Jr.

Virginia Lee King and Robert M. Willingham Jr. of Washington were married on Saturday, June 24, at three o'clock in the afternoon at The Church of the Mediator with the Rev. Dr. John Via officiating. Mr. and Mrs. More...

Alumni, family and faculty gather for 'Remember the Raiders' reunion

"Remember the Raiders" was the theme of the Wilkes Academy Reunion held Saturday, June 24, at the Washington-Wilkes Country Club as more than 500 alumni, spouses, faculty, staff, parents and grandparents gathered to remember the Academy years from it More...

WMH Tea and Learn to feature program

by Sherry Hudson

Sherry Hudson will be the featured speaker at the Wills Memorial Hospital Tea and Learn Wednesday, August 9, in the hospital caf. More...

Five generations

Five generations of the Lamb family gathered for a picture at their recent reunion in Harlem. Pictured are (seated. l-r) Bessie Ivey Lamb and her daughter, Pat Lamb Grimaud, holding the newest addition to the family, G.W. Walden; and (standing) Mrs. More...

Wiillkes Academy:: A Trriibutte

It was the big red building on the hill. It was old, often too cold and damp, more often too hot. More...

Callaway family enjoys reunion aboard 'Freedom of the Seas'

Kari and Eugene Callaway, along with their children, India and Grace, enjoyed a relaxing seven-day family reunion aboard the Royal Caribbean "Freedom of the Seas" currently the "biggest cruise ship ever built", according to the June 19, 2006 issue of More...

Landon Bailey celebrates tenth birthday

Landon Bailey, son of Mark and Sherry Atkins of Tignall, and Jason and Erin Bailey of Lincolnton, celebrated his tenth birthday on July 17 and was honored on several occasions. More...

Austin Fanning honored at cowboy birthday party

Austin Fanning, son of Mr. and Mrs. Greg Fanning, celebrated his third birthday with a Western Cowboy party on July 8. His birthday was July 16. More...

Washington Personal Mention

Mrs. David Blackburn returned home Saturday after a week's stay at Hilton Head, S.C., with her children, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Blackburn, Isabel and Emily, of Atlanta. More...

Maria Velazquez exchanges wedding vows with Rodney Morgan Holloway

Maria Velazquez of Kew Gardens, N.Y., and Rodney Morgan Holloway of Brooklyn, N.Y., formerly of Washington, exchanged wedding vows Friday, June 23, at nine-thirty o'clock in the morning at Kew Gardens, New York. Judge Victor L. More...

Wilkes Health Care residents enjoy visits with family, friends

Guests of Mrs. Sara Gresham were Kathrine Melson, Ashlyn Johns, and Lynda and Johnny Gresham. Visiting Leon Demons were Marion Cullars and Cassie Carter. Mrs. Annie Kate Norman's visitors were Ann Flanigan, Doris Ferguson, and Marion Cullars. Mrs. More...