RAYLE NEWS
By Bonnie Boatwright Call 274-3264

BRR! Old Mr. Winter has returned and it hurts after we've gotten a little taste of spring. ..J.W. and I went to the Regional Medical Center Outpatient Clinic in Athens Thursday for me to have a direct laryngoscopy with biopsy, so I have been a bit under the weather. I will find out the results Monday. My voice is gone. Can you imagine that? I have to write everything down on paper that I need to say. It is not fun. How in the world can you talk on the phone like that? .. Visitors of J.W. and Bonnie Boatwright have been Kay Berry, Joynny Boatwright, and Ruth Flynt. Kate Orr Messer also came by Saturday and J.W. went out to the car to visit with Josephine.

..Our community lost one of its most prominent citizens Wednesday night when Mrs. Annie Blanche Vaughn passed away. She taught many of our children in the Washington-Wilkes Primary School and taught in Sunday School (adults and children) and Bible School at Sardis Baptist church where she was a faithful member. She was also organist and also played the piano when needed. Her close knit family of four children and their families looked after her lovingly and tenderly. She was a member of the Rayle Lunch and Learn Club. She was loved by everyone who knew her and will be greatly missed by her family and many friends. Her sons, Malvin and Tucker, and her daughters, Jean and Penny, and their families have our deepest heartfelt sympathy. ..Our deepest heartfelt sympathy to the family of Tom Hardy who passed away Thursday. He was a friendly guy who never met a stranger. His many friends will mourn his passing along with his wife, Dorothy, children, Joe, Louise, and Audrey, grandchildren, and sister, Gussie McAvoy. He will be greatly missed. ..Our hearts also go out to the family of Thomas Combs who passed away Saturday of last week. He will be greatly missed by his wife Sara, his children, Dana, Sonya and Tommy, his sisters, Bernice McAvoy and Marian Poss, grandchildren, and many friends. Our deepest heartfelt sympathy to them. .. Prayers continue for Bonnie Boatwright, Lindley Hall, Joe Bufford, Hunter Boswell, Bernice McAvoy, Pete Hardy, Mike Woodall, Joyce Bowen, Pete Poss, Roberta Roper, Gary Rogers, Mike Webb, Chris McAvoy, Bill Remsen, Debra Cato, Carla Thaxton Brown, Kathryn Padgett, Betsy Wynne, Pat Wynne, Tom Bufford, Ralph Smith, Richard Burkett, Ellie Frey, Bonnie Huff Coile, Bonnie Creel, Marshall Sherrer, Mablean Sherrer, Brent Sherrer, Katie Canup Glowka,, Fred Scoggins, Tommy Wheatley, Thomas Wheatley, Thomas Bunch, Leonard Fain, Carole Morgan, Baby Christina, Dorothy Callaway, and Doug Mathews. ..Barry and Dana Echols of Ball Ground spent Saturday here at the homeplace. J.W. Boatwright visited with them there. ..Nina Boatwright is sporting a pretty new car which she is mighty proud of. ..Josephine Orr of Whispering Pines in Athens and Kate Orr Messer were visiting in the community Saturday, coming especially to visit with the Vaughn family and for the funeral service of Mrs. Annie Blanche Vaughn. ..Bonnie Boatwright went over to Bogart last Tuesday for a visit with her sister, Martha Jones. We went to the Cracker Barrel where we had a birthday celebration and dinner in honor of our brother, James Smith of Stephens, whose birthday was April 3. Others coming to help him celebrate were James' wife Sharon, their son, Calvin Smith of Winterville, and our other sister, Frankie Jones of Athens. ..Bonnie Boatwright went to Elberton Tuesday with James and Kathleen Canup of Lexington to play bingo at Wendy's. ..Birthday wishes go to Mary Stewart, April 10; Abby Smith, April 11; Sim Dill Jr., April 12; Richard McAvoy Jr., April 13; Johnny Shedd, April 20; Alvin Brittain, April 21; Christine Acree, April 24; Jonnie Walker, April 25; Chris White, April 25; and Patricia Dobbs, April 29. ..Since I am under the weather and cannot talk I did not call anyone this week. Please save all your news for me next week. Have a good week.

..Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Sisson Jr. spent the weekend of March 24 with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Bunn in Monroe and Mrs. Mildred Sisson in Rayle. Gatherings at the Carl Sisson home were for a Saturday afternoon cookout with Richard McAvoy as chief chef, and Sunday evening for dinner with Mildred and Carl. Those enjoying Saturday were Mrs. Mildred Sisson, Carl Sisson Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Wheatley, Mr. and Mrs. Richard McAvoy, Chris McAvoy, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Mann and Caitlin. Family members enjoying Sunday dinner together were the Sissons, Wheatleys, and McAvoys. Before Carl and Vickie returned to their home in Madison, Ala., Tuesday, Mrs. Mildred Sisson and Carl Sisson Jr. visited Bobby and Elsie Bunn and Vickie Sisson in Monroe where Vickie had enjoyed a weekend of family gatherings.

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