Tignall News
By CAROLYN GAMMON Please call 706-285-2736 and NOBIE KEENER Please call 706-285-3232
When I got in my vehicle last Thursday afternoon the temperature was 117 degrees. I don't think you have any need for those grills. Just lay your steak on the pavements and it will be well done. I saw in the Augusta paper where they have some ice lounges in the Middle East. Maybe we should catch on. .I made a big boo-boo last week. I was so busy getting Eudora and Albert's trip written that I got Texas and Mississippi mixed up. Of course we all know that Elvis Presley's birthplace was Tupelo, Mississippi, not Texas. It never pays to get in a hurry. I could attribute this to old age, but I heard that old age is always 15 years older than I am so it couldn't be old age. .Let's keep Marvin Pitts in our prayers. Lymphoma has reoccurred and his wife Betty Ann Ware Pitts asked that we put him on our prayer list. Marvin and Betty Ann both grew up here in Tignall.
.Visiting with Juanita Parker last week were her sister, Alice Rickman, Janice Edward, and Alice's great-grandchildren Sapp, all of Taneka, California. Miss Juanita just got a new roof and a new front walk and it is really looking good around her house. If you are ever depressed, just call Miss Juanita and you will feel much better. She is an extraordinary little lady with lots of wit and is very positive. . I understand there were many homecomings Sunday other than Beulah Baptist Church. Clark's Station Baptist Church in this area also had homecoming. .Seeing a picture at the power point presentation at Beulah of Lisbon gave me some memories of that place. I understand the home in the picture belonged to a family of Chennaults. I remember our family driving onto the ferry there to visit our grandparents in Mount Carmel, S.C. Kay, my sister, would scream every time and I, bravely, would try to console her when inside I was screaming too. . Barbara and R.C. Oakley of Hampton were here in their Beulah home especially for the homecoming. Visiting them and attending the homecoming were Barbara's daughters and their families, Suzanne and Randy Gatlin, Rachel and Jay of Griffin, and Dawn Moore and her son Jackson of Forsyth. .As I went by the home of Lois Sale I saw many cars in her yard and a long line of people walking from the old Sale homeplace back to Lois' home. It looked as if they were playing follow the leader. I found out that they had an 83rd birthday celebration for Lois Sunday with a family get-together and they had all walked over to an old barn to have the family photograph made. Those family members at the celebration were David and Gloria Sale of Dewy Rose; Scarlett Gibson, Brittany and Nathan of Lexington, S.C.; Michael and Angie Sale, Amber, Mason, and Amelia of Colbert; Ronald and Shelly Wolfe of Dallas; Marjorie Gibson of Dallas; Josh and Michelle Banta, Gracie, Joshua, and Jacob of Rockmart; Suzanne Wolfe and friend, Lee Jones of Duluth. Lois is still working in a garden at 83. Happy birthday, Lois. Frank Bentley catered the barbecue lunch. Frank has been a very busy person. He also catered the barbecue for Beulah Baptist homecoming and Clark's Station homecoming. .Marjorie Gibson of Dallas and Peggy Sale visited Pat Mack, Sara Frances Henderson, and Betty Reese Saturday afternoon. .Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ware Sunday afternoon were John Cook of Alto and Carol Collins of Clarkesville. .Visiting with Mary Ann Williams and Kason Bradley for a few days were Mrs. Leon Nix of Clarkesville; and Mrs. Roy Grimes of Elberton. Also visiting for the day was Johnny "Smallwood of Alto. Peggy Ware visited with these family members at the home of Mary Ann Williams. .On a recent afternoon, Gloria Harris and Robbie Tanner stopped at a little country store on the Bobby Brown Park Road and made use of those rocking chairs out front. They enjoyed reminiscing with the owner, Billy Churney. He was one of the guys who would come to Tignall in the early 1960s when the teenagers had a teen canteen at the Tignall gym with Dulcie Brown as chaperone. Several guys from Elberton and Calhoun Falls enjoyed coming over for those dances and meeting the girls from Wilkes County. .Spending the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Keener were Mr. and Mrs. Chris Keener, Madison and Nolan, of Loganville. .There was a fireat the old Harper's Personal Care Home Sunday afternoon. A stove had shorted out. Had it not been for the quick response of the Tignall Volunteer Fire Department this could have been a serious fire. There was a minimum damage, thanks to the firedepartment.
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