Eddie Tiller

I was looking over the "In Memory" section and saw that several did not have year of death.  I know of 2 or 3 that I can provide, so if any of you happen to know about others, please let Bob Thomas know and he can enter year. etc.  Thanks to all of you.

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Mary Jean Fennell (Williams)

Classmate photos taken Friday, April 28, 2017 of 1959 DHS Class Reunion can be viewed in my photo gallery. It was great to see those who attended Friday night.  So sorry I missed Saturday night. Until next time...

GO RED RAIDERS!

Mary Jean Fennell Williams

Gloria McGee (Dillard)

Classmates.....pictures taken Saturday night at the reunion can be seen on my profile pictures....more will follow if I can figure out how to move from my camera to iPad...

Mary Helen Hurst (Peacock)

I think I have finally figured this site out. For several years I couldn't figure out how to get messages. I have ignored many of your messages and am now apologising.  I didn't mean to be rude and not answer birthday wishes . I was just being blond. Please forgive and I will do better from now on!!

Sue Carrell (Meadows)

SUE CARRELL MEADOWS

I sm so sorry that I missed our class reunion recently! It is the first one I have missed! But I have decided that I will no longer drive three and one half hours anywhere! I told my daughter Carrell in Lawrence, GA  that I also will not travel to her house, also a 3 1/2 hr. drive thru downtown Atlanta! So they come to visit us. I no longer have any relatives in Decatur;, so I always look forward to making the reunion trip, and driving all over town remembering my childhood. I. have admired the outside buildilng of DHS, and am disappointed that I had to miss the tour of the inside - what wonderful memories there are in that buildilng! .  (or is it that I have forgotten the not so wonderful memories? Like having to practice our marching band show at first period band, in the hot Fall sun, and go to 2nd period drenched??)

So I was thinking of all of you Sat. and hope your were enjoying you tour.

Love to alll,

Sue Carrell Meadows,

Lowndesboro,Al

Eddie Tiller

.I remember Wayne keel from years ago.  He lived around from me on 5th.  Sister named Janice(chi chi).  Hope to attend memorial

Mary Jean Fennell (Williams)

Patricia (Patsy) Kennedy Bivens died recently. Her obit is in Legacy.com

Skip Cox

Jerry Livingston asked me the details of  Johnny Ferrell and I painting the water tower.  Most of you have heard, or read in the Decatur Daily, the story but in case you haven't, I copied what I sent to Larry:

We carried a bucket of paint and two brushes up a ladder we brought to get over the fence and then up the permanent ladder affixed to the tower.

I thought it up and convinced Johnny to go with me. We were both P.O. because we were designated stage hands and had no parts in the Seniors Scrambles Play. 

We could charge DHS account at the hardware store so we charged the paint and brushes to the School.

I'm not sure how long it took.  We were scared sh...…!  The weather was bad and the wind was howling through the wires affixed to the tower!  Johnny said many years later that he still remembered the shreeking sound of the wind in the wires.  I think both Johnny and I both wanted to quit but we wouldn't tell each other.

I don't know what we did with the leftover paint and brushes.  My guess is we left them on the circle ledge where we stood to paint the letters.

I think you know that Johnny passed away a few years ago from cancer and Dotty (Wood) his wife, passed away a year or so ago from Alzheimer's.

Johnny and I have the same birthdate

I hope to see everybody at the next reunion.

There's one definite advantage in growing old.  

There's no chance of dying young!

Skip 

Richard Allen

Skip, the greatest HS prank in recorded history. RFA

Bob Thomas

The details of the painting of the water tower are also included in Senior Prank, located on the left hand side of the home page.

Skip Cox

Rand, Happy Birthday

Skip Cox

Don Church, Happy Birthday! Skip Cox

Skip Cox

Rand, Happy Birthday!  Skip

Newman Richardson

Surely I am not the first to post in 2021. These are strange times. Just thought I would post that at eighty, I am still kicking,, and hope my former classmates are too. Life is good here in Longbottoms in southern Morgan county. I was wondering if anyone remembers Gladys Langston? She was a very influential teacher and one of the few I remember besides Ms. Garrett. Hope any that reads this has a good 2021, and thanks to Bob Thomas for his efforts.                                                                            Sincerely, Newman(Pudge) Richardson                                                                                                                                      Laird of Longbottoms, Alabama.

Mary Nell Tucker (Nockert)

Yes, I remember Gladys Langston. We all called her "Smiley" because she always looked like she was smiling. She married a red-haired teacher whom I can't remember his name or what subject he taught. But I can see them both in my mind even after such a long time. Just think that it was 62 years ago that we graduated. Time certainly flies, doesn't it?

Mary Nell Tucker Nockert      

Newman Richardson

Yes Mary Nell, time does.. I along with Earl Penn and Joe Hagamaker , joined the Air Force after the eleventh grade.The first thing I did upon getting to my permanent duty station(Dobbins AFB, Atlanta, Ga.) was to take the GED. So by December 1958 I had my diploma and started cources at the University of Georgia extension in Marietta before you guys graduated. Not too many of that class left that I remember. Joe died several years ago, and Earl has been in the Carolina's for years. 

Sandi Slape (Crane)

Sitting here convelescing after my 2nd Covid vaccination, (It knocked the soup out of me) I have been reading the message forum comments from when it first started. Very entertaining , so since I have not added a message here for quite a while, I thought this would be an appropriate time! This. year of the pandemic has been a corker. Thank God non of my friends or family have been taken down by it, but so so many people have. Who would have ever thought this would happen? I am sure that some of. you remember the Polio Pandemic though, and that was really awful as well. I had a good friend who ended up in an iron lung and I remember visiting her and standing behind the HUGE machine she was in with the mirror adjusted so she could see me. She died a few years later. Oh a cheerier note, we are still enjoying our little Arizona casa, it is a lovely place to live. EXCEPT in July and August. Then it is "get out of town" for cooler climates. Last summer we didn't get away and suffered through days of 100+ heat, and a few very scary wildfires that got within 3 miles of our home. Healthwise, I am OK, my brain still works pretty good, my body is wearing out though. Arthritis has taken its toll, and I am not as mobile as I used to be. I guess at 80 that is not a surprise. I still get out and enjoy my gardening, taking trips, (although Covid kind of stopped that for a while) church, and neighbors. Family is far away and this past year has just been phonecalls and texts. I am lookong forward to seeing kids and grandkids soon.   Hope you are all well and enjoying life to the fullest. 

Bob Thomas

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Mary Nell Tucker (Nockert)

Thanks, Bob, for this delightful message. It was great fun to see and read. It reminds of all the great games we went to back in time. Thanks again. Take care, stay healthy and happy.

Mary Nell Tucker Nockert

Jerry Livingston

Bob, thank you for the " take me back " to the great times we had at DHS.  Friday night football then the Rainbow. 

Newman Richardson

Well, here we are, four months into 2022. Hope all that are still with us are healthy, and enjoying your latter years. My best to you all.

Newman Richardson.

Robbie Smith (Wigginton)

I am so glad that you hung onto the "Program" with pictures of players, coaches, cheerleaders and board.  It certainly brings back memories of the band as well as the football games.  Do students still turn out for games as we did?  It was a great time, and I feel for young people today who don't have the same opportunity .  I am thankful for my years at DHS

Ann Dean (Poole)

We had a small group of our Class of 1959 join together for a lunch at Logan's in Decatur on Thursday, 5/26, 2022.  It was so great to see everyone.  I sat with my hubby, Bill Terry, Gloria McGee Dillard and her husband.  The food was very good and the company much better.

Linda and others are planning another meeting in the next two or three months.  Love to all.

Ann Dean Poole

Richard Allen

I regret very much that I missed all of Tiller's potty jokes. My best to all . Richard Allen. 

Gene Yarbrough

Today's death of Queen Elizabeth reminded me that Miss Crutchfield's 1952-53 sixth grade class at Gordon Bibb went to Tommy Lyons' house to watch both her coronation and President Eisenhower's inauguration in Febaury and January of 1953.  Tommy's dad,Tim Lyons, owned Lyons Electric on Second Avenue.  We didn't get a television until 1954 when Tink Wyle's brother Johnny bought a Coke at a service station and won a tv in a raffle at the station.  I guess it would have been unheard of in that day for most families to have more than one tv, so Mr. Wyle sold the one Johnny won to my dad. Gene Yarbrough