Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Former Willisville School Students Gather At Nevada High For Reunion

Former students of Willisville School held their reunion at Nevada School in Rosston on May 31.

The roundup committee included Margaret Ward Ivey, Betty Dixon, Audrey Martin Fore, Gaylon Waters and Welton Bailey.

A delicious lunch of barbecued beef and ham was served by Kent and Margaret Williams.

Five former teachers, Oris Thornton, Ila Carpenter, L.A. Cook, Sue Jane Cofield Silvey, Eva Dixon McGraw and Mary Kennedy Mitchell, were recognized.

The 151 in attendance came from 45 towns in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri and Georgia. Sixty-three had not attended the previous reunion in 1990.

The group enjoyed visiting and reminiscing with firends of former school days.

Attending from Willisviille were Mary Fay Black, Gaylon and Kay Waters, Dail and Marjorie Goodwin Evans, Carl West and Lynn Herring; from Magnolia were Gervin Bailey, Welton Bailey, Dorothy Chapman, Kenneth and Marilyn Dixon, Susie Morris Kretzinger, Gary Don Oswalt, Roy and Mary Jo Silvey Waters and Max West; from Waldo were Virginia Herring Callicott, H.I. and Ruth Herring Watkins, Evelyn Morris Jackson, Marcelle Herring Martin, Judge and Mary Mitchell, Johnnie and Elsie Sewell, Johnnie Walraven, Billie Fern Martin Waters and Elaine Rhodes Cook; from Buckner were L.A. and Mabel Cook; from Cove were W.S. and Lorene Pittman; from Ben Lomond was Janice Cooper Penny; from Mt. Holly were Marie Lewis and Lousie Lewis; from Lewisville were George and Mary Lea Bailey Jett; from Rosston were Paul and Dot Smyth Broussard, Nancy Prescott Cross, Ila Carpenter, Jim and Mona Dixon, Betty Dixon, Herbert and Audrey Martin Fore, Bonnie Jarvis House and Tomi Lew Waters Jarvis; from Camden were Maxine Martin Butcher, John Wallace Cross and Shelly Stell, William and Margaret Cross, T.B. and Bonnie Freeland and Eva Dixon McGraw; from El Dorado were Robert Dixon; from Prescott were Jean Biddle, George and Margaret Ward Ivey, Carrol and Hera Bailey Morehead and Everett Ward; from Stephens were Marivonne Buther Fawver, Ann Hughes and Vera Wreyford, Charles Marlar, Marvin and Yvonne Murry, Sandra Oswalt Tribble and Jack and Sybil Butcher Waters; from Stamps was Myrth Herring Clark; from McNeil was Robert W. Crank; from Fayetteville were Don and Gloria Butler Dunn; from Emmet was Mary Anna Goodwin Dorman; from Texarkana were Marilyn Huffman Daniel, Imogene West, Billy and Elsie Young, Patsy Fincher, Dillard and Daisy Crank Gordon, Hazel Honea McAdoo, Sam and Lawana Mitchell Sarrett, Ray and Sue Jane Cofield Silvey and Clyde and Geneva Johnson; from Benton was Martha Lynn Mitchell Wyre; from Hot Springs Village were James Edward and Wanda Martin; from Little Rock were Virginia Honea Leapard, Pete and Anna Rhodes, Edith Magee Shroeder, Dorothy Magee Storey and Brad T. and Nadine Kellogg Ward; from Sherwood was Shirley Huffman Stephens, from Ashdown were Thomas P. and Catherine Waters; from Hot Springs were Peggie West Homichak; from Hope were Ervin and Ellen Comer, Danny and Sandra Rodgers, Damen and Whitney, and Oris and Carolyn Thornton.

Those from out of state included Nathell Honea Fincher from Overland, Mo.; Lynwood and Priscilla Warmack from Jasper Ga.; from Johnnie House Brooks, Louie and Tootsie Rhodes Davis, Patsy Fincher Peek and Raymond and Margarette Rhodes of Shreveport, La.; from Otto and Lois Stroop Black of Haynesville, La.; from Aline Malone Young of Houma, La.; and Richard and Madelyne Cross Knott of Minden, La.

Those from Texas included Ronnie and Vera Dixon of Flint; Billie Bob and Vera Dixon of Spring; Don and Ruby Waters Box of Rockdale; Katheleen Cargle Johnson of Houston; Marcelene Cargle Garner of Gilmer; Robert and Marion Gerhart of Conroe; Royce Malone of Hallsville; Burton and Theresa Rollings of Dallas; Troy and Wilma Bailey Simpson of Duncanville; Wilbert and Betty West of Longview; Gerald Young of Sealey; Jimmy Dixon and guest, Lloyd Carey of Cleveland; and Emogene Prescott Mashburn of Ft. Worth.