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2010 Yahoo Messages
2|2|2010-05-06 14:27:08|Tom Sims|Welcome to StampsARK|Welcome to the StampsArk Yahoo Group. Anyone who is interested in Stamps is welcome here. StampsArk is the place to share Stamps remembrances, history, current news etc.. Tom Sims SHS '51|

3|3|2010-05-06 14:38:43|Tom Sims|Wikipedia entry for Stamps|I just read the Wikipedia entry for Stamps for the first time. I'll have some comments on Maya Angelou and George Doherty (two of the three notable natives listed for Stamps) at some future time. A clickable link to the Stamps Wikipedia entry is included on the Stamps ARK home page. Tom Sims SHS '51|

4|4|2010-05-07 18:23:02|Tom Sims|Lafayette County Press 5 MAY Edition is Online|The Lafayette County Press 5 MAY Edition is Online: http://www.lafayettecountypress.com/ a href="http://www.lafayettecountypress.com/" http://www.lafayettecountypress.com//a Woodrow Smith obituary is under the "Services / Obituaries" tab.|

5|5|2010-06-25 22:53:34|Tom Sims|Patsy Sue Hamilton Copeland R.I.P.|http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/xP SH.htm|

6|6|2010-07-15 15:19:59|Tom Sims|David Clary R.I.P.|Note from Delilah: "Wanted to let you know that I have received word from one of the SHS class of 1947 that David (Mike) Clary has died. This brings their number of living classmates down to only 14." _____________________________________________ David and Roger Layne ran my 8th grade PE class, and I think of them every day (and have for many, many years) because of some advice that Roger gave us about walking. He told us to always push off with our toes on every step we take. If you have email addresses for 1951 era (plus or minus a few years) SHS graduates, send them to me and I'll add them to the mailing list. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/|

7|7|2010-07-19 19:13:11|Tom Sims|David Clary Funeral|Thanks to Marilou Rogers Nelson (SHS '59) here are some pictures of the program at David Clary's funeral: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_47DC.ht m a href="http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_4 7DC.htm" http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_47DC.ht m/a ______________ If you have email addresses for 1951 era (plus or minus a few years) SHS graduates, send them to me and I'll add them to the mailing list. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

8|8|2010-09-06 23:09:03|Tom Sims|Historical Info|Aubrey Waddell recalls: I can't get over the fact that they hardly ever have a winning season anymore. My problem is, I came of age in Stamps in the 1960s, when the Jackets virtually ruled old Class B football in Arkansas. We had at least two and I think 3 state B titles in football, 1967 and 1969 I'm sure of and I think there was another earlier. The 1969 team was awesome, going either 10-0 or 11-0. The opener was a 12-6 win over then class A Prescott at Stamps where Dale Benefield returned a kickoff in the rain for a TD and the winning margin. Another highlight was a 16-0 win over a strong Junction City team at Junction City, and the state number one ranking was sewed up on a cold Friday night in Stamps with a 43-24 whipping of Mineral Springs, after being behind early 24-8! Those were the days: fall weather. a full home crowd decked out in black and gold, and the band blaring out the now-banned "Dixie" after every touchdown. Don't get me wrong, I understand why playing "Dixie" had to go, I just miss the tune because I really liked it and it sounded so good after a touchdown, and we had lots of touchdowns! I was just a 12 year old then, but I still remember a lot of stars from that team, like Ronald Garner, Ricky Shelton, Dale Benefield, Asa Warmack, Billy Sutton, Joe Phillips, etc. Aubrey 5 SEP 2010 J. Aubrey Waddell, Pharm.D., FAPhA, BCOP Lieutenant Colonel (Ret), U.S. Army Professor, University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy - Knoxville Oncology Pharmacist, Blount Memorial Hospital Maryville, TN|

9|8|2010-09-06 23:09:23|Tom Sims|Historical Info|I remember seeing a SHS night football game played in about 1939 or 1940. They played at a field that was west of Thomas Street and south of Highway 82. There wasn't any football at SHS during WWII. It restarted in the 48/49 school year when I was in 10th grade. Lafayette County Schools is a consolidation of Stamps (which included Buckner since about 1949) and Lewisville. The high school (LCHS) is in Stamps, occupying the same facilities east of Stamps where SHS was located. The consolidation took place at the start of the 2003/2004 school year. http://lcs.k12.ar.us/ All of the above is to the best of my recollection. Tom Sims ------- End of forwarded message -------|

10|8|2010-09-06 23:09:33|Tom Sims|Historical Info|Earl M. Rogers recalls: Just the other day I was recolecting the good ole days when Rip Powell was there. In 1960, i think.... we had 19 players come out for football and 18 stayed the year.. we had to practice 1/2 line scrimmage because we didnot have enough players.... we went undefeated, and un scored on for the first 6 games... tied Bearden 7-7 at Bearden and won 7B east and then defeated Lewisville for the 7B championship. we scored 256 points and had only 13 scored against us .... Coach Powell was a heck of a coach. Earl M. Rogers, M.S., P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret Rx Consulting, L.L.C. Richmond, VA 5 SEP 2010|

11|11|2010-09-11 08:32:08|Tom Sims|Mineral Springs 57 - LCHS 30|Lafayette County Cougars 2010 Football Schedule 9/3 H Spring Hill (Hope AR) Lost 42 - 8 9/10 @ Mineral Springs Lost 57 - 30 9/17 @ Gurdon 9/24 H Drew Central (Monticello AR) 10/1 @ Smackover 10/8 H Fordyce 10/15 @ Harmony Grove (Camden AR) 10/22 H Rison 10/29 @ Genoa Central (Texarkana AR) 11/5 H Fouke If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

12|12|2010-09-14 19:13:10|Tom Sims|Historical Info - SHS Pre WW2 Football|Dale White SHS '47 recalls: I told you I would get back to you re the old football team. So here goes. I don't really remember the fellows who played back in the late 30's and early 40's. All I remember is that some of those boys would deliberately fail just so they could play football another year. Only two names come to mind who were on the team. A fellow by the name of Fletcher Schnault (sp), and a fellow by the last name of Railey (here again, sp). They didn't have hard helmets. Wore a leather cap. I remember the fellow Railey being knocked out ... ... Back to my statement about some deliberately failing. First off, those boys who did play were a rough bunch. When WWII started, the whole team was drafted because of their age. That is the reason Stamps had no football team from the beginning of the war until after I finished school in '47. I think the school began building a team again around '49. I most likely have some things wrong in my rememberance. I was only 13 when the war started, and I'm trying to put together things that occurred before that. That's all for now. Dale 11 SEP 2010|

13|13|2010-09-18 08:06:35|Tom Sims|LCHS 22 - Gurdon 39|Lafayette County Cougars 2010 Football Schedule 9/3 H Spring Hill (Hope AR) Lost 8 - 42 9/10 @ Mineral Springs Lost 30 - 57 9/17 @ Gurdon Lost 22 - 39 9/24 H Drew Central (Monticello AR) 10/1 @ Smackover 10/8 H Fordyce 10/15 @ Harmony Grove (Camden AR) 10/22 H Rison 10/29 @ Genoa Central (Texarkana AR) 11/5 H Fouke If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

14|14|2010-09-24 23:34:59|Tom Sims|LCHS 40 - Drew Central 14|Lafayette County Cougars 2010 Football Schedule Lost 8 - 42 H SEP 3 Spring Hill (Hope AR) Lost 30 - 57 @ SEP 10 Mineral Springs Lost 22 - 39 @ SEP 17 Gurdon Won 40 - 14 H SEP 14 Drew Central (Monticello AR) @ OCT 1 Smackover H OCT 8 Fordyce @ OCT 15 Harmony Grove (Camden AR) H OCT 22 Rison @ OCT 29 Genoa Central (Texarkana AR) H NOV 5 Fouke If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

15|15|2010-10-01 23:25:17|Tom Sims|LCHS 47 - Smackover 13|Lafayette County Cougars 2010 Football Schedule Lost 8 - 42 H SEP 3 Spring Hill (Hope AR) Lost 30 - 57 @ SEP 10 Mineral Springs Lost 22 - 39 @ SEP 17 Gurdon Won 40 - 14 H SEP 14 Drew Central (Monticello AR) Won 47 - 13 @ OCT 1 Smackover H OCT 8 Fordyce @ OCT 15 Harmony Grove (Camden AR) H OCT 22 Rison @ OCT 29 Genoa Central (Texarkana AR) H NOV 5 Fouke If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

16|16|2010-10-09 02:45:02|Tom Sims|LCHS 6 - Fordyce 40|Lafayette County Cougars 2010 Football Schedule Lost 8 - 42 H SEP 3 Spring Hill (Hope AR) Lost 30 - 57 @ SEP 10 Mineral Springs Lost 22 - 39 @ SEP 17 Gurdon Won 40 - 14 H SEP 14 Drew Central (Monticello AR) Won 47 - 13 @ OCT 1 Smackover Lost 6 - 40 H OCT 8 Fordyce @ OCT 15 Harmony Grove (Camden AR) H OCT 22 Rison @ OCT 29 Genoa Central (Texarkana AR) H NOV 5 Fouke If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ 17|17|2010-10-15 23:33:36|Tom Sims|LCHS 6 - Harmony Grove 36|Lafayette County Cougars 2010 Football Schedule Lost 8 - 42 H SEP 3 Spring Hill (Hope AR) Lost 30 - 57 @ SEP 10 Mineral Springs Lost 22 - 39 @ SEP 17 Gurdon Won 40 - 14 H SEP 14 Drew Central (Monticello AR) Won 47 - 13 @ OCT 1 Smackover Lost 6 - 40 H OCT 8 Fordyce Lost 6 - 36 @ OCT 15 Harmony Grove (Camden AR) H OCT 22 Rison @ OCT 29 Genoa Central (Texarkana AR) H NOV 5 Fouke If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

18|18|2010-10-22 20:52:22|Tom Sims|Rison 41 - LCHS 6|Rison 41 - LCHS 6 Lafayette County Cougars 2010 Football Schedule Lost 8 - 42 H SEP 3 Spring Hill (Hope AR) Lost 30 - 57 @ SEP 10 Mineral Springs Lost 22 - 39 @ SEP 17 Gurdon Won 40 - 14 H SEP 14 Drew Central (Monticello AR) Won 47 - 13 @ OCT 1 Smackover Lost 6 - 40 H OCT 8 Fordyce Lost 6 - 36 @ OCT 15 Harmony Grove (Camden AR) Lost 6 - 41 @ H OCT 22 Rison @ OCT 29 Genoa Central (Texarkana AR) H NOV 5 Fouke If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

19|19|2010-10-30 00:26:45|Tom Sims|LCHS 45 - Genoa Central 0|LCHS 45 - Genoa Central 0 Lafayette County Cougars 2010 Football Schedule Lost 8 - 42 H SEP 3 Spring Hill (Hope AR) Lost 30 - 57 @ SEP 10 Mineral Springs Lost 22 - 39 @ SEP 17 Gurdon Won 40 - 14 H SEP 14 Drew Central (Monticello AR) Won 47 - 13 @ OCT 1 Smackover Lost 6 - 40 H OCT 8 Fordyce Lost 6 - 36 @ OCT 15 Harmony Grove (Camden AR) Lost 6 - 41 @ H OCT 22 Rison Won 45 - 0 @ OCT 29 Genoa Central (Texarkana AR) H NOV 5 Fouke If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

20|20|2010-10-30 16:54:36|Tom Sims|Former Southern Arkansas football coach Raymond "Rip" Powell dies|Former Southern Arkansas football coach Raymond "Rip" Powell dies http://tinyurl.com/2562o4q a href="http://tinyurl.com/2562o4q" http://tinyurl.com/2562o4q/a|

21|21|2010-11-04 22:38:47|Tom Sims|LCHS 33 - Fouke 14|LCHS 33 - Fouke 14 I thought they played tomorrow night, but Martin Herrman reports that the game was tonight. Lafayette County Cougars 2010 Football Schedule Lost 8 - 42 H SEP 3 Spring Hill (Hope AR) Lost 30 - 57 @ SEP 10 Mineral Springs Lost 22 - 39 @ SEP 17 Gurdon Won 40 - 14 H SEP 14 Drew Central (Monticello AR) Won 47 - 13 @ OCT 1 Smackover Lost 6 - 40 H OCT 8 Fordyce Lost 6 - 36 @ OCT 15 Harmony Grove (Camden AR) Lost 6 - 41 @ H OCT 22 Rison Won 45 - 0 @ OCT 29 Genoa Central (Texarkana AR) Won 33 - 14 @ H NOV 4 Fouke If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

22|22|2010-11-12 23:02:32|Tom Sims|Playoffs: Harrisburg 56 - LCHS 20|Lafayette County Cougars 2010 Football Schedule Lost 8 - 42 H SEP 3 Spring Hill (Hope AR) Lost 30 - 57 @ SEP 10 Mineral Springs Lost 22 - 39 @ SEP 17 Gurdon Won 40 - 14 H SEP 14 Drew Central (Monticello AR) Won 47 - 13 @ OCT 1 Smackover Lost 6 - 40 H OCT 8 Fordyce Lost 6 - 36 @ OCT 15 Harmony Grove (Camden AR) Lost 6 - 41 H OCT 22 Rison Won 45 - 0 @ OCT 29 Genoa Central (Texarkana AR) Won 33 - 14 H NOV 5 Fouke Lost 20 - 56 @ NOV 12 Harrisburg If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

23|23|2010-12-11 16:28:04|Tom Sims|Frank Willis R.I.P.|Frank Willis R.I.P. Received word this afternoon from Glendon Nicholas that Frank Willis had passed away. A memorial service will be held Tuesday afternoon At 3:pm. No details except it will be at Casmer funeral home. He is being cremated and his ashes are to be spread over his favorite fishing place. Bennie's address is 640 Campbell, New Waverly, Tx 77358, Phone # 936-344-9083. I last saw Frank when he stopped by our 50th reunion dinner in Magnolia. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

2011 Yahoo Messages
24|24|2011-01-13 07:50:53|Tom Sims|4 inches of snow in Lewisville / Stamps yesterday|4 inches of snow in Lewisville / Stamps yesterday http://www.magnoliareporter.com/news_and_business/regional_n ews/article_c3ce8a62-1ed0-11e0-88a4-001cc4c03286.html or http://tinyurl.com/4ktmz8r a href="http://tinyurl.com/4ktmz8r" http://tinyurl.com/4ktmz8r/a SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

25|25|2011-01-19 20:14:04|Tom Sims|Janell Tatum Lindsey R.I.P.|Nadine White Moody '56 received word that Janell Tatum Lindsey, SHS '55 passed away today 1/19/11. No details available. ________ If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

26|26|2011-02-14 17:18:58|Tom Sims|LCHS Basketball|LCHS boys basketball team is 22-2 (10-0 conference) this year Prescott and a very small school beat them early in the season. They've beaten Prescott twice since then. LCHS boys were district champs last year with an 18-11 record. The high scorer on the team has a 14.6 points per game average. LCHS girls basketball team is 10-15 this year. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

27|27|2011-02-20 08:20:10|Tom Sims|LCHS wins District Basketball|LCHS improved to 24-2 and won the district title by beating Fouke 59-30 on Friday and Prescott 70-56 last night. LCHS hosts the region 4 tournament this week and they only have to win their first game with Rison to advance to the state tournament. _ If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

28|28|2011-02-25 07:44:39|Tom Sims|LCHS beat Rison 50-37|LCHS beat Rison 50-37, improves to 25-2 and advances to the state tournament. Report from a Stamps local: "Have watched them play a couple times. The come out of the dressing room running and never stop til the final buzzer. They have the speed and can shoot, play good defense. I have never seen a team run like they do. They are in good condition, have to be for the pace they play at." I asked if the team was "mostly black". Answer: "No they are not mostly black, they are all black." ___________ If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@West-Point.org SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

29|29|2011-02-27 18:35:59|Tom Sims|LCHS 56- Fordyce 41|LCHS (27-2) beat Fordyce (23-6) 56-41 to win the region. State tournament is this week. _ If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@Cox.net SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

30|30|2011-03-02 07:49:33|Tom Sims|Valley Springs 63 - LCHS 45|Valley Springs 63 - LCHS 45 LCHS is eliminated from the state tournament and finishes the season with a 27-3 record. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@Cox.net SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

31|31|2011-03-07 00:18:27|Tom Sims|Paul Beckham R.I.P.|Paul Beckham, husband of Mary Nell McDonald Beckham SHS '52, died recently after a long illness.|

32|32|2011-04-16 10:57:08|Tom Sims|Peggy Pelt Langley R.I.P.|Peggy Pelt Langley R.I.P. My classmate Peggy Langley died Thursday 14 April. Her funeral service will be on Monday 18 April at 10:00 am in Magnolia at IMMANEUL BAPTIST, with burial at Lakeside in Stamps. Tom Sims TomESims@Cox.net SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

34|34|2011-04-25 20:29:53|Tom Sims|Murder conviction for Stamps native upheld|Murder conviction for Stamps native upheld Court rejects David Camp appeal in contract killing http://arkansasnews.com/tag/wyouman-david-camp/ Arkansas Supreme Court Decision http://opinions.aoc.arkansas.gov/WebLink8/0/doc/60294/Electr onic.aspx _____________ If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this Stamps mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Tom Sims TomESims@Cox.net SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

35|35|2011-05-19 19:42:39|Tom Sims|Dr. John Harold White, SHS '44, R.I.P.|Dr. John Harold White, SHS '44, R.I.P. Nadine White Moody, SHS '56 advises that her brother, Dr. John Harold White, SHS class of '44 passed away this morning (19 MAY) following a lengthy illness.|

36|36|2011-06-11 01:15:01|Tom Sims|James Howard Goodwin R.I.P.|I've learned that James Howard Goodwin, SHS '50 has died and that his funeral will be today, Saturday 11 June. No other details. James Howard was a good friend, although I haven't seen him in years. Rest In Peace.|

39|36|2011-06-21 21:18:15|Tom Sims|Re: James Howard Goodwin R.I.P.|On 21 Jun 2011 at 21:55, mth2md@cox.net wrote: In 1958 there were several of us who became interested in ham radio (Bobby Stark, Henry Titus Black, and myself), but we had no way of learning Morse Code, a requisite skill needed to obtain a ham radio license. I asked Mr. Goodwin if he knew how we could get a code practice oscillator, and he told me that he would build me one ... Good story, Murray. Thanks for sharing. Here's one of my James Howard Goodwin stories: James Howard (he went by two names then, as many Stampsites did) was SHS '50, one year ahead of me, and although we weren't close friends, he was a good friend. When he was in 6th grade and I was in 5th, the school safety patrol consisted of six 6th graders and six 5th graders. James Howard and I were both included in the safety patrol selections. The 4th grade teacher, Miss Mouser, was the teacher-in-charge of the safety patrol and she held an organizational meeting in her room, to elect a safety patrol captain and lieutenant and to hand out the white belts that were the uniform of the safety patrol. The procedure was to nominate two of the group for captain, which would be determined by majority vote, and the loser would be the lieutenant. James Howard and I were the two nominees for captain, and Miss Mouser had the 5th graders vote first. My five classmate all voted for me, but I voted for James Howard, because my mother had taught me that you never vote for yourself in an election. James Howard hadn't been taught by my mother and when the 6th graders voted for captain, all six voted for James Howard, so he was the captain and I was the lieutenant. I would have liked to have been the captain, but both the captain and the lieutenant got a really neat, substantial badge to wear on their safety patrol belts, so I wasn't too unhappy. James Howard and I kidded each other about that election many times over the years.|

40|40|2011-07-01 07:47:15|Tom Sims|Raymond "Top" Kuykendall, SHS '57, R.I.P.|Death of Raymond "Top" Kuykendall, SHS '57 _ From Darrell Kuykendall, SHS '62: Tom, I received a telephone call from my sister-in-law last night advising that my brother Ray had a heart attack and died last night, June30, 2011 in Pattonsburg, Missouri. She advised that they had not completed plans for funeral services yet but likely the service would be on Sunday, July 3. The family address is 13448 Drake, Pattonsburg, Missouri 64670. I will advise you of any other plans as they come available but I will be in transit for the next few days. I hope that it is okay to use your site as a means of disseminating this information. Darrell Kuykendall, SHS '62 ____ SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

41|41|2011-07-04 15:12:22|Tom Sims|John Richard Tatom, SHS '61, R.I.P.|Stu Tribble '61 reports: John Richard Tatom (SHS '61), age 67, of Fayetteville died in Fayetteville Wednesday, June 29, 2011, after a courageous six-year battle with kidney failure. No other information. SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

42|42|2011-07-10 19:13:02|Tom Sims|James E. Jarnagin, R.I.P.|Internet Death Notice JARNAGIN, JAMES E. Published: January 14, 2011 JARNAGIN--James E., passed away peacefully on Sunday, January 9, 2011 in Springdale, Arkansas at the age of 85. Before moving to Arkansas, James was a long time resident of 2 Beekman Place, New York City, NY. James Graduated from Harvard University in 1949, and worked as an Editor for Colliers Encyclopedia and Family Circle Magazine. James was a member of the West Side Tennis Club, The University Club and a Patron of the Metropolitan Opera. A Memorial Service will be held at 1:00pm April 8, 2011 at Christ's Church, Park Ave., New York City, NY. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in his memory to the Central Park Conservancy. James Ernest was raised by Dr. Keith and was the Band Drum Major at SHS. He was seven or eight years older than me and when I looked into joining the band once, he told me that my talents lay in other directions. In 1954 or 1955 he contacted me through my mother when he was an editor for a publishing house in NYC. He and a friend visited me at West Point and we played tennis and shared a meal. I remember him as being very nice and very intelligent. Tom Sims TomESims@Cox.net SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

43|43|2011-08-15 16:15:26|Tom Sims||BUDDY "IRVIN L." FALLIN R.I.P. Buddy "Irvin L." Fallin, age 88, of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Sunday, August 14, 2011, at his home. Mr. Fallin was born August 28, 1922, to Irvin and Aletha Fallin in Ruston, Louisiana. He was a member of First Methodist Church of Stamps, AR, a former coach at Stamps School, and a member of the American Legion. Mr. Fallin was preceded in death by his parents; his brother, William T. Fallin; and his sister, Cornelia Oxford. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Mary Ruth Fallin of Stamps, AR; his son, Pat Fallin and wife, Annette of Stamps, AR; his grandson, Bradley Fallin of Stamps, AR; his granddaughter, Ashley Fallin of Texarkana, AR; his great-grandson, Preston Franklin of Texarkana, AR; his sister, Lois Arthur of Shreveport, LA; numerous nieces and nephews and many friends. His grandchildren were the love of his life; they played together, worked together and worshipped together. Funeral Services will be 10 am Wednesday, August 17, 2011, at the Smith Funeral Home in Chapel in Stamps, AR, with Bro. David Watkins, Bro. Buddy Chisolm, and Bro. David Smith officiating. Burial will be at Shiloh Lamartine Cemetery in Waldo, AR. Visitation will be 6-8 pm Tuesday, August 16, 2011, at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps. _ Buddy was a good football player at La Tech and was an Asst. Coach when I played at SHS from 1948-1951. A very nice person. Tom Sims SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

44|44|2011-08-19 06:56:29|Tom Sims|Jack Logan, R.I.P.|Jack Logan, R.I.P. Jack D. Logan, Ph.D. Dr. Jack Logan, retired professor, avid tennis player, and loving husband and father, passed away peacefully on August 12, 2011, in San Diego, California. He was born on August 23, 1944 and raised in Stamps, Arkansas. Jack Logan joined the San Diego State University (SDSU) faculty in 1969 at the age of 24 as Lecturer in Music while working on a Ph.D. in Theoretical Studies in Music at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla, California. Having completed Bachelor's (1966) and Master's (1967) degrees in Music at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, Jack enjoyed a brief career as a trumpet soloist traveling the United States and as an orchestral player in the San Diego Symphony and other Southern California orchestras. Dr. Logan's accomplishments also included compositions and many sound recordings ranging from orchestral to solo trumpet focusing on contemporary Avant Garde music. Professor Logan was instrumental in developing SDSU's World Music program and associated concert series, and the state-of-the-art Interactive Multimedia Lab for the Visual and Performing Arts. He impacted the lives of many students by broadening their horizons on music from across the globe. In 1995, Dr. Logan got involved in the development of semantic mapping tools and leveraged the technology for his short-lived but successful online college program. Following retirement in 2009, Dr. Logan's passion for the semantic web continued and he was a regular contributor to many web communities and burgeoning technology companies. While Jack's professional life was successful and fulfilling, his family and friends were his true passion. His greatest pleasure was watching his son grow into a young man. Jack was dedicated to his son's high school years and was actively involved in supporting Serra High School baseball and water polo. He also loved to enjoy wonderful food and wine with friends and family. Jack was a long-time member of the San Diego Tennis and Racquet Club and enjoyed spending time on the courts with his friends. Jack is survived by wife Monica, son Drew, many cousins, and other family members and friends that will miss his engaging smile. He is preceded in death by his parents Cecil and Essie Logan. A Memorial Service will be held on Friday, August 26 at 11:00a.m. at A. O. Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, Arkansas. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation in Jack's honor to support students studying music at SDSU. Make checks payable to 'The Campanile Foundation' with note 'Jack Logan Memorial' and mail to The Campanile Foundation, Attn: Gifts Administration, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA, 92182-1968. SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

45|44|2011-08-19 11:01:53|Tom Sims|Re: Jack Logan, R.I.P.|Aubrey: Very interesting. I don't remember any of the Logan's or anything about them, but I probably knew them when I was in school. Subject to your disapproval and a removal request, I'm copying the Stamps Yahoo site where I posted Jack's obituary. I'm archiving remembrances of Stamps and Stamps people there. Best wishes, Tom Sims SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Subject: Re: Jack Logan, R.I.P. To: "Tom Sims" TomESims@Cox.net From: JWaddell@bmnet.com Date sent: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:21:20 -0400 Tom, Don't know if you know this, but Jack was my great aunt Essie (my father's mother's sister) and great uncle Cecil Logan's only child. I guess that makes Jack my second cousin and my Dad's cousin. Jack (I think his actual given name was Jackie Dale and he shortened the Jackie to Jack) was an exceptionally talented guy. His mother Essie was a great piano player who played at churches all over the Stamps area, and I think she taught piano also. Cecil was considered the best funeral director around (worked for A. O. Smith, of course). They lived down Highway 53 by Lake June and were known for having some unusual bird species in their yard (peacocks, guinea fowl, etc). Incredibly, my Mom knew Essie Logan most of her life, then my Mom met my Dad when he came to Stamps in 1953 to be the district forester (she was secretary at the forestry office in Stamps, which was on the second floor over People's Drug at that time), then she was stunned to find out the Essie Logan was my Dad's aunt and that he was actually living with them at the time until he could find a place of his own. Did you know Jack or Essie or Cecil? Aubrey|

46|46|2011-08-27 19:15:35|Tom Sims|Lafayette County Judge Frank Scroggins passes away|Lafayette County Judge Frank Scroggins passes away Long-time Lafayette County Judge Frank Scroggins died Saturday morning from an apparent heart attack. Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date. http://www.lafayettecounty.arkansas.gov/imageviewer.php?id=4 9 magnoliareporter.com Posted: Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:32 pm ____________ SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

47|47|2011-08-28 15:17:58|Tom Sims|Stamps things I remember that are long gone|Stamps things I remember that are long gone: Old wooden Baptist Church and parsonage on Church Street. Baptist tennis court in city park. Old log library in city park. Large political gatherings around Gazebo in city park. Pre WW2 football field. Old Lunch House opposite Sinquefield's. Baseball field next to old Lunch House. Tennis courts next to Lunch House. 1948 football field next to SHS. 1948 Field House and music room next to tennis courts. Old white wooden gym. Black, wooden body, open windowed school buses. c1953 football field and Field House on north side of 82E. Thomas Grocery store at 82 and Central (before Jitney Jungle) - Lafayette County was "wet" and they sold beer. Jitney Jungle on South Thomas. Chandler Grocery on South Thomas. Dr. Strnge office on South Thomas. Pool Hall on South Thomas. Alvah Williams liquor store in Buckner. Pelt's Store in Buckner. Riggins Store in Buckner. European Hotel and Cafe on Triangle. European Hotel Barber shop. Old swimming pool next to American Legion Hut. Railroad Depot at intersection of Cotton Belt and L&A railroads. Ice House near Railroad Depot. Sawmill across RR from Depot. Plywood plant along railroad. Ann Farr's Gift Shop on Triangle. Hollis Galloway's insurance office on Triangle. City Grocery at Antigo and Church. Stamps Lumber Company. McMurrough Insurance and Real Estate on Thomas Street. Flower shop on W. Thomas. Carl Davis Gulf Oil distributorship. Carl Davis Construction Yard. Ed Farley's Stamps Buider Supply on 82. Roton's Cash Store. Jester's Jewelry. Babbit's Grocery on Triangle. Telephone operators house and Methodist parsonage on Church Street. Gay Theater on the Triangle. Talbots Dept. Store on the Triangle. Kelly Bros. Store on the Triangle. Post Office (two locations) on the Triangle. Clark's Men's Store in Cabe's complex. Clifford Russell's NAPA Auto store on Triangle. Russell's Oklahoma Auto store on Triangle. Russell's Photo Studio on Triangle. Beasley Hardware on Triangle. Bond's Drug Store on Triangle. AP&L office on Triangle. Gas office on Triangle. Dr. Keith's office, 2nd floor, on Triangle. Bouleware and Wilkinson law offices, 2nd floor, on Triangle. Baker's Grocery Store on Triangle. Baker's Drug Store and Dr. Baker's office on Triangle. B.O. Strange's Sporting Goods on Triangle (before Mrs. Strange built separate building). Hick's Barber shop on the Triangle (someone else owned previously). Hick's Barber Shop on S. Thomas. Cil Theater on S. Thomas. Lloyd Lewis Hamburger house on S. Thomas. J.K. Jones weekend Goat Barbeques on Main Street in lot next to Cabe's. Old jail house near RR tracks. Lovell's Confectionary on the Triangle. George Cafe on Triangle. Soda Fountain at Al Cross's People's Drug (Billy Peck and Don Ballou worked there, IIRC). Elmer Harris Home Furnishing on Triangle. Petry's Grocery on Triangle. Keith & Hurley Welding shop behind Murphy's Gas Station across from old Bank building. Marlar's Grocery next to old Bank building. Hudson Chevrolet on Triangle. Knight's Dry Goods on Triangle. B. Langley Shoe Hospital on S. Thomas. Tissue's Gulf Station. Camp's Service Station. Briehn's Nehi Bottling Plant. Ben Franklin 5c/10c on Triangle. Mouser's Variety Store on Triangle. Dr. Scurlock's Dental office at Thomas and Church. Ellidge Dept. store on Triangle. Endom's Beauty Shop. Hudgen's Garage on W Thomas. Gas stations at Thomas and 82. Western Auto store on Triangle. Brown's Truck Stop and Cafe on 82E. RR Overpass on 82W. Pitman's crossing wooden bridge on old Hope Road. McMurrough's Gin and store on the pond. Wooden stores opposite Gin, including a drugstore that had root beer. Chastain's Grocery store at East Main and Central. Auto shop opposite Chastain's. Galloway's Stamps Auto Ford dealership at Thomas and 82. Beasley's Cleaner's on Triangle. Hazelett Cleaners next to Beasley Hardware. Lindsay's Grocery on N. Thomas. Old wooden Lafayette County Democrat office on N. Thomas. Merle Thomas' Stack and Save Grocery store. Gas station on 82W near overpass in Baker Town. I've probably overlooked a lot of things and didn't include some because I'm not sure if they're long gone or not. This list is being posted on the Stamps Yahoo Forum "http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/" where corrections, additions, questions, discussion etc. are welcomed/encouraged. Tom Sims TomESims@Cox.net SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

48|47|2011-08-29 08:11:25|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|Feedback received: I remember most of those things too, and most of them are gone. Stamps is now the first and only town I have ever lived in that DOES NOT HAVE A GROCERY STORE. Fred's and the Dollar store cary a few groceries. If you want any kind of meat products, you have to go to Lewisville where they have 2 grocery stores. They are so high it is unreal, we usually go to Magnolia to - of course- Wal-Mart.|

49|47|2011-08-29 08:11:25|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|Feedback received: What a great place to have grown up in.It's hard for my kids and grandkids to visualize what a place it use to be and all the things you mention and more. You mention B.O Strange and Mrs. Strange, she owned the European Hotel for many years plus numerous other properties. Thanks for bringing back old memories.|

50|47|2011-08-29 08:11:25|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|Feedback received: You really took a stroll down Memory Lane. I remember most of the ones that you mentioned but you reminded me of some that I haven't thought of in years. I'm going to show this to my Mom, she may not remember most of them but the ones she does, she will enjoy. Thanks for sending this. We have been across town at my sister-in-law's house this afternoon and we spent a couple of hours there going through old photo albums. It is good to relive old times. And in the case of photos there were a lot of 'Wow, I had forgotten that". Or "Who do you think that this is, I don't recognize them". Thanks for the memories that you sent.|

51|47|2011-08-29 08:12:25|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|Feedback received: There is not very much left in Stamps now. two Drug stores, two Insurance Offices, two Dollar Stores, Two Drive Inns, three convineiance stores/gas stations, and we still have a post office. I have probably left something off, but you usually have to go out of town to get anything.|

52|52|2011-08-29 15:58:25|nadine_moody|Ice Plant|Remember the ice plant? Mr. Pat Patterson was the ice man and we would chase his truck to get chips of ice.|

53|53|2011-08-29 15:58:34|nadine_moody|The Yearling|School was let out to see "The Yearling" one afternoon. We walked down to the theater on the triangle.|

54|47|2011-08-29 16:30:28|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|Attachments :Feedback received: Thanks for sharing. I'm still reading through the list at work. I have a picture somewhere of the ice house when it was burning down. I used to prowl around the old sawmill. Sure wish I'd had sense enough to take pictures of it back then. I have tried to walk back into that area several times, but the place is too grown up. I remember the old buildings at the mill and at the time there were still huge saw blades in some of the buildings. We would ride around on the concrete pads on our bikes and could go from the west side by the ice house over to the pond on the concrete. Bums would camp out in some of the buildings when the trains used to come through there. A lot of the buildings you mentioned are still standing, although many are vacant.|

55|47|2011-08-29 16:40:42|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|Feedback received: Speaking of things that go way back, here's a story you may not know of. On the corner, across Thomas Street from People's Drug, there was a Gulf Service station on the corner of Thomas and Main. At one time, it was run by a fellow by the name of Waldo. (He had two sons, Bo and Pete. Bo was the first boy from Stamps who was killed during WWII. Pete Waldo married Jarvie Williams later). Hollis Galloway had his Insurance Office there years later. At any rate, when Lafayette county was still wet, there were two Liquor Stores in Stamps: Fuller's located at the West end of Main Street. Next to Baker's Barber Shop and Jarnigan's Liquor Store in the last building on South Thomas. Across from Cox's grocery. Well as you know, there wasn't a lot of activity down that way. Most of the traffic was on the triangle along Main and Church Streets. So, before Galloway located his Insurance Office in that old Gulf Station building, the building was vacant. Jarnigan decided to move his liquor store there. Not long after that, the Baptist, not liking the fact that a liquor store was so close to their building, got out their ruler and measured the distance from their property to the liquor store. It was just too close. The Baptist got busy and started a campaign to make the county dry. After that, traffic picked up between Stamps and Garland City. While I'm telling old stories, I'll tell about one that occurred in Baker's Drug. As you know, Dr. Baker had his office in the back half of Baker's Drug. Dr. Keith's office was across the triangle and up stairs. There was a small stature fellow by the name of Carroll Hamm who was referred to as a Constable and wore a gun. There was another fellow by the name of Clint LeMay who had been a game warden. It seems that there was some kind of ill feelings between these two. Clint and his wife decided to move to Arizona for health reasons and he was going around saying goodby. I think Baker's Drug probably made more money from their Soda Fountain than from drugs. Did a big coke business. As Clint's wife was driving him around, he had been doing a little celebrating and was two sheets in the wind. He saw Carroll inside Baker's and had his wife stop and let him out. Well, Clint was a large man and Carroll was small and when he went inside, he grabbed Carroll and pushed him back against the Marble Fountain. The story, as it was told, was that Carroll told Clint, "you're choking me". Clint wouldn't turn him loose so Carroll pulled out his gun and shot LeMay in the upper leg. Only intending to get him off. They say that Clint turned Carroll loose and said, "you shot me", and sat down in the floor. Since it was in Dr. Baker's place and he wasn't in, no one would call Dr. Keith across the street. They let Clint Lemay sit there in the middle of the floor and loose so much blood he died before they could get him to Magnolia.|

56|56|2011-08-30 07:29:21|Myrtle|Things that are missing in Stamps|MY HOUSE AT THE TOP OF THE HILL!!! The house that was built and occupied by the Buchanan lumber barons...The Peck family lived there during my grade school, high school and some college years and where my dog Topper is buried. It should have been preserved as a museum to the lumber industry that helped build up the Stamps area. Instead, it was demolished for the installation of a BASEBALL FIELD. Major mistake!|

57|57|2011-08-30 17:20:20|Tom Sims|"Stamps - Long Gone" Feedback and 2011 Football Schedule|Some interesting feedback from my list of "Stamps things I remember that are long gone" is posted on the Stamps Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ Anyone can read the Stamps Arkansas messages. You must join the group to post messages. More feedback is welcomed/encouraged. The Stamps Yahoo Forum is a place to archive remembrances and discuss the Stamps of yesteryear and today. Tom Sims SHS '51 ________________ LCHS 2011 Football Schedule 09/02 @ Spring Hill (Hope, AR) 09/09 @ Mineral Springs 09/16 Gurdon 09/23 @ Drew Central (Monticello, AR) 09/30 Smackover 10/07 @ Fordyce 10/14 Harmony Grove (Camden, AR) 10/21 @ Rison 10/28 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 11/04 @ Fouke|

58|57|2011-08-30 18:39:51|J C Smith|Re: "Stamps - Long Gone" Feedback and 2011 Football Schedule| Tom: � Your site brings back a lot of memories.� Thanks for starting this group. � I do suggest one change, as you noted Carl Davis�was the Gulf Oil Distributor, his brother R H "Dick" Davis had the construction company. � J C Smith Jr � ----- Original Message ----- bFrom:/b Tom Sims bTo:/b SHS Mailing List bSent:/b Tuesday, August 30, 2011 7:18 PM bSubject:/b [StampsArk] "Stamps - Long Gone" Feedback and 2011 Football Schedule � Some interesting feedback from my list of "Stamps things Iremember that are long gone" is posted on the Stamps Yahoogroup: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/Anyone can read the Stamps Arkansas messages. You must jointhe group to post messages.More feedback is welcomed/encouraged. The Stamps Yahoo Forumis a place to archive remembrances and discuss the Stamps ofyesteryear and today.Tom SimsSHS '51LCHS 2011 Football Schedule09/02 @ Spring Hill (Hope, AR)09/09 @ Mineral Springs 09/16 Gurdon09/23 @ Drew Central (Monticello, AR)09/30 Smackover10/07 @ Fordyce10/14 Harmony Grove (Camden, AR)10/21 @ Rison10/28 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 11/04 @ Fouke |

59|57|2011-08-30 18:53:39|Tom Sims|Re: "Stamps - Long Gone" Feedback and 2011 Football Schedule|On 30 Aug 2011 at 19:34, J C Smith wrote: I do suggest one change, as you noted Carl Davis was the Gulf Oil Distributor, his brother R H "Dick" Davis had the construction company. Yep, you're right. Apparently we can also add all gocery stores including Hamilton's and Piggly Wiggly of recent vintage and Patterson's M-System from yesteryear. TES|

60|60|2011-08-31 16:13:42|Tom Sims|Stamps: Missing In Action|I've updated my "Stamps things I remember that are long gone" list and renamed it "Stamps: Missing In Action". Here's a link to the list: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/MIA.htm a href="http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/MIA .htm" http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/MIA.htm/ a There's also a link to the list on the StampsArk Yahoo Forum page. Send me additions and corrections to the list. Tom Sims|

61|60|2011-09-01 23:40:45|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|Feedback from Dale White, SHS '48: Tom, Re; the Gulf Distribution owned by Carl Davis. Dick Davis, his older brother owned the Gulf Station that was next door. This was before he had the Construction Business. Dick built a gravel washing operation on the upper end of the Stamps pond and that's how his construction business got its start. David Bright ran that Gulf Station in later years. At any rate, I worked at that Gulf Station every afternoon after school and all day Saturday for a whopping $2.50 a week, beginning when I was eleven years old. During the summer months, I made $12.50 a week. Gas was selling for $0.18 per gallon. Now you have to understand, these were about 12 hour days and you smelled like gasoline or old rubber tires before the day was out. Well, a Grocery Chain by the name of Stuart, opened a store next door to the Bodcow Bank on Main Street. Bud Stuart, the owner's son ran that store. I hit him up for a job because I wanted to get away from the Service Station smell. He said he would not hire me as long as I worked at the station. So, I quit and went back for the job. We never discussed wages and I went to work not having any idea what I would make. Grocery stores worked til around 9:PM on Saturday nights. I'll never forget that first week's Payday. As we were getting ready to close, Bud called me over and said "hold out your hand", I stuck my hand out and he said "both of them". You can imagine my excitment when Bud counted out $18.00 in Quarters. I was rich! By the way, there was another Grocery Store in Stamps by the name of Perkins Grocery. It was located at the top of Church Street before you came to the Presbyterian Church.|

62|60|2011-09-01 23:41:35|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|Attachments :Feedback from Dale White, SHS '47: Back in Stamps' better years, when the triangle had no vacancies, Stamps was blessed by having 5 Medical Doctors. Dr. Keith, Dr. Baker, Dr. Strange, Dr. Ellis, and Dr. Jack. I would think there was no other town of our size, that had that many Physicians. Dr. Jack lived on Central Avenue, just a bit up the street from where I lived. He had a brother who was a victom of down syndrome. This was back in the late thirty's and of course, there wasn't the help then that is available today for this condition. At any rate, this brother was a grown man and I was a boy of 10. He was just a boy in his own mind. I would go over and sit in a porch swing and talk with, I think his name was Billy. The funny thing I remember about Billy was that he was convinced that he was Little Boy Blue.|

63|60|2011-09-02 00:01:58|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action| Feedback from Dale White, SHS '48: Dale is actually SHS '47. By the way, there was another Grocery Store in Stamps by the name of Perkins Grocery. It was located at the top of Church Street before you came to the Presbyterian Church. There is a picture of the Perkins City Grocery in the Ad section of the '50 and '51 SHS Hilltopper that I took. In 1938, during our first year in Stamps, we lived for awhile in the Gant house. It was a large green colored house on the east side of Spruce street, between the Methodist church and the Al Cross house - it's now the Methodist church parking lot. We were close to Perkins Grocery and my mother had a charge account with him. Tom Sims|

64|60|2011-09-02 00:22:52|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action| Feedback from Dale White, SHS '47: Back in Stamps' better years, when the triangle had no vacancies, Stamps was blessed by having 5 Medical Doctors. Dr. Keith, Dr. Baker, Dr. Strange, Dr. Ellis, and Dr. Jack. I would think there was no other town of our size, that had that many Physicians. Dr. Ellis was the colored doctor and his office was in his brother's drugstore which was on Railroad street, just west of the Stamps Railroad Depot. My Dad was the Cotton Belt agent and often checked freight cars on the sidings in front of the Ellis Drug store. He was friends with both of the Ellis brothers and occasionally I would go with him when he was checking freight cars and we would usually stop in the drugstore for some ice cream. Also, Dr. Nichols was in Stamps then, although he was retired. He lived north of 82 on Buchanan and was the grandfather of my friend Billy Nichols, who lived on Central, across the street from the Lovell's. Tom Sims|

65|56|2011-09-02 08:39:49|Tom Sims|Re: Things that are missing in Stamps|Do you remember how high the ceilings were in your house? Pretty high, I suspect. The Pelt/Langley house on the corner of Brown and Buchanan has very tall ceilings, probably at least 15 or 16 feet, maybe a lot higher. IIRC, the front yard of your house was where Richard Boyd, who lived next door on the corner of School and Church, shot you in the eye with a BB gun. Only minor damage, as I remember. The Powell house, next to your house, was the first school in Stamps (prior to 1898, when it moved to the new Masonic Hall) according to a History of Stamps that Glen Ward wrote in the 1980's. ------- Forwarded message follows ------- To: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com From: "Myrtle" barrsmom@yahoo.com Date sent: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:04:37 -0000 Subject: [StampsArk] Things that are missing in Stamps MY HOUSE AT THE TOP OF THE HILL!!! The house that was built and occupied by the Buchanan lumber barons...The Peck family lived there during my grade school, high school and some college years and where my dog Topper is buried. It should have been preserved as a museum to the lumber industry that helped build up the Stamps area. Instead, it was demolished for the installation of a BASEBALL FIELD. Major mistake!|

66|66|2011-09-02 21:02:45|Tom Sims|Springhill 33 - Lafayette County 20|Springhill 33 - Lafayette County 20 Springhill 33 - LCHS 20 09/02 @ Spring Hill (Hope, AR) 09/09 @ Mineral Springs 09/16 Gurdon 09/23 @ Drew Central (Monticello, AR) 09/30 Smackover 10/07 @ Fordyce 10/14 Harmony Grove (Camden, AR) 10/21 @ Rison 10/28 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 11/04 @ Fouke SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

67|47|2011-09-04 19:34:17|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|Attachments :The appended feedback is from Aubrey Waddell. All, I'm younger than most of you (I would have been Stamps class of 1976 if we had not moved to North Little Rock in 1971). I talked this list over with my mother (Hazel Marie Jackson Waddell, Stamps class of 1952) and she had some observations as well. Aubrey Waddell Some notes: Old log library in city park.--- I definitely remember this. I also remember there was an ancient oak tree by that library and the tree was knocked over in the tornado of 1968 and it fell onto (among other things) my cousin Nancy Lewis Grimmett's car. Old Lunch House opposite Sinquefield's.--- If my mother is correct, this place, by the 1960s, had converted into what us elementary schoolchildren called "The Little Store" and you could go over there and buy candy during the school lunch break if you had a note from a parent. Tennis courts next to Lunch House.---- Pete Galloway (Hollis and Jean's adopted son, Stamps class of 1976, and a wonderful friend of mine) and I played some tennis on these courts in the late 1960s with Mr. Galloway's tennis rackets. It was the first time I ever played tennis. I took tennis up seriously in the 1970s and ended up ranked first in Arkansas in Class B and fourth in Class A. I gave tennis up in 1982 when I started distance running. 1948 Field House and music room next to tennis courts.--- If I am correct, this was the music room where I was taught first grade music by Miss Helen (don't remember her last name) in 1964-65 and second grade music by Billy Hanson 1965-66. It was a two story building next to those two tennis courts. Terry Vickers hit a massive home run one night in 1970 that actually hit that building after a few bounces and rolls. Chandler Grocery on South Thomas.---- My mother's family lived in town for a short while (they usually lived on various farms out in the county and one year in Waterloo) and this is the store where they traded. Pool Hall on South Thomas.----This was around when I was a kid in the 1960s. I remember two young men got into an argument there late one night and one shot the other to death right in front of the pool hall door. European Hotel and Cafe on Triangle.----My mother says this place was the fanciest thing she ever saw in Stamps and that the lobby reminded her of the lobbies of grand hotels she saw in movies. Old swimming pool next to American Legion Hut.---By the time I was about 10, Paul Tarlton would go to this pool and catch turtles, because it was long since abandoned. Railroad Depot at intersection of Cotton Belt and L&A railroads.----Paul Tarlton and I used to go sit at this depot and watch trains switch cars. Ice House near Railroad Depot.----I remember getting ice here if my grandmother (Mary Ruth Owen Jackson) was going to make home made ice cream. Sawmill across RR from Depot.----Don't remember the sawmill, but definitely remember the vault which was sitting out in the open a little piece down from Chastain's grocery. Hollis Galloway's insurance office on Triangle.----Hollis Galloway and his wife Jean were amazing people to me as a child. Flower shop on W. Thomas.---My aunt Bessie Ruth Jackson Lewis worked here. Gay Theater on the Triangle.----My mother remembers watching movies there when she was a child. Post Office (two locations) on the Triangle.----The day that the U.S. Postal Department became the U.S. Postal Service, we all went down there and got special envelopes that said that. I also remember that sometimes stamp collectors would mail a return envelope to the Stamps Post Office just to get the "Stamps" postmark. Clark's Men's Store in Cabe's complex.---This guy gave my grandmother discounts on pants for my grandfather (Calhoun Milner Jackson) if she hemmed the pants herself, which she gladly did. Russell's Oklahoma Auto store on Triangle.----They had a motorized mini-bike in the window one day in the late 1960s and my Dad

(Edwin E. Waddell, Sr.) said I could have it if I bought it myself. It costed $105. I started an account at Bodcaw Bank and started putting my lawn mowing and Grit Paper route money in there. When I got to $105, I decided I liked the money better and never bought the mini-bike. Since I have never again had less than $105, I guess you could say I still have that $105. Hick's Barber shop on the Triangle (someone else owned previously).---Got my hair cut many times here on Saturday mornings. I loved listening to the old men talk about how the football team did the night before. Cil Theater on S. Thomas.----Saw my first movie here, "Namu the Killer Whale," in 1966. Also saw "Maya the Elephant" there in 1966. Guess they were big on animal flicks. Lloyd Lewis Hamburger house on S. Thomas.---Learned something about my mother on this one. She said working there as an order taker was the first job she ever had. She was only 12 at the time. Soda Fountain at Al Cross's People's Drug (Billy Peck and Don Ballou worked there, IIRC).----People's always had a complete collection of Archie and Sad Sack comic books. I would go in the store, read two of them at one of the tables, and then buy one to take home. Elmer Harris Home Furnishing on Triangle.---My sister, Ellen Marie Waddell Williams, was a good friend of Elmer's younger daughter Holly. Petry's Grocery on Triangle.----No business in Stamps is as important in my youth as this place was. We always got our groceries there. Mom could even call in orders and a wonderful African-American man named "Griffin" (I never knew if that was his first or last name) would come to our house in a truck and deliver the groceries. I remember later on I found out that Griffin was killed when his vehicle was hit by a train near where the depot was. Tissue's Gulf Station.----This was run, I believe, by Carl Tissue who was later killed when he was struck by a Cotton Belt train near the crossing by Chastain's grocery. Briehn's Nehi Bottling Plant.----Took an elementary school field trip there. I was fascinated. RR Overpass on 82W.---I'm afraid that the first words of profanity (there certainly weren't any spoken in our home) I ever learned were scrawled by teenagers on the concrete supports of that overpass. Lindsay's Grocery on N. Thomas.----I don't know why, but this store seemed to be the only place in town where you could buy 45 rpm records. I got "Lonely Days, Lonely Nights" by the BeeGees and "Hang On To Your Life" by the Guess Who at that store.|

68|47|2011-09-06 00:32:24|Myrtle Barr|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone [1 Attachment]|�� I LOVED this one!�� Myrtle Sue��From: Tom Sims TomESims@Cox.netbTo: StampsArk@yahoogroups.Cc: JWaddell@bmnet.com Sunday, September 4, 2011 9:26 PMbSubject: [StampsArk] Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone [1 Attachment] � The appended feedback is from Aubrey Waddell.All, I'm younger than most of you (I would have been Stamps class of 1976 if wehad not moved to North Little Rock in 1971). I talked this list over withmy mother (Hazel Marie Jackson Waddell, Stamps class of 1952) and she hadsome observations as well.Aubrey WaddellSome notes:Old log library in city park.--- I definitely remember this. I alsoremember there was an ancient oak tree by that library and the tree wasknocked over in the tornado of 1968 and it fell onto (among other things)my cousin Nancy Lewis Grimmett's car.Old Lunch House opposite Sinquefield's.--- If my mother is correct, thisplace, by the 1960s, had converted into what us elementary schoolchildrencalled "The Little Store" and you could go over there and buy candy duringthe school lunch break if you had a note from a parent.Tennis courts next to Lunch House.---- Pete Galloway (Hollis and Jean'sadopted son, Stamps class of 1976, and a wonderful friend of mine) and Iplayed some tennis on these courts in the late 1960s with Mr. Galloway'stennis rackets. It was the first time I ever played tennis. I took tennisup seriously in the 1970s and ended up ranked first in Arkansas in Class Band fourth in Class A. I gave tennis up in 1982 when I started distancerunning.1948 Field House and music room next to tennis courts.--- If I am correct,this was the music room where I was taught first grade music by Miss Helen(don't remember her last name) in 1964-65 and second grade music by BillyHanson 1965-66. It was a two story building next to those two tenniscourts. Terry Vickers hit a massive home run one night in 1970 thatactually hit that building after a few bounces and rolls.Chandler Grocery on South Thomas.---- My mother's family lived in town fora short while (they usually lived on various farms out in the county andone year in Waterloo) and this is the store where they traded.Pool Hall on South Thomas.----This was around when I was a kid in the1960s. I remember two young men got into an argument there late one nightand one shot the other to death right in front of the pool hall door.European Hotel and Cafe on Triangle.----My mother says this place was thefanciest thing she ever saw in Stamps and that the lobby reminded her ofthe lobbies of grand hotels she saw in movies.Old swimming pool next to American Legion Hut.---By the time I was about10, Paul Tarlton would go to this pool and catch turtles, because it waslong since abandoned.Railroad Depot at intersection of Cotton Belt and L&Arailroads.----Paul Tarlton and I used to go sit at this depot and watchtrains switch cars.Ice House near Railroad Depot.----I remember getting ice here if mygrandmother (Mary Ruth Owen Jackson) was going to make home made ice cream.Sawmill across RR from Depot.----Don't remember the sawmill, butdefinitely remember the vault which was sitting out in the open a littlepiece down from Chastain's grocery.Hollis Galloway's insurance office on Triangle.----Hollis Galloway and hiswife Jean were amazing people to me as a child.Flower shop on W. Thomas.---My aunt Bessie Ruth Jackson Lewis worked here.Gay Theater on the Triangle.----My mother remembers watching movies therewhen she was a child.Post Office (two locations) on the Triangle.----The day that the U.S.Postal Department became the U.S. Postal Service, we all went down thereand got special envelopes that said that. I also remember that sometimesstamp collectors would mail a return envelope to the Stamps Post Officejust to get the "Stamps" postmark.Clark's Men's Store in Cabe's complex.---This guy gave my grandmotherdiscounts on pants for my grandfather (Calhoun Milner Jackson) if shehemmed the pants herself, which she gladly did.Russell's Oklahoma Auto store on Triangle.----They had a motorizedmini-bike in the window one day in the late 1960s and my Dad (Edwin E.Waddell, Sr.) said I could have it if I bought it myself. It costed $105. Istarted an account at Bodcaw Bank and started putting my lawn mowing andGrit Paper route money in there. When I got to $105, I decided I liked themoney better and never bought the mini-bike. Since I have never again hadless than $105, I guess you could say I still have that $105.Hick's Barber shop on the Triangle (someone else ownedpreviously).---Got my hair cut many times here on Saturday mornings. Iloved listening to the old men talk about how the football team did thenight before.Cil Theater on S. Thomas.----Saw my first movie here, "Namu the KillerWhale," in 1966. Also saw "Maya the Elephant" there in 1966. Guess theywere big on animal flicks.Lloyd Lewis Hamburger house on S. Thomas.---Learned something about mymother on this one. She said working there as an order taker was the firstjob she ever had. She was only 12 at the time.Soda Fountain at Al Cross's People's Drug (Billy Peck and DonBallou worked there, IIRC).----People's always had a complete collectionof Archie and Sad Sack comic books. I would go in the store, read two ofthem at one of the tables, and then buy one to take home.Elmer Harris Home Furnishing on Triangle.---My sister, Ellen Marie WaddellWilliams, was a good friend of Elmer's younger daughter Holly.Petry's Grocery on Triangle.----No business in Stamps is as important inmy youth as this place was. We always got our groceries there. Mom couldeven call in orders and a wonderful African-American man named "Griffin" (Inever knew if that was his first or last name) would come to our house in atruck and deliver the groceries. I remember later on I found out thatGriffin was killed when his vehicle was hit by a train near where the depotwas.Tissue's Gulf Station.----This was run, I believe, by Carl Tissue who waslater killed when he was struck by a Cotton Belt train near the crossing byChastain's grocery.Briehn's Nehi Bottling Plant.----Took an elementary school field tripthere. I was fascinated.RR Overpass on 82W.---I'm afraid that the first words of profanity (therecertainly weren't any spoken in our home) I ever learned were scrawled byteenagers on the concrete supports of that overpass.Lindsay's Grocery on N. Thomas.----I don't know why, but this store seemedto be the only place in town where you could buy 45 rpm records. I got"Lonely Days, Lonely Nights" by the BeeGees and "Hang On To Your Life" bythe Guess Who at that store.|

69|69|2011-09-06 07:58:51|Tom Sims|Doyle Baker, SHS '53, R.I.P.|Doyle Baker, SHS '53, R.I.P. I just received word of Doyle Baker's death. Doyle was married to Linda Nix. No other details. Tom Sims SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

70|70|2011-09-06 08:34:00|Tom Sims|Mike Garner, SHS '65, R.I.P.|Mike Garner, SHS '65, R.I.P. Hot Springs "The Sentinel-Record" Obituary: http://www.hotsr.com/news/deaths/2011/09/06/mike-garner-29.p hp a href="http://www.hotsr.com/news/deaths/2011/09/06/mike-garne r-29.php" http://www.hotsr.com/news/deaths/2011/09/06/mike-garner-29.p hp/a Mike Garner HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE - Mike Garner, 64, of Hot Springs Village, Ark., died Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011. He was born June 11, 1947, in Magnolia, Ark., to O.L. and Gracie Garner. He was raised in Stamps, Ark. He graduated from Ouachita Baptist in 1970. He served in the U.S. Army as a general�s aid in Germany. He is survived by his wife, Hally; mother, Gracie Garner; children, Kristin Hodge, Kelli Criswell, Michael Roth and Kimberley Conner; sister, Pat Rogers; brother, Ron Garner; and eight loving grandchildren. Hot Springs "The Sentinel-Record" 6 SEP 2011|

72|72|2011-09-09 23:20:38|Tom Sims|Mineral Springs 77 - LCHS 40|Mineral Springs 77 - LCHS 40 _ Springhill 33 - LCHS 20 09/02 @ Spring Hill (Hope, AR) Mineral Springs 77 - LCHS 40 09/09 @ Mineral Springs 09/16 Gurdon 09/23 @ Drew Central (Monticello, AR) 09/30 Smackover 10/07 @ Fordyce 10/14 Harmony Grove (Camden, AR) 10/21 @ Rison 10/28 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 11/04 @ Fouke SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

73|72|2011-09-10 18:11:53|Myrtle Barr|Re: Mineral Springs 77 - LCHS 40|This is a FOOTBALL score........77 - 40??� Oh for the good old days!�� Also...I don't like all these obits.�� WOW! �� Jay's sister Billie Garner (81), who lived in Fordyce, died in July and my cousin Seth Kennedy(78), who was three months younger than I, passed away in August.� Too many. bFrom: Tom Sims TomESims@Cox.netTo: SHS@yahoo.comSent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 1:09 AMbSubject: [StampsArk] Mineral Springs 77 - LCHS 40 � Mineral Springs 77 - LCHS 40 _Springhill 33 - LCHS 20 09/02 @ Spring Hill (Hope, AR)Mineral Springs 77 - LCHS 40 09/09 @ Mineral Springs 09/16 Gurdon09/23 @ Drew Central (Monticello, AR)09/30 Smackover10/07 @ Fordyce10/14 Harmony Grove (Camden, AR)10/21 @ Rison10/28 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 11/04 @ Fouke SHS 1951http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/Stamp s AR Yahoo Grouphttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

74|74|2011-09-10 22:15:44|Tom Sims|Mineral Springs Stats|Mineral Springs Stats and update that I received privately: Here are the stats on the Mineral Springs game. Also there are 7 schools in the state of Ark that have artificial turf on their fields. All of them or class 6A or 7A with the exception of Mineral Springs which is in 2A, the smallest classication in the state. This is not the worse they have done, back in 2002 or 2003 they beat Stamps at Stamps 80 something to 0, this was before Stamps and Lewisville went together to form Laf County. I believe it was 84 to 0, can't remember the exact score. Stats (you must be a StampsArk member to see this): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/photos/album/1689244 251/pic/612445189/view?picmode=&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start= 1&count=20&dir=asc or http://tinyurl.com/3unl75z a href="http://tinyurl.com/3unl75z" http://tinyurl.com/3unl75z/a|

75|72|2011-09-10 22:37:06|Tom Sims|Re: Mineral Springs 77 - LCHS 40|On 10 Sep 2011 at 18:11, Myrtle Barr wrote: This is a FOOTBALL score........77 - 40??� Yep. Oh for the good old days!�� The Stamps 1950 team was undefeated in their ten games during the regular season and scored 286 points while allowing only 76. We won our first play-off game and lost the second. We beat Mineral Springs 25-0 that year. Also...I don't like all these obits.�� WOW! Me neither. Tom Sims|

76|76|2011-09-14 19:25:19|Tom Sims|Re: Lafayette County Press photo publication|Tommy: I have removed the link that has some LCP pictures from "The Stamps High School Class of 1951" website. I'm surprised that you're making this request since "The Stamps High School Class of 1951" website is about Stamps, is non-commercial, gives credit for the pictures to LCP and gives favorable exposure to LCP. If you ever reconsider the situation, you could give us "express written consent" and we'll put the pictures back on "The Stamps High School Class of 1951" website. Best wishes, Tom Sims SHS '51 ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "LC Press" lafcopress@sbcglobal.net To: TomESims@Cox.net Subject: Lafayette County Press photo publication Date sent: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:49:11 -0500 Hi, Tommy Goodwin here from Stamps. Running through a web search I came across your website and was very surprised to find your section on Lafayette County Press photos. Newspaper photos are copyrighted. No use or republication of them is legal without the express written consent of the owner. I hate it, but as a matter of principle, I must ask you to remove that section. Tommy Goodwin Lafayette County Press Stamps, AR|

77|36|2011-09-16 20:27:17|Tom Sims|Re: James Howard Goodwin R.I.P.|Re-posting a 21 AUG 2011 message that was deleted In 1958 there were several of us who became interested in ham radio (Bobby Stark, Henry Titus Black, and myself), but we had no way of learning Morse Code, a requisite skill needed to obtain a ham radio license. I asked Mr. Goodwin if he knew how we could get a code practice oscillator, and he told me that he would build me one. He did so, and the three of us used it to teach ourselves the code. One day Mr. Goodwin came to Peoples Drug, where I worked, and he told me that he had found a small shortwave radio receiver while he was out on a service call and that he had purchased it from the owner. He offered it to me, and I bought it from him and was able to use it to listen to commercial and amateur Morse Code transmissions. Later, Bobby and I finished all of the requirements to obtain a license, and we became officially licensed amateur radio operators in July of 1959. Bobby was K5WNZ, and I was K5WLY. Fifty two years later I am still an active ham radio operator with the callsign of W5XH. I will never forget the help that Mr. Goodwin gave to me. Without his assistance I might well have missed out on a wonderful hobby that has allowed me to talk with people all over the world and out of the world (speaking with cosmonauts on the Russian space station MIR and with astronauts on the International Space Station). Murray Harris, W5XH|

78|76|2011-09-17 07:05:08|mth2md@cox.net|Re: Lafayette County Press photo publication|Tom, If Mr. Goodwin's request that you remove the LCP photos from the website is not bizarre, then nothing is bizarre. Any recognition of the paper has the potential for increasing subscriptions, and it would have been better for him to give you written permission to post the pictures. Murray Haris --- In StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, "Tom Sims" TomESims@... wrote: Tommy: I have removed the link that has some LCP pictures from "The Stamps High School Class of 1951" website. I'm surprised that you're making this request since "The Stamps High School Class of 1951" website is about Stamps, is non-commercial, gives credit for the pictures to LCP and gives favorable exposure to LCP. If you ever reconsider the situation, you could give us "express written consent" and we'll put the pictures back on "The Stamps High School Class of 1951" website. Best wishes, Tom Sims SHS '51 ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "LC Press" lafcopress@... To: TomESims@... Subject: Lafayette County Press photo publication Date sent: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:49:11 -0500 Hi, Tommy Goodwin here from Stamps. Running through a web search I came across your website and was very surprised to find your section on Lafayette County Press photos. Newspaper photos are copyrighted. No use or republication of them is legal without the express written consent of the owner. I hate it, but as a matter of principle, I must ask you to remove that section. Tommy Goodwin Lafayette
County Press Stamps, AR |

79|79|2011-09-18 07:41:55|Tom Sims|Gurdon 42 - LCHS 35|Gurdon 42 - LCHS 35 Springhill 33 - LCHS 20 09/02 @ Spring Hill (Hope, AR) Mineral Springs 77 - LCHS 40 09/09 @ Mineral Springs Gurdon 42 - LCHS 35 09/16 Gurdon 09/23 @ Drew Central (Monticello, AR) 09/30 Smackover 10/07 @ Fordyce 10/14 Harmony Grove (Camden, AR) 10/21 @ Rison 10/28 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 11/04 @ Fouke SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

80|80|2011-09-23 21:48:10|Tom Sims|LCHS 66 - Drew Central 26|LCHS 66 - Drew Central 26 Loss: Springhill 33 - LCHS 20 09/02 @ Spring Hill (Hope, AR) Loss: Mineral Springs 77 - LCHS 40 09/09 @ Mineral Springs Loss: Gurdon 42 - LCHS 35 09/16 Gurdon Win: LCHS 66 - Drew Central 26 09/23 @ Drew Central (Monticello, AR) 09/30 Smackover 10/07 @ Fordyce 10/14 Harmony Grove (Camden, AR) 10/21 @ Rison 10/28 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 11/04 @ Fouke SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

81|81|2011-09-30 22:18:02|Tom Sims|Smackover 27 - LCHS 24|Smackover 27 - LCHS 24 09/02 Loss: Springhill 33 - LCHS 20 (away) 09/09 Loss: Mineral Springs 77 - LCHS 40 (home) 09/16 Loss: Gurdon 42 - LCHS 35 (home) 09/23 Win: LCHS 66 - Drew Central 26 (away) 09/30 Loss: Smackover 27 - LCHS 24 (home) 10/07 @ Fordyce 10/14 Harmony Grove (Camden, AR) 10/21 @ Rison 10/28 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 11/04 @ Fouke SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

82|82|2011-10-08 06:37:42|Tom Sims|Fordyce 63 - LCHS 6|Fordyce 63 - LCHS 6 09/02 Loss: Springhill 33 - LCHS 20 (away) 09/09 Loss: Mineral Springs 77 - LCHS 40 (home) 09/16 Loss: Gurdon 42 - LCHS 35 (home) 09/23 Win: LCHS 66 - Drew Central 26 (away) 09/30 Loss: Smackover 27 - LCHS 24 (home) 10/07 Loss: Fordyce 63 - LCHS 6 (away) 10/14 Harmony Grove (Camden, AR) 10/21 @ Rison 10/28 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 11/04 @ Fouke SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

83|83|2011-10-11 15:13:20|Tom Sims|John Patterson, R.I.P.|JOHN MASON PATTERSON John Mason Patterson, 65, of Texarkana AR died Saturday, Oct 8, 2011 at his home. Preceded in death by parents Eldridge (Pat) and Mildred Louise Patterson and one sister, Carolyn Louise Smith. Grew up in Stamps, AR and graduated from Stamps High School. Survived by son, Todd Patterson of Pearcy, AR and daughter Pamela Ramirez of Percy, AR, three brothers, Derrell Patterson of Maud, TX; Wayne Patterson of Livingston, TX and Harold Patterson of Pittsburg, TX. and three granddaughters. Graveside service at 3 p.m. Tuesday, October 11 at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps, AR .|

84|84|2011-10-14 20:47:20|Tom Sims|Harmony Grove 26 - Lafayette County HS 13|Harmony Grove 26 - Lafayette County HS 13 09/02 Loss: Springhill 33 - LCHS 20 (away) 09/09 Loss: Mineral Springs 77 - LCHS 40 (home) 09/16 Loss: Gurdon 42 - LCHS 35 (home) 09/23 Win: LCHS 66 - Drew Central 26 (away) 09/30 Loss: Smackover 27 - LCHS 24 (home) 10/07 Loss: Fordyce 63 - LCHS 6 (away) 10/14 Loss: Harmony Grove 26 - LCHS 13 (home) 10/21 @ Rison 10/28 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 11/04 @ Fouke SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

85|85|2011-10-21 21:52:28|Tom Sims|Rison 49 - Lafayette County HS 6|Rison 49 - Lafayette County HS 6 09/02 Loss: Springhill 33 - LCHS 20 (away) 09/09 Loss: Mineral Springs 77 - LCHS 40 (home) 09/16 Loss: Gurdon 42 - LCHS 35 (home) 09/23 Win: LCHS 66 - Drew Central 26 (away) 09/30 Loss: Smackover 27 - LCHS 24 (home) 10/07 Loss: Fordyce 63 - LCHS 6 (away) 10/14 Loss: Harmony Grove 26 - LCHS 13 (home) 10/21 Loss: Rison 49 - LCHS 6 (away) 10/28 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 11/04 @ Fouke SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

86|86|2011-10-28 20:27:22|Tom Sims|Lafayette County HS 28 - Genoa Central 6|Lafayette County HS 28 - Genoa Central 6 09/02 Loss: Springhill 33 - LCHS 20 (away) 09/09 Loss: Mineral Springs 77 - LCHS 40 (home) 09/16 Loss: Gurdon 42 - LCHS 35 (home) 09/23 Win: LCHS 66 - Drew Central 26 (away) 09/30 Loss: Smackover 27 - LCHS 24 (home) 10/07 Loss: Fordyce 63 - LCHS 6 (away) 10/14 Loss: Harmony Grove 26 - LCHS 13 (home) 10/21 Loss: Rison 49 - LCHS 6 (away) 10/28 Win: LCHS 28 - Genoa Central 6 (home) 11/04 @ Fouke SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

87|86|2011-10-29 08:10:32|Tom Sims|Re: Lafayette County HS 28 - Genoa Central 6|Comments from a Stamps local: Poor Drew Central is 0-9 while Genoa Central is 2-7 and they are in their 2nd year of football, only had 3 seniors on the team, all Jrs and Sophs. Laf Co. will drop down in classification next year to 2A. Will be worse off then as Junction City, Bearden, Rison and Mineral Springs will be in the same classification and conference. One of Genoa Central's wins was against Drew Central and the other against Foreman (2A).|

88|88|2011-11-04 22:05:30|Tom Sims|Fouke 27 - Lafayette County HS 25|Fouke 27 - Lafayette County HS 25 09/02 Loss: Springhill 33 - LCHS 20 (away) 09/09 Loss: Mineral Springs 77 - LCHS 40 (home) 09/16 Loss: Gurdon 42 - LCHS 35 (home) 09/23 Win: LCHS 66 - Drew Central 26 (away) 09/30 Loss: Smackover 27 - LCHS 24 (home) 10/07 Loss: Fordyce 63 - LCHS 6 (away) 10/14 Loss: Harmony Grove 26 - LCHS 13 (home) 10/21 Loss: Rison 49 - LCHS 6 (away) 10/28 Win: LCHS 28 - Genoa Central 6 (home) 11/04 Loss: Fouke 27 - LCHS 25 (away) SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps AR Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

89|89|2011-12-01 09:18:25|mth2md@cox.net|LaCo Press|Is the LaCo Press defunct? No change has been made to the webpage in almost two months. If the website were updated weekly or more often and if it contained some real content, then I would be happy to subscribe to it.|

90|89|2011-12-01 09:33:17|Tom Sims|Re: LaCo Press|On 1 Dec 2011, mth2md posted on the Stamps Ark Yahoo Group: Is the LaCo Press defunct? No change has been made to the webpage in almost two months. If the website were updated weekly or more often and if it contained some real content, then I would be happy to subscribe to it. http://www.lafayettecountypress.com/ As far as I know, LCP is alive and well. Sometimes the web page doesn't get updated for a long time, which is the current situation. I'm copying Lafayette County Press with your comment. Tom Sims, SHS '51 SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

91|89|2011-12-02 07:10:45|mth2md@cox.net|Re: LaCo Press|Tom, I noticed that there is a message on the website today that states that the latest issue of the LaCo Press is on the news stands. I'll bet that I can search all over Fayetteville and never find it. I have no idea how hard it is to transfer data from the newspaper to the website, but I wish that Mr. Goodwin would do that. I would pay the same for the electronic edition as I would for the printed version if the content were essentially the same. I may be the only Stamps expat who would do that, and it might not be worth his trouble to do it. Judy and I bought a different house here in Fayetteville three months ago, and soon after we moved in, two guys came to the door to bring us our resident traffic passes that would allow us to drive around this area on Razorback game days (the house is just up the hill to the west of the stadium). One of the guys who came was Jimmy Lester from Lewisville. He lives nearby, and it was good to visit with him. Have you read the book "Stolen Valor"? I read it several years ago and was fascinated with it, since I had several experiences similar to what he describes in the book. You probably have had the same thing happen to you. Murray|

92|89|2011-12-02 08:27:03|Tom Sims|Re: LaCo Press|On 2 Dec 2011 at 15:10, mth2md@cox.net wrote: Tom, I noticed that there is a message on the website today that states that the latest issue of the LaCo Press is on the news stands. I've had a recent email exchange with Tommy Goodwin of LCP and I gather that the update was a result of your post about LCP. I asked Tommy for permission to post our emails here, but he declined. I've appended my half of our exchange below. I have no idea how hard it is to transfer data from the newspaper to the website, but I wish that Mr. Goodwin would do that. It could be done with little effort or expense and I suspect that it could be very beneficial to LCP. Have you read the book "Stolen Valor"? I'm not familiar with it, but the synopsis on Wikipedia looks very interesting. I read a lot of books in my early days, but very few since. I've been saving/resting my eyes to allow the extensive reading I do everyday in the course of my internet routine. I have listened to several recorded books in the last few years, mostly science fiction classics. Tom Sims _ From: "Tom Sims" TomESims@Cox.net To: lcpress@sbcglobal.net Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 Subject: Re: [StampsArk] LaCo Press Tommy: IMO the LCP website has been a valuable resource for Stamps with it's city government updates, forums (though not very active), weather conditions, breaking news (not used recently), etc.. And, it serves as a PR vehicle for LCP. I believe that your new LCP home page update "November 30, 2011 issue on the stands now!" is an improvement over a few captioned pictures that are a couple of months old. I'm interested in current Stamps news and I suspect that many other expatriates are also. I know of over 50 (and many of their spouses) on my SHS mailing list who are interested. FWIW, I would subscribe to an online edition of LCP and I suspect that it could be done with only a very small cost and little effort. Just take a picture of all of the hard copy pages and put them in a password protected section of your website. It could be marketed to other expatriates, and some of your hard copy subscribers would probably prefer an online version as well. If it's OK with you, I'll share our email exchanges with my SHS mailing list. That will give LCP additional exposure that could turn into new subscribers. I see that you grew up in Stamps. Were you related to James Howard Goodwin? He was a year older than me and a good friend way back when at SHS. Best wishes, Tom Sims SHS '51|

93|89|2011-12-02 16:42:44|mth2md@cox.net|Re: LaCo Press|Tom, I wish that Mr. Goodwin would consider putting a real LCP edition on the web. I seldom go to Stamps, but Judy and I would be interested in hearing about things down there. The book, "Stolen Valor", was very interesting. I had several instances when dealing with patients who told me that they were in Viet Nam, and when I asked a few questions about their experiences, it became very obvious very quickly that they had never been in country. On the other hand, I was doing a procedure on a guy one day, and when I turned on the fluoroscope, I saw a bunch of square metallic objects inside his skin and soft tissues. I asked him where he got the frags, and he looked very surprised and asked me what I meant. I told him that only frags from an RPG looked like that, and he opened up and told me that he had been a company commander with the Big Red One and that he had gotten hit with the fragments when an RPG hit a tree nearby. Keep pushing Tommy Goodwin. Murray|

94|89|2011-12-03 21:35:01|Tom Sims|Re: LaCo Press|On 3 Dec 2011 at 0:42, mth2md@cox.net wrote: Keep pushing Tommy Goodwin. I've gotten the impression from Tommy that he's not too interested in my input or feedback. Tom Sims|

95|89|2011-12-04 09:34:21|mth2md@cox.net|Re: LaCo Press|I think that you have pretty much hit the target with your assessment of the esteemed editor and publisher of the LaCo Press and his not wanting feedback, in spite of the fact that the webpage states that he desires it. I will not be surprised to see the website disappear shortly. MTH|

96|26|2011-12-07 17:06:51|Tom Sims|LCHS Basketball|LCHS Boys Basketball (2-3) 11/17 Magnolia 68-56 Win 11/22 Strong 101-76 Loss 11/28 Little Rock Christian Academy 62-39 Loss 12/01 North Pulaski (Jacksonville, AR) 55-46 Win 12/03 Lake Hamilton (Pearcy, AR) 58-48 Loss LCHS Girls Basketball (3-2) 11/15 Strong 54-48 Win 11/17 Magnolia 40-37 Win 11/22 Strong 65-27 Loss 11/29 Stephens 53-49 Win 11/30 Drew Central (Monticello, AR) 62-19 Loss|

97|97|2011-12-12 07:40:43|Tom Sims|Verna Naomi Callaway Dokey, R.I,P.|Verna Naomi Callaway Dokey, R.I,P. Seth Baker, SHS '47 saw Verna Dokey's obituary in the Arkansas Democrat yesterday: I read yesterday in the Arkansas Democrat of the passing of Mrs. Verna C. Dokey, age 98, of Hot Springs.� She received a Masters Degree from the U of A and was a teacher most of her life here in Arkansas.� She was the wife of Vernon Dokey who taught in the Stamps High school and coached basketball from about 1937-42. I don't remember the exact years but it was in the time of Joe Allen, Red Nicholas and Jimmy Scurlock.� I remember that Joe would go by Mr. Dokey's home early in the morning and get the key to the jym , light the fire in the big stove and have shoot-arounds until class started.� Sometimes dad would take me�by the jym and they would let me practice with them. I remember Coach Dokey and his basketball teams. I looked online and found Vern's obituary at: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSlh=1&GRid =81740436& or http://tinyurl.com/7mrarns a href="http://tinyurl.com/7mrarns" http://tinyurl.com/7mrarns/a and found her picture at: http://www.hotsr.com/news/deaths/2011/12/10/verna-c-dokey-55 .php or http://tinyurl.com/7hzqkj5 a href="http://tinyurl.com/7hzqkj5" http://tinyurl.com/7hzqkj5/a Tom Sims TomESims@Cox.net SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

98|98|2011-12-13 08:08:18|Tom Sims|Stamps Remembrances|All of you old guys: I'm posting this email and all future Stamps remembrances on the Stamps Yahoo group to preserve them for posterity. If you object, let me know and I'll remove your portion. Dale: Where was the stove? On the stage? I'm sorry that I didn't see any games your senior year because I moved to Bearden for all of my ninth grade before returning to Stamps for my last three years. Emerson was indeed a basketball dynasty. They used a weave offense and knew what they were doing. We finally beat them in a regular season game at the old gym my senior year. Only game I ever fouled out of. Bill McClendon was the referee, and I think I made him mad for some reason. Bill K: I remember Joe Allen very well, and I believe he was a relative of yours. He could really handle the ball well. Joe was very nice, but I seem to recall that he wasn't that bright. I believe he parlayed his basketball prowess into an elected county office, served several years and died at an early age. Re: Mr. Tope. My senior year we went by private cars to a basketball tournament and Bill K. and I rode in Tope's car, with Seymour, I believe. It was a cold day, all the windows in the car were closed, and Mr. Tope smoked a cigar the whole trip. Wasn't a very pleasant car ride. I always liked Seymour, but avoided Tope whenever possible. After Tope left Stamps, I heard that he taught at Henderson STC, abandoned his gruff personality and was very nice. Best, Tom Sims ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:43:19 -0600 Subject: Re: memories from the past From: Dale White dewhite28@gmail.com To: Tom Sims TomESims@cox.net Tom, I guess it is time for me to weigh in on on the conversations concerning the Stamps Basketball Team, Coach Dokey, Fay Seymour, Bobby Grimett, Don Ballou, Red Nichols, Jimmy Scurloch, Joe Allen, Dr. Spurloch, and the old black stove. Red Nichols and Jimmy Spurlock were both older and would have been playing on the senior team at the time Joe Allen would have been a junior player. He was a senior player when I was a junior. I have to say, Joe Allen was as good of basketball player as anyone else in our district. He was good!!! Joe's family wasn't very well off and Dr. Spurlock would buy cloths for Joe. And yes, Dr Spurlock was a great supporter of the ball team. When he got excited, he would come out with something like "hou he a houch chow". Something like that. I can't begin to spell it. When I was in the 6th grade, I too would go to Coach Dokey's house to pick up the key to the gym. Whoever got there first got the key and if you were not there by 6AM, someone else would have gotten there before you. Whoever got the key, went to the gym and lighted the fire. That old black stove was about 30" square, and maybe 5' high. I started traveling with the Jr. team when I was in the 7th grade. Played 6 years. Bobby Grimett and I were both guards. Both, about the same caliber player. He was a grade ahead of me. When I was in the 11th grade, I was a starter. The team made a Christmas break trip and I had to miss the trip because I was delivering mail for the U.S. Postal System. Mr. Tope was the coach that year and he came to me with a suggestion that since I was a
Junior. and Bobby was a Senior, would I agree to allow Bobby to be the starter for the remainder of the year and I would be the starter the next year. Of course, it was his call anyway. But, I did appreciate the reason behind it. Well, you guessed it, Mr. Tope became the Superintendent during my senior year, and Fay Seymour became the coach. Seymour lived next door to Don Ballou who was a junior. Needless to say, I never had much use for fay seymour. I'll tell you another story someday about how the Emerson team beat the Stamps team in the District Tournament. Oh well, I guess I just as well tell it now. They beat us, not because Duddy Waller was on their team, although he was a great player and went through college on a basketball schlorship. He later became the Head Basketball coach for the University of Arkensas. No, they beat us because, the winning shot was right over my head. The problem was, I didn't even know this Emerson player was even looking toward the goal. One of his eyes didn't track too well. It was always looking way off toward left field. His head was facing across the court but, that eye was looking toward the goal. Like I say, he made that shot right over my head. ** Emerson wasn't much more than a wide place in the road back in those days. And they were lucky to scrape together enough boys to play and have one substitute. But, they always played good enough to go to District and at times to State. Dale* ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com To: "Tom Sims" TomESims@Cox.net Subject: Re: Verna Naomi Callaway Dokey, R.I,P.
Date sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:40:53 -0600 Think you have the dates correct. He also coached football. I was too small for that, but he coached me in basket ball for two years. Alvah Williams played football and basket ball at the same time. We both graduated in 1939. ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "Bill and Carolyn Kuykendall" bckuykendall@att.net To: "Tom Sims" TomESims@Cox.net, "Dale White" dewhite28@gmail.com, "Seth BAKER" sbaker6130@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: memories from the past Date sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:00:05 -0600 Gentlemen....Enjoyed your memories, may I add a few. After a home BB game Dr. Scurlock met me at halfcourt expressing his approval of my play and asking me to open my mouth, proceeded to give me a dental exam, saying I want to see you in my office Sat. morning. I went!!! Seth, you were on the team with Don Ballou, I was on the 9th grade team. Mr. Seymour asked me to join the Sr. team to play in the Dist. tournament in Magnolia. On the bus ride to Mag. Don Ballou told Mr. Seymour that he left his glasses at home, S. was mad as heck at Don and Started me in his place in the game. I played a few minutes and was replaced...Thanks for the memories... Bill K. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Sims" TomESims@Cox.net To: "Dale White" dewhite28@gmail.com; "Seth BAKER" sbaker6130@sbcglobal.net Cc: "Bill Kuykendall '51" bckuykendall@ATT.net Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 8:32 PM Subject: Re: memories from the past Seth: Thanks for the information. I remember Coach Dokey on the SHS bench and I remember seeing Joe Allen, Red Nicholas and Jimmy Scurlock play. Billy Kuykendall and I spent a lot of time in the old gym when we weren't supposed to be there. We got in through a window in the dressing rooms. I don't remember any stove in the gym. There was a nehi soda box that took nickels to get a drink, but we figured out a way to get them out without paying. Dr. Scurlock went to all of our home basketball games and was very vocal in cheering on his favorite on the team. He sat at mid-court and would holler to get the ball to Billy Peck and let him shoot. After Billy graduated, his favorite was Jesse Sanders. Good suggestion on getting the ball to Billy, but not so good about Jesse, who didn't shoot all that well. I'd like to send your email to the SHS mailing list and the SHS Yahoo group, if it's OK with you. Otherwise, I'll just send out a short R.I.P. announcement without mentioning you. Best, Tom Sims ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:31:13 -0800 (PST) From: Seth BAKER sbaker6130@sbcglobal.net Subject: memories from the past To: Dale White dewhite28@gmail.com Copies to: Tommy Sims TomESims@Cox.net I read yesterday in the Arkansas Democrat of the passing of Mrs. Verna C. Dokey, age 98, of Hot Springs. She received a Masters Degree from the U of A and was a teacher most of her life here in Arkansas. She was the wife of Vernon Dokey who taught in the Stamps Highschool and coached basketball from about 1937-42. I don't remember the exact years but it was in the time of Joe Allen, Red Nicholas and Jimmy Scurlock. I remember that Joe would go by Mr. Dokey's home early in the morning and get the key to the jym , light the fire in the big stove and have shoot-arounds until class started. Sometimes dad would take me by the jym and they would let me practice with them. |

99|98|2011-12-13 17:59:44|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps Remembrances|Dale: That location for the stove sort of rings a bell and I think I can visualize it now. I believe the stage was always there, and I'm sure it was there in your playing days. The stage was at the far (east) end of the gym. The dressing room stairs were on either side of the stage, and the booster club (or some such organization) often sold refreshments on the stage during a game. The main entrance to the gym was on the northwest corner and there was a ticket box to the left of the door with an outside window. On the right, immediately inside the entrance were the stairs to the balcony. Under those stairs was an equipment closet where all of the practice balls were kept. Over the stairs to the boys dressing room was an extension of the balcony where there was a blackboard for keeping score (there was a ladder you could use to get to it). I kept score on the blackboard a few times before we got an electric scoreboard that was over the entrance to the girls dressing room. Best, Tom Sims ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:26:43 -0600 Subject: Re: Stamps Remembrances From: Dale White dewhite28@gmail.com To: Tom Sims TomESims@cox.net Tom, that old black stove was located to the left as you entered the gym. It was on the same level as the ball court. I really don't remember a stage in that building. Of course, I'm speaking about a time 70 years ago. If there was a stage and there were dancing girls on it, then, I would remember. Dale|

100|98|2011-12-13 20:26:18|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps Remembrances|------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com To: "Tom Sims" TomESims@Cox.net Subject: Re: Stamps Remembrances Date sent: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:10:16 -0600 Yes there was a stage at the opposite end of the gym from the entrance. Before I played basket ball I played at all the games with the band. I joined the band when it was first organized.|

101|98|2011-12-15 00:59:33|Myrtle Barr|Re: Stamps Remembrances|I LOVE this!� Please�continue.� Helps me remember my brother Bill.�� Myrtle Sue�� bFrom: Tom Sims TomESims@Cox.netTo: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com; Dale White dewhite28@gmail.com; Seth BAKER sbaker6130@sbcglobal.net T.F.Gillespie razorb@gvtc.com; Bill Kuykendall '51 bckuykendall@ATT.net; William Ballou '48 2ballous@sbcglobal.net Tuesday, December 13, 2011 10:06 AMSubject: [StampsArk] Stamps Remembrances � All of you old guys:I'm posting this email and all future Stamps remembrances onthe Stamps Yahoo group to preserve them for posterity. If youobject, let me know and I'll remove your portion.Dale: Where was the stove? On the stage? I'm sorry that Ididn't see any games your senior year because I moved toBearden for all of my ninth grade before returning to Stampsfor my last three years.Emerson was indeed a basketball dynasty. They used a weaveoffense and knew what they were doing. We finally beat themin a regular season game at the old gym my senior year. Onlygame I ever fouled out of. Bill McClendon was the referee,and I think I made him mad for some reason.Bill K: I remember Joe Allen very well, and I believe he wasa relative of yours. He could really handle the ball well.Joe was very nice, but I seem to recall that he wasn't thatbright. I believe he parlayed his basketball prowess into anelected county office, served several years and died at anearly age.Re: Mr. Tope. My senior year we went by private cars to abasketball tournament and Bill K. and I rode in Tope's car,with Seymour, I believe. It was a cold day, all the windowsin the car were closed, and Mr. Tope smoked a cigar the wholetrip. Wasn't a very pleasant car ride.I always liked Seymour, but avoided Tope whenever possible.After Tope left Stamps, I heard that he taught at HendersonSTC, abandoned his gruff personality and was very nice.Best,Tom Sims------- Forwarded message follows -------Date sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:43:19 -0600Subject: Re: memories from the pastFrom: Dale White dewhite28@gmail.comTo: Tom Sims TomESims@cox.netTom, I guess it is time for me to weigh in on on theconversations concerning the Stamps Basketball Team, CoachDokey, Fay Seymour, Bobby Grimett, Don Ballou, Red Nichols,Jimmy Scurloch, Joe Allen, Dr. Spurloch, and the old blackstove.Red Nichols and Jimmy Spurlock were both older and wouldhave been playing on the senior team at the time Joe Allenwould have been a junior player. He was a senior player whenI was a junior. I have to say, Joe Allen was as good ofbasketball player as anyone else in our district. He wasgood!!! Joe's family wasn't very well off and Dr. Spurlockwould buy cloths for Joe. And yes, Dr Spurlock was a greatsupporter of the ball team. When he got excited, he wouldcome out with something like "hou he a houch chow".Something like that. I can't begin to spell it.When I was in the 6th grade, I too would go to Coach Dokey'shouse to pick up the key to the gym. Whoever got there firstgot the key and if you were not there by 6AM, someone elsewould have gotten there before you. Whoever got the key,went to the gym and lighted the fire. That old black stovewas about 30" square, and maybe 5' high.I started traveling with the Jr. team when I was in the 7thgrade. Played 6 years. Bobby Grimett and I were both guards.Both, about the same caliber player. He was a grade ahead ofme. When I was in the 11th grade, I was a starter. The teammade a Christmas break trip and I had to miss the tripbecause I was delivering mail for the U.S. Postal System.Mr. Tope was the coach that year and he came to me with asuggestion that since I was a Junior. and Bobby was aSenior, would I agree to allow Bobby to be the starter forthe remainder of the year and I would be the starter thenext year. Of course, it was his call anyway. But, I didappreciate the reason behind it.Well, you guessed it, Mr. Tope became the Superintendent during my senior year, and Fay Seymour became the coach.Seymour lived next door to Don Ballou who was a junior.Needless to say, I never had much use for fay seymour.I'll tell you another story someday about how the Emersonteam beat the Stamps team in the District Tournament.Oh well, I guess I just as well tell it now. They beat us,not because Duddy Waller was on their team, although he wasa great player and went through college on a basketballschlorship. He later became the Head Basketball coach forthe University of Arkensas. No, they beat us because, thewinning shot was right over my head. The problem was, Ididn't even know this Emerson player was even looking towardthe goal. One of his eyes didn't track too well. It wasalways looking way off toward left field. His head wasfacing across the court but, that eye was looking toward thegoal. Like I say, he made that shot right over my head. ***Emerson wasn't much more than a wide place in the road backin those days. And they were lucky to scrape together enoughboys to play and have one substitute. But, they alwaysplayed good enough to go to District and at times to State.Dale------- Forwarded message follows -------From: "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.comTo: "Tom Sims" TomESims@Cox.netSubject: Re: Verna Naomi Callaway Dokey, R.I,P.Date sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:40:53 -0600Think you have the dates correct. He also coached football.I was too small for that, but he coached me in basket ballfor two years. Alvah Williams played football and basketball at the same time. We both graduated in 1939.------- Forwarded message follows -------From: "Bill and Carolyn Kuykendall" bckuykendall@att.netTo: "Tom Sims" TomESims@Cox.net, "Dale White" dewhite28@gmail.com,"Seth BAKER" sbaker6130@sbcglobal.netSubject: Re: memories from the pastDate sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:00:05 -0600Gentlemen....Enjoyed your memories, may I add a few. Aftera home BB game Dr. Scurlock met me at halfcourt expressinghis approval of my play and asking me to open my mouth,proceeded to give me a dental exam, saying I want to see youin my office Sat. morning. I went!!! Seth, you were on theteam with Don Ballou, I was on the 9th grade team. Mr.Seymour asked me to join the Sr. team to play in the Dist.tournament in Magnolia. On the bus ride to Mag. Don Balloutold Mr. Seymour that he left his glasses at home, S. wasmad as heck at Don and Started me in his place in the game.I played a few minutes and was replaced...Thanks for thememories... Bill K. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Sims" TomESims@Cox.netTo: "Dale White" dewhite28@gmail.com; "Seth BAKER" sbaker6130@sbcglobal.netCc: "Bill Kuykendall '51" bckuykendall@ATT.netSent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 8:32 PMSubject: Re: memories from the pastSeth:Thanks for the information.I remember Coach Dokey on the SHS bench and I rememberseeing Joe Allen, Red Nicholas and Jimmy Scurlock play.Billy Kuykendall and I spent a lot of time in the old gymwhen we weren't supposed to be there. We got in through awindow in the dressing rooms. I don't remember any stove inthe gym. There was a nehi soda box that took nickels to geta drink, but we figured out a way to get them out withoutpaying.Dr. Scurlock went to all of our home basketball games andwas very vocal in cheering on his favorite on the team. Hesat at mid-court and would holler to get the ball to BillyPeck and let him shoot. After Billy graduated, his favoritewas Jesse Sanders. Good suggestion on getting the ball toBilly, but not so good about Jesse, who didn't shoot allthat well.I'd like to send your email to the SHS mailing list and theSHS Yahoo group, if it's OK with you. Otherwise, I'll justsend out a short R.I.P. announcement without mentioning you.Best,Tom Sims------- Forwarded message follows -------Date sent: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:31:13 -0800 (PST)From: Seth BAKER sbaker6130@sbcglobal.netSubject: memories from the pastTo: Dale White dewhite28@gmail.comCopies to: Tommy Sims TomESims@Cox.netI read yesterday in the Arkansas Democrat of the passing ofMrs. Verna C. Dokey, age 98, of Hot Springs. She received aMasters Degree from the U of A and was a teacher most of herlife here in Arkansas. She was the wife of Vernon Dokey whotaught in the Stamps Highschool and coached basketball fromabout 1937-42. I don't remember the exact years but it wasin the time of Joe Allen, Red Nicholas and Jimmy Scurlock.I remember that Joe would go by Mr. Dokey's home early inthe morning and get the key to the jym , light the fire inthe big stove and have shoot-arounds until class started.Sometimes dad would take me by the jym and they would let mepractice with them.|

102|102|2011-12-29 17:40:17|Tom Sims|ROBERT B. NEILL, R.I.P.|ROBERT B. NEILL Robert B. Neill, age 85, and life-long resident of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Wednesday, December 28, 2011. He was the son of Victor C. and Susie Baker Neill of Stamps, AR. He was born on January 14, 1926. He was a retired city and rural mail carrier; with 32 years of service. After graduating High School, he served a tour of duty in the U.S. Navy in 1944 and 1945. He attended Magnolia A&M College after he was discharged from the Navy. Mr. Neill was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Melba Lee Neill. Funeral Services will be 2 pm Saturday, December 31, 2011, at the First Baptist Church of Stamps, AR, where he was a member for 72 years and Deacon for many years, with Bro. Mike Turner officiating under the direction of Smith Funeral Homes of Stamps, AR. Burial will be at Shiloh Lamartine Cemetery in Waldo, AR. Visitation will be 6-8 pm Friday, December 30, 2011, at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to First Baptist Church Building Fund or Shiloh Lamartine Cemetery Association. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. _ Robert was one of the first Stampsites that I remember when we moved to Stamps in 1938. We rented the Gant house between Al Cross and the Methodist church while we were building our house on School Street and Robert lived about a block away. I remember Robert as a very nice, pleasant person. Tom Sims TomESims@Cox.net SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo
Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

2012 Yahoo Messages
103|102|2012-01-03 08:22:28|Tom Sims|Re: ROBERT B. NEILL, R.I.P.|Tom: I remember being inside Robert's home when I was about six, but I can't picture anyone else in his family. I do remember that their house was pretty rundown and unpainted. I saw Robert frequently over the years when I visited my parents and remember his mail carrying days and his involvement with the First Baptist church. He was a Deacon, usher and was the unpaid Sexton, after J.C. Smith (the previous unpaid Sexton) died. Robert was an avid hunter and fisherman all of his life and I don't believe he ever married. Back in the 80's he had a live-in lady friend, who probably qualified as a common law wife. Robert lived in a small home in the new section, north of 82, on or near Buchanan Street. He was a good friend of my parents and was always checking on and helping my Mom with anything that needed doing. Best, Tom Sims ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com To: "Tom Sims" TomESims@Cox.net Subject: Re: ROBERT B. NEILL, R.I.P. Date sent: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:54:34 -0600 Robert's Mother and my Mother were very close friends. I remember all the family real well. They were very kind and humble people. I could really "take you back in time". I can still "see" the Gant home. I appreciate you letting me know about Robert. Tom Gillespie.|

104|104|2012-01-13 12:47:56|Tom Sims|LCHS Basketball Update|LCHS Basketball Update LCHS Boys Basketball (8-7) 11/17 Magnolia 68-56 Win 11/22 Strong 101-76 Loss 11/28 Little Rock Christian 62-39 Loss 11/29 Stephens 54-53 Win 12/01 North Pulaski 55-46 Win 12/03 Lake Hamilton 58-48 Loss 12/05 Norphlet 52-32 Win 12/08 Magnolia 50-32 Win 12/09 Bradley 62-53 Loss 12/10 Spring Hill 62-3 Win 12/16 Stephens 69-54 Loss 12/26 Nevada 66-56 Win 12/27 Fairview 62-52 Loss 12/29 Magnolia 50-48 Loss 01/03 Fouke ? 01/05 Trinity Christian 54-39 Win 01/06 Prescott ? 01/10 Centerpoint ? LCHS Girls Basketball (4-6) 11/15 Strong 54-48 Win 11/17 Magnolia 40-37 Win 11/22 Strong 65-27 Loss 11/29 Stephens 53-49 Win 11/30 Drew Central 60-19 Loss 12/09 Bradley 54-48 Loss 12/16 Stephens 64-37 Loss 01/03 Fouke 41-32 Win 01/06 Prescott 52-15 Loss 01/10 Centerpoint 49-35 Loss|

105|105|2012-01-23 22:20:51|Tom Sims|Mavis Henry, R.!.P.|Mavis Henry, R.!.P. I've received word that Mavis Henry died today. Mrs Henry taught business at Stamps for many years. She was the widow of George Henry who taught math - He later joined the staff at Southern Arkansas University. ________ The Henry's started teaching at SHS in the 50's, after I graduated in 1951. They taught my Brother '56 and he thought very highly of them. TES SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

106|106|2012-02-09 21:52:23|Tom Sims|Vaughn Groce, R.I.P.|Vaughn Groce, R.I.P. Vaughn was the son of Bill and Charlene Groce, SHS circa 1960 _ Vaughn Groce EL PASO, Texas - Vaughn Reid Groce, 60, of El Paso died Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Mr. Groce was born March 31, 1951, in Lewisville, Ark. He was employed in the gas and petroleum industry and member of Del Sol Church. Survivors include his parents, Bill and Charlene Groce, his wife, Connie; one brother, Vance of Greenbrier, Ark.; two sons, Johnathan of Melissa, Texas, and Marcus of Texarkana, Ark.; one daughter, Rachel Saatkamp of Texarkana; one stepdaughter, Liza Compean of Gilbert, Ariz.; and five grandchildren. Services were Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, at Funeraria Del Angel Martin East with burial in Evergreen East Cemetery, El Paso. Memorial services will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Baptist Church, Stamps, Ark. _____ Tom Sims TomESims@Cox.net SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ ************* If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on the SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list

107|107|2012-02-13 22:03:24|Tom Sims|Re: Vaughn Groce R.I.P.|From Aubrey Waddell: Very sad news to hear. As an elementary school student in Stamps during the 1960s, Vaughn was one of those Stamps teenagers that I thought were the coolest people on earth, the group that included Ricky Shelton, Dale Benefield, Joe and Danny Sanders, Joe Phillips, Ronald Garner, Zolly Kimble, Steve Wright, Asa Warmack, Alan Dale Baker, Jay and Billy Sutton, Brenda Clark, Gloria McKamie, Daphne Baker, Jeannie Bright, Dinah Jo Kimble, Dana Bethany, Susan Henry, Susan and Sara Wooley, Danny Speer, Cathy Conlin, Roger Cheatham, Pam Howell, Royce Vines, and many others. I lived in El Paso 1992-1995 and both my boys were born there. I wonder if Vaughn was living there then? I ran into my 6th grade history teacher in El Paso in 1994. That's Sherrie Lindsey, "Peanut" Lindsey's wife. Small world. Getting smaller. Aubrey Waddell Stamps 1976 (if we hadn't moved to North Little Rock in 1971)|

108|108|2012-02-17 06:59:37|Tom Sims|Jarvie Williams Waldo, R.I.P.|Jarvie Williams Waldo, R.I.P. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03252.jpg a href="http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03252 .jpg" http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03252.jpg/ a http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ _ I remember Jarvie and all of her family very well. Her sister Ann was an SHS '51 classmate of mine. Tom Sims TomESims3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ * If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on the SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list |

109|109|2012-02-17 23:59:17|Tom Sims|Lester Frank Teague, R.I.P.|Lester Frank Teague, R.I.P. http://aosmithfuneralhome.com/LesterFrankTeague.aspx a href="http://aosmithfuneralhome.com/LesterFrankTeague.aspx" http://aosmithfuneralhome.com/LesterFrankTeague.aspx/a Tom Sims TomESims3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on the SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list |

110|110|2012-02-18 08:30:45|Tom Sims|Virginia Jo Stanley Runnels, R.I.P.|Virginia Jo Stanley Runnels, R.I.P. Virginia Jo Stanley Runnels, age 84, slipped the surly bonds of earth to put our her hand to touch the face of God on February 4, 2012, at Maison De Lafayette where she had resided for the past 6 years. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Edmon L. Runnels; her parents, Zula and Elos Stanley; as well as her sister, Lorene Stanley Statser and brother-in-law, Ray Statser. Left to mourn her loss and to celebrate her life, are her two daughters, Lorrie Dodson Brock and husband, Harold David Brock, Jr. in Lafayette, Louisiana; and Vicki Jo Runnels Urban and husband, Gary Urban in Magnolia, Texas; four grandchildren, Michelle Brock Broussard and husband, Troy; David Michael Brock; Rosalynn Urban Norbeck and husband, Jim; and Jennifer Urban Doggett and husband, Christian; her nephews, Stanley Ray Statser and wife, Barbara and Philip Gene Statser and wife, Karen; one great-niece, Lily; as well as four great grandchildren. Jo will be sorely missed by her lifelong friend, Mary Huckabee Mula of New Orleans, LA. Private graveside services will be held February 8, 2012, at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps, Arkansas, under the direction of Smith Funeral Homes of Stamps, AR. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Central Baptist Church in Magnolia, Arkansas or Heart of Hospice in Lafayette, Louisiana. Jo was truly 'God's happy Christian' and will be missed by her many friends. Jo had a remarkable wit and brought joy to everyone she met. _ The Stanley's were good friends and next door neighbors on School Street in the 40's. Tom Sims TomESims3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on the SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list |

111|111|2012-03-10 22:45:00|Tom Sims|James William Knight, R.I.P.|James William Knight, R.I.P. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03256.jpg a href="http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03256 .jpg" http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03256.jpg/ a James W. Knight, 66, Billings, MO, departed this life to be with his precious Lord on February 2, 2012, after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Though his battle was brutal, his faith never faltered. He was surrounded by his wife and all five of his children as he left his earthly body. He was born on February 5, 1945, in Truman, AR, and was lovingly raised by his wonderful parents, Henry and Aileen Knight, in Stamps, AR. James proudly served his country in the United States Army from 1966 to 1969. He was a retired Registered Respiratory Therapist and had worked for both St. John's and Cox Hospitals. He was preceded in death by his parents; and one brother, Charles Speakman. He is survived by his wife and best friend, Trina Knight of Billings, MO; daughter, Cheryl Richardson (Terry Wayne) of Benton, LA; daughter, Marie Runyan (Erick) of Houston, AR; son, William "Bill" Henry Knight (Connie) of Willard, MO; son, Rodney Hood (Laurie) of Springfield, MO; daughter, Tonja Manchester (Dixie) of Springfield, MO; 21 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and many extended family members and friends. James was a Christian man, with an unwavering love for God, his family, and his country, and was fiercely loyal to all three. He deeply loved listening to gospel music, reading and sharing God's word, and serving his Lord Jesus. James enjoyed playing golf, duck hunting, watching college football, and was an avid Arkansas Razorbacks fan. He reveled in spending as much time as possible with his wife, children, and grandchildren, and never missed an opportunity to tell them how much they meant to him. His sense of humor, contagious laughter, and the sparkle in his beautiful brown eyes will be sorely missed by all who knew and loved him. Visitation will be from 3-5 pm, Sunday, February 5, 2012 in Walnut Lawn Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 10 am, Monday, February 6, in Parkcrest Assembly of God Church, Springfield. Interment to follow in Missouri Veterans Cemetery with full military honors.|

112|112|2012-03-12 07:48:58|Tom Sims|2011/2012 LCHS Basketball|Another good season for the boys and incomplete results for the girls. I'm dropping Cox as my internet provider, so emails to my Cox address won't work much longer. I'm using Gmail for emails now. Tom Sims TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ 2011/2012 LCHS Boys Basketball (20-8) 11/17 Magnolia 68-56 Win 11/28 Little Rock Christian 62-39 Loss 11/29 Stephens 54-53 Win 12/01 North Pulaski 55-46 Win 12/03 Lake Hamilton 58-48 Loss 12/05 Norphlet 52-32 Win 12/08 Magnolia 50-32 Win 12/09 Bradley 62-53 Loss 12/10 Spring Hill 62-32 Win 12/16 Stephens 69-54 Loss 12/26 Nevada 66-56 Win 12/27 Fairview 62-52 Loss 12/29 Magnolia 50-48 Loss 01/03 Fouke 53-26 Win 01/05 Trinity Christian 54-39 Win 01/06 Prescott 67-63 Win 01/10 Centerpoint 45-43 Win 01/13 Genoa Central 60 - 30 Win 01/17 Fouke 53 - 28 Win 01/20 Bismarck 78 - 65 Win 01/24 Centerpoint 84 - 67 Win 01/27 Prescott 74-70 Win 01/31 Genoa Central 58-32 Win 02/02 Bradley 77-74 Win 02/03 Bismarck 67-37 Win 02/07 Nevada 56-54 Loss 02/13 Bismarck 71-38 Win 02/23 Drew Central 61-60 Loss __________ 2011/2012 LCHS Girls Basketball (4-6) 11/15 Strong 54-48 Win 11/17 Magnolia 40-37 Win 11/22 Strong 65-27 Loss 11/29 Stephens 53-49 Win 11/30 Drew Central 60-19 Loss 12/09 Bradley 54-48 Loss 12/16 Stephens 64-37 Loss 01/03 Fouke 41-32 Win 01/06 Prescott 52-15 Loss 01/10 Centerpoint 49-35 Loss Couldn't find any results for 9 additional scheduled games|

113|113|2012-03-12 17:30:13|Tom Sims|Re: SHS School Song|Stu: From the 1951 "Hill Topper" OUR ALMA MATER Oh S. H.S., Oh S. H. S. United now we stand, We will fight for thee, We will die for thee, You're the best high school in all the land, And when you see these letters three, Remember 'tis the best - We will pull together always, That's the motto of ole S. H. S. Best wishes, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net Date: Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:21 PM Subject: SHS School Song To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com I remember the music notes and most of the words but would like to see if anyone else remembers all of them. These are the ones I rememberï�� Oh SHS Oh SHS united now we stand. We will fight for thee we will die for thee you're the best high school in all the land. So when you see those letter three You'll know that its the bestï�� That's as far as I can rememberï�� so could you ask if anyone else can remember the rest? Stu Tribble|

114|114|2012-03-13 22:10:00|Tom Sims|Re: Your MIA web page|Ronnie: I remember you and your family very well. Everything that you mentioned rings a bell, although I didn't remember who owned/ran the Rogers grocery store or Camp Lion station. Good to hear from you. Best wishes, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: RSinque@aol.com Date: Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:28 PM Subject: Your MIA web page To: TES3355@gmail.com Dear Tommy, My name is Ronnie Sinquefield.� I was born in Stamps and grew up on the corner of Buchanan and Calvin Streets across from the high school. In regard to your MIA list, I offer some more places for your consideration.� These are; 1.� The huge oak tree in the middle of main street near it's intersection with Central Ave and 1st street. 2.� George Baker's grocery, feed and seed�store on the north side of the triangle. 3.� Thomas' Jewelry behind Peoples Drug.� Mr. Thomas was Norman Nix's father-in-law. 4.� John Rogers' grocery store on the corner�across the highway from the Ford Place and across Thomas Street from Geo Camp's Lion gas station.� Stamps city hall is there now. Tommy, your Rememberances has provided me with a pleasant journey through the past.� Thank you. Best Regards, Ronnie� SHS class of '55|

115|115|2012-04-06 20:32:51|richard_h_davis|Web Site|I have just discovered the web site and think it is great. It certainly does bring back memories. Thanks for the effort.|

116|115|2012-04-07 21:03:58|Tom Sims|Re: Web Site|On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 6:44 PM, richard_h_davis richard_h_davis@yahoo.com wrote: I have just discovered the web site and think it is great. It certainly does bring back memories. Thanks for the effort. There are several memories that I want to archive here WIGATI (when I get around to it) and I hope others will also. It would be nice if we got additional participating members. I'll continue including a link (and an occasional plug) on the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims SHS '51|

118|115|2012-04-09 20:18:57|Tom Sims|Re: Web Site|On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Richard H. Davis, Jr. richard_h_davis@yahoo.com wrote: How is Bill doing? Bill Sims died in 2002. His obituary is on the bottom of my SHS '51 personal web page: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/TES.htm One missing thing that was not listed was N. E. Graham's dairy. Hmm, I recall that the Graham's had a barn and probably a cow(s) but don't remember that they were in the dairy business. But, we got our milk (in glass quart bottles) and butter from the McMurrough's whose cows were in their pasture across School Street from us. Tom Sims SHS '51|

119|115|2012-04-10 16:00:25|Tom Sims|Re: Web Site|Lou Dean: I remember the cows at your place and the Williams' black angus', but never knew or don't remember that your dairy operation was that large. I visited with your mother for a couple of hours in 1989 when she dropped by the Langley's on her way home. I believe she was in her ninetys then and she was sharp as a tack mentally. She was driving an old clunker that was 30 or so years old, and Hazel L. said that everyone knew when she was out driving and made sure they kept out of her way. One of her rituals was crossing the highway on her way home from town. She would stop and rev up her engine and then zoom across the highway, with little regard for east/west traffic. I've lived in Las Vegas NV since 1994. Best wishes, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lou Graham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:15 PM Subject: Re: [StampsArk] Web Site To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com Tom, There needs to be a bit of clarification. The dairy was Regina Graham's business. She would have proudly told you that every hoof in the lot belonged to a Jersey that was registered with the American Jersey Cattle Club. Our house was in the city limits, but the barn, lots, and pasture were in the county. The dairy tripled in size in 1944 when Veta, my sister, went to college. That is when we got milking machines. Dad and I milked the cows and Mother and Doyne cared for the chickens, geese, ducks, and all other feathered animals. In the earlier years of the milking machines, it was not uncommon for the transformer to blow. A sure sign that this problem had occurred was the rare sight of Doyne Graham, my brother, walking toward the barn with a milk bucket in hand. Dad drove the car and Doyne and I delivered milk (in glass bottles) before school and in the evening. Sometimes Dad was late getting back to deliver the milk in the evening, because he was on a veterinary call. Mother decided to learn to drive to help in delivering milk. This is another story for another time. Had you made your way out North Opera Street -past the city/county line- you would have seen B.L. Williams's pasture of beautiful Black Angus cattle on the right. On the opposite side was our pasture of Jersey cows. The bull was in his own lot. There was a lot on that hill that people did not see unless they were there. Yes, the Grahams were in the dairy business for many years - even after I graduated from college. I loved the farm. Cannot say the same for my brother and sister. Lou Dean Graham Howard P. S. Tom, thank you for your Stamps updates. In which state do you live? The scenes appear to be Colorado.|

120|60|2012-04-10 17:20:15|Tom Sims '51|Stamps: Missing In Action|I've just added "Graham's Dairy on North Opera" to the "Stamps: Missing In Action" list and invite everyone to remind us of other MI's that should be included on the list. Here's a link to the list: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/MIA.htm a href="http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/MIA .htm" http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/MIA.htm/ a Also, please consider joining the StampsArk Yahoo Forum to share and archive your memories of Stamps: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk//a Some details of Graham's Dairy that I didn't remember were just posted on the StampsArk Yahoo Forum. Anyone can read the forum messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Tom Sims, SHS '51 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/|

121|121|2012-04-10 17:57:12|mth2md@cox.net|1940 census|The National Archives website has the 1940 census data online, and you can look at the information at their website. It is interesting to see who lived in Stamps in 1940, although many of the people were not known to me, since our family only moved there in 1953. I found the names of all of Judy's family and of many other people who I knew as I grew up.|

122|122|2012-04-14 07:47:56|Tom Sims|Edward Rhodes SHS '56, R.I.P.|Edward Rhodes SHS '56, R.I.P. I've received word that Edward died yesterday. Edward was in my brother's class and I taught him in a PE class in 1950-51. Tom Sims TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

123|60|2012-04-14 08:32:09|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|There have been over 20 responses to my "Stamps: Missing In Action" post on the SHS mailing list. Many of the responses were sent to the entire mailing list, which probably annoyed some of the recipients who may not like getting too many emails. I erred in copying everyone on the list when I sent the post, rather than only blind copying them, as I usually do. I'll be sure to only blind copy everyone in the future. I'm going to re-post most of the responses on the StampsArk Yahoo group for archiving. I've learned a few things from the responses and have some relevant comments that I'll share later today, with only you'all who have expressed an interest in the discussion and with the StampsArk Yahoo group. Tom Sims|

124|124|2012-04-14 19:37:32|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:29 PM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com Thanks Brings back lots of memories. I was thinking today....we need to have another SHS reunion!! Invite all classes? �At least 1940--when SHS disappeared! Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC �MSC �USAR �ret. Rx Consulting, LLC|

125|124|2012-04-14 19:38:47|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:21 PM Subject: RE: Stamps: Missing In Action To: tes3355@gmail.com, hollis1950@centurytel.net, jwaddell@bmnet.com, grannybob@aol.com, bjahns7@embarqmail.com, bckuykendall@att.net, billriggins.555@gmail.com, bob.rogers@williams.com, madlock1@sbcglobal.net, ccpratty@csw.net, dewhite28@gmail.com, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com, lilahr51@gmail.com, dixie_robin@sbcglobal.net, eddydonald@aol.com, earl.rogers@comcast.net, elizabeth@ekjco.com, fseymour@sbcglobal.net, gfchastain@yahoo.com, nick1934@verizon.net, lanieormand@sbcglobal.net, jdcjjackson@sbcglobal.net, morocco32@aol.com, balloujerry@yahoo.com, wilcobritts@gmail.com, kingskidsjn@yahoo.com, jandjdayton@alltel.net, lghoward@triad.rr.com, billnewton54@gmail.com, marilou0841@aol.com, bidmussolini@yahoo.com, marymin5@aol.com, malang3053@sbcglobal.net, mlrhensley@aol.com, mth2md@cox.net, barrsmom@yahoo.com, nbydoom@windstream.net, gafarm@hotmail.com, carolynroper@earthlink.net, richard_h_davis@yahoo.com, kcsenior@hotmail.com, rsinque@aol.com, rtrasr@cox.net, runnelson@cableone.com, sarah.j.mackey@medtronic.com, seth4755@att.net, siddickson@sbcglobal.net, smelear@bellsouth.net, sgtribble@centurytel.net, razorb@gvtc.com, tomesims3355@gmail.com, tom-stevens@sbcglobal.net, wroper@ulcoleman.com, 2ballous@sbcglobal.net Sometime in the late '50's,�when I was in grade school, I worked for the Grahams in the dairy.�� Bright and earlly, I would help Cookie milk the cows, bottle the milk, and deliver
it.� I made a quarter a day, a whopping $1.75 a week. Gary Nichols|

126|124|2012-04-14 19:39:30|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:42 PM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com Cc: Stamps Mailing List

Is the DQ still there?|

127|124|2012-04-14 19:39:47|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:59 PM Subject: RE: Stamps: Missing In Action To:
Stuart, there never was a DQ in Stamps. �There is still a building at the site of what was originally (as I remember) Keith's Dairy Freeze, then went on to several different
owners. �BTW, that lot was, at one time, our garden. Gary Is the DQ still there? |

128|124|2012-04-14 19:40:21|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: JWaddell@bmnet.com Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:01 AM Subject: RE: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com Cc: Stamps Mailing List

When I was in Stamps (1957 to 1971), there was Williams Dairy Freeze on the highway just below the School Street intersection and their was Jimmy's Drive In also on the highway over close to the football field. Aubrey Waddell (North Little Rock Sylvan Hills class of '76)|

129|129|2012-04-14 19:40:41|Tom Sims|Fwd: Information|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marilou0841@aol.com Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:43 AM Subject: Information To: tomesims@cox.net, tomesims@west-point.org Cc: sidney_melear@yahoo.com, earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Sid Melear who lives in Lafayette, LA now -- said he thought that Uncle Mark Jarnigan's Pond should be added to the list�� -- "Gone Now".� He said that after the swimming pool in Stamps closed, everyone in Stamps swam in�"Uncle Mark's�Pond".� I remember the swimming pool (was young)� but I DID learn to swim in Uncle Mark's Pond.�� If I remember right --� Tony, Bill (Bugs) Rogers (brothers)� and other friends built the diving board .� For several years it was the only place we had to swim� -- Do not remember when people stopped swimming there...�� Uncle Mark was married to My Daddy's (Travis Rogers) sister Willie Rogers.� Uncle Mark operated a liquor store in Stamps for several years� --WAY BACK. Sid can give you more information than I can ....� Concerning the Pond. Marilou Rogers Nelson Texarkana, AR�� 71854 Class of 59|

130|129|2012-04-14 19:40:55|Tom Sims|Fwd: Information|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:16 AM Subject: Re: Information To: "Marilou0841@aol.com" Marilou0841@aol.com Cc: "tomesims@cox.net" tomesims@cox.net, "tomesims@west-point.org" tomesims@west-point.org, "sidney_melear@yahoo.com" sidney_melear@yahoo.com Marilou Good point..uncle mark jarnagin's pond probably was more famous than jarnagin's liquor store!!! Sidney, Thanks for that observation. Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC �MSC �USAR �ret. Rx Consulting, LLC _______________________ Sid Melear who lives in Lafayette, LA now -- said he thought that Uncle Mark Jarnigan's Pond should be added to the list�� -- "Gone Now".� He said that after the swimming pool in Stamps closed, everyone in Stamps swam in�"Uncle Mark's�Pond".� I remember the swimming pool (was young)� but I DID learn to swim in Uncle Mark's Pond.�� If I remember right --� Tony, Bill (Bugs) Rogers (brothers)� and other friends built the diving board .� For several years it was the only place we had to swim� -- Do not remember when people stopped swimming there...�� Uncle Mark was married to My Daddy's (Travis Rogers) sister Willie Rogers.� Uncle Mark operated a liquor store in Stamps for several years� --WAY BACK. Sid can give you more information than I can ....� Concerning the Pond.|

131|124|2012-04-14 19:41:11|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:42 AM Subject: RE: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Stamps Mailing List

Mrs. Williams taught science and may have also taught music at �Stamps and her husband ran the Dairy Freeze in the 60's.. Marilyn, their daughter, was my age. Also, my girlfriend at the time, Carilon May, worked there during our junior or senior year ('65). Jimmy's was owned and operated by 2 brothers from Waldo and one or both went to SSC in Magnolia back in the late 60's. Pug Roper _ When I was in Stamps (1957 to 1971), there was Williams Dairy Freeze on the highway just below the School Street intersection and their was Jimmy's Drive In also on the highway over close to the football field. Aubrey Waddell (North Little Rock Sylvan Hills class of '76)|

132|124|2012-04-14 19:41:21|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:09 PM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com Cc: Stamps Mailing List

Well I feel better, because when I started in People's drug store for Mr Al cross in 1959 in 1959 I got $0.50/hour....big money back than. Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC �MSC �USAR �ret. Rx Consulting, LLC _ Sometime in the late '50's,�when I was in grade school, I worked for the Grahams in the dairy.�� Bright and earlly, I would help Cookie milk the cows, bottle the milk, and deliver it.� I made a quarter a day, a whopping $1.75 a week. Gary Nichols|

133|124|2012-04-14 19:41:39|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:16 PM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com Cc: Stamps Mailing List

Gary When was KEITHs dairy freeze initially built? I did not remember that plot being your garden plot? Thanks Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC �MSC �USAR �ret. Rx Consulting, LLC|

134|124|2012-04-14 19:41:49|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:45 PM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Stamps Mailing List

Keith's Dairy Freeze had an ad in the 1960 Yellowjacket yearbook.� I do not remember when it was built, but I do remember that before it was built I used to pick black berries/dew berries on that site.� Got fifty cents a gallon for them.� Big money!!!� I also remember that there was a service station between where Keith's Dairy Freeze was and the Ham's Hill road.� It was Saucer's Texaco and it also served as a Greyhound/Trailway's Bus stop. The big thing I remember from that time was my work at the Cil Theater.� I started working there in 1960-1961 school year and worked there until I graduated from high school and went to college.� I worked six nights a week until about 11:00 PM and then also worked both Saturday and Sunday afternoons from 1:00PM until about 4:30 PM. My weekly pay was $12.50 per week, and I had plenty money to do what ever I wanted. Stamps was truly a good place to grow up in the '50's and early '60's. Does anyone remember the Yellowjacket Cafe located where the Wash House Laundromat was located near Thomas' Grocery at the corner of Central and Highway 82? Darrell Kuykendall, Class of 1962 dwk1944@gmail.com El Dorado, Arkansas|

135|135|2012-04-14 19:42:13|Tom Sims|Fwd: [StampsArk] Web Site|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lou Graham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:46 PM Subject: Re: [StampsArk] Web Site To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com In 1989, Mother was 86.� She died at the age of 95.� Her mind never failed. The old clunker she was driving was Dad's last new�car.� He died of a sudden massive heart attack the Sunday after Thanksgiving 1971 at the age of 73. The description of �Mother driving across the highway was not�just a ritual, it was fear of the highway.�She first crossed on Opera Street -truly a dangerous place.� I could not get her to understand how much easier it would be to turn right from Opera Street onto the highway, because she could see traffic as far back as Buchanan�Street; then turn left on any street toward town, because she could see the traffic in front�as far as�the viaduct.� So much for my knowledge and experience. When I came home, I�would fly.� When I was there, I would drive�her car.� One time, I got to Stamps late in the afternoon.� She asked me to go to the grocery store for something.� (Keep in mind that she INSISTED that I turn right on North Street to Thomas Street�to go straight across the highway.� She even watched to be sure I went that way.� (I was in my forties�- had lived and driven in five states by then.)� As I turned and started west on North Street, the sun was in my face, but I could tell the auto in front of me on a slight hill had stopped in its tracks.� When I got closer and he saw my face, he waived and drove on. My husband, son, and I moved
to High Point, NC in 1968.� Our son went to�undergraduate and graduate school�in NJ and stayed.� He comes home two weeks at Christmas and more often if possible. Aye, Lou Dean Graham Howard|

136|124|2012-04-14 19:42:27|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lou Graham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:13 PM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Stamps Mailing List

We went to the DQ in Lewisville when I was in high school. Lou Dean|

137|124|2012-04-14 19:42:46|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:54 PM Subject: RE: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Stamps Mailing List

Darrell, I don't remember the Yellowjacket Cafe, but I do remember hanging out in the projector room at the Cil Theater with you. Earl, we lived in that house just west of where Keith's Dairy Freeze was when I was about 3 to 5 y/o; �that would make it about 1950-52. Thelma Vines (Doris Faye's mother), up until she died, told how I told her that if she didn't quit eating so much (of cake, pie, I don't remember what) that she was going to be as big as Ms. Saucer. �Didn't you work at that station? Gary|

138|124|2012-04-14 19:43:00|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:02 PM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com Cc: Stamps Mailing List

I don't remember the yellow jacket cafe...but my Dad opened a Lion Oil service station in the old frank saucer's station location, across from the piggily wiggly grocery store in 1963 And Darrell, I do remember you taking me up into the projection booth of the Cill theater one Sunday evening before church...I was amazed at the projection technology. Sent from my
iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC �MSC �USAR �ret. Rx Consulting, LLC|

139|124|2012-04-14 19:43:18|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:12 PM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com Cc: Stamps Mailing List

Gary I did not work at saucer's sta...my Dad leased it in1963 and opened ROGERS LION OIL STA. Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC �MSC �USAR �ret. Rx Consulting, LLC|

140|124|2012-04-14 19:44:30|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:35 AM Subject: RE: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Stamps Mailing List

Before there was the Dairy Freeze in Stamps, Leon Foster and I each had a nickel and we rode our bikes to Lewisville to buy an ice cream cone. We got there and found out they didn't have any for a nickel, but did have some bubble gum cigars for a nickel each. That sure seemed like a long trip on the bikes we had then. Mine was a hand-me-down girls' bike from Clareen Cullen, my sister's bud. Pug Roper|

141|124|2012-04-14 19:45:18|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:02 AM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com Cc: Stamps Mailing List

Does anyone know how the Cill theater got its name? And who rani it in the 50s and early 60s...I remember an attractive lady...probably in her 20s that sold tickets? Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC �MSC �USAR �ret. Rx Consulting, LLC|

142|142|2012-04-14 19:45:30|Tom Sims|Fwd: E-mail address|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dale White dewhite28@att.net Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:50 AM Subject: E-mail address To: TES3355@gmail.com Hello Tom, I noticed there was mention of Williams Dairy Freeze. That business was origionally started by Bryant (BL Jr)Williams, the brother of Ann Williams, or by Bryant's widow after he passed away. �He died early. The mention of Graham's Dairy brought back old memories. When I worked as a delivery boy for Stewart's Grocery Store on Main Street just east of the Bodcow Bank, I had to deliver about a month's supply of hay to Mr. Graham's barn. The hard part was that the hay had to be stored in the loft of the barn. Of course, I was young and muscular (sp?) back then. It was still hard work. Dale|

143|124|2012-04-14 19:45:41|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:10 PM Subject: RE: Stamps: Missing In Action To: "Earl M. Rogers" earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Cc: Stamps Mailing List

Earl, A Mr. Kelly built/owned the theater, and named it after his daughter, Cil Kelly. Gary _ Does anyone know how the Cill theater got its name? And who rani it in the 50s and early 60s...I remember an attractive lady...probably in her 20s that sold tickets? Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC �MSC �USAR
�ret. Rx Consulting, LLC|

144|144|2012-04-14 19:45:58|Tom Sims|Fwd: Fw: Cil Theater|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dale White dewhite28@att.net Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:50 PM Subject: Fw: Cil Theater To: Tom Sims TomESims@cox.net Now, it has nothing to do with age, it's just because I've been gone a LLLLLLOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG time. The street mentioned below was not Antigo but Thomas. The origional Ford Place was on the Church Street side of the triangle. At the opposit end from Beasley Hardware. The phone number was # 7. There was a Pool Hall on South Thomas between Kelly's Drug and Jarnagan's (sp) Liquor Store. Mr. Kelly lived at the top of the hill on Church Street across from Perkins Grocery. Nix had a store on Thomas behind Peoples Drug. I forget just what the business was. There was a Barber Shop in that block also. Was his name Hicks? There was a Ruperds ( I know this spelling is wrong) Grocery across the pond at the Y between the McKamie Road and Oak Grove Road. Lavelle Fitzgerald and I were walking to his house on the Oak Grove road. We came to this store and pooled our worldly fortune together and came up with 5 penny's. Star Chewing Tobacco sold for 10 cents a plug. A plug was 1/2" thick by�� 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" square. We asked Mr Ruperd if he would sell us half a plug? Now for a chewing man, there is about 6 chews in a half plug. Well, we cut that in two and put it in our jaw. We started walking and spitting. There's just no way a fellow can handle that much tobacco at one time. We didn't stay with the road but began to cut through the fields and pastures. And crawling over the fences as we came to them. Before we arrived at�Lavelle's house, we had swallowed so much tobacco juice, we could no longer crawl over the fences. We were drunk on tobacco and had�to crawl under the fences. I'll never forget that store. By the way, it was at that Y that Happy Teague, James' dad turned over and burned to death because he was trapped in.�This would have been in the late 40's. J. K. Jones was the City Marshall in the 30's and early 40's before Hollis Gallaway's dad became Marshall. Many Saturday's, Mr. Jones would sell BBQ Goat on the Triangle. Mr. Gallaway lost a son during WWII. Hollis's younger brother. That's all for now. Dale ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale White To: Tom Sims Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 5:11 PM Subject: Cil Theater Tom, I think I just gave some wrong information. Since I go way back, I was talking about the theater on Main Street, not the theater that was built on Andigo if that was the street name. Dale |

145|124|2012-04-14 19:46:18|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com Date: Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:10 AM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com Cc: Stamps Mailing List

Gary is right about Mr. Kelly.� He owned the Cil Theater which was named for his daughter Cecilla, and he also owned the theater in Haynesville, Louisiana. Doris Faye Goodwin, the wife of James Goodwin the TV repairman at Home furniture Company, managed the theater.� She was 24 years old at the time. There was a Mrs. Koonce who ran the concession stand and popped that great popcorn Pug Roper mentioned.� All of us learned how to do it though.� They always prided themselves in having great popcorn and never were guilty of putting too much salt in it to encourage drink sales. The Yellow Jacket Cafe was not in the same place that the current Wash House is located but was on the lot adjacent to it towards Tipton & Dunn's Service Station and Garage.� Also, does anyone remember that Hurley Welding Service was where Nix's Furniture is now?� Also, how many of you guys learned to play pool and snooker at the dreaded den of iniquity known as the Pool Hall? Darrell|

146|124|2012-04-14 19:46:30|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: JWaddell@bmnet.com Date: Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:50 AM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com Cc: Stamps Mailing List

I seem to remember that an unfortunate young man was shot to death either in or immediately outside that pool hall in the late 1960s. Who was that poor soul? Aubrey|

147|124|2012-04-14 19:46:43|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: sgtribble@centurytel.net Date: Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:21 AM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Stamps Mailing List

A bag of popcorn,a coke and a candy bar for less than a buck.�Of couse you could also buy a gallon of gass for 25 cents at the coin operated gas pump as well or in cases use cassionhead gas if you didn't mind the trail of smoke.� (Who was sometimes referred to as "pine knot"?) Stu _ Quoting Darrell Kuykendall : Gary is right about Mr. Kelly.� He owned the Cil Theater which was named for his daughter Cecilla, and he also owned the theater in Haynesville, Louisiana. Doris Faye Goodwin, the wife of James Goodwin the TV repairman at Home furniture Company, managed the theater.� She was 24 years old at the time. There was a Mrs. Koonce who ran the concession stand and popped that great popcorn Pug Roper mentioned.� All of us learned how to do it though.� They always prided themselves in having great popcorn and never were guilty of putting too much salt in it to encourage drink sales. The Yellow Jacket Cafe was not in the same place that the current Wash House is located but was on the lot adjacent to it towards Tipton & Dunn's Service Station and Garage.� Also, does anyone remember that Hurley Welding Service was where Nix's Furniture is now?� Also, how many of you guys learned to play pool and snooker at the dreaded den of iniquity known as the Pool Hall? Darrell|

148|148|2012-04-14 19:46:57|Tom Sims|Fwd: E-Mail address|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dale White dewhite28@att.net Date: Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:07 PM Subject: E-Mail address To: Tom Sims TomESims@cox.net Hello Tom, Although I'm older than most if not all on your list except Tom Gillespie, I still enjoy what you young folks have to say. I was confused at first about the Cil Theater since it was not in existence during the time when I went to the movies for a whopping�� 5 cents on Friday afternoons at the original theater on Main Street. Dale|

149|124|2012-04-14 20:03:48|JC Smith|Re: Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action| Darrell: � Yes, I remember the Yellow Jacket Cafe.� Jeep McMorrough and his wife operated the cafe.� I sold them Grit papers every week. � J C Smith Jr � ----- Original Message ----- bFrom:/b Tom Sims bTo:/b [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] bSent:/b Saturday, April 14, 2012 9:18 PM bSubject:/b [StampsArk] Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action � ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.comDate: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:45 PMSubject: Re: Stamps: Missing In ActionTo: Stamps Mailing List

Dairy Freeze had an ad in the 1960 Yellowjacket yearbook.� Ido not remember when it was built, but I do remember that before itwas built I used to pick black berries/dew berries on that site.� Gotfifty cents a gallon for them.� Big money!!!� I also remember thatthere was a service station between where Keith's Dairy Freeze was andthe Ham's Hill road.� It was Saucer's Texaco and it also served as aGreyhound/Trailway's Bus stop.The big thing I remember from that time was my work at the CilTheater.� I started working there in 1960-1961 school year and workedthere until I graduated from high school and went to college.� Iworked six nights a week until about 11:00 PM and then also workedboth Saturday and Sunday afternoons from 1:00PM until about 4:30 PM.My weekly pay was $12.50 per week, and I had plenty money to do whatever I wanted.Stamps was truly a good place to grow up in the '50's and early '60's.Does anyone remember the Yellowjacket Cafe located where the WashHouse Laundromat was located near Thomas' Grocery at the corner ofCentral and Highway 82?Darrell Kuykendall, Class of 1962dwk1944@gmail.com El Dorado, Arkansas |

150|60|2012-04-14 21:08:39|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking today....we need to have another SHS reunion!! Invite all classes? '51 had a 50th reunion in 2001, but I wasn't able to generate much interest in a 55th or 60th. '61 tried to put their 50th together last year, but I don't think they succeeded,|

151|60|2012-04-14 21:09:33|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com wrote: Sometime in the late '50's, when I was in grade school, I worked for the Grahams in the dairy. Bright and earlly, I would help Cookie milk the cows, bottle the milk, and deliver it. I made a quarter a day, a whopping $1.75 a week. Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com wrote: Well I feel better, because when I started in People's drug store for Mr Al cross in 1959 in 1959 I got $0.50/hour....big money back than. Billy Kuykendall and I got 25c an hour cutting weeds and doing yard work for Mrs. J.P. "Roberta" Kelly (our 8th grade home room teacher whose husband owned Kelly Bros. Department Store) during the summer of 1946. The Kelly's lived in Lewisville accross from the school and had two adopted boys who were several years younger than me. She was my all-time favorite teacher. I dug foundation ditches one summer for Mr. Eddy in the early 50's for a field house at the football field on the north side of 82 and for various other buildings for the school and got 75c per hour.|

152|60|2012-04-14 21:10:45|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com wrote: Gary is right about Mr. Kelly.� He owned the Cil Theater which was named for his daughter Cecilla, and he also owned the theater in Haynesville, Louisiana. I don't remember, or never knew, this or that Mr. Kelly was involved with the Cil. That would probably be Donald Kelly, who was a lawyer, and lived in a brick house at the top of Church Street, across from Perkin's Grocery. Mrs. Kelly later built a home on the SW corner of 82 and School. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Allums ran the movie theaters for several years in the 40's and 50's, and I had assumed they owned the Gay and the Cil, but I guess not. They lived on a street north of 82 (probably on Thomas) and their son (Milton Jr) was a couple of years younger than me. Everyone called him "Bodiddle". The Cil probably opened 1n 1949 or 1950 and the Gay remained open for awhile afterwards. In the early 40's I went to Saturday afternoon cowboy double features (plus a serial, cartoon and the news) at the Gay and paid a nickel admission, another nickel for popcorn and another nickel for a soda pop. At the same time, a hot dog cost a nickel at Lovell's Confectionary and a hamburger was a dime.|

153|60|2012-04-14 21:11:20|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com wrote: Also, does anyone remember that Hurley Welding Service was where Nix's Furniture is now? That was Keith & Hurley Welding. The Keith was Dub Keith who was Dr. Keith's son and who was city marshal at one time. He was noted for handing out speeding tickets to any non-Stamps car that went a mile over the speed limit. His daughter Allison was a year younger than me.|

154|60|2012-04-14 21:29:05|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|Ok, I've re-posted most of the responses to the "Stamps: Missing In Action" discussion on the StampsARK Yahoo group and I've also posted some comments that I had on the responses. All of these messages can be read by anyone, but you must join the group if you want to post anything to the group. If you reply to me, I'll post your response for you on the StampsARK group. Also, I've just added the following to the MIA list (http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/MIA.htm) : Saucer's Texaco and Bus Stop near 82 and Central Roger's Lion Oil service station @ Saucer's Texaco location Keith's Dairy Freeze William's Dairy Freeze Yellowjacket Cafe Jimmy's Drive In on 82 near football field Stewart's Grocery Store on Main Street just east of the Bodcow Bank Tom Sims TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

155|155|2012-04-15 07:47:32|Tom Sims|Mary and Travis Rogers Family Update|From Marilou Rogers Nelson: Mary and Travis Rogers Family Update Mary and Travis Rogers were our parents and there were 4 children -- Tony (class 50) Bill (Bugs) class 53 Marilou (class 59) and Earl Rogers class 63 (i think). Daddy worked in oil field most of his adult life and later opened Lion Oil Station across from Ford Place in Stamps. Tony crashed plane in 57 or 58 and they retired him a year later -- He married and lived in NW Arkansas He died of heart attack about 3 years ago. Bill (Bugs) an engineer lived in Little Rock and died about 4 years ago -- brain tumor. I live in Texarkana, AR and worked for newspaper but now retired from government and travel some. Earl (he is 5 years younger -- I am 70 now) is retired from government -- was Chief of Pharmacy of VA hospital in Richmond , VA for many years. Still lives there with wife Lois. Tony had 2 children, Bill had 3 and I have 2 -- Earl and Lois do not have children. Marilou Rogers Nelson marilou0841@aol.com 13 APR 2012|

156|156|2012-04-15 07:55:57|Tom Sims|Re: Cil Theatre|The appended update is from Ronnie Sinquefield, SHS '55 and corrects some info I posted previously about the Cecil Kelly's (whose first name I thought was Donald) and corroborates my recollection of the Allum's. Thanks, Ronnie ______________________ My name is Ronnie Sinquefield. I was born and raised in Stamps and a '55 SHS graduate. What I know about the Cil Theatre is this: It was named for Cecil Kelly's daughter whose name was/is Cecilia, Cil for short. Cecil Kelly was the son of Mrs Ever Kelly who lived across the street from Mr. Perkins' City Grocery. Mrs. Kelly was Mr. Perkins' sister. The Mgr of the Cil during this time was Mr. and Mrs. Milton Alums. They had a son nicknamed "Bo Diddle". I hope this info is useful, scant as it is. Best Regards, Ronnie Sinquefield|

157|60|2012-04-15 14:47:35|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|Earl: Dr. Keith had a second story office on Main Street, which I believe was near the apex of the triangle where Church meets Main. I think his office was near the Gay Theater. The last time I remember visiting his office was in 1945 or 1946 when a batted baseball I tried to catch while playing 3rd base split two of my fingers on my non-glove hand. Dr. Keith was an old fashioned GP who I remember visiting our home several times over the years, when someone needed his care. The first time I ever met him was when I was 4 1/2 and he was delivering my brother at our home in 1938. I had been asleep when the activity woke me up and I barged into my parent's bedroom and attacked Dr. Keith with a pillow, because I thought he was an intruder. I am aware of 4 football fields in Stamps: There was a pre-WW2 field where I saw a night game in 1939 or 1940, that was south of 82 and west of Thomas. We built the field I played on, south of the old Stamps School, in 1948 and I believe the last season it was used was probably 1951-1952. There was a field east of Stamps and north of 82 that was used for a couple of seasons before Keith field was built. This field had a makeshift baseball diamond on the south end along with the field house where I helped dig the foundation. Then there is Keith Field. The field south of the old school wasn't named for Dr. Keith, and I don't think the one north of 82 was either, but it might have been. I believe that Keith Field has always been the one south of 82. Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M Rogers
earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 9:14 AM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com Cc: "[Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com, Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com, Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net, "JWaddell@bmnet.com" JWaddell@bmnet.com, "Marilou0841@aol.com" Marilou0841@aol.com, "sidney_melear@yahoo.com" sidney_melear@yahoo.com, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com, Lou Graham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com, Dale White dewhite28@att.net, Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com, Carolyn Roper carolynroper@earthlink.net Tom Where was Dr Keith's office and was the OLD football field ,south of the old STamps school, named after him ,or was his name put on the new football field built behind Jimmy's drive inn and across from white and company? Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC �MSC �USAR �ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA �23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.426.8873 Earl.rogers@comcast.net|

158|158|2012-04-15 15:28:41|Tom Sims|Re: MIA|Ronnie: I remember Doc Cummings, but didn't remember him being a blacksmith or working in the welding shop. I only remember being in the welding shop one time, when one of the eyelets on my fishing rod came off and Dub Keith welded it back on for me. No charge. I remember they had a sign on the wall saying they weren't responsible for losses due to fire, theft etc.. I remember seeing a lot of Saturday double feature westerns at the Gay, when I always sat up front with friends. Three movies I remember seeing there were "Gone With the Wind" (it had an intermission and was packed to capacity - might have required a reservation), "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "Lassie Come Home". My mother had a charge account with Mr. Perkins when we first moved to Stamps in 1938 and we lived in the Gant House next to the Methodist church, while our home on School Street was being built. Best wishes, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: RSinque@aol.com Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:05 AM Subject: MIA To: TES3355@gmail.com Hello Tom.....I'm enjoying the comments to your MIA page, excellent work and apparently a huge success. Let me make a few comments; Seems to me that Mr. Van Emerson from Lewisville owned the Gay Theatre. He also owned the Crystal theatre in Lewisville. He closed the Gay shortly after the Cil opened. The first movie that I remember seeing at the Cil was John Wayne's Red River. This movie was released in Sep '48. This may be very close to the "first shown" at the Cil. It would be wonderful trivia for your site if someone could remember the actual first movie. I worked for Mr. Perkins at City Grocery after school and on Saturdays in '52 and '53. His sister, Mrs Ever (unusual) Kelly, lived across the street. Her son owned the Cil. I thought his name was Cecil, thus naming his daughter Cecilla (called Cil for short). I wish that I really knew about this. There was another man that worked in Keith - Hurley welding shop. He was a blacksmith, too. His name was Burl "Doc" Cummings. Is this correct or did "Doc" come later. Thanks again for providing us "Stamps Folks" a pleasant look into the past. Ronnie|

159|124|2012-04-15 19:00:00|JC Smith|Re: Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action| Aubrey: � That was Richard Dean.� He was running the pool hall at the time. � J C Smith Jr � � ----- Original Message ----- bFrom:/b Tom Sims bTo:/b [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] bSent:/b Saturday, April 14, 2012 9:33 PM bSubject:/b [StampsArk] Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action � ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: JWaddell@bmnet.comDate: Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:50 AMSubject: Re: Stamps: Missing In ActionTo: Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.comCc: Stamps Mailing List

seem to remember that an unfortunate young man was shot to death eitherin or immediately outside that pool hall in the late 1960s. Who was thatpoor soul?Aubrey |

160|60|2012-04-15 19:03:26|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|Dr. Keith was in Stamps when we moved there in 1938 and I don't know, or don't remember, anything about him or his family before that. Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 4:25 PM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com That sounds right...I think dr keith died around the time the current field was Built and named after him. I only remember seeing the marker with his name on it at the field south of hwy 82. Was dr Keith a local fellow ? Or where did he come from? So you attacked his as an intruder!!! That is rich!! Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.426.8873 Earl.rogers@comcast.net|

161|60|2012-04-15 19:03:31|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|Please explain. That's a new one to me. Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers@comcast.net Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:23 PM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Stamps Mailing List

what about watching the submarine races from Lakeside Cemetary on a summer night?? Earl M. Rogers, M.S., P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret Rx Consulting, L.L.C. 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 P: 804.794.9541 F: 804.794.9541 earl.rogers@comcast.net|

162|60|2012-04-15 19:03:37|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|I ate there several times over the years. They had good barbque. Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers@comcast.net Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:28 PM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Stamps Mailing List

a real success story from Lewisville... Burge's hickory smoked
turkeys and hams..... started by Mr Burge ; he bought the dariy freeze on the corner of hwy 82 and 29...the old hwy 82, and his son took it over in the 60's or so and did very well.... I called to order some Xmas hams and was told the son...I cannot think of his first name at present...had sold out to someone from TXK and retired to FL.... Earl M. Rogers, M.S., P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret Rx Consulting, L.L.C. 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 P: 804.794.9541 F: 804.794.9541 earl.rogers@comcast.net|

163|60|2012-04-15 19:05:43|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|I read the "Southern Timberman" book in the late eighties. It is a must read for anyone interested in the history of Stamps. There used to be a copy in the Stamps Public Library and also there was one in the First Baptist Church "Roma Sims" Library. Most of the Stamps history in the book came from a "HISTORY OF STAMPS, ARKANSAS" that was put together by Glen C. Ward. I have a photocopy of this work that Glen gave me in 1989. Glen's compilation consists of 8 legal size pages full of typed information and two pages of old photos. Stewart Hicks, the Stamps postmaster, published an abridged version of Mr. Ward's compilation in 1994, and I bought a copy at one of the drug stores in Stamps. The Hicks version is about 5 1/2" by 8 1/2" and has 34 pages of content, including 19 old photos. I suspect that Stewart Hicks is the son of John Hicks who owned the Hicks barbershop. Glen C. Ward worked for the post office for many years, and I believe he also sold insurance on the side. He was the longtime, long suffering scoutmaster, a deacon in the First Baptist church, and a really fine man. He never owned a car as far as I know and rode around Stamps on a bicycle. He had false teeth and when he talked you could hear a whistling sound occasionally. Mrs. Ward was a Blakely and they had three children: Steven and Joanna, who were a little older than me and Leon who was about 5 years younger. When I get around to it, I plan to scan Mr. Ward's compilation and archive it on the StampsARK Forum and the SHS '51 website. Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers@comcast.net Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:59 PM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Stamps Mailing List

fyi: if anyone is interested there is a wonderful book: SOUTHERN TIMBERMAN; THE LEGACY OF WILLIAM BUCHANAN by Archer H. Mayor; univ of Georgia Press after hearing about it , I found my copy of Amazon. interesting history of Bodcaw Lumber and Stamps area. Earl M. Rogers, M.S., P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret Rx Consulting, L.L.C. 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 P: 804.794.9541 F: 804.794.9541 earl.rogers@comcast.net|

164|164|2012-04-16 17:57:13|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps Photos|Ronnie: Thanks for sending this. I put the three pictures you sent on the "Stamps Pictures" page on the SHS '51 website: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_P.htm a href="http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_P .htm" http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_P.htm/ a I found and bookmarked the Walz pictures some time ago, but never had gotten around to doing anything with them. You've motivated me to download all of the Stamps related ones (there are several others also) and archive them on the Stamps Pictures web page. Here's the link to the Walz pictures: http://www.southwestarchives.dreamhosters.com/photos.php?col lection=Walz+Collection or http://tinyurl.com/7andxgl a href="http://tinyurl.com/7andxgl" http://tinyurl.com/7andxgl/a Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: RSinque@aol.com Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:46 PM Subject: Stamps Photos To: tes3355@gmail.com Hello Tom, I read where you plan to put Mr. G. C. Ward's History of Stamps on your web site. I've had the booklet for a number of years and it'll be a great addition. The photos that I have attached are not in the booklet. The photos are from a book by Dr. Robert Walz, SAU, that he published about Arkansas. He acquired these photos along with many others through a 1978 Humanities Grant from the state of Arkansas. Subsequently, they were put on the internet and there is where I obtained them. Based on this, I would consider them public domain. You may want to include them with Glen Ward's booklet and that is why I'm sending them to you. I've labeled the photos for effect. I'll send you a link to Dr. Walz' web page if you like. Be Well Ronnie|

165|60|2012-04-16 18:09:32|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|Earl Rogers wrote: what about watching the submarine races from Lakeside Cemetary on a summer night?? Tom Sims replied: Please explain. That's a new one to me. Earl Rogers replied: With your date in tow and After the picture show at the Cil theater and a coke at the dairy freeze One drove up to Lakeside cemetery and parked... OK. Lakeside Cemetery was a parking spot in my day also, along with a few others. My favorite was the parking area at the Couch Electric Plant. Tom Sims|

166|166|2012-04-16 22:51:55|Tom Sims|Robert Walz Lafayette County Pictures|Robert Walz Lafayette County Pictures (34 pictures) These pictures can be accessed via a link on the "Stamps Pictures" web page on the SHS '51 website or directly at: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PW.htm a href="http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_P W.htm" http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PW.htm /a|

167|124|2012-04-18 18:15:14|Tom Sims|Fwd: Stamps: Missing In Action|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:52 AM Subject: RE: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com Cc: "earl.rogers@comcast.net" earl.rogers@comcast.net Sure would be neat to find pictures of some or all of these locations. Earl-you may remember (or it may have been a figment of my imagination). I think I can remember someone tossing live turkeys off of the roof of the Home Furnishing's building one year around Thanksgiving. There were church pews set up on the triangle and people could keep the one they happen to catch. Seems like I also attended a fire works demo on the triangle one year at Christmas. Pug Roper -----Original Message----- From: Tom Sims [mailto:tes3355@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 11:28 PM To: [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] Cc: Wayne Roper; Earl M. Rogers; Gary Nichols; Stuart Tribble; JWaddell@bmnet.com; Marilou0841@aol.com; sidney_melear@yahoo.com; Darrell Kuykendall; Lou Graham Howard; Dale White; Nelda Perkison; Carolyn Roper Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action Ok, I've re-posted most of the responses to the "Stamps: Missing In Action" discussion on the StampsARK Yahoo group and I've also posted some comments that I had on the responses. All of these messages can be read by anyone, but you must join the group if you want to post anything to the group. If you reply to me, I'll post your response for you on the StampsARK group. Also, I've just added the following to the MIA list (http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/MIA.htm) : Saucer's Texaco and Bus Stop near 82 and Central Roger's Lion Oil service station @ Saucer's Texaco location Keith's Dairy Freeze William's Dairy Freeze Yellowjacket Cafe Jimmy's Drive In on 82 near football field Stewart's Grocery Store on Main Street just east of the Bodcow Bank Tom Sims TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

168|168|2012-04-29 13:50:27|Tom Sims|Glen Ward's "History of Stamps, Arkansas"|I've just completed scanning Glen Ward's "History of Stamps, Arkansas" which he finished in the mid 1980's. Mr Ward gave me a photocopy of his work when I was in Stamps in 1989. This history is archived on the SHS Class of 1951 website and on the StampsArk Yahoo Group home page. Direct link: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PGW.htm a href="http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_P GW.htm" http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PGW.htm /a Also, here's a link to some old Lafayette County pictures that were compiled by Robert Walz: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PW.htm a href="http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_P W.htm" http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PW.htm /a Tom Sims TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on the SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list * SHS Mailing List: Seth Baker '47 seth4755@att.net Jerry Ballou
balloujerry@yahoo.com William Ballou '48 2ballous@sbcglobal.net Glen Chastain gfchastain@yahoo.com Joyce Marie Davis Dayton '53 jandjdayton@alltel.net Richard H. Davis richard_h_davis@yahoo.com LouDean Graham Howard '53 lghoward@triad.rr.com Elizabeth Kay Harris Bogard '61 elizabeth@ekjco.com W Dickson siddickson@sbcglobal.net Donald Eddy eddydonald@aol.com T.F.Gillespie '39 razorb@gvtc.com Murray and Judy Harris '61 mth2md@cox.net mlrhensley@aol.com Martin Herman '56 BIDMussolini@yahoo.com Arnell Hollis '52 hollis1950@centurytel.net James "Jim" Jackson '60 jdcjjackson@sbcglobal.net Bill and Carolyn Kuykendall '51 bckuykendall@ATT.net Darrell Kuykendall '62 dwk1944@gmail.com Mike and Kathy Langley malang3053@sbcglobal.net Robert C. Lovell '53 KCSenior@hotmail.com Sarah Mackey ('51 daughter) sarah.j.mackey@medtronic.com Carrol Madlock '57 madlock1@sbcglobal.net Sidney Melear '50 smelear@bellsouth.net Mary Nell Minter Cross '51 MaryMin5@aol.com Delilah Owen Minter '51 lilahr51@gmail.com Glendon and Ellen Nicholas '52 nick1934@verizon.net Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com J.D and Lanie Ormand '53 lanieormand@sbcglobal.net Myrtle Sue Peck Barr '51 barrsmom@yahoo.com Barbara Pinkston Minter '51 GrannyBob@aol.com Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com ccpratty@csw.net rtrasr@cox.net Bill Riggins '52 BillRiggins.555@gmail.com Bob Rogers bob.rogers@williams.com Dixie Rogers dixie_robin@sbcglobal.net Earl Rogers '64 earl.rogers@comcast.net Marilou Rogers Nelson '59 Marilou0841@aol.com Barbara Roper Jahns '52 bjahns7@embarqmail.com Oscar P. Roper '53
carolynroper@earthlink.net Wayne Roper '65 WRoper@ulcoleman.com runnelson@cableone.com Francille Riggins Seymour Fseymour@sbcglobal.net John Henry Shelton kingskidsjn@yahoo.com Tom Sims '51 TES3355@gmail.com Tom Sims '51 TomESims3355@gmail.com Ronnie Sinquefield '55 RSinque@aol.com James Clifford Smith Morocco32@aol.com Mari Ben Smith Newton billnewton54@gmail.com tom stevens tom-stevens@sbcglobal.net Stuart Tribble '61 sgtribble@centurytel.net Aubrey Waddell JWaddell@bmnet.com Dale White '47 dewhite28@att.net Nadine White Moody '56 nbydoom@windstream.net Jinx and Ann Wilkinson wilcobritts@gmail.com StampsArk@yahoogroups.com|

169|168|2012-04-30 23:13:41|Tom Sims|Re: Glen Ward's "History of Stamps, Arkansas"|Tom Gillespie commented: I appreciate you "keeping me in touch" with Stamps. Think I told you some time ago I have a lot of info on Stamps somewhere "if I can ever find it!!!". I remember the YMCA very well. Mr. Lake was Cotton Belt station master and his son-in-law by the name of Ogden who ran the YMCA at one time. I learned to swim in the pool. This was somewhere around 1934/35--earlier. I remember the day it burned. A very sad day for every one. I hope I do not bore you with my "thinking back"--(Don't tell any one but I will be 91 this year) Tom Gillespie _________________ I remember Mr. Lake (my dad became the Cotton Belt station master later), but the YMCA was before my time. I won't tell anyone your age and would love to hear any of your "thinking back" stories. Tom Sims|

170|168|2012-04-30 23:25:23|Tom Sims|Re: Glen Ward's "History of Stamps, Arkansas"|Pug Roper commented: Tom-that was very interesting. On page 4, in the "Recreation and Civic Organizations" section, Glen mentions the "Camden-Texarkana Military Road". I have seen this mentioned somewhere before, but I don't know what it is referring to. Do you have any idea? Also, Earl Rogers told me about a book found on Amazon.com, Southern Timberman, by Archer May. I ordered it the other day, but haven't had a chance to get started yet. It seems to be mainly about the Buchanans, but I did notice quite a bit about Stamps. Later, Pug Roper _ The "Camden-Texarkana Military Road" doesn't ring a bell with me and a short Google search isn't very helpful either. I read "Southern Timberman" in 1989 and it's a must read for anyone interested in Stamps history. A lot of the Stamps information in the book came from Glen Ward. In 1989 there was a copy of the book in the Stamps Public Library and in the Roma Sims First Babtist Church Library. Tom Sims|

171|168|2012-04-30 23:57:49|Tom Sims|Re: Glen Ward's "History of Stamps, Arkansas"|"Jinx" Wilkinson commented: Tom, My father, H. L. "Cotton" Wilkinson and Glen Ward & his sister, Gladys Martin Oglesby, were all first cousins And so I have had a copy of this history for many years. About 15 or 20 years ago, one of the public TV stations in California were doing a bio on Maya Angelou. They wanted info on Stamps & contacted the Arkansas state History Commission archivist Russell Baker who I have known for many years. He knew I was from Stamps & told the producers of this program to contact me which they did. And I sent a photo-copy of Glen's history to them. So it is accurate to say this little typewritten history was used in Hollywood! Another interesting "aside" is that Mrs. Oglesby's first husband, if my memory is correct was named Harry. His father actually traveled with Admiral Byrd on his polar expedition. And Mr. Martin had a lot of interesting artifacts in his house that he had inherited from his father. Things like Eskimo spears, etc.. At least this is what Gladys told me. But I never have been able to find out anything online connecting an expedition member named Martin to Admiral Byrd. But as a boy, I thought this was pretty neat stuff. Mr. & Mrs. Martin had a son whom I never met who was the band director at Fayetteville High for many years. "Jinx" Wilkinson _ I knew the Martin and Oglesby families very well. The Martin's son, Billy - SHS 1949, was two years ahead of me in school and was a football teammate of mine, as well as playing in the band. Gladys Martin did a daily radio show on Stamps news, for a Magnolia radio station for many years. I'm going to share my Maya Angelou story someday, as well as a few George Doherty stories, when I get around to it. They are the only two "Notable natives" other than John Hardy Stamps that are listed in the Stamps Wikipedia write-up. Tom Sims|

172|168|2012-05-01 00:07:11|Tom Sims|Re: Glen Ward's "History of Stamps, Arkansas"|"Jinx" Wilkinson commented: One other thing. When Glen was about 98 years old he sent me the recipe for the American Legion Squirrl Mulligan (Glen's spelling) when we lived in Maryland. And I killed some of the varmits & my wife cooked them by boiling them & made it (actually a stew). It really stunk up the house, but it tasted pretty good. Never got her to do it again, though. _________________ I had a chance to eat his Squirrl Mulligan many times, but never tried it, as I've never been very venturesome in my culinary undertakings. My mother said I was "finicky" about my eating. Tom Sims|

173|168|2012-05-02 20:46:10|Tom Sims|Re: Glen Ward's "History of Stamps, Arkansas"|On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:17 PM, JWaddell@bmnet.com wrote: How do I get a copy of the Glen Ward history? Aubrey There's a link to it on the StampsArk Yahoo Group home page and on the SHS '51 website. Direct link: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PGW.htm You can print a copy of it from the link or save it to your computer. Tom Sims|

174|168|2012-05-02 20:51:33|Tom Sims|Re: Glen Ward's "History of Stamps, Arkansas"|Lou Dean Graham Howard commented: My dad, Nathan Graham, and Harry Martin were both active in the American Legion Post 49. Every year they competed for the #49 auto license plate. I doubt if anyone ever kept a record, but I know dad had that plate a lot. When he did not get it, I think he plotted all year as to how he was going to beat Harry the next year. I took one bite of the American Legion Squirrel Mulligan one time. It was awful! I doubt if I even swallowed it. My mother always insisted that we try everything. Lou Dean Graham Howard _______ "Jinx" Wilkinson commented: One other thing. When Glen was about 98 years old he sent me the recipe for the American� Legion Squirrl Mulligan (Glen's spelling) when we lived in Maryland.� And I killed some of the varmits & my wife cooked them by boiling them & made it (actually a stew).� It really stunk up the house, but it tasted pretty good. |

175|168|2012-05-04 08:13:44|Tom Sims|Re: Glen Ward's "History of Stamps, Arkansas"|On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:17 PM, �JWaddell@bmnet.com wrote: How do I get a copy of the Glen Ward history? Aubrey There's a link to it on the StampsArk Yahoo Group home page and on the SHS '51 website. Direct link: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PGW.htm You can print a copy of it from the link or save it to your computer. Tom Sims ___________________ I printed it off Monday or Tuesday. There was no problem getting to the info. Pug Roper|

176|176|2012-05-04 08:28:16|Tom Sims|Re: Camden-Texarkana Military Road|Ronnie Sinquefield commented: Tom,� I believe�the references to Military Road in�Mr. Ward's book�is really the Southwest Trail.� This Trail ran "catty cornered", NE to SW, across Arkansas.� Various segments of this trail were referred to as Military Roads, along with other designations.� Much more info can be found here Southwest Trail - Encyclopedia of Arkansas�: http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-det ail.aspx?entryID=2305 Hope this helps Ronnie|

177|168|2012-05-04 08:28:18|Tom Sims|Re: Glen Ward's "History of Stamps, Arkansas"|Pug Roper commented: My mom used to make a squirrel mulligan, but would tell my sister (Jean Roper and her husband, Harvey Foster) that it was made with chicken. Always worked for her and they seemed to enjoy it. Pug Roper Lou Dean Graham Howard commented: My dad, Nathan Graham, and Harry Martin were both active in the American Legion Post 49. Every year they competed for the #49 auto license plate. �I doubt if anyone ever kept a record, but I know dad had that plate a lot. �When he did not get it, I think he plotted all year as to how he was going to beat Harry the next year. I took one bite of the American Legion Squirrel Mulligan one time. �It was awful! �I doubt if I even swallowed it. �My mother always insisted that we try everything. Lou Dean Graham Howard _ "Jinx" Wilkinson commented: One other thing. When Glen was about 98 years old he sent me the recipe for the American� Legion Squirrl Mulligan (Glen's spelling) when we lived in Maryland.� And I killed some of the varmits & my wife cooked them by boiling them & made it (actually a stew).� It really stunk up the house, but it tasted pretty good. |

178|168|2012-05-04 08:35:31|Tom Sims|Re: Glen Ward's "History of Stamps, Arkansas"|Stu Tribble commented: I recall eating squirrel but not squirrel mulligan. �My dad, before he came down with severe rheumatoid, was a really good shot and could "bark a squirrel". �I was doing good to even hit the tree. Stu Tribble _ Earl M Rogers wrote: Pug: � Mind over matter!! Pug Roper commented: My mom used to make a squirrel mulligan, but would tell my sister (Jean Roper and her husband, Harvey Foster) that it was made with chicken. Always worked for her and they seemed to enjoy it. Pug Roper Lou Dean Graham Howard commented: My dad, Nathan Graham, and Harry Martin were both active in the American Legion Post 49. Every year they competed for the #49 auto license plate. I doubt if anyone ever kept a record, but I know dad had that plate a lot. When he did not get it, I think he plotted all year as to how he was going to beat Harry the next year. I took one bite of the American Legion Squirrel Mulligan one time. It was awful! I doubt if I even swallowed it. My mother always insisted that we try everything. Lou Dean Graham Howard _ "Jinx" Wilkinson commented: One other thing. When Glen was about 98 years old he sent me the recipe for the American Legion Squirrl Mulligan (Glen's spelling) when we lived in Maryland. And I killed some of the varmits & my wife cooked them by boiling them & made it (actually a stew). It really stunk up the house, but it
tasted pretty good. |

180|180|2012-05-30 06:51:26|Sidney Melear|Virus|It�seems that we picked up a virus, and it somehow�took over our contacts (plus some, we don't know) and started sending out message.s at 12:34 pm today. � Sorry if this has inconvenienced you and hope it does't do any damage. At least, it resulted in hearing from a few old friends, that i had been planning on contacting. � Sid and Ann Melear|

181|181|2012-06-15 07:52:21|Tom Sims|SQURRIL MULLIGAN|Jinx Wilkinson sends: The following sent to me (including the spelling) in Mt. Airy, Maryland in January 1987. It was published in our church newsletter, The Vine�Line, �at First Baptist Church of Green Valley: ��STAMPS LEGION�HUT �� SQURRIL MULLIGAN Boil squrril in water; Cut in small pieces, Cut up Irish potatoes, tomatoes, onions, whole kernel corn, English peas, Let simmer till well done.�Add salt and pepper to taste. Glen Ward Stamps, Arkansas Note: Mr. Ward is about 86 years old. The "Squrril Mulligan" supper is an annual tradition at the American Legion in Stamps. (Spelling "as is" from Mr. Ward.) Like I said, the boiling of the "squrril" stunk up the house, but it actually tasted pretty good, kinda sweet. My wife agreed.|

182|181|2012-06-15 08:13:39|Tom Sims|Re: SQURRIL MULLIGAN|Earl Rogers sends: Maybe Jinx will also share his personnel recipe for FRIED DUCK �al la BODCAW!! Earl|

183|183|2012-06-28 21:47:20|Tom Sims|Stamps First Baptist Church c1948|LouDean: The picture is now on the Stamps Picture page of the SHS '51 website. The direct link is: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/S0351.jpg That's definitely the old First Baptist Church auditorium and I recognize a few people. I'm surprised that can't remember more. I probably could if you could get a larger scan. The only AO Smith relative I recall was his brother Harry, who ran the funeral home in Lewisville. The AO Smith's lived in the rear of the funeral home on South Main Street in 1938 and Virginia Smith and Bobby Joe Williams were my playmates. Thanks, Tom Sims LouDean Graham Howard sends: The attached photo of the inside of the First Baptist Church was sent to me by my brother-in-law, Carroll Blewster. He did not know what it was, but I remembered it, because I was there that evening. It was a revival meeting. I recognize some people, but not all. It was probably taken the summer of 1948. LouDean Graham Howard P.S. This was given to Carroll by the widow of Don Ross Smith. The Blewsters and Mrs. Smith live in El Dorado. I did not know Don Ross. Was he a brother to A. O. Smith?|

184|183|2012-06-29 07:57:43|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps First Baptist Church c1948|Could be. I didn't know there was a vault in the old People's Drug Store and never heard of any bank in Stamps but Bodcaw Bank, which Glen Ward says was founded in 1902. The new Bodcaw Bank building was built on the site of the old bank building, so it probably isn't an old Bodcaw Bank vault. I talked with John Raymond, who is a few years older than me, in 1989 and he was insistent that he remembered me as a geek who carried an alarm clock with me at all times when I was at SHS. I told him that I never carried an alarm clock, would gladly admit it if I had, and that he might be remembering Stephen Ward rather than me. He insisted it was me. I don't think I would have qualified as a geek, now or then, either, and would admit that also, if applicable. Tom Sims Earl Rogers wrote: On my recent back to stamps, I was told by John Raymond McDonald that the old VAULT in the back of the old PEOPLES DRUG store ,run bu A C cross ,was the bank vault of THE BANK OF STAMPS,that went under in the depression...can anyone verify that? Earl Rogers|

185|183|2012-07-04 07:19:45|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps First Baptist Church c1948|Earl M Rogers sends: I remember working in people's DS in 59 or 60, and there is a BIG vault in the SW corner. Still there today in Griffins pharmacy. He has it as an office. Drug stores in that day did not have vaults...maybe even then not a safe, as there weren't many narcotics. I had never heard of the bank of stamps either The old Bodcaw lumber company vault west of chastains grocery finally fell in,but the sign is still by the road.|

186|183|2012-07-04 07:21:45|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps First Baptist Church c1948|Sid Dickson sends: The bank vault was the Bank of Stamps which was located next door to Peoples Drug in 1929 when it closed. It later was taken into Peoples Drug with an expansion of the drug store by Mr Cross. He first, then I, used this vault as an office for Drug store. When Bodcaw Bank built new building I bought their old vault door & Donald "Bear" Eddy & others installed it on vault in drug store. In 1985 when we moved Peples Drug Next door I removed vault door but vault still remain..The walls are about 20 inches thick. Dr. Vance Strange told me the Bank of Stamps failed in 1929 while he was in Tulane Medical School and he lost his money.|

187|183|2012-07-04 07:22:43|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps First Baptist Church c1948|Tom Gillespie sends: YES--I CAN VERIFY THE VAULT AND THERE WAS A BANK BY THE NAME OF "BANK OF STAMPS." THE REASON I KNOW, MY FATHER WAS A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND IF MY MEMORY SERVES ME CORRECTLY, MR. BONEY WAS ALSO ON THE BOARD. I VERY VIVIDLY REMEMBER MY FATHER COMING HOME ONE DAY VERY DEPRESSED AND UPSET. HE HAD BEEN TO A BOARD MEETING THE DAY BEFORE AND THE BOARD WAS ASSURED BY THE PRESIDENT THAT THE BANK WAS IN GOOD SHAPE. MY FATHER HAD JUST RECEIVED THE WORD THAT THE BANK HAD "FAILED". MY FATHER HAD LOST ALL HIS MONEY ALONG WITH MANY MORE. I ALSO REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE BANK PRESIDENT AND WHERE HE LIVED IN STAMPS. THE BANK WAS LOCATED AS FOLLOWS == PEOPLE S DRUG STORE WAS ON THE CORNER--AND I THINK NEXT TO IT WAS A STAIRWAY TO GO ABOVE THE DRUG STORE AND MR. BOULEWARE HAD A LAW OFFICE UP THERE, ALSO A DOCTOR HAD A OFFICE UP THERE BUT HIS NAME HAS "SLIPPEAD MY MIND. (HE LIVED ON CENTRAL AVENUE) AND LATER ON HOWARD WILKERSON HAD A LAW OFFICE UP THERE. NEXT TO THE STAIRWAY WAS THE BANK OF STAMPS AND NEXT TO IT WAS A BARBER SHOP THEN ANOTHER STORE AND THE NEXT WAS A STORE OWNED BY THE ELLEDGES. THE THE "PICTURE SHOW" OPERATED BY ADDYS BROWN AT ONE TIME. LATER ON AFTER THE BANK WAS CLOSED, A FELLOW BY THE NAME OF HARRIS RAILEY OR (RALEY) HAD A RADIO REPAIR SHOP AND WAS A "HAM OPERATOR". AS I THINK I TOLD YOU ONCE BEFORE I AM ONLY ALMOST 91 BUT "THE ELEVATOR STILL GOES TO THE TOP FLOOR" !!!! TOM GILLESPIE------ I NOTICE A RONNIE SINQUEFIELD ON THE LIST. ARE YOU THE SON OF THE GENTLEMAN WHO WAS IN THE GAS AND OIL BULK BUSINESS IN THE
30'S ? I CAN TELL YOU A LOT OF THINGS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF STAMPS "BACK THEN"|

188|183|2012-07-04 10:39:48|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps First Baptist Church c1948|Ronnie Sinquefield sends: Tom Gillespie wrote: I NOTICE A RONNIE SINQUEFIELD ON THE LIST. ARE YOU THE SON OF THE GENTLEMAN WHO WAS IN THE GAS AND OIL BULK BUSINESS IN THE 30'S ? I CAN TELL YOU A LOT OF THINGS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF STAMPS "BACK THEN" Yes Mr. Gillespie, I'm the son of Hubert Sinquefield who operated the Esso Standard Oil distributorship from sometime in the '30s until his retirement in 1975. Additionally,do you remember John Roger's grocery store located on the SW corner of Thomas and 82 hwy? This had to be a long time ago!|

189|183|2012-07-04 23:32:31|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps First Baptist Church c1948|Tom Gillespie sends: Ronnie Sinquefield wrote: Yes Mr. Gillespie, I'm the son of Hubert Sinquefield who operated the Esso Standard Oil distributorship from sometime in the '30s until his retirement in 1975. Additionally,do you remember John Roger's grocery store located on the SW corner of Thomas and 82 hwy? This had to be a long time ago! If my brain could project photos on the wall I could give you a lot of fond memories of your father. Yes, I remember the Rogers grocery store. Along about 1937/38/39 that area had a Gulf "filling" station as we called a service station back then. Dick Davis had the bulk plant and I ran the station for him one summer. (that was an experience !!) Do you remember that HI-WAY 82 ran thru down town originally?|

190|183|2012-07-04 23:32:43|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps First Baptist Church c1948|Dale White sends: Yes, there was another younger brother of AO Smith. I have no idea what his name was. He came and spent several weeks in Stamps during one summer. That had to be around 1944 or 45. and I remember one thing about him that made him stand out. As you may know, those of us who didn't have hair on our chest and wished we had were a bit shocked because of the action of this brother. The Swimming pool down by the Legon Hut was very busy during those summer days and this brother had a great deal of chest hair that went over his shoulders and down his back. He always wore a t-shirt at the swimming pool, regardless of the heat to cover the hair. I thought that a bit odd and is the only thing I remember about this fellow. Dale|

191|183|2012-07-05 20:27:00|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps First Baptist Church c1948|Tom Gillespie wrote: Do you remember that HI-WAY 82 ran thru down town originally? Ronnie Sinquefield replies: .....any other location for 82 hwy was long before my time. I knew that 82 went through downtown at one time, and it might have done so when I moved to Stamps in 1938. I suspect that 82 went along Main Street from Antigo on the west, continued past the triangle to Central, and then north to Antigo again. Anyone know for sure? IIRC, most roads and streets were gravel in the 40's, exceptions being around the triangle, 82 and the highway from Lewisville to Hope. I remember when they were paving Antigo west of Central, probably in 1938 or 1939, and that might be when they discontinued going through downtown. Or maybe they were just re-paving? Tom Sims|

192|183|2012-07-05 20:27:01|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps First Baptist Church c1948|Dale White sends: Regarding the old John Rogers Grocery and Service Station on Hwy 82, it was a station run by Raymond Fuller back in the late 30's and early 40's. I remember that because my older brother Al White worked for Raymond at that station. I think in later years, Raymond was the manager of the Western Auto, located on the Triangle. If memory serves me correctly, Raymond had a son named Terrell Fuller who died at an early age. In his 20's. Remind me later and I'll tell another story regarding John Rogers and that Filling Station. Now, I'm reminded of Hubert Sinquefield telling about a, first trip, he and his wife took to Houston in the late 40's. If you can imagine the slow pace of the Stamps auto traffic back at that time and the shock one would experience on a First Trip to Houston Texas even back at that time. It seems that Hubert got on one of the express ways and said something like'The crazy drivers down there drove 75 miles an hour, bumper to bumper. If you didn't drive that fast, someone would run over you and if you drove faster than that, you would run over the car ahead of you. They're crazy down there'. Of course, the way Hubert told the story was very funny. Dale Raymond Fuller did run the Western Auto on the triangle and Terrell who was two grades behind me, started at guard as a sophomore on our undefeated (during regular season) football team. Mrs. Fuller was my Den Mother one year in Cub scouts. Tom Sims|

193|183|2012-07-05 20:27:06|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps First Baptist Church c1948|Ronnie Sinquefield wrote: Yes Mr. Gillespie, I'm the son of Hubert Sinquefield who operated the Esso Standard Oil distributorship from sometime in the '30s until his retirement in 1975. Aubrey Waddell replies: Ronnie, In 1954, after my Mom and Dad (Ed and Hazel Waddell) were first married, they lived in a small apartment that was part of your parents' home across the street from the high school. Do you remember them? Aubrey J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D., FAPhA, BCOP Lieutenant Colonel (Retired), United States Army Professor University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN Oncology Pharmacist Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN Earl Rogers replies: Aubrey Good to hear from you, an old army Buddy! You reminded me..... Does anyone know when THE LITTLE STORE closed?? Mrs singuefield ran it, as I recall?. Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.426.8873 Earl.rogers@comcast.net Pug Roper replies: I think it was still open until at least 1965. Pug Roper Stu Tribble replies: I remember the Little Store next to the water tower. One day it was raining and I was running to he store and met Bobby Shewmake head on. He won as he out weighted me by at least 50 lbs. Stu Tribble|

194|183|2012-07-05 20:43:32|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps First Baptist Church c1948|Tom Sims wrote: I knew that 82 went through downtown at one time, and it might have done so when I moved to Stamps in 1938. Dale White replies: It had to be before 1937 when we moved back to Stamps because the new Hi-Way had already bypassed down town by then. However, it did curve to the northwest in Bakertown and pass by where Seth Baker lives now. It was cut straight west after WWII. Dale|

195|183|2012-07-06 07:54:41|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps First Baptist Church c1948|Gary Nichols sends: We moved to Stamps when I was in the 2nd grade (I thinK 1954) and Central was gravel and there was a red light at Thomas and 82 and at Central and 82 (as I remember). Earl Roger sends: Way before my time!! But I do remember stamps had one traffic light at one time. In front of the old FORD PLACE , and John Raymond mcdonalds house. Those big semis traveling east would have to stop at the bottom of the hill, after coming down the old railroad overpass. They had a devil of a time climbing that hill from a dead start.|

196|196|2012-07-06 07:55:21|Tom Sims|More 82 Hwy|Ronnie Sinquefield sends: Another 82 hwy question....."where was 82 when the viaduct was being built?" (or as we used to call it, the vydock) Ronnie ____ Don't know, but Tom Gillespie is going to specify the downtown route of 82 when he returns home from a trip, and maybe some other details. The viaduct was torn down in September 2004. Tom Sims|

197|183|2012-07-06 16:05:18|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps First Baptist Church c1948|Earl Rogers sends: But I do remember stamps had one traffic light at one time. In front of the old FORD PLACE , and John Raymond mcdonalds house. Dale White replies: That was not the OLD FORD PLACE, that was the new Ford Place. The old Ford Place was on the Church Street side of the triangle, below the old Post Office and Bakers Drug Store. Glen Hamilton was the Body Shop Man at the Hwy 82 Ford Place when it opened. Dale|

198|183|2012-07-06 16:05:22|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps First Baptist Church c1948|Pug Roper sends: The Mr. Rogers that had the grocery store on the corner of H/W 82 and Thomas, used to go out and turn the redlight off during bad weather. The switch was on the pole by the H/W. We lived right down from the Ford Place and the big trucks would really get going coming down the hill from both directions. By the time they were in front of our house, they were moving fast. If there was snow on the road, it was kind of tough to get stopped for the red light. So, Mr. Rogers took care of that for the truckers-he turned the light off. There was also a bump in the H/W in front of the house and when the trucks hit it, it sounded a lot like they were coming though our front door. Sure used to scare any buddies I had that were overnighting it. Pug Roper|

199|196|2012-07-06 16:05:24|Tom Sims|Re: More 82 Hwy|Tom Gillespie sends: Tom Sims wrote: Don't know, but Tom Gillespie is going to specify the downtown route of 82 when he returns home from a trip, and maybe some other details. Will be back first of week. You might be surprised at changes in HWY 82 and I am really enjoying recalling a wonderful Stamps. Just don't let me get "carried away". T. Gillespie|

200|196|2012-07-06 16:05:29|Tom Sims|Re: More 82 Hwy|Pug Roper sends: Coming from Lewisville, the road turned and went to the right just before it got to where the "vydoc" ended up. When the route got to the downtown CBD, it went south toward the train depot and icehouse, then turned left and went toward Central Avenue and hung a left in front of Chastain's Grocery store and then reconnected with H/W over by the Piggly Wiggly and continued on past Fent Dunn's filling station and Mr. Brown's restaurant. Pug Roper|

201|201|2012-07-06 16:28:39|Tom Sims|Buckner boy killed while shooting fireworks|Buckner boy killed while shooting fireworks _ Marilou Rogers Nelson sends: Boys were shooting fireworks in Buckner. Barbara and Mack Allen's grandson, about 17, was killed, another boy was injured. Don't know the injured boy, who was from Magnolia. Two other boys were not hurt. Barbara and Mack were younger than us. His older brother is Carrol Allen. He married Betty Stevens. The other Grandparents moved here from Calif. several years ago.

202|202|2012-07-07 18:38:54|Tom Sims|Re: HWY 82|Seth Baker sends: Before Hwy 82 was put through straight to Buckner it seems to me that it went straight up main street on across Lake June and to the left off Oak Grove Road. After entering Buckner the road truned north and crossed the railroad tracks. It went north for a couple of blocks and then turned right..part of the old highway still exists in east Buckner. Someone please correct me if I am incorrect. Seth Baker|

203|202|2012-07-08 08:04:00|Tom Sims|Re: HWY 82|Marilou Rogers Nelson sends: Seth Baker wrote: Before Hwy 82 was put through straight to Buckner it seems to me that it went straight up main street on across Lake June and to the left off Oak Grove Road. After entering Buckner the road truned north and crossed the railroad tracks. It went north for a couple of blocks and then turned right..part of the old highway still exists in east Buckner. Someone please correct me if I am incorrect. Well I will NOT correct you -- I never knew it went in a different direction... My My I think all of us are learning a few things about Stamps we never knew... Marilou Rogers Nelson -- age 70.|

204|202|2012-07-08 08:04:37|Tom Sims|Re: HWY 82|Ronnie Sinquefield sends: __ Seth Baker wrote: Before Hwy 82 was put through straight to Buckner it seems to me that it went straight up main street on across Lake June and to the left off Oak Grove Road. After entering Buckner the road truned north and crossed the railroad tracks. It went north for a couple of blocks and then turned right..part of the old highway still exists in east Buckner. Someone please correct me if I am incorrect. Just pure conjecture, but if you take Dale's description of the old Lewisville road and what Seth Wallace describes as the old Buckner road and put them together......you probably have the route of the original 82 hwy. Ronnie Sinquefield|

205|201|2012-07-08 08:19:10|Tom Sims|Re: Buckner boy killed while shooting fireworks|Glendon Nicholas sends: We received a phone call about an hour after it happened. Some of my wife's relatives live in the area and heard the Noise. It was 300 sparklers tied together and placed under a bucket. We were told it hit the young man in the chest and it was instant death. When I was growing up my parents couldn't afford to buy 300 sparklers. I have never heard of doing such a thing as Making a sparkler bomb I guess that tells our age. Glendon Nicholas|

206|202|2012-07-08 10:11:12|Tom Sims|Re: HWY 82|Earl M Rogers sends: _ Seth Baker wrote: Before Hwy 82 was put through straight to Buckner it seems to me that it went straight up main street on across Lake June and to the left off Oak Grove Road. After entering Buckner the road truned north and crossed the railroad tracks. It went north for a couple of blocks and then turned right..part of the old highway still exists in east Buckner. Someone please correct me if I am incorrect. Well that is the reason the name is OLD BUCKNER HWY that turns left at start of oak grove road just west of uncle willie Johnson's store. Thanks|

207|202|2012-07-08 15:13:31|Tom Sims|Re: HWY 82|Dale White sends: Well, you young squirts seem to be having a time about Hwy 82 and where it went. All I know is that coming from Lewisville, the highway bore left of what is the present Hwy 82, traveled over an old wooden bridge across Bodcaw Creek, came past Seth Baker and Dr. Baker's place. swung between Dr. Keith's and Lewis White's (our place) place and traveled into the business district. How it got from there to Buckner was before my time and I will only be 84 in August.. However, as some of you have suggested, it could have traveled down the Oak Grove road and turned back East around a community called Liberty. There was an old church there years ago called Liberty Church. I do remember a road that was called the Liberty Road and did in fact go to Buckner. That road was about half way between Stamps and Oak Grove. When we moved to town in 1937, the viaduct over the L & A Railroad had already been built and Hwy 82 was as it is today. I think that Old Coot, Tom Gillispi, will back me up in this. I'm not sure most of you remember Tom. He was the Drum Major of the Stamps Band until he graduated in 1939. By the way, Stamps had a band, secound to none, back at that time. A fellow by the name of Parker, Cat Parker they called him, was the Band Directer and his wife taught music. Stamps was a wonderful place back then. In fact, the United States was a wonderful Nation. Of course, Obama is doing the best he can to destroy our country. So far, he is getting away with it. If any of you are offended by that statement, you are not aware of what is going on. So you will know where I'm coming from, I grew up in Arkansas back when all the South was Democrat. My first time to vote was in the 1952 election. Stevenson was the Democrat candidate and Eisenhour (sp?), was the Republican candidate. I wanted to vote for Eisenhour but thought NO, I'm a Democrat and voted for Stevenson. Eisenhour won and I have voted Republican on the presidental level ever since 1956. I didn't leave the Democrat Party, it left me. And I can be specific if anyone cares to know why. Wow, I got long winded!!! Dale|

208|202|2012-07-09 22:09:25|Tom Sims|Re: HWY 82|Lou Dean Graham Howard sends: _ Dale, I have enjoyed reading and occasionally participating in this forum. I personally would like to keep it free of politics. Everyone should have his/her own views and stand strongly for them - especially by voting. Can we agree to focus on our memories of Stamps in this site? Lou Dean Graham Howard NC Dale White wrote: Well, you young squirts seem to be having a time about Hwy 82 and where it went. All I know is that coming from Lewisville, the highway bore left of what is the present Hwy 82, traveled over an old wooden bridge across Bodcaw Creek, came past Seth Baker and Dr. Baker's place. swung between Dr. Keith's and Lewis White's (our place) place and traveled into the business district. How it got from there to Buckner was before my time and I will only be 84 in August.. However, as some of you have suggested, it could have traveled down the Oak Grove road and turned back East around a community called Liberty. There was an old church there years ago called Liberty Church. I do remember a road that was called the Liberty Road and did in fact go to Buckner. That road was about half way between Stamps and Oak Grove. When we moved to town in 1937, the viaduct over the L & A Railroad had already been built and Hwy 82 was as it is today. I think that Old Coot, Tom Gillispi, will back me up in this. I'm not sure most of you remember Tom. He was the Drum Major of the Stamps Band until he graduated in 1939. By the way, Stamps had a band, secound to none, back at that time. A fellow by the name of Parker, Cat Parker they called him, was the Band Directer and his wife taught music. Stamps was a wonderful place back then. In fact, the United States was a wonderful Nation. Of course, Obama is doing the best he can to destroy our country. So far, he is getting away with it. If any of you are offended by that statement, you are not aware of what is going on. So you will know where I'm coming from, I grew up in Arkansas back when all the South was Democrat. My first time to vote was in the 1952 election. Stevenson was the Democrat candidate and Eisenhour (sp?), was the Republican candidate. I wanted to vote for Eisenhour but thought NO, I'm a Democrat and voted for Stevenson. Eisenhour won and I have voted Republican on the presidental level ever since 1956. I didn't leave the Democrat Party, it left me. And I can be specific if anyone cares to know why. Wow, I got long winded!!! Dale|

209|202|2012-07-10 07:40:06|Tom Sims|Re: HWY 82| Lou Dean Graham Howard wrote: I have enjoyed reading and occasionally participating in this forum. I personally would like to keep it free of politics. Everyone should have his/her own views and stand strongly for them - especially by voting. Can we agree to focus on our memories of Stamps in this site? Stu Tribble replies: I'm in 100% agreement with Lou. We get an over abundance of political commentary elsewhere. Stu Tribble Earl Rogers replies: Amen Thanks __ Dale White replies: My lips are sealed! dw|

210|201|2012-07-10 10:11:59|Tom Sims|Re: Buckner boy killed while shooting fireworks|Mark Herrmann sends: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/S0352.jpg This is the article about the sparkler bomb, don't know if anyone sent it to you. The Smith family did not move to Stamps until some time in the 80's. They almost moved to Lewisville at that time and were looking for the one with the best fb team for their son to play on. The son at that time is the father of the young man that ws killed. It was told that he was disembowled when the bomb exploded under the bucket. It was like schrapnel from a real bomb. The other kid that was with him had 40 cuts on his body. The sparkler bomb thing has been going on around here for the past couple years. I understand that there is a plan to remove the sale of sparklers in the state. I think it is supposed to go into effect at the end of this year. It was not because of this accident as some have already been injured playing with these things. To make the bomb, you wrap the sparklers in electrical tape, and you can use duct tape. It is more powerful than dynamite. What they do is make the bombs and put a bucket (5 gallon) over it and see how far it will go up when the bomb goes off. I know that some have gone over 50 feet up and will also blow a crater in the ground. The boys mother was the daughter of Mac Allen. Mac was the brother of Carrol Allen, they lived south of town close to where the Grimmets live.|

211|211|2012-07-10 17:06:48|Tom Sims|Myra Lynn Nix Smith, R.I.P.|Myra Lynn Nix Smith, R.I.P. Myra Lynn Smith, age 62, of Buckner, Arkansas died Sunday, July 8, 2012 at Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was born November 23, 1949 in Magnolia, Arkansas to Aubrey Faye and Alta Myra Matthews Nix. Mrs. Smith was a member of Shiloh Union Baptist Church of Buckner, Arkansas. She was also a very loving Mother, Granny, and friend. Mrs. Smith was preceded in death by her parents, Aubrey and Myra Lynn Nix. She is survived by her husband of 42 years, Jesse D. Smith, Jr. of Buckner, Arkansas; Three Daughters: Gayla Smith of Stamps, Arkansas, Jessica Reeves and husband Robert of Buckner, Arkansas, Kim Smith of Stamps, Arkansas, One Son, Doland Smith of Buckner, Arkansas; Four Brothers: Gerald and Betty Nix of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Manuel and Ginger Nix of Buckner, Arkansas, Raymond Nix of Stamps, Arkansas, and David and Diana Nix of Star City, Arkansas. She is also survived by eight grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at the Shiloh Union Baptist Church in Buckner with Bro. Charles Loyed and Bro. Timothy Nix officiating. Interment will follow in Shiloh Cemetery in Buckner under the direction of A.O. Smith Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, July 10, 2012 at the funeral home in Stamps.

212|201|2012-07-10 17:35:02|Tom Sims|Re: Buckner boy killed while shooting fireworks|Marilou Rogers Nelson sends: SAD SAD SAD Marilou Rogers Nelson|

213|202|2012-07-11 07:58:56|Tom Sims|Re: HWY 82|Lou Graham Howard sends: Dale, Did you have two sisters named Sue and Jean? Sue and I were good friends in SHS. Lou G. Howard|

214|214|2012-07-11 11:45:30|Tom Sims|Re: hi--Stamps First Baptist Church|Tom Gillespie sends: _ First, I would like to say "it makes me feel great reading about memories of Stamps and who went where with what!!" It makes me feel good to see that people are interested in the "past" of a wonderful place to grow up in. I have read the HWY 82 route as remembered by Dale White and Seth Baker. In my opinion they are both about as accurate as you can get. I could go into more detail as to the homes it passed by and the merchants down town, the type traffic we had back then (the 20's), etc. Since I do not know how involved you would want to get on that particular subject, I will not go any further unless it would be of interest. I do remember quite well the YMCA, the hotel (boarding house) across the L & A tracks opposite the depot, agents at the depot, cotton ware house fire, moving a boarding house up the street to make room for the Methodist church and the earth moving equipment used to excavate for the basement, the original lighting system and water system in Stamps, the installation of natural gas, and of course the saw mill (Bodcaw Lumber Co.). There was a electric car in Stamps at one time. The closing of the saw mill and a few other things along with where quite a few of the residents lived. I was never good at dates, but can stay within a period of time. Tom Gillespie|

215|202|2012-07-11 11:45:38|Tom Sims|Re: HWY 82|Dale White sends: _ Lou Graham Howard wrote: Dale, Did you have two sisters named Sue and Jean? Sue and I were good friends in SHS. Lou G. Howard Yes, Sue and Jean are sisters of mine. There is still another younger named Nadine. We were a fairly large family. Al, Pearl & John have passed on. I was the baby boy (84 next month) and the three girls were younger. Sue lives in Longview, Jean in Pearland (just S. of Houston), and Nadine lives in Texarkana. I live in Tyler, Tx. Now, help me place you. I have been seeing the name and it does seem to me that N. E. Graham had a daughter by that name. Dale|

216|216|2012-07-11 16:23:45|Tom Sims|Francille Riggins Seymour|Tom Gillespie sends: Tom, I hate to bother you but some where I saw the e-mail address of a lady whose first name was not Francis but similar and her middle name was Riggins and I do not remember her last name. Her first name and middle name is the name of a girl in our band many years ago. She played cornet and she had a brother named Jack and he played saxophone, if I remember correctly, and they lived in Buckner. I was curious if she is the daughter of the one I am thinking of. I was going to ask her about it but for the life of me I can not find it again. _________ Tom Sims replies: That would be Francille Riggins Seymour Fseymour@sbcglobal.net who is on our big SHS mailing list. Francille lived in a big white house on Hwy 82 in Buckner and her father owned the Riggins General store. Francille married F.F. Seymour and they both taught at SHS when I was in high school. F.F. was my basketball coach in the 48/49 and 49/50 season. Two very nice people. Francille's younger sister, Dorothy Riggins Landes, was the music teacher when I was in high school, and I believe she was the composer or arranger of the SHS Alma Mater. Francille's younger brother, Billy, was a grade behind me in school and we were good friends. I didn't know, or don't remember, Jack Riggins, but I believe he was Francille's brother. I last saw Francille and Dorothy when they stopped by a reception at my 50th SHS reunion. Here's pictures of F.F., Francille, and Dorothy: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/xFFS.htm Tom Sims|

217|214|2012-07-11 16:32:11|Tom Sims|Re: hi--Stamps First Baptist Church|Tom Gillespie wrote: ... First, I would like to say "it makes me feel great reading about memories of Stamps and who went where with what!!" It makes me feel good to see that people are interested in the "past" of a wonderful place to grow up in ... _ Marilou Rogers Nelson replies: David and Maurice (Mo) Orr from Texarkana (Orr Auto Company) use to come over during the summer and visit their Aunt Ola Powell. Do you remember them?? They are younger -- I think -- but still around over here with the business. Marilou Rogers Nelson|

218|218|2012-07-11 16:52:20|Tom Sims|Melisa Kay Nutt Goodwin, R.I.P.|Melisa Kay Nutt Goodwin, R.I.P. http://www.aosmithfuneralhome.com/Pages/MelisaKayNuttGoodwin .aspx Melisa Kay Nutt Goodwin, age 47, of Stamps, Arkansas passed away on July 9, 2012 at the Magnolia Regional Medical Center in Magnolia, Arkansas. She was born on December 14, 1964 to her parents, Roger and Margaret Nutt of Crossett, Arkansas. Kay graduated from Crossett High School in 1983. She graduated from Southern Arkansas University with a B.A. Degree in Social Work. She worked for DHS for 15 years. She got an opportunity to take a position as a Hospice Social Worker for Peachtree Hospice. This was her dream job, working with people. She was working with Dierksen Hospice at the time of her death. She loved her patients and they loved her. Kay was an avid deer hunter, often seen at the deer camp hunting with her father and father-in-law. She was always very excited with her first deer each season. She also had the gift of laughter which was infectious to anyone who was around her. Kay was an active member of First Baptist Church of Stamps, Arkansas and enjoyed working in the nursery for many years. Kay was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, Roger and Bernice Nutt, her maternal grandfather, Robert Croswell, and her father-in-law, James Goodwin. Kay is survived by her husband of 22 years, Charlie Goodwin of Stamps, Arkansas; Her Daughter who was the light of her life, Kasey Goodwin of the home, her parents Roger and Margaret Nutt of Crossett, Two Sisters: Stephannie Pratt (Barry) of Eldorado, Beth Nutt of Little Rock. Niece, Caroline Pratt of
Eldorado, Nephew Benjamin Pratt of Eldorado. Maternal grandmother, Lottie Croswell of Crossett, mother-in-law, Doris Goodwin of Stamps, and a host of aunts, uncles, cousins, and dear friends. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Friday, July 13, 2012 at the First Baptist Church in Stamps, Arkansas with Bro. Mike Turner & Shaun Dierksen officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps under the direction of A.O. Smith Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, July 12, 2012 at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you make donations to the First Baptist Church of Stamps or Make-A-Wish Foundation of Mid-South Arkansas, 320 Executive Court Suite 101, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205.

Earl Rogers '64 earl.rogers@comcast.net Marilou Rogers Nelson '59 Marilou0841@aol.com Barbara Roper Jahns '52 bjahns7@embarqmail.com Oscar P. Roper '53 carolynroper@earthlink.net Wayne Roper '65 WRoper@ulcoleman.com runnelson@cableone.com Francille Riggins Seymour Fseymour@sbcglobal.net John Henry Shelton kingskidsjn@yahoo.com Tom Sims '51 TES3355@gmail.com Tom Sims '51 TomESims3355@gmail.com Ronnie Sinquefield '55 RSinque@aol.com James Clifford Smith '52 Morocco32@aol.com James C Smith '65 n5rxs@satx.rr.com Mari Ben Smith Newton billnewton54@gmail.com tom stevens tom-stevens@sbcglobal.net Stuart Tribble '61 sgtribble@centurytel.net Aubrey Waddell JWaddell@bmnet.com Dale White '47 dewhite28@suddenlink.net Nadine White Moody '56 nbydoom@windstream.net Jinx and Ann Wilkinson wilcobritts@gmail.com StampsArk@yahoogroups.com|

219|219|2012-07-11 18:07:39|Tom Sims|The Cotton Belt|Ronnie Sinquefield sends: Hey Tom Sims......a railroad question. I remember your dad as Station Master and Mr. Clarence Horn as telegraph operator (always worked at night seems like) for StLSW railroad, aka The Cotton Belt. I also remember Mr. Tom Owens being at the depot. What was his job and what RR did he work for? What prompted this question is that I remember a red Caboose car being on Mr. Owens' land that was on the right after you crossed the L&A tracks at Pitman's Crossing on the way to McKamie. Does anyone remember the Caboose and is it still there? Ronnie _ Tom Sims replies: There were two station masters, official title: agents, at the depot, one for the StLSW RR (Cotton Belt) and one for the Louisiana & Arkansas RR (L & A). Tom Owens was the L & A agent and Clarence Horn was the L & A telegrapher. My Dad came to Stamps as a telegrapher for the Cotton Belt in 1933 and later became the Cotton Belt agent in Stamps. Don't know if the red caboose is still there, but The Owens and my parents were close friends, and I was at the caboose several times for cook outs. The caboose sat on the side of the Owens' pond. Tom Sims|

220|219|2012-07-11 18:34:00|Tom Sims|Re: The Cotton Belt|Tom Sims wrote: My Dad came to Stamps as a telegrapher for the Cotton Belt in 1933 and later became the Cotton Belt agent in Stamps. It was 1938 rather than 1933 that we moved to Stamps. BTW, if any of the recipients on this short Stamps mailing list don't want to be on it, just let me know. Tom Sims|

221|221|2012-07-12 10:14:18|Tom Sims|WILLIAM "Don" BALLOU, SHS '48 R.I.P.|WILLIAM "Don" BALLOU, SHS '48 R.I.P. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/oklahoman/obituary.aspx?n=W ILLIAM-BALLOU&pid=158503215 or http://tinyurl.com/7g2eaa6 WILLIAM BALLOU,August 25, 1930 - July 10, 2012 OKLAHOMA CITY Don, 81, loving husband, father, and grandfather, went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, July 10, 2012. He was born August 25, 1930 in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, to William & Lollie Ballou, and united in marriage of 56 years to Joanne Humphrey Ballou. Don graduated from the School of Mines in Rapid City, South Dakota with an Engineering Degree. Worked in Gas & Oil business and retired from ITT Snyder. He served in the Air Force in the Korean War. Don was preceded in death by his parents and loving wife, Joanne. Don is survived by son, Paul Ballou; daughter, Denise Jordan & husband Jay; grandchildren, Jonathan Jordan & wife Lauren, Joshua Jordan, Jon Paul Ballou, Whitney Ballou, Monica Stegall-Pella, Tim Pella; and two great grandchildren, Nash Jordan and Torin Pella; brother, Jerry Ballou & wife Betty; & dearest friend, & "Sweetheart", Shirley Sullivan. In lieu of flowers, memorial gift to assist the poor & needy donate to: St. Vincent DePaul Society @ St. Andrews Catholic Church, 800 NW 5th St., Moore, OK 73160. Services to celebrate his life are 2:00 PM Friday, July 13, 2012, at the South Lakes Chapel. ______________ Jerry Ballou, Don's brother, says that the cause of death was cancer. Don was three classes ahead of me at SHS. He was very nice, popular and a good athlete. I've thought of Don many times over the years
whenever I've played tennis, because I played some tennis with Don in Stamps and learned a reverse english serve from him, that he always used. Tom Sims

Stuart Tribble '61 sgtribble@centurytel.net Aubrey Waddell JWaddell@bmnet.com Dale White '47 dewhite28@suddenlink.net Nadine White Moody '56 nbydoom@windstream.net Jinx and Ann Wilkinson wilcobritts@gmail.com StampsArk@yahoogroups.com|

222|216|2012-07-12 16:48:38|Myrtle Barr|Re: Francille Riggins Seymour|Tom,�great pictures!� Do you have any information on Clara Hamm Mitchell, Ann Williams Mackenzie, Ann Hudgens Russell, and Marian Davis (?)?� They are not in the list with e-mail addresses.� AND how are you doing? Hale and hardy, I hope.� You can't die until after I do because I won't know what is going on with anyone! From: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.combTo: [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bCc: Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com; Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com; Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com; Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net; JWaddell@bmnet.com; Marilou0841@aol.com; sidney_melear@yahoo.com; Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com; Lou Graham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com; Dale White dewhite28@att.net; Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com; Carolyn Roper carolynroper@earthlink.net; T.F.Gillespie razorb@gvtc.com; Ronnie Sinquefield RSinque@aol.com; Sid Dickson siddickson@sbcglobal.net; David Denman '58 dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com; Wayne Patterson '58 thepattersons@livingston.net; Mark Herrmann bidmussolini@yahoo.com bSent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 6:19 PMbSubject: [StampsArk] Francille Riggins Seymour � Tom Gillespie sends:Tom, I hate to bother you but some where I saw the e-mailaddress of a lady whose first name was not Francis butsimilar and her middle name was Riggins and I do notremember her last name. Her first name and middle name isthe name of a girl in our band many years ago. She playedcornet and she had a brother named Jack and he playedsaxophone, if I remember correctly, and they lived inBuckner. I was curious if she is the daughter of the one Iam thinking of. I was going to ask her about it but for thelife of me I can not find it again. _______________________________________________Tom Sims replies:That would be Francille Riggins Seymourmailto:Fseymour%40sbcglobal.net who is on our big SHS mailing list.Francille lived in a big white house on Hwy 82 in Buckner andher father owned the Riggins General store. Francillemarried F.F. Seymour and they both taught at SHS when I wasin high school. F.F. was my basketball coach in the 48/49and 49/50 season. Two very nice people. Francille's youngersister, Dorothy Riggins Landes, was the music teacher when Iwas in high school, and I believe she was the composer orarranger of the SHS Alma Mater. Francille's younger brother,Billy, was a grade behind me in school and we were goodfriends. I didn't know, or don't remember, Jack Riggins, butI believe he was Francille's brother. I last saw Francilleand Dorothy when they stopped by a reception at my 50th SHSreunion. Here's pictures of F.F., Francille, and Dorothy:http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/x FFS.htmTom Sims|

224|219|2012-07-12 18:29:33|JC Smith|Re: The Cotton Belt| Ronnie: � I believe Mr. Owens worked for the L & A. �My mother said he bought an old wooden caboose from L & A. �Mother said the railroad stopped the train pulling the caboose at his farm and he had the car lifted off the tracks and moved to where it set.� He had a small pond by the caboose if I remember correctly. � Mr. Owens had a granddaughter my age and I was invited for a party once.� � J C Smith Jr. � ----- Original Message ----- bFrom:/b Tom Sims bTo:/b [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] bCc:/b Wayne Roper ; Earl M. Rogers ; Gary Nichols ; Stuart Tribble ; JWaddell@bmnet.com ; Marilou0841@aol.com ; sidney_melear@yahoo.com ; Darrell Kuykendall ; Lou Graham Howard ; Dale White ; Nelda Perkison ; Carolyn Roper ; T.F.Gillespie ; Ronnie Sinquefield ; Sid Dickson ; David Denman '58 ; Wayne Patterson '58 ; Mark Herrmann bSent:/b Wednesday, July 11, 2012 8:06 PM bSubject:/b [StampsArk] The Cotton Belt � Ronnie Sinquefield sends:Hey Tom Sims......a railroad question. I remember your dadas Station Master and Mr. Clarence Horn as telegraphoperator (always worked at night seems like) for StLSWrailroad, aka The Cotton Belt. I also remember Mr. TomOwens being at the depot. What was his job and what RR didhe work for?What prompted this question is that I remember a red Caboosecar being on Mr. Owens' land that was on the right after youcrossed the L&A tracks at Pitman's Crossing on the way toMcKamie. Does anyone remember the Caboose and is it stillthere? Ronnie _________Tom Sims replies:There were two station masters, official title: agents, atthe depot, one for the StLSW RR (Cotton Belt) and one forthe Louisiana & Arkansas RR (L & A). Tom Owens was the L & Aagent and Clarence Horn was the L & A telegrapher.My Dad came to Stamps as a telegrapher for the Cotton Beltin 1933 and later became the Cotton Belt agent in Stamps.Don't know if the red caboose is still there, but The Owensand my parents were close friends, and I was at the cabooseseveral times for cook outs. The caboose sat on the side ofthe Owens' pond.Tom Sims |

225|216|2012-07-12 19:53:39|Tom Sims|Re: Francille Riggins Seymour|On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Myrtle Barr barrsmom@yahoo.com wrote: Tom, great pictures! Do you have any information on Clara Hamm Mitchell, Ann Williams Mackenzie, Ann Hudgens Russell, and Marian Davis (?)? They are not in the list with e-mail addresses. I don't have an email address for any of these and haven't heard anything about any of them since our 50th in 2001. An update on Marion was posted today. AND how are you doing? Hale and hardy, I hope. You can't die until after I do because I won't know what is going on with anyone! Susan and I are doing good. No health problems and we keep busy and happy playing live and video poker and doing a lot of internet things. Congrats on your 59th wedding anniversary! Best, Tom Sims|

226|219|2012-07-12 20:05:34|Tom Sims|Re: The Cotton Belt|Earl Rogers sends: I had forgotten about the caboose!! I do remember seeing it in the 50s And early 60s when we drove down to Bodcaw creek, but not sure if is still there.Thanks for the clarification of work duties.|

227|219|2012-07-13 18:22:47|Tom Sims|Re: The Cotton Belt|Mark Herrmann sends: I remember the caboose, but it has been gone for a long time now, probably at leat 40 years. _ Ronnie Sinquefield sends: ......thanks to all for the RR and Caboose info. The caboose was a very unique idea. Ronnie|

228|219|2012-07-14 15:17:34|Tom Sims|Re: The Cotton Belt|Stu Tribble sends: I don't recall the caboose, bad memory or been too long. _ Gary Nichols sends: It was put there in the early 60's. Gary Nichols.|

229|216|2012-07-15 01:44:57|Myrtle Barr|Re: Francille Riggins Seymour|Thanks, Tom! bFrom: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.combTo: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bSent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 9:39 PMbSubject: [StampsArk] Re: Francille Riggins Seymour � On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Myrtle Barr mailto:barrsmom%40yahoo.com wrote: Tom, great pictures! Do you have any information on Clara Hamm Mitchell, Ann Williams Mackenzie, Ann Hudgens Russell, and Marian Davis (?)? They are not in the list with e-mail addresses.I don't have an email address for any of these and haven't heard anythingabout any of them since our 50th in 2001. An update on Marion was posted today. AND how are you doing? Hale and hardy, I hope. You can't die until after I do because I won't know what is going on with anyone!Susan and I are doing good. No health problems and we keepbusy and happy playing live and video poker and doing a lot ofinternet things.Congrats on your 59th wedding anniversary!Best,Tom Sims|

230|202|2012-07-17 22:41:59|Tom Sims|Re: HWY 82|Lou Graham Howard wrote: Dale, Did you have two sisters named Sue and Jean? Sue and I were good friends in SHS. Lou G. Howard ___ Dale White replied: Yes, Sue and Jean are sisters of mine. There is still another younger named Nadine. We were a fairly large family. Al, Pearl & John have passed on. I was the baby boy (84 next month) and the three girls were younger. Sue lives in Longview, Jean in Pearland (just S. of Houston), and Nadine lives in Texarkana. I live in Tyler, Tx. Now, help me place you. I have been seeing the name and it does seem to me that N. E. Graham had a daughter by that name. Dale _ Lou Graham Howard replies: Yes, N. E. Graham was my father. In Stamps, I was known as Lou Dean. I am the youngest in the family - will be 77 in August. My sister, Veta, is 85, lives in El Dorado, AR; our brother, Doyne, retired to Murfreesboro, TN. He died 07 February 2011 at the age of 77; My husband and I have lived in High Point, NC 44 years. I have first cousins who have lived in Pearland, TX many years. Although I have never been there, it is a familiar name. Yes, I remember your family was large. I was at your house a few times. I am sorry Nadine is a vague memory to me. I appreciate the update.|

231|202|2012-07-18 22:50:33|Tom Sims|Re: HWY 82|Dale White sends: Lou Graham Howard wrote: My husband and I have lived in High Point, NC 44 years. Lou Dean: What a shame to find out at this late that you have lived in H. P. for all these years. I traveled to H. P. twice a year to the Furniture Market for 30 years. Only quit making those trips when I retired 4 years ago. For the last 15 years, stayed with dear friends who live in the Winston area. Still talk with them quite often. They live on the Union Cross Road. Barry and Darlene Kinley. She was and maybe still is a Real Estate Broker. It's a small world sometimes. Dale|

232|196|2012-07-20 14:51:55|Carol|Re: More 82 Hwy|All this talk about Hwy 82 brought up lots of fantastic memories of the 2 weeks that I got to come to Stamps, from Arlington, TX, for summer vacation with my Grandparents O. D. & Louise Roper, & oh yeah, my uncle Pug Roper was still living there & running track in high school & college {& apparently still runs}; I did have to bring my younger sister, Debbie along, too. Grandpa & Grandma lived on Hwy 82, next the 'Ford Place'; & on the other side of them were the Rowe's, who owned the gas station; & next to them were Mr. & Mrs. Ward. Here's what I'd like to find out...why was Hwy 82 also known as E. Antigo St.? I was interested in knowing the address for Grandma & Grandp's house on Antigo. Then would anybody just happen to have any pictures of their house on Hwy 82 that I could get copies made of? The family doesn't seem to have any photos, & I would love to have a really good picture of that house -- I had SO much fun there. While I'm here, I might as well go ahead with another question along the same lines...I've been doing our family genealogy for over 15 years now & really love finding out about our ancestors. If there is anybody who has family photos but no family members who are really interested in taking the photos, or family genealogy info & related items, I would be very happy to have them. Lots of times there's only one person in the family who is into genealogy, & there are so many photos & family trees, just thrown away because nobody wants them. They don't care who their ancestors were, & what their lives were like & all they went through. I don't care if there are names on the photos or not, I'd be interested in saving any photos or genealogy info, & I'd pay for postage, of course. One last question...is there going to be a map drawn up by someone in the group of Hwy 82? It would be a lot easier if I could see it. There are some locations that I do recall...like the Liberty Church, which had the outside baptizing pool, & was home to a family of water moccasins. Great memories! Carol Richardson [Bobbie Roper Jahns is my mom]|

233|196|2012-07-20 15:00:59|Tom Sims|Re: More 82 Hwy|Carol Richardson posted on StampsArk Yahoo group: All this talk about Hwy 82 brought up lots of fantastic memories of the 2 weeks that I got to come to Stamps, from Arlington, TX, for summer vacation with my Grandparents O. D. & Louise Roper, & oh yeah, my uncle Pug Roper was still living there & running track in high school & college {& apparently still runs}; I did have to bring my younger sister, Debbie along, too. Grandpa & Grandma lived on Hwy 82, next the 'Ford Place'; & on the other side of them were the Rowe's, who owned the gas station; & next to them were Mr. & Mrs. Ward. Here's what I'd like to find out...why was Hwy 82 also known as E. Antigo St.? I was interested in knowing the address for Grandma & Grandp's house on Antigo. Then would anybody just happen to have any pictures of their house on Hwy 82 that I could get copies made of? The family doesn't seem to have any photos, & I would love to have a really good picture of that house -- I had SO much fun there. While I'm here, I might as well go ahead with another question along the same lines...I've been doing our family genealogy for over 15 years now & really love finding out about our ancestors. If there is anybody who has family photos but no family members who are really interested in taking the photos, or family genealogy info & related items, I would be very happy to have them. Lots of times there's only one person in the family who is into genealogy, & there are so many photos & family trees, just thrown away because nobody wants them. They don't care who their ancestors were, & what their lives were like & all they went through. I don't care if there are names on the photos or not, I'd be interested in saving any photos or genealogy info, & I'd pay for postage, of course. One last question...is there going to be a map drawn up by someone in the group of Hwy 82? It would be a lot easier if I could see it. There are some locations that I do recall...like the Liberty Church, which had the outside baptizing pool, & was home to a family of water moccasins. Great memories! Carol Richardson [Bobbie Roper Jahns is my mom]|

234|196|2012-07-20 17:45:49|Tom Sims|Re: More 82 Hwy|Mark Herrmann sends: ________ The Roper's old house was demolished long ago. They built a new brick home behind where there old house was. Smith Funeral Home has a building where the old house was. There is no viaduct anymore either, it was taken down. Where Rowe's station was is now the city hall, before that it was a grovery store owned by Glen Hamilton. The Ford place is still there, the showroom area is some sort of special events place and the aarea wher the cars were worked on is a flea market.|

235|235|2012-07-21 18:51:59|Tom Sims|Fwd: Lafayette County|I've added the Lafayette County History link to the SHS '51 Home Page: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Thanks, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:01 AM Subject: Fwd: Lafayette County To: Tom Sims TomESims@west-point.org, Tom Sims '51 TES3355@gmail.com, "Ccdaniel1017@aol.com" Ccdaniel1017@aol.com, Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com, "Marilou0841@aol.com" Marilou0841@aol.com, runnelson runnelson@cableone.net, Colleen Nelson HENDREN colleenhendren88@gmail.com, Dixie Rogers dixie_robin@sbcglobal.net, Bob Rogers rs_rogers@yahoo.com, "lmd4@yahoo.com" lmd4@yahoo.com, "rtrasr@cox.net" rtrasr@cox.net, Tony Rogers ccpratty@cswnet.com, "MaryLynn R. Hensley/hm" mlhensley@aol.com, sidney melear sidney_melear@yahoo.com, Sidney Melear smelear@bellsouth.net, W Dickson siddickson@sbcglobal.net, "Larry H. Gentry" Sarge538@yahoo.com, "B. J. Carty" bjcarty@americanmachineco.com, "Earl M. Rogers" earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.426.8873 Earl.rogers@comcast.net ______________________________________ Begin forwarded message: From: "Chuck Joyce" chuckjoyce@sbcglobal.net Date: July 21, 2012 9:12:31 AM EDT To: "Chuck" chuckjoyce@sbcglobal.net Subject: Lafayette County Subject: Lafayette County http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-det ail.aspx?entryID=781|

236|196|2012-07-21 18:52:25|Tom Sims|Re: More 82 Hwy|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:14 AM Subject: Re: More 82 Hwy To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com Cc: "[Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com, Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com, Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net, "JWaddell@bmnet.com" JWaddell@bmnet.com, "Marilou0841@aol.com" Marilou0841@aol.com, "sidney_melear@yahoo.com" sidney_melear@yahoo.com, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com, Lou Graham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com, Dale White dewhite28@att.net, Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com, Carolyn Roper carolynroper@earthlink.net, "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com, RonnieSinquefield RSinque@aol.com, Sid Dickson siddickson@sbcglobal.net, DavidDenman '58 dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com, Wayne Patterson '58 thepattersons@livingston.net, Mark Herrmann bidmussolini@yahoo.com And mother and daddy's old LION OIL SERVICE STATION On the SE corner is gone too. Is Tommy Thompsons old store building still east of Daddy's old station.? Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.426.8873 Earl.rogers@comcast.net|

237|196|2012-07-21 19:00:58|Tom Sims|Re: More 82 Hwy|Earl Rogers wrote: And mother and daddy's old LION OIL SERVICE STATION On the SE corner is gone too. Is Tommy Thompsons old store building still east of Daddy's old station.? Heh. I knew the Stack and Save grocery store as Merle (and Hazel, I believe) Thompson's store. I believe Tommy was their son. Tom Sims|

238|196|2012-07-22 23:31:06|Tom Sims|Re: More 82 Hwy|Lou Graham Howard sends: ***************** To Carol Richardson: Highway 82 is a US highway and once extended as far east as the Atlantic Ocean - in Georgia. Since Interstate 95 was built as near the Atlantic Ocean coastline as possible (South to North), US Highway 82 appears to end at I-95. I do not know how far West US 82 extends. Antigo Street is only within the city limits of Stamps. I have never known from where that name came. Lou Graham Howard P. S. Carol, I knew your mom and your uncle Oscar Paul was my classmate. __________ Carol Richardson wrote: All this talk about Hwy 82 brought up lots of fantastic memories of the 2 weeks that I got to come to Stamps, from Arlington, TX, for summer vacation with my Grandparents O. D. & Louise Roper, & oh yeah, my uncle Pug Roper was still living there & running track in high school & college {& apparently still runs}; I did have to bring my younger sister, Debbie along, too. Grandpa & Grandma lived on Hwy 82, next the 'Ford Place'; & on the other side of them were the Rowe's, who owned the gas station; & next to them were Mr. & Mrs. Ward. Here's what I'd like to find out...why was Hwy 82 also known as E. Antigo St.? I was interested in knowing the address for Grandma & Grandp's house on Antigo. Then would anybody just happen to have any pictures of their house on Hwy 82 that I could get copies made of? The family doesn't seem to have any photos, & I would love to have a really good picture of that house -- I had SO much fun there. While I'm here, I might as well go ahead with another question along the same lines...I've been doing our family genealogy for over 15 years now & really love finding out about our ancestors. If there is anybody who has family photos but no family members who are really interested in taking the photos, or family genealogy info & related items, I would be very happy to have them. Lots of times there's only one person in the family who is into genealogy, & there are so many photos & family trees, just thrown away because nobody wants them. They don't care who their ancestors were, & what their lives were like & all they went through. I don't care if there are names on the photos or not, I'd be interested in saving any photos or genealogy info, & I'd pay for postage, of course. One last question...is there going to be a map drawn up by someone in the group of Hwy 82? It would be a lot easier if I could see it. There are some locations that I do recall...like the Liberty Church, which had the outside baptizing pool, & was home to a family of water moccasins. Great memories! Carol Richardson [Bobbie Roper Jahns is my mom]|

239|202|2012-07-23 20:54:06|Tom Sims|Re: HWY 82|Isn't it a shame that people do not keep up with one another. We are the only family to live in this house which we bought from the builder. After we lived here nine years, we decided how we wanted our basement finished into an apartment. We rented the apartment to the same people twice a year for ten years. They were salesmen for the Furniture Market and were with us ten days each time. I was teaching in Greensboro at that time, Bob was working, and our son was in high school - later college. That seems like a long time ago. I know where Union Cross Road is located, but I do not know Barry and Darlene Kinley. It is a small world. We can thank Tom Sims for broadening our horizons. Lou Graham Howard * Lou Graham Howard wrote: My husband and I have lived in High Point, NC 44 years. Dale White replied: Lou Dean: What a shame to find out at this late that you have lived in H. P. for all these years. I traveled to H. P. twice a year to the Furniture Market for 30 years. Only quit making those trips when I retired 4 years ago. For the last 15 years, stayed with dear friends who live in the Winston area. Still talk with them quite often. They live on the Union Cross Road. Barry and Darlene Kinley. She was and maybe still is a Real Estate Broker. It's a small world sometimes. Dale|

240|196|2012-07-23 21:00:21|Tom Sims|Re: More 82 Hwy|Aubrey Waddell sends: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: JWaddell@bmnet.com Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:18 AM Subject: Re: More 82 Hwy To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com Cc: Mark Herrmann bidmussolini@yahoo.com, Carolyn Roper carolynroper@earthlink.net, Dale White dewhite28@att.net, David Denman '58 dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com, "Earl M. Rogers" earl.rogers1661@gmail.com, Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com, Lou Graham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com, Marilou0841@aol.com, Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com, "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com, Ronnie Sinquefield RSinque@aol.com, Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net, Sid Dickson siddickson@sbcglobal.net, sidney_melear@yahoo.com, "[Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, Wayne Patterson '58 thepattersons@livingston.net, Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com When my wife and I were stationed with the Army at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, 1985-1987, we used to take Highway 82 at least as far west as the New Mexico border. We did that to break up the monotony of driving all the way to Yuma (which is on the California border) by interstate highway. Aubrey J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D., FAPhA, BCOP Professor University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN Oncology Pharmacist Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN Lieutenant Colonel (Retired), United States Army|

241|196|2012-07-23 21:04:48|Tom Sims|Re: More 82 Hwy|Pug Roper sends: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:55 AM Subject: RE: More 82 Hwy To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com, "[Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Cc: "Earl M. Rogers" earl.rogers1661@gmail.com, Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com, Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net, "JWaddell@bmnet.com" JWaddell@bmnet.com, "Marilou0841@aol.com" Marilou0841@aol.com, "sidney_melear@yahoo.com" sidney_melear@yahoo.com, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com, Lou Graham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com, Dale White dewhite28@att.net, Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com, Carolyn Roper carolynroper@earthlink.net, "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com, Ronnie Sinquefield RSinque@aol.com, Sid Dickson siddickson@sbcglobal.net, David Denman '58 dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com, Wayne Patterson '58 thepattersons@livingston.net, Mark Herrmann bidmussolini@yahoo.com Actually, the old house was moved to a site just on the outskirts of Waldo. I found it one time and took my Mom by to see it. Pug Roper ______________________________ Mark Herrmann wrote: The Roper's old house was demolished long ago. They built a new brick home behind where there old house was. Smith Funeral Home has a building where the old house was. There is no viaduct anymore either, it was taken down. Where Rowe's station was is now the city hall, before that it was a grovery store owned by Glen Hamilton. The Ford place is still there, the showroom area is some sort of special events place and the aarea wher the
cars were worked on is a flea market.|

242|196|2012-07-23 21:08:53|Tom Sims|Re: More 82 Hwy|Pug Roper sends: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:04 AM Subject: RE: More 82 Hwy To: Earl M Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com, Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com Cc: "[Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com, Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net, "JWaddell@bmnet.com" JWaddell@bmnet.com, "Marilou0841@aol.com" Marilou0841@aol.com, "sidney_melear@yahoo.com" sidney_melear@yahoo.com, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com, Lou Graham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com, Dale White dewhite28@att.net, Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com, Carolyn Roper carolynroper@earthlink.net, "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com, RonnieSinquefield RSinque@aol.com, Sid Dickson siddickson@sbcglobal.net, DavidDenman '58 dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com, Wayne Patterson '58 thepattersons@livingston.net, Mark Herrmann bidmussolini@yahoo.com The building may be still be there. Someone was using it as a location to store homemade arts and crafts about 5-6 years ago. May have been a guy we went to school with whose last name was Nickolas, but I think he has passed away by now. He may have been a year or so older than Earl Rogers. Pug ********* Earl Rogers wrote: And mother and daddy's old LION OIL SERVICE STATION On the SE corner is gone too. Is Tommy Thompsons old store building still east of Daddy's old station.? Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA
23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.426.8873 Earl.rogers@comcast.net|

243|196|2012-07-23 21:12:40|Tom Sims|Re: More 82 Hwy|Marilou Rogers Nelson sends: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marilou0841@aol.com Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:02 AM Subject: Re: More 82 Hwy To: WRoper@ulcoleman.com, tes3355@gmail.com, StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Cc: earl.rogers1661@gmail.com, morningwoodranch@hotmail.com, sgtribble@centurytel.net, JWaddell@bmnet.com, sidney_melear@yahoo.com, dwk1944@gmail.com, lghoward@triad.rr.com, dewhite28@att.net, gafarm@hotmail.com, carolynroper@earthlink.net, razorb@gvtc.com, RSinque@aol.com, siddickson@sbcglobal.net, dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com, thepattersons@livingston.net, bidmussolini@yahoo.com Your Mom and Dad were just "wonderful people" -- I remember your Mom made our cheerleader uniforms when I was in 10th grade and only 10th grader on squad with your sister Jeanie and others.. Was such a good time... Good to remember the GOOD times growing up in Stamps. Marilou Rogers Nelson, Texarkana, AR ___________________________________ Pug Roper wrote: Actually, the old house was moved to a site just on the outskirts of Waldo. I found it one time and took my Mom by to see it. Pug Roper|

244|196|2012-07-23 21:16:20|Tom Sims|Re: More 82 Hwy|Earl Rogers sends: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:14 AM Subject: Re: More 82 Hwy To: "JWaddell@bmnet.com" JWaddell@bmnet.com Cc: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com, Mark Herrmann bidmussolini@yahoo.com, Carolyn Roper carolynroper@earthlink.net, Dale White dewhite28@att.net, David Denman'58 dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com, Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com, Lou Graham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com, "Marilou0841@aol.com" Marilou0841@aol.com, Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com, "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com, Ronnie Sinquefield RSinque@aol.com, Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net, Sid Dickson siddickson@sbcglobal.net, "sidney_melear@yahoo.com" sidney_melear@yahoo.com, "[Stamps Ark YahooGroup]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, Wayne Patterson '58 thepattersons@livingston.net, Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com US hwy 82 starts at Brunswick SC on the Atlantic coast and goes thru stamps AR, and ends at Alamogordo ,NM, according to my rand McNally atlas. That is as far as I can trace it. There should have been a tv series ROUTE 82 on tv instead of route 66!!! Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.426.8873 Earl.rogers@comcast.net|

245|245|2012-07-23 21:17:31|Tom Sims|Re: Hwy 82|Ronnie Sinquefield sends: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: RSinque@aol.com Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:20 AM Subject: Hwy 82 To: TES3355@gmail.com .....Wikipedia describes hwy 82 to be 1609 miles long and began as an extension in 1932. I used to have a big library of reference books.....now I have just one. It's called Google. Ronnie Sinquefield|

246|196|2012-07-24 07:19:52|Tom Sims|Re: More 82 Hwy|Darrell Kuykendall sends: _________ I think that the guy that had the house moved was Nathan Nichols--not exactly sure of the last name but think that it is right. He was around my age (Class of '62) and was in my class as a transferred in student for a year or so. He was not there long. Some years later he had a wood working/hobby products shop in the old Sack and Save store. A few years earlier I had worked for a few months part time for Merle and Hazel Thompson ( when Tommy was around nine or ten years old) there at Sack and Save on Saturdays. You know I think back and sort of feel that Sack and Save was one of the first open front convenience stores that I ever saw. I later worked at the Cil Theater during my 11th and 12th grades as the projectionist. Boy I made big bucks there!! I made $12.50 a week and worked six nights a week and two afternoons on Saturday and Sunday. Usually worked from 6:30PM until around 11:00PM and then from 12:30PM until around 4:30PM on the Saturday and Sunday afternoons. I have really enjoyed reading the comments that everyone has made. It is sort of funny the things you remember while reading these posts, as well as how much you have forgotten. I do remember such things as a gravel Central Avenue and the bus turning off 82 and going down Central Avenue and down to the "bus station" at David Brights Gulf Station. I also remember the coldest watermelon in the world from Joe Hamilton's (Glen Hamilton's father) Ice Plant storage locker. I remember that my older brother Billy worked for Joe at the Ice Plant driving an ice delivery truck in the summer. It is hard now to believe that in those days we really did have ice boxes and not refrigerators. There are a lot of good memories from those days. Some not so good too, but that also goes with the territory. Good to read all of you all's posts. Darrell Kuykendall|

247|196|2012-07-24 07:35:27|Tom Sims|Re: More 82 Hwy|Darrell Kuykendall wrote: A few years earlier I had worked for a few months part time for Merle and Hazel Thompson ( when Tommy was around nine or ten years old) there at Sack and Save on Saturdays. You know I think back and sort of feel that Sack and Save was one of the first open front convenience stores that I ever saw. _ Pug Roper replies: Mr. Thomas used to buy squirrels from me when I got old enough to go hunting by myself. Don't know if he made them into baloney for sale at the store or if Hazel cooked them for him. Pug Roper|

248|248|2012-07-24 07:35:38|Tom Sims|BILLY JOE MOODY, R.I.P.|BILLY JOE MOODY, R.I.P. (Husband of Nadine White Moody, SHS '56) http://www.bannernews.net/news/2012/07/20/billy-joe-moody-32 1417.php Billy Joe Moody, 81, of Wake Village, Texas, passed away Wednesday, July 18, 2012. He was born April 30, 1931, to Dale and Hazel Moody of Waldo. Bill was a retired letter carrier for the United States Postal Service, an officer for the Federal Employees Credit Union, a Navy veteran of the Korean War, and a member of Hampton Church of Christ where he served as an elder. He was preceded in death by his parents; his step-mother, Letha Russell Moody; and his brothers, Dr. C. Dale Moody Jr. and Duard Moody. Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Nadine White Moody; two sons, Mike Moody of Hot Springs and Doug Moody of Denton, Texas; one daughter, Lori Young of New Hill, N.C.; 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services were to be at 2 p.m. today at Hampton Church of Christ with Jerry Monholland and Don Brown officiating. Burial followed in Chapelwood Memorial Gardens, under the direction of Texarkana Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Dorcas House 6262 St. Michaels Drive, Texarkana, Texas 75503. An online guestbook is available at: www.texarkanafuneralhome.com

249|196|2012-07-24 16:00:08|Tom Sims|Re: More 82 Hwy|Darrel Kuykendall wrote: I think that the guy that had the house moved was Nathan Nichols--not exactly sure of the last name but think that it is right. He was around my age (Class of '62) and was in my class as a transferred in student for a year or so. He was not there long. Some years later he had a wood working/hobby products shop in the old Sack and Save store. ______ Gary Nichols replies: That would be Nathan Nicholas. I remember he had a brother named David and a sister Judy. Judy was in my class. Gary|

250|250|2012-08-13 15:38:10|Carol|DIVIDED TOWN|Back when I got to go to Stamps for two weeks in the summer to stay with Grandpa & Grandma Roper, it was the 1960's, & Stamps had a 'white' section & a 'colored' section. I hope I don't offend anybody by writing this, but I remember seeing water fountains, & the movie theater, with 'white' & 'colored', & quite a few other things, too. The tracks down by the pond were a dividing line; & there was a separate area on the 'triangle', too. That's what I wanted to ask about...there was an old, black gentleman who was always singing & dancing there...his name was Dewberry [I think that's how it might be spelled]. He was real old -- I thought maybe 100, but probably not. Seems like he was blind. Does anybody remember him, & know anything about him? Now I'd like to be able to talk to him & find out about his life & family, & would have no problem at all talking to him. But back then, there was no way that I could even think about doing it; & that's something that I'd NEVER have mentioned it to Grandpa. That's just how it was back then.|

251|250|2012-08-13 17:27:59|JC Smith|Re: DIVIDED TOWN| I believe my mother said Dewberry was from Stamps and left when one of the Cabe family members moved to the Gurdon area (he worked for them).� When Dewberry retired, they moved him back to Stamps.� I was in high school when Dewberry returned to Stamps (probably 1963 � 1964 timeframe).� He was a showman wherever he went.� He often showed up at the Citgo Station when the afternoon bus came through.� I was in the bank once when he came in with his monthly check.� He had a written list of what he owed people or businesses and the exact change he needed to pay each.� He was quite a character.� I don�t remember what happened to him, but I�m guessing he passed away. �He would well passed 100 if he is still living. � J C Smith Jr � ----- Original Message ----- bFrom:/b Carol bTo:/b StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bSent:/b Monday, August 13, 2012 9:56 AM bSubject:/b [StampsArk] DIVIDED TOWN � Back when I got to go to Stamps for two weeks in the summer to stay with Grandpa & Grandma Roper, it was the 1960's, & Stamps had a 'white' section & a 'colored' section. I hope I don't offend anybody by writing this, but I remember seeing water fountains, & the movie theater, with 'white' & 'colored', & quite a few other things, too. The tracks down by the pond were a dividing line; & there was a separate area on the 'triangle', too. That's what I wanted to ask about...there was an old, black gentleman who was always singing & dancing there...his name was Dewberry [I think that's how it might be spelled]. He was real old -- I thought maybe 100, but probably not. Seems like he was blind. Does anybody remember him, & know anything about him? Now I'd like to be able to talk to him & find out about his life & family, & would have no problem at all talking to him. But back then, there was no way that I could even think about doing it; & that's something that I'd NEVER have mentioned it to Grandpa. That's just how it was back then. |

252|250|2012-08-13 20:30:34|Tom Sims|Re: DIVIDED TOWN|Carol sent to StampsArk Yahoo group: Back when I got to go to Stamps for two weeks in the summer to stay with Grandpa & Grandma Roper, it was the 1960's, & Stamps had a 'white' section & a 'colored' section. I hope I don't offend anybody by writing this, but I remember seeing water fountains, & the movie theater, with 'white' & 'colored', & quite a few other things, too. The tracks down by the pond were a dividing line; & there was a separate area on the 'triangle', too. That's what I wanted to ask about...there was an old, black gentleman who was always singing & dancing there...his name was Dewberry [I think that's how it might be spelled]. He was real old -- I thought maybe 100, but probably not. Seems like he was blind. Does anybody remember him, & know anything about him? Now I'd like to be able to talk to him & find out about his life & family, & would have no problem at all talking to him. But back then, there was no way that I could even think about doing it; & that's something that I'd NEVER have mentioned it to Grandpa. That's just how it was back then. _ J C Smith Jr replied: I believe my mother said Dewberry was from Stamps and left when one of the Cabe family members moved to the Gurdon area (he worked for them). When Dewberry retired, they moved him back to Stamps. I was in high school when Dewberry returned to Stamps (probably 1963 "� 1964 timeframe). He was a showman wherever he went. He often showed up at the Citgo Station when the afternoon bus came through. I was in the bank once when he came in with his monthly check. He had a written list of what he owed people or businesses and the exact change he needed to pay each. He was quite a character. I don't remember what happened to him, but I'm guessing he passed away. He would well passed 100 if he is still living. J C Smith Jr|

253|250|2012-08-14 17:36:54|Tom Sims|Re: DIVIDED TOWN|Gary Nichols sends: As I heard it, being after I left Stamps, Dewberry was hit by a car (I think he may have been dancing in the street the way he often did). He lingered for awhile , but eventually died from his injuries. I was told it was an out-of-towner that hit him, the implication being that Stampsonians would watch out for him. Dewberry was certainly a favorite local personality. Gary Nichols|

254|254|2012-08-15 13:28:13|JWaddell@bmnet.com|Divided Town|I don't remember the "white" or "colored" signs, but you have to remember I was born in 1957. I do remember that in the 1960s all white people lived on one side of the Cotton Belt and all African-American people lived on the other side, although everyone seemed to come and go without notice. I don't know how African-American people felt when they came to the white side of town in the 1960s or vice versa, but I remember regular interactions with African-American people when I was a child, such as an older, really nice gentleman named "Griffin" who delivered our groceries from Petrey's Grocery. I also remember that Aaron Wesley (who went by the odd nickname of "Snowball"), who played football and ran track for Stamps in the late 60s and early 70s, would walk by my house on School Street and stop and speak to me, as he also knew my big brother Eddie. I definitely remember Dewberry, as I would see him pass my house on School Street as he headed to Highway 82 or I would see him on the Triangle. I also remember that I was never made to feel unwelcome when I went to the African-American side of the Cotton Belt, which I often did to fish or ride my bike or buy a coke at Johnson's Grocery (which I learned in adulthood played a pivotal role in Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings") or buy some hamburgers from a lady named "Ethel" who my mother knew. Also, when my mother had surgery a couple of times in the 1960s we hired an African-American lady named "Jimmie" to do the housework until Mom recovered. Also, an African-American man named "Monroe" with a wagon, a white horse, and a white mule served as a one-man Stamps sanitation department, tirelessly emptying Stampsians' trash barrels and hauling the trash to the dump for a small monthly fee. I remember Dr. Charles Cross' office had two entrances and two waiting rooms, which I later figured out that one was for whites and the other for African-Americans. I remember that playing Stamps Ellis in high school boys basketball was a big deal and that Ellis usually won. I remember an Ellis student named Ajax Johnson who ran track meets at Stamps High and usually won the 100 and 200. I remember that whites and blacks did not worship together and that confused me greatly. And, at least when I left Stamps in 1971, white and black funeral preparations were done in separate buildings and burials were in separate sections of Lakeside Cemetery. I remember school integration in the fall of 1970 (my 7th grade year). My sister Ellen and I would walk up the street and catch a bus over to Stamps Ellis Middle School, where all the 5th through 8th graders went under the new integration plan. I do not remember any trouble as a result of the integration. I for one was fascinated at meeting all the kids my age who I had never knew existed, like Evelyn Dismuke (with whom I competed for math grades), Hal Prevo, Alfred Madison, Stanley Cornelius, Mike Philson, Tyrus Lowe, etc. I also had my first African-American teachers, Coach Richards for science and Reverend Wynn for math. Rev. Wynn remains one of my three favorite teachers of all time at any level of school. He would probably be fired today, because he unapologetically and enthusiastically taught math as the "language of God." Aubrey J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D., FAPhA, BCOP Professor University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN Oncology Pharmacist Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN Lieutenant Colonel (Retired), United States Army This communication may contain protected health information (PHI) that is legally protected from inappropriate disclosure by the Privacy Standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and relevant Tennessee Laws. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you should notify the sender immediately by telephone or by

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255|255|2012-08-16 18:08:40|Tom Sims|WANDA JEAN KUYKENDALL WILSON, R.I.P.|Jean was the younger sister of my best friend @ SHS, Billy Kuykendall, and a very nice girl. Tom Sims ________________ WANDA JEAN KUYKENDALL WILSON, R.I.P. Wanda Jean Wilson, age 76, of Red Oak, Texas, passed away Friday, August 3, 2012. Mrs. Wilson was born on August 10, 1935, in Stamps, Arkansas to Jessie and Nena Kuykendall. Mrs. Wilson was a member of Rockett Baptist Church in Rockett, Texas. Mrs. Wilson was preceded in death by her parents and her brothers, Ray and Jerry Kuykendall. She is survived by her sons, Patrick Russell Wilson and wife, Ekaterina of Palmer, TX and Christopher Lynn Wilson of The Colony, TX; daughter, Vicki Wilson Saucedo and husband, Manuel of Red Oak, TX; brothers, Darrell Kuykendall and wife, Francis of El Dorado, AR, Dallas Edward Kuykendall of New Braunfels, TX, and Billy Douglas Kuykendall and wife, Carolyn of Webster Grove, MO; sister, Marjorie Helon Sparrow of Mesquite, TX; sister-in-law, Karen Kuykendall of Pattonsburg, MO; two grandchildren, Eric Eugene Wilson of Midlothian, TX, and Amanda Nicole Wilson of McKinney, TX; and four great grandchildren, Ashlynn Renee Wilson, Harmony Michelle Braumuller, Mikaela Jean Braumuller, and Aliviah Marie Braumuller. Funeral Services will be held at 10 am Thursday, August 9, 2012, at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Bro. Jack Webb officiating. Burial will follow at Liberty Cemetery in Stamps, AR. Visitation will be 6-8 pm Wednesday, August 8, 2012, at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com.
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256|256|2012-08-16 18:56:52|Tom Sims|William "Bill"� McClendon R.I.P.|Bill McClendon was a Southwest Conference football referee for many years and before that refereed many SHS football and basketball games when I was playing. He was the referee for the only basketball game I ever fouled out of, which I didn't mind, because that was the only game we ever won from Emerson while I was playing. His brother, Charlie McClendon was a long time head coach at LSU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_McClendon a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_McClendon" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_McClendon/a Tom Sims _____________ William "Bill"� McClendon R.I.P. 1 OCT 1914 - 4 AUG 2012 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03305.jpg a href="http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03305 .jpg" http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03305.jpg/ a * SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

257|257|2012-08-16 19:36:10|Tom Sims|Missionary Pearlia Eugina Williams-Colemon R.I.P.|Perlia did house work and her husband "Brownie" did yard work for us for several years, right after they got married, probably in 1938. She and Brownie were friends with my parents over the years and I always visited with them when I was back in Stamps. Tom Sims _ Missionary Pearlia Eugina Williams-Colemon R.I.P. 14 April 1920 - 13 AUG 2912 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03306.jpg a href="http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03306 .jpg" http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03306.jpg/ a|

258|257|2012-08-16 20:31:03|JC Smith|Re: Missionary Pearlia Eugina Williams-Colemon R.I.P.| Tom: � Yes I remember them.� � When I was small Brownie worked for my Dad at the Ford Place.��Brownie left the Ford Place and went into the ministry.� � J C Smith Jr � ----- Original Message ----- bFrom:/b Tom Sims bTo:/b [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] bSent:/b Thursday, August 16, 2012 9:34 PM bSubject:/b [StampsArk] Missionary Pearlia Eugina Williams-Colemon R.I.P. � Perlia did house work and her husband "Brownie" did yardwork for us for several years, right after they got married,probably in 1938.She and Brownie were friends with my parents over the yearsand I always visited with them when I was back in Stamps.Tom Sims_____________________Missionary Pearlia Eugina Williams-Colemon R.I.P.14 April 1920 - 13 AUG 2912http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03306.j pga href="http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03306 .jpg"http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03306 .jpg/a |

259|250|2012-08-18 20:53:19|Carol|Re: DIVIDED TOWN|Thanks for the info on Dewberry. When I think of Stamps, Dewberry was always one of my recollections. It was so much fun to walk to the triangle from Grandpa & Grandm's on Hwy 82/E. Antigo St after stopping at the Rowe's gas station to see if Mike Rowe was working since we had a little crush on him. We could go the the drug store & get our grape ne-hi's & read the Archie comic books, & then go down to the dime store. We'd even walk down by Granny Mackey's house some times. Those were the 'good ol' days', for sure. I suppose that there were a lot of towns down south still had their white section & African-American section, & even though it sounds like a bad thing, that's 'just the way it was' back then. I don't remember any problems between blacks & whites during the time I was coming to Stamps, which was every summer in the 1960's, I believe. The last time that I spent any time there was probably 1970 or 1971; then there were only a couple of more weekend trips in the 70's; & the last time was in 1979. I was born in 1955, by the way. Was the Dr. Cross a doctor or dentist? I was talking to my mom {Bobbie Roper} earlier, & she'd mentioned that the dentist had separate entrances for patients. The funeral homes are supposed to have been separate also. In the movie theater, the balcony section was where the African Americans were seated.|

260|250|2012-08-18 22:51:05|JC Smith|Re: DIVIDED TOWN| Dr Charles Cross was a medical doctor.� His father, Al Cross owned the pharmacy on the corner of Thomas Street and Main Street. � J C Smith Jr� ----- Original Message ----- bFrom:/b Carol bTo:/b StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bSent:/b Saturday, August 18, 2012 10:53 PM bSubject:/b [StampsArk] Re: DIVIDED TOWN � Thanks for the info on Dewberry. When I think of Stamps, Dewberry was always one of my recollections. It was so much fun to walk to the triangle from Grandpa & Grandm's on Hwy 82/E. Antigo St after stopping at the Rowe's gas station to see if Mike Rowe was working since we had a little crush on him. We could go the the drug store & get our grape ne-hi's & read the Archie comic books, & then go down to the dime store. We'd even walk down by Granny Mackey's house some times. Those were the 'good ol' days', for sure. I suppose that there were a lot of towns down south still had their white section & African-American section, & even though it sounds like a bad thing, that's 'just the way it was' back then. I don't remember any problems between blacks & whites during the time I was coming to Stamps, which was every summer in the 1960's, I believe. The last time that I spent any time there was probably 1970 or 1971; then there were only a couple of more weekend trips in the 70's; & the last time was in 1979. I was born in 1955, by the way. Was the Dr. Cross a doctor or dentist? I was talking to my mom {Bobbie Roper} earlier, & she'd mentioned that the dentist had separate entrances for patients.
The funeral homes are supposed to have been separate also. In the movie theater, the balcony section was where the African Americans were seated. |

261|250|2012-08-20 22:40:30|Tom Sims|Re: DIVIDED TOWN|Aubrey Waddell sends: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: JWaddell@bmnet.com Date: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:04 PM Subject: Re: DIVIDED TOWN To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com Cc: Mark Herrmann bidmussolini@yahoo.com, Carolyn Roper carolynroper@earthlink.net, Dale White dewhite28@att.net, David Denman '58 dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com, "Earl M. Rogers" earl.rogers1661@gmail.com, Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com, Lou Graham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com, Marilou0841@aol.com, Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com, "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com, Ronnie Sinquefield RSinque@aol.com, Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net, Sid Dickson siddickson@sbcglobal.net, sidney_melear@yahoo.com, "[Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, Wayne Patterson '58 thepattersons@livingston.net, Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com I don't remember the "white" or "colored" signs, but you have to remember I was born in 1957. I do remember that in the 1960s all white people lived on one side of the Cotton Belt and all African-American people lived on the other side, although everyone seemed to come and go without notice. I don't know how African-American people felt when they came to the white side of town in the 1960s or vice versa, but I remember regular interactions with African-American people when I was a child, such as an older, really nice gentleman named "Griffin" who delivered our groceries from Petrey's Grocery. I also remember that Aaron Wesley (who went by the odd nickname of "Snowball"), who played football and ran track for Stamps in the late 60s and early 70s, would walk by my house on School Street and stop and speak to me, as he also knew my big brother Eddie. I definitely remember Dewberry, as I would see him pass my house on School Street as he headed to Highway 82 or I would see him on the Triangle. I also remember that I was never made to feel unwelcome when I went to the African-American side of the Cotton Belt, which I often did to fish or ride my bike or buy a coke at Johnson's Grocery (which I learned in adulthood played a pivotal role in Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings") or buy some hamburgers from a lady named "Ethel" who my mother knew. Also, when my mother had surgery a couple of times in the 1960s we hired an African-American lady named "Jimmie" to do the housework until Mom recovered. Also, an African-American man named "Monroe" with a wagon, a white horse, and a white mule served as a one-man Stamps sanitation department, tirelessly emptying Stampsians' trash barrels and hauling the trash to the dump for a small monthly fee. I remember Dr. Charles Cross' office had two entrances and two waiting rooms, which I later figured out that one was for whites and the other for African-Americans. I remember that playing Stamps Ellis in high school boys basketball was a big deal and that Ellis usually won. I remember an Ellis student named Ajax Johnson who ran track meets at Stamps High and usually won the 100 and 200. I remember that whites and blacks did not worship together and that confused me greatly. And, at least when I left Stamps in 1971, white and black funeral preparations were done in separate buildings and burials were in separate sections of Lakeside Cemetery. I remember school integration in the fall of 1970 (my 7th grade year). My sister Ellen and I would walk up the street and catch a bus over to Stamps Ellis Middle School, where all the 5th through 8th graders went under the new integration plan. I do not remember any trouble as a result of the integration. I for one was fascinated at meeting all the kids my age who I had never knew existed, like Evelyn Dismuke (with whom I competed for math grades), Hal Prevo, Alfred Madison, Stanley Cornelius, Mike Philson, Tyrus Lowe, etc. I also had my first African-American teachers, Coach Richards for science and Reverend Wynn for math. Rev. Wynn remains one of my three favorite teachers of all time at any level of school. He would probably be fired today, because he unapologetically and enthusiastically taught math as the "language of God." Aubrey J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D., FAPhA, BCOP Professor University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN Oncology Pharmacist Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN Lieutenant Colonel (Retired), United States Army|

262|262|2012-08-20 22:41:00|Tom Sims|Re: William "Bill"� McClendon R.I.P.|David Denman sends: Ironic, but as I read of his death in last week`s Lafayette County paper, I again thought of a close, hard nose game with our nemesis, Bradley High, in Jan. of `58, at Lewisville, I believe in the finals of the county tournament. I think we started the game with only seven or eight players, due to the flu, etc., and by the time Bill had fouled me out for my first and only time, as well as others, we finished the game with only three players on the floor. Obviously, we lost, but only by a few points. A couple of weeks later, in the district tourn., Roger Rogers and I were bringing the ball up court...Bill was one of the officials...and as Roger and myself discussed strategy, Bill blew his whistle, called time, and warned us not to criticize his officiating, thinking we were talking about him. We could not even look at him the rest of the game, thinking back to two weeks prior. He was a good official, though, and a nice fellow. I saw him a few times, while in college, when he officiated some football games, and he always stopped to ask how I was doing, etc. He was sincerely a gentleman. Seeing your info about fouling out, I just had to put in my two cents worth. ______________ Tom Sims wrote: Bill McClendon was a Southwest Conference football referee for many years and before that refereed many SHS football and basketball games when I was playing. He was the referee for the only basketball game I ever fouled out of, which I didn't mind, because that was the only game we ever won from Emerson while I was playing.|

263|250|2012-08-20 22:41:10|Tom Sims|Re: DIVIDED TOWN|Tom Gillespie sends: I was born in 1921 so I can relate to your e-mail and go further back. We referred to Afro Americans as colored people and I do not remember the signs either. I know the colored people respected the "whites" and visa -versa. As with any other community there were exceptions to this, of course. My home was across Main St from the Methodist Church on the corner of Main and Spruce. The street behind us was East 1st Street (I think). Between E. 1st St and the Cotton Belt RR was several homes with colored people. There was a vacant lot adjoining them. I played touch foot ball and baseball with them many times. Also on this street was a two story sorta hotel for colored people also. If you traveled on down that street and across the L & A RR there was quite a settlement of colored people there and also on the other side of the Cotton Belt RR. There were two churches in that area, a cafe and Dr Ellis had his office and drug store there. Also he had a small soda fountain. Incidentally I have two wire chairs and a marble top (round) table that he gave me many years ago. His brother , Fess, ran the drug department for him. He was written up in the Arkansas Gazette many years ago as one of the top doctors in the South. There was also a colored section across the pond. That was what it was called before it was given the name Lake June. There were two colored churches over on that side and my Mother and father and I were invited several times to attend church services over there and we did. I can give you a lot more information what "Stamps was like back then" if any one is interested. One closing note--I delivered the Texarkana Gazette with B. O. Strange for his Mother who had the Strange Hotel. Also later I had the Arkansas Gazette route in Stamps and Royce Galloway helped me deliver papers and we had quite a few customers in the colored section. Incidentally, they were called the "quarters" for some reason. Unfortunately Royce lost his life during the Normandy invasion. I hope I did not "bore " you. Tom Gillespie|

264|250|2012-08-21 00:28:26|Tom Sims|Re: DIVIDED TOWN|Mark Hermann sends this picture of the Lafayette County HS 2012 football team. Small squad this year - they usually have 35-40 players: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03309.jpg|

265|250|2012-08-21 11:03:33|Tom Sims|Re: DIVIDED TOWN|Lou Graham Howard sends: Thank you, Tom. I found this very interesting, because I remember most of what you related. I knew your mother, but I am not sure I ever met your father. Lou Graham Howard ******** Tom Gillespie wrote: I was born in 1921 so I can relate to your e-mail and go further back. We referred to Afro Americans as colored people and I do not remember the signs either. I know the colored people respected the "whites" and visa -versa. As with any other community there were exceptions to this, of course. My home was across Main St from the Methodist Church on the corner of Main and Spruce. The street behind us was East 1st Street (I think). Between E. 1st St and the Cotton Belt RR was several homes with colored people. There was a vacant lot adjoining them. I played touch foot ball and baseball with them many times. Also on this street was a two story sorta hotel for colored people also. If you traveled on down that street and across the L & A RR there was quite a settlement of colored people there and also on the other side of the Cotton Belt RR. There were two churches in that area, a cafe and Dr Ellis had his office and drug store there. Also he had a small soda fountain. Incidentally I have two wire chairs and a marble top (round) table that he gave me many years ago. His brother , Fess, ran the drug department for him. He was written up in the Arkansas Gazette many years ago as one of the top doctors in the South. There was also a colored section across the pond. That was what it was called before it was given the name Lake June. There were two colored churches over on that side and my Mother and father and I were invited several times to attend church services over there and we did. I can give you a lot more information what "Stamps was like back then" if any one is interested. One closing note--I delivered the Texarkana Gazette with B. O. Strange for his Mother who had the Strange Hotel. Also later I had the Arkansas Gazette route in Stamps and Royce Galloway helped me deliver papers and we had quite a few customers in the colored section. Incidentally, they were called the "quarters" for some reason. Unfortunately Royce lost his life during the Normandy invasion. I hope I did not "bore " you. Tom Gillespie|

266|266|2012-08-27 07:58:29|Tom Sims|2012 Lafayette County High School Football|2012 Lafayette County High School Football Picture of 2012 team: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03309.jpg This is a smaller squad than in most years (and a couple of these players are now ineligible for academic reasons). LCHS dropped a class this year from 3A to 2A and will be in a conference with smaller schools than last year. 2012 LCHS Football Schedule 08/31 Horatio 09/07 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 09/14 @ Fouke 09/21 @ Murfreesboro 09/28 Spring Hill (Hope, AR) 10/05 @ Foreman 10/12 Dierks 10/19 @ Gurdon 10/26 Mineral Springs * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on the SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

267|266|2012-08-28 07:17:55|Tom Sims|Re: 2012 Lafayette County High School Football|Earl Rogers sends: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:27 AM Subject: Re: 2012 Lafayette County High School Football To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com That looks like the folks we played against in the 60's... when Lafayette co was 10,000 pop. Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.426.8873 Earl.rogers@comcast.net _ 2012 LCHS Football Schedule 08/31 Horatio 09/07 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 09/14 @ Fouke 09/21 @ Murfreesboro 09/28 Spring Hill (Hope, AR) 10/05 @ Foreman 10/12 Dierks 10/19 @ Gurdon 10/26 Mineral Springs |

268|268|2012-08-31 20:15:00|Tom Sims|Horatio 40 - LCHS 2|The LCHS squad has a total of 21 players. 2012 Schedule 08/31 Lost 2 - 40 Horatio 09/07 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 09/14 @ Fouke 09/21 @ Murfreesboro 09/28 Spring Hill (Hope, AR) 10/05 @ Foreman 10/12 Dierks 10/19 @ Gurdon 10/26 Mineral Springs * Darrell Kuykendall reports: The class of 1962 is having its 50 Year Reunion at the City Hall Community Room on October 6, 2012. There will be a general get together that afternoon from 1:00PM until 4:00PM. If anyone would like to visit with friends from that class they are very welcome. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

269|60|2012-08-31 20:57:27|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|Darrell Kuykendall sends: _ I was wrong about something that I posted about the Cil Theater a while back. I said at that time that the theater was owned by a Mr. Kelly, and that he also ran a theater in Haynesville, Louisiana. That was incorrect. He had a theater in Plain Dealing, Louisiana rather than in Haynesville. His name was Mr. Cecil Kelly and he both lived in Plain Dealing, Louisiana and had a theater there. He also owned the Gay Theater there in Stamps and he ran both the Cil Theater and the Gay Theater for a while but then after a year or so he closed the Gay Theater. The Stamps theater was indeed named after his daughter Cecilla Kelly. His mother lived in the Stamps area. According to Doris Faye Goodwin (who was married to James Goodwin) the Cil Theater opened in 1949 as far as she can remember. I personally remember that in the projection booth there was a sign painted on the wall that the first movie shown there was "Red River" starring John Wayne. Doris Faye said she had worked at the Gay Theater when she was in high school selling tickets. She was the manager of the Cil Theater when I worked there as the projectionist in 1961-1962. The lady that popped popcorn was Mrs. Koonce as someone else has pointed out. I think that the person inquiring about the first movie at the Cil was Ronnie Sinquefield. The class of 1962 is having its 50 Year Reunion at the City Hall Community Room on October 6, 2012. We will have a general get together that afternoon from 1:00PM until 4:00PM. If anyone would like to
visit with friends from that class they are very welcome.|

270|60|2012-09-01 22:39:45|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|Mark Herrmann sends Red River with john Wayne was the first mover shown in the Cil Thater, also the last movie ever shown in the Cil was Hell Fighters, staring who else, John Wayne. It was about the oil well fire fighter Red Adair. ________ Darrell Kuykendall wrote: I personally remember that in the projection booth there was a sign painted on the wall that the first movie shown there was "Red River" starring John Wayne.|

271|60|2012-09-03 02:27:16|Myrtle Barr|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|I remember that! bFrom: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.combTo: [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bCc: Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com; Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com; Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com; Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net; JWaddell@bmnet.com; Marilou0841@aol.com; sidney_melear@yahoo.com; Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com; Lou Graham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com; Dale White dewhite28@att.net; Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com; Carolyn Roper carolynroper@earthlink.net; T.F.Gillespie razorb@gvtc.com; Ronnie Sinquefield RSinque@aol.com; Sid Dickson siddickson@sbcglobal.net; David Denman '58 dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com; Wayne Patterson '58 thepattersons@livingston.net; Mark Herrmann bidmussolini@yahoo.com bSent: Sunday, September 2, 2012 12:37 AMbSubject: [StampsArk] Re: Stamps: Missing In Action � Mark Herrmann sendsRed River with john Wayne was the first mover shown in theCil Thater, also the last movie ever shown in the Cil wasHell Fighters, staring who else, John Wayne. It was aboutthe oil well fire fighter Red Adair.____________________________Darrell Kuykendall wrote:I personally remember that in the projection booth there wasa sign painted on the wall that the first movie shown therewas "Red River" starring John Wayne.|

272|60|2012-09-03 02:32:24|Myrtle Barr|Re: Stamps: Missing In Action|I remember that! bFrom: Myrtle Barr barrsmom@yahoo.combTo: "StampsArk@yahoogroups.com" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bSent: Monday, September 3, 2012 4:27 AMbSubject: Re: [StampsArk] Re: Stamps: Missing In Action � I remember that! bFrom: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.combTo: [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bCc: Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com; Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com; Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com; Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net; JWaddell@bmnet.com; Marilou0841@aol.com; sidney_melear@yahoo.com; Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com; Lou Graham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com; Dale White dewhite28@att.net; Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com; Carolyn Roper carolynroper@earthlink.net; T.F.Gillespie razorb@gvtc.com; Ronnie Sinquefield RSinque@aol.com; Sid Dickson siddickson@sbcglobal.net; David Denman '58 dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com; Wayne Patterson '58 thepattersons@livingston.net; Mark Herrmann bidmussolini@yahoo.com bSent: Sunday, September 2, 2012 12:37 AMbSubject: [StampsArk] Re: Stamps: Missing In Action � Mark Herrmann sendsRed River with john Wayne was the first
mover shown in theCil Thater, also the last movie ever shown in the Cil wasHell Fighters, staring who else, John Wayne. It was aboutthe oil well fire fighter Red Adair.______________Darrell Kuykendall wrote:I personally remember that in the projection booth there wasa sign painted on the wall that the first movie shown therewas "Red River" starring John Wayne.|

273|273|2012-09-05 07:10:32|Tom Sims|Gay Weed Grimmett '51, R.I.P.|Gay Weed Grimmett '51, R.I.P. My classmate, Gay Weed Grimmett, died yesterday (4 SEP). No details yet. Funeral may be on Saturday. Gay's SHS '51 Personal Web Page: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/GWG.htm a href="http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/GWG .htm" http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/GWG.htm/ a * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

274|273|2012-09-06 15:51:00|Tom Sims|Re: Gay Weed Grimmett '51, R.I.P.|Gay's Obituary _ Edna Gay Grimmett Edna Gay Grimmett, age 80, of Batesville, Arkansas (formerly of Buckner, Arkansas), passed away September 4, 2012 after a short illness. Mrs. Grimmett was born on April 30, 1932 in Llano County, Texas to Aaron and Edna Weed. As a young girl she moved to Buckner, Arkansas, where she married her high school sweetheart and lived many places in the United States, and even Canada, as a military wife. She loved crafting, sewing, and ceramics. Mrs. Grimmett was preceded in death by her parents, and husband, Billy Ed Grimmett. She is survived by One Son, Billy (Butch) Grimmett and wife Joy of Buckner, Arkansas; One Daughter, Anita Fleming and husband Ken of Batesville, Arkansas; Four Granddaughters, Misty Whitehead and husband Mikie of Walkers Creek, Arkansas, Meagan Nutt and husband Jeff of Paris, Texas, Mallory Duke and husband Labin of Dallas, Texas, and Alicia Harris and husband Jeremy of Batesville, Arkansas. She is also survived by nine great-grandchildren. Funeral Services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, September 8, 2012 at Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, Arkansas with Bro. Mike Turner, and Bro. Jimmy Clyde House officiating. Interment will be at Oak Grove Cemetery in Stamps. Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. Friday, September 7, 2012, at the funeral home in Stamps.|

275|275|2012-09-07 21:21:43|Tom Sims|Genoa Central 40 - LCHS 8|Genoa Central 40 - LCHS 8 Mark Herrmann reports that there are only 12 or 13 players on the LCHS squad now. 2012 LCHS Schedule 08/31 Lost 2 - 40 Horatio 09/07 Lost 8 - 40 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 09/14 @ Fouke 09/21 @ Murfreesboro 09/28 Spring Hill (Hope, AR) 10/05 @ Foreman 10/12 Dierks 10/19 @ Gurdon 10/26 Mineral Springs * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

276|275|2012-09-08 19:49:42|Tom Sims|Re: Genoa Central 40 - LCHS 8|Earl Rogers sends: _________ We only had 19 when we went undefeated in 1961 with Rip Powell as coach Earl **** Tom Sims wrote: Genoa Central 40 - LCHS 8 Mark Herrman reports that there are only 12 or 13 players on the LCHS squad now.|

277|275|2012-09-08 23:24:34|Tom Sims|Re: Genoa Central 40 - LCHS 8|Mark Herrmann sends: _ They lost one with a broken leg, but is supposed to be another kid come out next week. Tom Sims wrote: Genoa Central 40 - LCHS 8 Mark Herrman reports that there are only 12 or 13 players on the LCHS squad now.|

278|275|2012-09-09 01:13:12|Myrtle Barr|Re: Genoa Central 40 - LCHS 8|I remember when my brother Bill Peck and one other team member were the only ones who had even seen a football game:� first year with coach George Doherty.� Top that, if you can! bFrom: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.combTo: [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bSent: Friday, September 7, 2012 11:20 PMbSubject: [StampsArk] Genoa Central 40 - LCHS 8 � Genoa Central 40 - LCHS 8Mark Herrmann reports that there are only 12 or 13players on the LCHS squad now.2012 LCHS Schedule08/31 Lost 2 - 40 Horatio09/07 Lost 8 - 40 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR)09/14 @ Fouke09/21 @ Murfreesboro09/28 Spring Hill (Hope, AR)10/05 @ Foreman10/12 Dierks10/19 @ Gurdon10/26 Mineral SpringsResponses to this email should be posted on theStampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'llpost them there.Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages,but you must join the group to post messages.Everyone is invited/encouraged to join theStampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archiveanything about Stamps.If you have email addresses for anyone who mightlike to be on this SHS mailing list, send them tome and I'll add them to list. Let me know if youwish to be removed from the SHS mailing listTom Sims, SHS '51mailto:TES3355%40gmail.comSHS 1951http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/Stamp s Ark Yahoo Grouphttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

279|275|2012-09-09 02:38:16|Tom Sims|Re: Genoa Central 40 - LCHS 8|That was the 1948 football season. Billy Peck was a senior and played QB on offense and safety on defense. Billy was the leading tackler on the team, by a wide margin, and we didn't win any games that first post-war season. Lewisville beat us twice that year. I guess I would have been the only other player to have ever seen a football game, although I wasn't aware of that fact (or don't remember). I was in 10th grade and we had lived in Bearden the previous year when I was in 9th grade. I was a lowly 5 foot 3 inch, 105# sub on a very good Bearden football team. Incidentally, Billy Peck was an outstanding athlete. He was the best player on the football team and the basketball team. Tom Sims Myrtle Barr replied: I remember when my brother Bill Peck and one other team member were the only ones who had even seen a football game: first year with coach George Doherty. Top that, if you can! Tom Sims wrote: Mark Herrmann reports that there are only 12 or 13 players on the LCHS squad now.|

280|280|2012-09-12 08:25:31|Jeffry|Hello|My name is Jeff Rehm and just joined this group. I hope it helps me with what I need. I will keep this as brief as I can because 1, you all don't want me to go on and on and 2, I worked an overnight shift and I really need to be sleeping. So quickly...... My mothers side of our family is from Stamps. The family name is Holtzclaw. They belonged to Liberty Baptist Church. They have family buried at the church cemetery and at Lakeside. (i think it is called that) There may be a bridge near Bodcaw Creek with the family name "unoffically" attached to it. Not sure. I have other info I would like to ask so please bear with me. I hope all goes well here and I make a couple good connections. Have a great week. Jeff Rehm St Louis, MO PS Was in your town just last night (that overnight shift) after sunset looking around. Was unable to find anything except Smith Funeral Home. I believe my family used them for services.|

281|280|2012-09-12 23:35:49|Tom Sims|Re: Hello|Earl M Rogers comment: I remember the bridge name only I did meet a pharm. co rep some years ago with that name. Only time I met someone with that name. Earl Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. Earl.rogers@comcast.net Jeffry Rehm comment: Tom I noticed the names in the "list" that you forwarded and would like to say that Rogers and Kuykendall are names that have been "connected" to my mom's Holtzclaw name. FYI jeff * Tom Sims comment: I don't remember any Holtzclaw's in Stamps in the 1940's or early 1950's. Jeff, when, how long and how old were your grandparents and mother when they lived in Stamps? Tom Sims|

282|280|2012-09-13 05:18:54|D|Re: Hello|'HOLTZCLAW Bridge' (local name only I think) is located 4 or 5 miles east of Canfield community at point Hwy 313 crosses Bodcaw Creek. A one lane wooden brige was located at thie point until 1980's or so when replaced with standard two way concrete bridge. The old wooden brige was popular fishing spot until game & fish began to issue citation/fines for fishing from bridge. This site if 12-15 miles south of Stamps. --- In StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, "Jeffry" scanman1958@... wrote: My name is Jeff Rehm and just joined this group. I hope it helps me with what I need. I will keep this as brief as I can because 1, you all don't want me to go on and on and 2, I worked an overnight shift and I really need to be sleeping. So quickly...... My mothers side of our family is from Stamps. The family name is Holtzclaw. They belonged to Liberty Baptist Church. They have family buried at the church cemetery and at Lakeside. (i think it is called that) There may be a bridge near Bodcaw Creek with the family name "unoffically" attached to it. Not sure. I have other info I would like to ask so please bear with me. I hope all goes well here and I make a couple good connections. Have a great week. Jeff Rehm St Louis, MO PS Was in your town just last night (that overnight shift) after sunset looking around. Was unable to find anything except Smith Funeral Home. I believe my family used them for services. |

283|280|2012-09-13 19:03:15|Tom Sims|Re: Hello|Wayne Roper sends: _ The bridge over Bodcaw Creek at that particular location is at a spot called " Holtzclaw". No specific lake, but Bodcaw Creek is usually a good sized body of water at that location and is generally a hot spot for fishing. It is not far from the beginning of Lake Erling. You can actually go down the creek from the area of Pittman's Crossing on H/W 53 to that bridge, but it would be one tough trip to make in a small boat. Jeff-enjoyed reading your comments regarding Stamps recently. I have distant relatives buried at the Liberty Church cemetery and several at Lakeside. I remember the name "Holtzclaw", but never met any of the family members. Wayne Roper, SHS '65.|

284|284|2012-09-13 19:03:20|Tom Sims|Re: Holtzclaw|Ronnie Sinquefield sends: __________________ Here is a link that will take one to various cemeteries in Lafayette County. One is the Liberty Cemetery which shows grave sites for the name Holtzclaw. http://www.argenweb.net/lafayette/lacem.html Maybe this will help tin looking for "Holtzclaws". I don't remember anyone named Holtzclaw during my time in Stamps either. Ronnie|

285|285|2012-09-13 19:08:35|Jeffry|Permission to ask|Thanks everyone for your replies. I want to check with your moderator and make sure that the questions I am asking remain relevant to your group. I don't want to overstep the rules. Mostly because the information I am looking for is relative (specific) to the Stamps area and relative to my relatives. It is kind of an affshoot of genealogy. I have old pictures of the wooden Holtclaw bridge (sign on post on the bridge) from about the 1940's. That is just a rough guess. I also have old pictures of people as they related to the railroad in the Stamps area. I must say I have a lot of information, and I wish to connect the dots if I can. If this group does not mind me asking I will have quite a few questions about the area. Just let me know. The next question(s) relates to the Liberty Baptist Church. I have no pictures of it but the online info is very vague on it's location. Where is it exactly and does it really still exsist? And is the church cemetery next to the church or at some other location? We could not find it the other night. As you can see I have info but just not enough to actually put it all together. I can tell everyone more about myself and my relations to the area if that can help. I can also help anyone here if they have questions about me. I have said too much already. So for now I will stop and maybe shorten my list of questions. But let me warn you, ha ha, they may be addicting to you all. Really. I think they are very neat questions. Have a great weekend. Jeff in St louis|

286|286|2012-09-13 19:13:46|Tom Sims|Dorcheat Bayou|Earl Rogers sends: Dorcheat Bayou Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorcheat_Bayou a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorcheat_Bayou" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorcheat_Bayou/a Dorcheat Bayou pictures: http://www.mindenmemories.org/Dorcheat%20Bayou.htm a href="http://www.mindenmemories.org/Dorcheat%20Bayou.htm" http://www.mindenmemories.org/Dorcheat%20Bayou.htm/a|

287|280|2012-09-13 19:29:01|Tom Sims|Re: Hello|Gary Nichols sends: Yeah, Dad caught about a ton of crappie from the old bridge. It's about a mile or so above Blackwell landing, which I believe is the beginning of Lake Erling. Gary Nichols * Sid Dickson wrote: 'HOLTZCLAW Bridge' (local name only I think) is located 4 or 5 miles east of Canfield community at point Hwy 313 crosses Bodcaw Creek. A one lane wooden brige was located at thie point until 1980's or so when replaced with standard two way concrete bridge. The old wooden brige was popular fishing spot until game & fish began to issue citation/fines for fishing from bridge. This site if 12-15 miles south of Stamps.|

288|280|2012-09-13 19:40:01|W Dickson|Re: Hello|correction: bridge @ hwy 360 & Bodcaw Creek (not hwy 313)� bFrom: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.combTo: [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bCc: Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com bSent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 9:22 PMbSubject: Re: [StampsArk] Re: Hello � Gary Nichols sends:Yeah, Dad caught about a ton of crappie from the old bridge. It'sabout a mile or so above Blackwell landing, which I believe is thebeginning of Lake Erling.Gary Nichols*****Sid Dickson wrote:'HOLTZCLAW Bridge' (local name only I think) is located 4 or 5 miles east ofCanfield community at point Hwy 313 crosses Bodcaw Creek. A one lane woodenbrige was located at thie point until 1980's or so when replaced with standardtwo way concrete bridge. The old wooden brige was popular fishing spot untilgame & fish began to issue citation/fines for fishing from bridge. This site if12-15 miles south of Stamps.|

289|280|2012-09-13 19:48:21|Tom Sims|Re: Hello|Jeff Rehm posted on StampsARK Yahoo Group: I want to check with your moderator and make sure that the questions I am asking remain relevant to your group ... I have old pictures of the wooden Holtclaw bridge (sign on post on the bridge) from about the 1940's. That is just a rough guess. I also have old pictures of people as they related to the railroad in the Stamps area. I must say I have a lot of information, and I wish to connect the dots if I can ... The next question(s) relates to the Liberty Baptist Church. I have no pictures of it but the online info is very vague on it's location. Where is it exactly and does it really still exsist? And is the church cemetery next to the church or at some other location? We could not find it the other night. Jeff in St louis Questions and input about Stamps and surrounding areas are appropriate for the StampsArk Yahoo Group. I've been to a funeral at Liberty Baptist on Oak Grove Road, and I believe the cemetery was near the church: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=217585 2&CScnty=129& Liberty Baptist Church Oak Grove Rd 700 Lafayette County Road 21 Stamps, AR 71860-0000 (870)533-2671 Jeff, when, how long and how old were your grandparents and mother when they lived in Stamps? Tom Sims|

290|280|2012-09-13 20:07:26|Tom Sims|Re: Hello|Stuart Tribble sends: Ancestry.com shows a Mary Ellen Holtzclaw (born 1922) married William Andrew Kuykendall on 13 Jan 1940. The 1940 census shows a number of Holtzclaws living in or near Hadley and Baker.|

291|291|2012-09-13 22:40:17|Tom Sims|Re: Liberty Baptist Church|Nelda Perkison sends: _ I am a member of Liberty and have some pictures of the church somewhere. I will scan it and send to you when I find it. And you can tell Jeff that the cemetary is to the right of the church as you are looking at the front door.|

292|284|2012-09-14 07:47:05|Tom Sims|Re: Holtzclaw|Seth Baker sends: _ There are seven Holtzclaw graves listed in the Liberty Cemetery. Go to the "FIND A GRAVE" website and on the right hand side of the page under FIND GRAVES click on SEARCH FOR A CEMETERY. You can either write in the name of the cemetery or you can select for Lafayette Co. and bring up a list of all cemeteries in the County. There are pictures of the church and the cemetery. Hope this helps. Seth Baker|

293|293|2012-09-14 21:27:30|Tom Sims|Fouke 47 - LCHS 0|Fouke 47 - LCHS 0 2012 LCHS Schedule 08/31 Lost 2 - 40 Horatio 09/07 Lost 8 - 40 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 09/14 Lost 0 - 47 @ Fouke 09/21 @ Murfreesboro 09/28 Spring Hill (Hope, AR) 10/05 @ Foreman 10/12 Dierks 10/19 @ Gurdon 10/26 Mineral Springs * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

294|284|2012-09-15 17:42:58|Tom Sims|Re: Holtzclaw|Jeffry Rehm sends: Thank you again for all your help. Here is some of what I can tell you. Yes more. I have searched Find a Grave and found most if not all the Holtzclaw's I think I need to find. Even outside the Stamps area. What I want to is to someday visit in person the gravesites or cemeteries. The other night, yes it was dark and I only had a short time, I could not find the church and cemetery associated with it. Online, all I get is Oak Grove Rd. That is very vague. The addresses I have seen from your responses have numbers before the street name and after which is a little foreign to me. Maybe it is a local thing. I also have some info, little as it may be, about where my mom's family lived in Stamps. I believe Stamps-Falcon Rd. But again it is vague on the census report. Remember it was around 1930 or so and it was farmland where they lived. So I am sure even the census report did not have a numerical address. As I said before I want to connect the dots and actually feel and see where my family had lived. My wife and I are going to visit Stamps in the future and spend a few days searching. I would hate for it to be all in vain. One more thing. You mention a link maybe through the SHS online site that has a lot of pictures from around town. I have tried to go there but when I click on the link it says I do not have permission to visit there. Maybe I can get a couple pictures for you (scanned or copied) and you can post them. Sorry if I am a pain. It is just something I want to do. Kind of like a bucket list. Thank you again. Jeff|

295|284|2012-09-15 19:57:14|Tom Sims|Re: Holtzclaw|Jeffry Rehm wrote: ... I could not find the church and cemetery associated with it. Online, all I get is Oak Grove Rd. That is very vague. The addresses I have seen from your responses have numbers before the street name and after which is a little foreign to me. Maybe it is a local thing. I also have some info, little as it may be, about where my mom's family lived in Stamps. I believe Stamps-Falcon Rd. Oak Grove Road (County Road 21) is the SE extension of Main Street and Falcon Road (County Road 31) is the N extension of Central Avenue. Both are labeled on the Google map of Stamps that is linked to the StampsARK Yahoo Group home page http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ and most people in Stamps can probably tell you where both of these roads are. If you drive out Oak Grove Road for several miles, you'll easily find Liberty Baptist Church. One more thing. You mention a link maybe through the SHS online site that has a lot of pictures from around town. I have tried to go there but when I click on the link it says I do not have permission to visit there. I'm not aware of any sites with Stamps pictures that I've mentioned which require permission to view. All of the Stamps pictures on the SHS 1951 site http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ are accessible by anyone. There is a Photo Directory link on the StampsARK Yahoo Group home page that you have to be logged into Yahoo to access, but the only picture in that directory is the stats of the 2011 LCHS - Mineral Springs football game. Tom Sims|

296|296|2012-09-21 22:29:54|Tom Sims|Murfreesboro 41 - LCHS 6|Murfreesboro 41 - LCHS 6 2012 LCHS Schedule 08/31 Lost 2 - 40 Horatio 09/07 Lost 8 - 40 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 09/14 Lost 0 - 47 @ Fouke 09/21 Lost 6 - 41 @ Murfreesboro 09/28 Spring Hill (Hope, AR) 10/05 @ Foreman 10/12 Dierks 10/19 @ Gurdon 10/26 Mineral Springs * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

297|296|2012-09-22 08:27:07|Tom Sims|Re: Murfreesboro 41 - LCHS 6|Mark Herrmann sends: _ Murfreesboro 41 - LCHS 6 Just a short note; The junior high is undefeated at this point. Not a lot of big kids on it, but lots of speed. They have defeated Horatio, Genoa, Fouke and Murfreesboro. They could go on to be pretty good if they stay together and keep the grades up.|

298|298|2012-09-24 19:38:49|Tom Sims|LCHS cancels remainder of 2012 football season|Mark Herrmann sends: _ The LCHS football team is no more, they folded up and forfieted the rest of the season. Cancelled because of lack of numbers. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

299|298|2012-09-25 06:16:07|JWaddell@bmnet.com|Re: LCHS cancels remainder of 2012 football season|Oh....my.....goodness. This is very hard to hear for a person like me who attended so many of the games in the 1960s when Stamps High was so often state class B champions (or right in the thick of it) and almost automatic district champions. When, to anyone's knowledge, is the last time that Stamps did not field a football team? Aubrey J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D., FAPhA, BCOP Professor University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN Oncology Pharmacist Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN Lieutenant Colonel (Retired), United States Army bTom Sims tes3355@gmail.com/b 09/24/2012 10:35 PM To "[Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com cc Subject LCHS cancels remainder of 2012 football season Mark Herrmann sends: _ The LCHS football team is no more, they folded up and forfieted the rest of the season. Cancelled because of lack of numbers. � � � � � * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951
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300|298|2012-09-25 09:30:31|Tom Sims|Re: LCHS cancels remainder of 2012 football season|Nelda Perkison sends: News release from Arkansas Activities Association: A Class 2A-7 school will forfeit the remaining games of its 2012 football season because of a lack of participation, eligibility issues and injuries. The Arkansas Activities Association announced Monday that Lafayette County is 0-1 in conference play and 0-4 on the season. The association says Lafayette County was scheduled to play Spring Hill on Friday; Foreman on Oct. 5; Dierks on Oct. 12; Gurdon on Oct. 19 and Mineral Springs on Oct. 26. According to Lafayette County superintendent Mark Keith, the school plans to have a team next year because (1) the numbers in the Junior High program and (2) the school is optimistic about the future.|

301|301|2012-09-25 21:43:03|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps question|Jeff Rehm sends: _______ The Holtzclaw family that lived in Stamps lived there in the early 1900's and through probably the early 60's. I am sure there are direct decendants still in the area. Not too sure if many of them are interested in family history. The main job was as farmers. I am sure they didn't do very well. My mom remembers how poor (financially) they were. The oldest that I know of is Elijah Cicero Holtzclaw. He, and most of the family is buried in LBC cemetery. His wife was Mary Frances Sullivant. They had about 13 children and one of them was my grandfather, Clarence Marvel Holtzclaw. His first wife was Amaline Barnett but they were married for only a couple of years because she died after giving birth to my uncle, William Barnett Holtzclaw of a very nasty infection that seemed to be common back then. Are you confused yet? Amaline and her parents are buried in Springhill, LA (very close to Stamps I think). Some of the names that ended up in the family are, Rogers Inabanett Puckett Stevenson and Kuyekendal (? spelling) I think the farm was on Stamps-Falcon Rd. I would love to know if anything of any importance is still there. But I have no idea if it is even still farmland. I am sure the home they lived in has fallen down and no longer is there. I have a document that has an Ezra Holtzclaw purchacing land from the government in Arkansas when Lincoln was president. I have not been able to verify if he was a relative or not yet. FYI One of the Inabanett children was a musician and moved to Hollywood, CA and was a member of a 50's and early 60's musical group called The Four Preps. The name that appears in the group is Marvin Inabanett but I am not 100% convinced it was him only because of a possible age descrepancy. But Marvin was a son of Ollie Inabanett (nee Holtzclaw). Maybe someone has answers for my questions or knows people. Jeff Rehm St Louis|

302|302|2012-09-25 22:08:35|Tom Sims|Re: Fw: LCHS cancels remainder of 2012 football season|Dale White sends: _ Well, we always hate to see these things happen. However, some things are beyond anyone's control. I don't really know what the situation is in Lafayette County. Way back when, Stamps had a team, Lewisville had a team and I think maybe Buckner at least had a Junior High team, at least in basketball. However, this is not the first time Stamps has been without a Football Team. Back during WWII, so many of the Stamps team were old enough to be drafted, and either were drafted or volunteered for military duty, they had to suspend playing football from around 1942 until about 1951. I played 6 years of basketball and never a game of football because there was no team during my Jr. and Sr. Highschool years. I'm sure Tom Gillespie will vouch for the first part of this statement. He was off in the war during the time Stamps had no team. Dale Nelda Perkison wrote: News release from Arkansas Activities Association: A Class 2A-7 school will forfeit the remaining games of its 2012 football season because of a lack of participation, eligibility issues and injuries. The Arkansas Activities Association announced Monday that Lafayette County is 0-1 in conference play and 0-4 on the season. The association says Lafayette County was scheduled to play Spring Hill on Friday; Foreman on Oct. 5; Dierks on Oct. 12; Gurdon on Oct. 19 and Mineral Springs on Oct. 26. According to Lafayette County superintendent Mark Keith, the school plans to have a team
next year because (1) the numbers in the Junior High program and (2) the school is optimistic about the future. |

303|298|2012-09-25 22:08:37|Tom Sims|Re: LCHS cancels remainder of 2012 football season|Nadine Moody sends: I wonder about the coaching staff. Usually when a team fails, the coaches take the hit. Sent from my Kindle Fire ******** Nelda Perkison wrote: __________ News release from Arkansas Activities Association: A Class 2A-7 school will forfeit the remaining games of its 2012 football season because of a lack of participation, eligibility issues and injuries. The Arkansas Activities Association announced Monday that Lafayette County is 0-1 in conference play and 0-4 on the season. The association says Lafayette County was scheduled to play Spring Hill on Friday; Foreman on Oct. 5; Dierks on Oct. 12; Gurdon on Oct. 19 and Mineral Springs on Oct. 26. According to Lafayette County superintendent Mark Keith, the school plans to have a team next year because (1) the numbers in the Junior High program and (2) the school is optimistic about the future.|

304|304|2012-09-26 21:58:01|Tom Sims|Lake June|Earl Rogers and Mark Herrmann sent me an article about a record size alligator being killed by a Prescott man: http://hopeprescott.com/prescott-man-bags-record-gator/ I asked both Earl and Mark if there were any crocodiles or alligators in Lake June. Earl checked and reported there might be some in Bodcaw Lake but probably not in Lake June. Mark didn't comment on the crocs or gators question, but really surprised me with this report: "Lake June is almost dry, last year the small side (east) was dry, only about 10 inches deep now." Anybody know the source of the water in Lake June? Rain, tributary streams or springs or ??? Tom Sims|

305|304|2012-09-27 09:02:14|JC Smith|Re: Lake June| Tom: � Yes, Lake June has, or had alligators.� The area east of the highway 53 bridge is where most were seen when I was in high school. �In the late 60�s, some high school kids killed one. �When they found out it was illegal to kill alligators, everyone got very quiet.� I was on active duty at that time but my sister told me the story. � One source of water came from a stream located near the old Couch generating plant.� Some local fishermen said the reason fishing was poor in the lake was the water from the generating plant.� Water from the boilers would be release in the stream after standing in a cooling tank. �The water was not hot or contaminated, but sterile from being superheated to make steam.� That was their theory. � J C Smith Jr � � ----- Original Message ----- bFrom:/b Tom Sims bTo:/b [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] bCc:/b Wayne Roper ; Earl M. Rogers ; Gary Nichols ; Stuart Tribble ; JWaddell@bmnet.com ; Marilou0841@aol.com ; sidney_melear@yahoo.com ; Darrell Kuykendall ; Lou Graham Howard ; Dale White ; Nelda Perkison ; Carolyn Roper ; T.F.Gillespie ; Ronnie Sinquefield ; Sid Dickson ; David Denman '58 ; Wayne Patterson '58 ; Mark Herrmann ; Jeff Rehm ; Bill & Nadine Moody bSent:/b Wednesday, September 26, 2012 11:57 PM bSubject:/b [StampsArk] Lake June � Earl Rogers and Mark Herrmann sent me an article about a recordsize alligator being killed by a Prescott man:http://hopeprescott.com/prescott-man-bags-record-gator/I asked both Earl and Mark if there were any crocodiles or
alligatorsin Lake June.Earl checked and reported there might be some in Bodcaw Lakebut probably not in Lake June.Mark didn't comment on the crocs or gators question, but reallysurprised me with this report:"Lake June is almost dry, last year the small side (east) was dry,only about 10 inches deep now."Anybody know the source of the water in Lake June? Rain, tributarystreams or springs or ???Tom Sims |

306|304|2012-09-27 09:21:51|Tom Sims|Re: Lake June|From: Mark Herrmann sends: _ What has happened is the bridge over the old spillway has colapsed.because of erosion of the soil under the concrete spillway itself. They are trying to keep the lake level down because of the flooding 3 years ago. The water was going over the entire length of the dam and eroded the backside of it when it spilled over. The lake is really in bad shape, there is talk or repairing everything, but thats about all it is at the moment, just talk. I actually drove over the bridge over the spillway the day before it colapsed. About the gators, Lake Erling has several in it, have seen one that I know was slightly over 12 ft long. The former game warden her estimated its weight at about 800 lbs.He was one of the best at catching and moving alligators to another place. Somwtimes some of them have become a pest around docks and he would catch those and move them.|

307|304|2012-09-27 09:22:01|Tom Sims|Re: Lake June|Darrell Kuykendall sends: When I was a kid there was a stream of water coming from the Harvey Couch Power Plant cooling tower located between Stamps and Buckner. It ran from the plant through the property of a black minister, Preacher Gardner, who lived down the road at the end of Thula Street about a mile or so from our house. I know this because Preacher Gardner had two grand kids living with him, Charles and Howard, and we sometimes played with them when we were doing "our exploring". Also, he grew ribbon cane and had a syrup mill, and have you ever seen a kid that did not like to chew ribbon cane. Anyway, during one summer we decided to dam up this stream which was some ten to twelve feet wide to make us a swimming hole. We used cross ties and backfill dirt to do this and then dug out in front of the dam and really managed to make a fifteen to twenty foot wide pool that was some six or seven feet deep of the clearest and coolest water you could ever find. It was wonderful! We swam and played there for four or five years. We could swing off the bank using a rope and drop into the pool. The water that ran through this stream was distillate water from the power plant cooling tower and was pure, cool, and clear. After it ran through Preacher Gardner's place it continued toward the back side of the pond first through the railroad second trestle and then through the woods until it finally came out on the backside of Blackbird Island. All of the woods and streams in this area were the "stomping ground" for the kids of that area and we camped and fished and hunted squirrels there all during this time. I am not sure of where any other water came from, but I am sure that a lot of it was run off from that eastern catchment area that included the first and second trestles. I remember that there was a little stream that ran across the field down below our house that wound up entering the pond somewhere around first trestle. This came across the highway up near Saucer's Service Station and ran across where the parking lot of Thomas' Grocery would later be and then across the woods and field that was sort of back behind our house before it crossed Thula between our house and what was later the current football field before it ran into the pond near first trestle. I am sure that some others such as Gary Nichols can add to this since we all spent a lot of time "rambling around" that area as my mother used to say. You know these were some great times for us kids who grew up then. We could leave home sometimes in the early summer morning and stay gone pretty much until supper time without our parents worrying too much about someone hurting any of us or worrying that we would get into anything major. We did a lot of things that by today's standards would be considered dangerous but we always seemed to get out of it somehow. Usually when I was doing my exploring I would have some old .22 rifle or something (and I was only twelve or thirteen years old) and I don't remember ever doing anything that would get me in trouble. I really enjoyed growing up in and around Stamps during that time from 1950 through 1962. Darrell Kuykendall.|

308|304|2012-09-27 11:34:55|Tom Sims|Re: Lake June|Gary Nichols sends: __ I concur with what Darrell said about the water source for the "Pond". The main water source being the fairly large creek that came from the power plant and ran under the second trestle, then came into the Pond back of Blackbird Island. This creek was crystal clear, and I never saw many fish in it. If the water was sterile, as James Smith said, that would explain why there was no fish there. The area north of the first trestle was by far the fishiest part of the lake. I caught lots of bass and catfish here. The alligator (or alligators) that I remember seeing were always around Blackbird Island, or, at night, running a trotline or frog gigging, we would see one between Blackbird Island and the bridge. In the late 60's, while I was in the Air Force, my Mom sent me a pic of my little brother and sister sitting on a huge dead gator, that, I was told, was killed by Craig Phillips (I'm sure the statute of limitations has run out). These were the days when you could buy a small "pet" alligator when you were vacationing in south Louisiana or Florida, so the alligators in the Pond may have been some of these discarded pets. Also, they may have made their way into the Pond from Bodcaw Creek. I believe Bodcaw runs into the Red River, down in Louisiana, and has always been home to gators. However, they were kept poached out most of our young lives. Remember McMurrough's Store on the bank of the Pond? Unlike Darrell, I do remember some pretty seriously dangerous things that we did on the banks of the Pond, such as BB gun fights.
And I prefer not to think of some of the things we did once we started driving. Anyway I can still see and walk and talk.|

309|304|2012-09-27 15:46:36|JWaddell@bmnet.com|Re: Lake June|I remember eating lunch at our house on School Street one Saturday in the late 1960s or early 1970s and a commotion started up the street in the parking lot of the elementary school. My brother Eddie and I ran up there and someone had shot an alligator in Lake June and they were parading it around town on a small boat trailer. If you went to the railroad crossing just past Chastain's Grocery, turned left and walked down the tracks toward the power plant, and fished off the left side of the first trestle down there, that's where the best bass were. We caught a lot of largemouth and crappie while the Cotton Belt freights went whizzing by about 10 feet over our heads. I remember me, my brother Eddie, Jerry Wayne Cheatham, and Roger Beckham fished for bass there all the time, and occasionally, we definitely saw alligators back in there. The story I always heard is that the alligators were originally put in Lake June as babies by the lady who had the big goldfish pond in her front yard who lived out on the road where Tommy Goodwin and the Gentry's lived. Aubrey J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D., FAPhA, BCOP Professor University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN Oncology Pharmacist Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN Lieutenant Colonel (Retired), United States Army bGary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com/b 09/27/2012 01:25 PM To tes3355@gmail.com, stampsark@yahoogroups.com cc "wroper@ulcoleman.com" wroper@ulcoleman.com, earl.rogers1661@gmail.com, sgtribble@centurytel.net, jwaddell@bmnet.com, marilou0841@aol.com,
sidney_melear@yahoo.com, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com, lghoward@triad.rr.com, dewhite28@att.net, gafarm@hotmail.com, carolynroper@earthlink.net, razorb@gvtc.com, rsinque@aol.com, siddickson@sbcglobal.net, dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com, thepattersons@livingston.net, bidmussolini@yahoo.com, scanman1958@yahoo.com, nbydoom@windstream.net, Larry Nichols larrynichols@yahoo.com, JC Smith n5rxs@satx.rr.com Subject RE: Lake June I concur with what Darrell said about the water source for the "Pond". �The main water source being the fairly large creek that came from the power plant and ran under the second trestle, then came into the Pond back of Blackbird Island. �This creek was crystal clear, and I never saw many fish in it. �If the water was sterile, as James Smith said, that would explain why there was no fish there. �The area north of the first trestle was by far the fishiest part of the lake. �I caught lots of bass and catfish here. �The alligator (or alligators) that I remember seeing were always around Blackbird Island, or, at night, running a trotline or frog gigging, we would see one between Blackbird Island and the bridge. �In the late 60's, while I was in the Air Force, my Mom sent me a pic of my little brother and sister sitting on a huge dead gator, that, I was told, was killed by Craig Phillips (I'm sure the statute of limitations has run out). These were the days when you could buy a small "pet" alligator when you were vacationing in south Louisiana or Florida, so the alligators in the Pond may have been some of these discarded pets. �Also, they may have made their way into the Pond from Bodcaw Creek. �I believe Bodcaw runs into the Red River, down in Louisiana, and has always been home to gators. �However, they were kept poached out most of our young lives. Remember McMurrough's Store on the bank of the Pond? Unlike Darrell, I do remember some pretty seriously dangerous things that we did on the banks of the Pond, such as BB gun fights. �And I prefer not to think of some of the things we did once we started driving. �Anyway I can still see and walk and talk. Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:18:39 -0700 Subject: Re: Lake June From: tes3355@gmail.com To: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com CC: WRoper@ulcoleman.com; earl.rogers1661@gmail.com; morningwoodranch@hotmail.com; sgtribble@centurytel.net; JWaddell@bmnet.com; Marilou0841@aol.com; sidney_melear@yahoo.com; dwk1944@gmail.com; lghoward@triad.rr.com; dewhite28@att.net; gafarm@hotmail.com; carolynroper@earthlink.net; razorb@gvtc.com; RSinque@aol.com; siddickson@sbcglobal.net; dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com; thepattersons@livingston.net; bidmussolini@yahoo.com; scanman1958@yahoo.com; nbydoom@windstream.net Darrell Kuykendall sends: ____________ When I was a kid there was a stream of water coming from the Harvey Couch Power Plant cooling tower located between Stamps and Buckner. It ran from the plant through the property of a black minister, Preacher Gardner, who lived down the road at the end of Thula Street about a mile or so from our house. I know this because Preacher Gardner had two grand kids living with him, Charles and Howard, and we sometimes played with them when we were doing "our exploring". Also, he grew ribbon cane and had a syrup mill, and have you ever seen a kid that did not like to chew ribbon cane. Anyway, during one summer we decided to dam up this stream which was some ten to twelve feet wide to make us a swimming hole. We used cross ties and backfill dirt to do this and then dug out in front of the dam and really managed to make a fifteen to twenty foot wide pool that was some six or seven feet deep of the clearest and coolest water you could ever find. It was wonderful! We swam and played there for four or five years. We could swing off the bank using a rope and drop into the pool. The water that ran through this stream was distillate water from the power plant cooling tower and was pure, cool, and clear. After it ran through Preacher Gardner's place it continued toward the back side of the pond first through the railroad second trestle and then through the woods until it finally came out on the backside of Blackbird Island. All of the woods and streams in this area were the "stomping ground" for the kids of that area and we camped and fished and hunted squirrels there all during this time. I am not sure of where any other water came from, but I am sure that a lot of it was run off from that eastern catchment area that included the first and second trestles. I remember that there was a little stream that ran across the field down below our house that wound up entering the pond somewhere around first trestle. This came across the highway up near Saucer's Service Station and ran across where the parking lot of Thomas' Grocery would later be and then across the woods and field that was sort of back behind our house before it crossed Thula between our house and what was later the current football field before it ran into the pond near first trestle. I am sure that some others such as Gary Nichols can add to this since we all spent a lot of time "rambling around" that area as my mother used to say. You know these were some great times for us kids who grew up then. We could leave home sometimes in the early summer morning and stay gone pretty much until supper time without our parents worrying too much about someone hurting any of us or worrying that we would get into anything major. We did a lot of things that by today's standards would be considered dangerous but we always seemed to get out of it somehow. Usually when I was doing my exploring I would have some old .22 rifle or something (and I was only twelve or thirteen years old) and I don't remember ever doing anything that would get me in trouble. I really enjoyed growing up in and around Stamps during that time from 1950 through 1962. Darrell Kuykendall. This communication may contain protected health information (PHI) that is legally protected from inappropriate disclosure by the Privacy Standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and relevant Tennessee Laws. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you should notify the sender immediately by telephone or by return e-mail and delete this message from your computer. Direct questions to the Blount Memorial Hospital Privacy Officer at 865-977-4675.|

310|304|2012-09-27 21:45:56|Tom Sims|Re: Lake June|Earl Rogers sends: Darrell....very well put...I was thinking the same, but you put it so eloquently !! Thanks Earl Rogers Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.426.8873 Earl.rogers@comcast.net|

311|311|2012-09-28 13:41:16|Tom Sims|The Cotton Belt & Lake June|Dale White sends: Aubrey Waddell made a comment that brought back old memories to me. Those were the good old days and I think most will agree. I'm going to tell a story I've never told anyone before. One winter Saturday, James McDonald, John Raymond's older brother, and I went duck hunting up on the small end of Lake June. Like Waddell says, past Chastain's store and turn East on the Cotton Belt. We walked along the tracks for a good distance. Didn't want the road traffic noise to affect our duck hunting. Well, we waited for the ducks to come in for the night. It did seem that most of the ducks were spending the night somewhere else. Finally, just before dark, two ducks appeared and were flying east. One followed the other by what seemed to be about 8 or 10 feet. Well, James told me to take the first shot and he would take the other. I raised my shotgun, took aim at the first duck and shot. I never told James I wasn't shooting at the second duck, which is the one I hit. After all, there are some things you keep to yourself. Dale|

312|304|2012-09-28 13:49:53|Tom Sims|Re: Lake June|Tom Gillespie sends: _ "In the days of the saw mill" (Bodcaw Lumber Co.) Lake June was then called "the pond" as referred to by Gary Nichols. The lower part of the pond--from the bridge down to the "spill way" was used to store logs. These logs came by rail and by Model T log trucks. The logs were "spiked" by colored men who were on a large special built raft to pull the logs into the saw mill. When I was about 8 or 9 years old my father would take me fishing out in a boat basically around the "island". I am talking about the one that was close to the "park"--the one that is overlooked by the cemetery. I suppose it is still there. The men who were out on the rafts would locate a log that had sunk and mark it with a pole. We would go out late in the afternoon to these spots and catch "white perch"--the old name for crappie. This was around 1928-30. In the early 30's I learned to swim at the YMCA and my father allowed me to go fishing by my self. Mr., Webster, who was a sales person in the men's dry goods dept in the Bodcaw store and later Cabe's, taught me to fly fish. Also Mr. Lake, depot agent for the Cotton Belt, was a fly fisherman and helped me. I caught many bass along the Cotton Belt track from where hwy 82 crossed up to the second trestle and also in the upper part of the "pond". I fished until around 1938 every day during the summer (except Sunday) and a lot at night. I never saw any alligators but I am not surprised that they are there now. And I agree you are probably right about how they got started. I could write a book on this subject. As many of you have said "It was wonderful to have the opportunity to grow up in a small town and have the out door experiences we all had" As for the water-- input was originally from "streams" feeding the lake. We had low water levels and high water levels and the fishing changed when the power plant "took over" Tom Gillespie|

313|311|2012-09-28 16:21:43|Myrtle Barr|Re: The Cotton Belt & Lake June|My lips are sealed! � bFrom: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.combTo: [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bCc: Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com; Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com; Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com; Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net; JWaddell@bmnet.com; Marilou0841@aol.com; sidney_melear@yahoo.com; Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com; Lou Graham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com; Dale White dewhite28@att.net; Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com; Carolyn Roper carolynroper@earthlink.net; T.F.Gillespie razorb@gvtc.com; Ronnie Sinquefield RSinque@aol.com; Sid Dickson siddickson@sbcglobal.net; David Denman '58 dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com; Wayne Patterson '58 thepattersons@livingston.net; Mark Herrmann bidmussolini@yahoo.com; Jeff Rehm scanman1958@yahoo.com; Bill & Nadine Moody nbydoom@windstream.net bSent: Friday, September 28, 2012 3:40 PMbSubject: [StampsArk] The Cotton Belt & Lake June � Dale White sends:Aubrey Waddell made a comment that brought back old memoriesto me. Those were the good old days and I think most willagree.I'm going to tell a story I've never told anyone before. Onewinter Saturday, James McDonald, John Raymond's olderbrother, and I went duck hunting up on the small end of LakeJune. Like Waddell says, past Chastain's
store and turn Easton the Cotton Belt. We walked along the tracks for a gooddistance. Didn't want the road traffic noise to affect ourduck hunting. Well, we waited for the ducks to come in forthe night. It did seem that most of the ducks were spendingthe night somewhere else. Finally, just before dark, twoducks appeared and were flying east. One followed the otherby what seemed to be about 8 or 10 feet. Well, James told meto take the first shot and he would take the other. I raisedmy shotgun, took aim at the first duck and shot. I nevertold James I wasn't shooting at the second duck, which isthe one I hit. After all, there are some things you keep toyourself.Dale|

314|314|2012-09-28 18:45:54|Tom Sims|Power Plant water|Dale White sends: J C Smith Jr made a comment about the water from the power plant. I worked at the Couch Plant from the time I finished high school in '47 until I had to go away in September 1950 for the Korean War. I was trained to be a boiler operator at that plant. As I understand, the plant has been enlarged from the origional system. The origional system had a boiler that operated at 700 lbs of pressure and at 1125 degrees supper heater temperature. At that temperature, not only is the steam hot, it is also dry. That is what is fed to the turbine that generates electricity. Once the steam has done its job, it is blead off and cooled back down to condensation (water). Now, the pond was there way before the Couch Plant was built so, although some of that water may have drained into the pond, as several have said, the main source had to come from small streams from the east and northeast. I have to tell you a story about two maintenance workers who were always working on the boiler, painting, if there wasn't any specific job they were to do. As I recall, the boiler was 4 stories high. Now picture if you will, that boiler is generating steam for the turbine. Whenever, for whatever reason the turbine is knocked off the line (no longer producing electricity), there is no place for all that super heater steam to go. Within seconds, the releaf valves begin to pop to releave the pressure on the boiler. You can't just shut the boiler down by the flip of a switch. It takes a few minutes to get everything under control. In the mean time, that boiler is
just about to explode. Well, one day Upherd (sp) Cleveland, Sunshine Cleveland's dad and Trozy were working at least three stories up on the side of that boiler when the turbine was knocked off line. You've never seen anyone move any faster that those two fellows did that day coming down off that boiler. During lunch break that day, I made a comment to Upherd about his speed. His comment to me was, "I'd rather people say didn't he run than for them to say, doesn't he look natural".|

315|304|2012-09-29 19:35:42|Tom Sims|Re: Lake June|Ronnie Sinquefield sends: ________ One of the contributors to the Lake June discussion (Gary Nichols) mentioned McMurrough's store. In front of the store was another building. Was it a cotton gin? Does anyone remember this building and what it was? Ronnie Sinquefield|

316|304|2012-09-29 19:47:48|JC Smith|Re: Lake June| Yes, it was a cotton gin. � J C Smith Jr� � ----- Original Message ----- bFrom:/b Tom Sims bTo:/b [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] bCc:/b Wayne Roper ; Earl M. Rogers ; Gary Nichols ; Stuart Tribble ; JWaddell@bmnet.com ; Marilou0841@aol.com ; sidney_melear@yahoo.com ; Darrell Kuykendall ; Lou Graham Howard ; Dale White ; Nelda Perkison ; Carolyn Roper ; T.F.Gillespie ; Ronnie Sinquefield ; Sid Dickson ; David Denman '58 ; Wayne Patterson '58 ; Mark Herrmann ; Jeff Rehm ; Bill & Nadine Moody bSent:/b Saturday, September 29, 2012 9:34 PM bSubject:/b [StampsArk] Re: Lake June � Ronnie Sinquefield sends:____________One of the contributors to the Lake June discussion (GaryNichols) mentioned McMurrough's store. In front of thestore was another building. Was it a cotton gin? Doesanyone remember this building and what it was?Ronnie Sinquefield |

317|304|2012-09-29 21:40:17|Tom Sims|Re: Lake June|Tom Gillespie sends: Yes it was a cotton gin and I believe Mr. McMcurrough operated it. Ronnie Sinquefield wrote: One of the contributors to the Lake June discussion (Gary Nichols) mentioned McMurrough's store. In front of the store was another building. Was it a cotton gin? Does anyone remember this building and what it was? Ronnie Sinquefield|

318|304|2012-09-30 07:33:49|Tom Sims|Re: Lake June|Mark Herrmann sends: It was a cotton gin. * Ronnie Sinquefield sends: One of the contributors to the Lake June discussion (Gary Nichols) mentioned McMurrough's store. In front of the store was another building. Was it a cotton gin? Does anyone remember this building and what it was? Ronnie Sinquefield|

319|304|2012-09-30 10:42:00|Stu Tribble|Re: Lake June|Yep, it was a cotton gin. �I recall me, red Lewis, and a couple others hoeing cotton for a short while (maybe 2hrs) one day around 1959ish. �We were fired because we were chopping more cotton plants than weeds. �(I'm sure that we didn't mind being fired either.)Wasn't there a place near the gin where you could rent a bass boat?Stu TribbleSent from my iPad On Sep 30, 2012, at 4:31 AM, Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � Mark Herrmann sends: It was a cotton gin. *** Ronnie Sinquefield sends: One of the contributors to the Lake June discussion (Gary Nichols) mentioned McMurrough's store. In front of the store was another building. Was it a cotton gin? Does anyone remember this building and what it was? Ronnie Sinquefield |

321|304|2012-09-30 21:54:44|Tom Sims|Re: Lake June|Wayne Patterson sends: _ It was definitely a cotton gin. I went there a number of times with my Dad in a cotton wagon pulled by a team of mules back in the late 1940's. Wayne Patterson|

322|304|2012-09-30 21:54:47|Tom Sims|Re: Lake June|Earl Rogers sends: _ McMurrough had the feed/ general store and a cotton gin. It was there thru my high school years (64 SHS grad) and awhile beyond , I think. Earl Rogers Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.426.8873 Earl.rogers@comcast.net|

323|311|2012-10-01 20:28:17|Tom Sims|Re: The Cotton Belt & Lake June|Pug Roper sends: Well, to add to that. When Rip Powell was coaching football at Stamps in the 60's, we were on the practice field and a bunch of geese started circling the pond, over near where Dale is talking about. It was real cold and dreary and we were wondering how much longer Rip was going to keep us out there. Well, as soon as he saw the geese about to land, he shut down practice real quick and headed to his house for his gun. Pug Roper -----Original Message----- Dale White sends: Aubrey Waddell made a comment that brought back old memories to me. Those were the good old days and I think most will agree. I'm going to tell a story I've never told anyone before. One winter Saturday, James McDonald, John Raymond's older brother, and I went duck hunting up on the small end of Lake June. Like Waddell says, past Chastain's store and turn East on the Cotton Belt. We walked along the tracks for a good distance. Didn't want the road traffic noise to affect our duck hunting. Well, we waited for the ducks to come in for the night. It did seem that most of the ducks were spending the night somewhere else. Finally, just before dark, two ducks appeared and were flying east. One followed the other by what seemed to be about 8 or 10 feet. Well, James told me to take the first shot and he would take the other. I raised my shotgun, took aim at the first duck and shot. I never told James I wasn't shooting at the second duck, which is the one I hit. After all, there are some things you keep to yourself. Dale|

324|304|2012-10-01 20:28:36|Tom Sims|Re: Lake June|Pug Roper sends: _ My granny, Doad Mackey, used to take a bunch of kids to the pond swimming a lot. If she didn't go there, she would take the kids up to White Oak, a few miles above Stamps on H/W 53. Some of you out there may remember "White Oak". It may have been a part of Dorcheat, I can't remember. That was a good place to go swimming until the mid-60's. My Mom also used to talk about the swimming pool downtown, but her Dad wouldn't let her swim in a bathing suit, had to wear pants to cover her legs. Same with basketball. She was on the basketball team but wasn't allowed to wear shorts back then. Pug Roper -----Original Message----- Tom Gillespie sends: _ "In the days of the saw mill" (Bodcaw Lumber Co.) Lake June was then called "the pond" as referred to by Gary Nichols. The lower part of the pond--from the bridge down to the "spill way" was used to store logs. These logs came by rail and by Model T log trucks. The logs were "spiked" by colored men who were on a large special built raft to pull the logs into the saw mill. When I was about 8 or 9 years old my father would take me fishing out in a boat basically around the "island". I am talking about the one that was close to the "park"--the one that is overlooked by the cemetery. I suppose it is still there. The men who were out on the rafts would locate a log that had sunk and mark it with a pole. We would go out late in the afternoon to these spots and catch "white perch"--the old name for crappie. This was around 1928-30. In the early 30's I learned to swim at the YMCA and my father allowed me to go fishing by my self. Mr., Webster, who was a sales person in the men's dry goods dept in the Bodcaw store and later Cabe's, taught me to fly fish. Also Mr. Lake, depot agent for the Cotton Belt, was a fly fisherman and helped me. I caught many bass along the Cotton Belt track from where hwy 82 crossed up to the second trestle and also in the upper part of the "pond". I fished until around 1938 every day during the summer (except Sunday) and a lot at night. I never saw any alligators but I am not surprised that they are there now. And I agree you are probably right about how they got started. I could write a book on this subject. As many of you have said "It was wonderful to have the opportunity to grow up in a small town and have the out door experiences we all had" As for the water-- input was originally from "streams" feeding the lake. We had low water levels and high water levels and the fishing changed when the power plant "took over" Tom Gillespie|

325|304|2012-10-01 20:28:47|Tom Sims|Re: Lake June|Pug Roper sends: The other building was an old cotton gin. In '64 or '65, my class started building our Homecoming float in the warehouse but may have finished it somewhere else. Kenneth Downs, a barber in Stamps for many years, pulled the float in the parade with his Dad's pickup. I spent a lot of time hanging out at McMurrough's feed store beside the pond with Gary Nichols in the early 60's. Pug Roper -----Original Message----- Ronnie Sinquefield sends: One of the contributors to the Lake June discussion (Gary Nichols) mentioned McMurrough's store. In front of the store was another building. Was it a cotton gin? Does anyone remember this building and what it was? Ronnie Sinquefield|

326|304|2012-10-01 20:28:50|Tom Sims|Re: Lake June|Pug Roper sends: "Bass Boat" was a stretch-at least in the early 60's. There were a couple of 10' wood boats and wood paddles for rent. None of my buddies and I ever had enough money together to rent one. One of the items as necessary as a paddle, was a coffee can to bail water out. Pug Roper -----Original Message----- Yep, it was a cotton gin. I recall me, red Lewis, and a couple others hoeing cotton for a short while (maybe 2hrs) one day. We were fired because we were chopping more cotton plants than weeds. (I'm sure that we didn't mind being fired either.) Wasn't there a place near the gin where you could rent a bass boat? Stu Tribble|

327|327|2012-10-02 23:07:36|Tom Sims|Re: Cotton Belt|Jeff Rehm sends: _ I have noticed people mentioning the cotton belt and though I am not from the area I am understanding it to be a rail line in the area. I know I could be wrong. Anyway, I found an old picture that was my grandmother's and it shows a Missouri Pacific train south of Prescott, AR on August 17, 1942. Is that close enough for your interest? I am attaching it just in case anyone would be interested. It is a scanned photo of a very old picture. jeff Missouri Pacific train picture: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/photos/album/1350553 627/pic/278412624/view?picmode=original&mode=tn&order=ordina l&start=1&dir=asc or http://tinyurl.com/94n4s6r00 a href="http://tinyurl.com/94n4s6r" http://tinyurl.com/94n4s6r/a|

328|304|2012-10-03 18:07:37|Carol|Re: Lake June|There's a photo album: Lake June aka 'the pond' with a photo that my Grandma Louise Roper [Pug's Mom] gave to me a few years ago of "Spillway at old mill, pond. Stamps." It was taken about 1927. I'm thinking it could be Oscar Roper, Sr, & his two kids, Oscar Daniel Roper, Jr, & Farris Roper, seated in front; & two other kids behind them. To the left of them are two more boys [one has fishing pole] & a dog. To the right is another man. It's a pretty cool photo...except there's no zoom, so it's rather small. [click on "Photos" to the left] --- In StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, Tom Sims tes3355@... wrote: From: Mark Herrmann sends: _ What has happened is the bridge over the old spillway has colapsed.because of erosion of the soil under the concrete spillway itself. They are trying to keep the lake level down because of the flooding 3 years ago. The water was going over the entire length of the dam and eroded the backside of it when it spilled over. |

329|327|2012-10-10 19:53:46|Tom Sims|Re: Cotton Belt|Jeff Rehm wrote: I have noticed people mentioning the cotton belt and though I am not from the area I am understanding it to be a rail line in the area. I know I could be wrong ... The Cotton Belt (official name: St. Louis Southwestern Railway) is the railroad that runs East to West through Stamps.|

330|327|2012-10-10 21:54:11|JC Smith|Re: Cotton Belt| Jeff: � Originally it was Cotton Belt�with their Headquarters in Pine Bluff.� They sold out, but I don't remember when.� Cotton Belt and the L & A tracks crossed near the 1st Street and Ellis Street.� Both lines had a station and passenger service.� Cotton Belt stopped passenger service first, then L & A.��A group of us rode the�L & A�from Stamps to Hope a short time before� passenger service ended.� I was probably 11 or so at that time.��Tom's dad worked at the�Cotton Belt, so he can tell you much more about them. � J C Smith Jr � � ----- Original Message ----- bFrom:/b Tom Sims bTo:/b [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] bSent:/b Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:52 PM bSubject:/b [StampsArk] Re: Cotton Belt � Jeff Rehm wrote: I have noticed people mentioning the cotton belt and though I am not from the area I am understanding it to be a rail line in the area. I know I could be wrong ...The Cotton Belt (official name: St. Louis Southwestern Railway) is therailroad that runs East to West through Stamps. |

331|331|2012-10-25 04:38:25|Carol|New Photo Album Added|I added a new photo album [I hope!]: 'Can You Identify This Photo' with a photo of a female [with a really cool hat] who is probably a teacher & there are 17 little boys...& it's one of those 'unknown photos'. There is a sign in back that says: BULL DURHAM, & the last word appears to be TOBACCO. Does anybody have a clue as to where & when this photo could have been taken? Thanks!|

332|332|2012-11-19 19:43:11|Tom Sims|WW1 Veterans|Ronnie Sinquefield sends: _________________ During the recent Veterans Day, I thought about when it was called Armistice Day commemorating the end of WWI. I remember that Mr. Glen Ward was a WWI veteran, but I can't remember anyone else from Stamps that was a WWI veteran or anyone that died in that war. Does anybody remember any other veterans of the "Great War" that lived in Stamps? Ronnie Sinquefield|

333|332|2012-11-19 20:23:40|JC Smith|Re: WW1 Veterans| The ones I remember are: Mr. ward, N E Graham,�Lloyd�Lewis, Frank Thompson, Harry Martin, Charley Burke, Mr. Hinton.�� First Baptist church had a plaque honoring those who died in WWII, but I don't remember seeing a list of those killed in WWI. � J C Smith Jr�� ----- Original Message ----- bFrom:/b Tom Sims bTo:/b [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] bCc:/b Wayne Roper ; Earl M. Rogers ; Gary Nichols ; Stuart Tribble ; JWaddell@bmnet.com ; Marilou0841@aol.com ; sidney_melear@yahoo.com ; Darrell Kuykendall ; Lou Graham Howard ; Dale White ; Nelda Perkison ; Carolyn Roper ; T.F.Gillespie ; Ronnie Sinquefield ; Sid Dickson ; David Denman '58 ; Wayne Patterson '58 ; Mark Herrmann ; Jeff Rehm ; Bill & Nadine Moody ; Carol Richardson bSent:/b Monday, November 19, 2012 9:42 PM bSubject:/b [StampsArk] WW1 Veterans � Ronnie Sinquefield sends:_During the recent Veterans Day, I thought about when it wascalled Armistice Day commemorating the end of WWI. Iremember that Mr. Glen Ward was a WWI veteran, but I can'tremember anyone else from Stamps that was a WWI veteran oranyone that died in that war. Does anybody remember anyother veterans of the "Great War" that lived in Stamps?Ronnie Sinquefield |

334|332|2012-11-19 20:52:47|Tom Sims|Re: WW1 Veterans|Lou Dean Graham Howard sends: ______ My dad, Nathan Graham, was in the Navy during WWI. There were other WWI veterans in Stamps in addition to Dad and Glen Ward. When one of the WWI veterans died, the remaining ones were invited to sit together as a group at the funeral. November 28, 1971 on a Sunday afternoon, Dad attended the funeral of one of the last three remaining WWI veterans. Glen Ward was out of town; therefore, Dad was the only one to represent the group. That same evening while preparing to go to church, Dad died suddenly of a massive heart attack. I would think the Stamps American Legion records might identify WWI veterans or if one wishes to exercise, go to Lakeside Cemetery and look for the footstones sent from the US Armed Forces. Lou Dean Graham Howard|

335|332|2012-11-20 07:32:48|Wayne Roper|Re: WW1 Veterans|Attachments :

336|332|2012-11-20 08:36:23|Seth Baker|Re: WW1 Veterans| Two more names to add, Seth W. Baker Sr. amd Edgar W.�Johnson (father of E. W. Johnson Jr. ), both served in France. bFrom: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.combTo: [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] StampsArk@yahoogroups.combCc: Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com; Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com; Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com; Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net; JWaddell@bmnet.com; Marilou0841@aol.com; sidney_melear@yahoo.com; Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com; Lou Graham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com; Dale White dewhite28@att.net; Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com; Carolyn Roper carolynroper@earthlink.net; T.F.Gillespie razorb@gvtc.com; Ronnie Sinquefield RSinque@aol.com; Sid Dickson siddickson@sbcglobal.net; David Denman '58 dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com; Wayne Patterson '58 thepattersons@livingston.net; Mark Herrmann bidmussolini@yahoo.com; Jeff Rehm scanman1958@yahoo.com; Bill & Nadine Moody nbydoom@windstream.net; Carol Richardson cmr_der@yahoo.combSent: Mon, November 19, 2012 9:43:14 PMbSubject: [StampsArk] WW1 Veterans � Ronnie Sinquefield sends:___________________During the recent Veterans Day, I thought about when it wascalled Armistice Day commemorating the end of WWI. Iremember that Mr. Glen Ward was a WWI veteran, but I can'tremember anyone else from Stamps that was a WWI
veteran oranyone that died in that war. Does anybody remember anyother veterans of the "Great War" that lived in Stamps?Ronnie Sinquefield |

337|332|2012-11-20 10:59:04|Tom Sims|Re: WW1 Veterans|Tom Gillespie sends: During my school days at SHS every Nov 11 the saw mill blew its whistles at 11 AM. Any of us who might have obtained WWI mementos brought them to school to display. I do remember Jess Hamn was a vet and if I remember correctly he had been slightly "gassed". I think also his brother Jim Hamn was a WWI vet.|

338|332|2012-11-20 15:36:30|Tom Sims|Re: WW1 Veterans|Dale White sends: My dad, John Lewis White was a veteran of WW1. I don't recall a lot of conversation about his time in the service. I do know that he was in France during his tour of duty. Dale|

339|332|2012-11-20 15:36:37|Tom Sims|Re: WW1 Veterans|Nadine White Moody sends: Our dad, John Lewis White, was a WWI veteran|

340|332|2012-11-20 15:36:39|Tom Sims|Re: WW1 Veterans|Earl M Rogers sends: _ Mr Lewis cooked BBQ goat for one little league year end party for all the teams. My first BBQ goat! Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.426.8873 Earl.rogers@comcast.net|

341|332|2012-11-20 15:36:41|Tom Sims|Re: WW1 Veterans|Stuart Tribble sends: I must have played for the wrong little league team (Lindsey's) or have a bad memory (my wife agrees with this reason) as I don't remember the BBQ'ed goat. Stu T.|

342|342|2012-11-20 17:58:59|Tom Sims|Re: WWI Veterans|Ronnie Sinquefield sends: ___________ I'm really glad to know of the many WWI veterans from Stamps. America lost it's last remaining veteran in Feb 2011. His name was Frank Buckles from West Virginia. He was 110 years old. I really appreciate the response to my inquiry. Ronnie|

344|332|2012-11-20 19:07:34|Carol|Re: WW1 Veterans|Does anybody remember any other veterans of the "Great War" that lived in Stamps? Ronnie Sinquefield ...................... Hello. I've got a photo of two men in uniform that have no identification that I've posted in the 'Can You Identify This Photo' album. Can anybody tell if the uniforms are from WWI? I've also found the WWI Draft Records for my Great-Grandpa Oscar Daniel Roper, Sr, & his brother Lonnie Otis Roper. I'd never heard about them being in WWI, so if it hadn't been brought up here, I might never have known. Thanks!|

345|332|2012-11-20 19:53:01|Tom Sims|Re: WW1 Veterans| Dale White wrote: My dad, John Lewis White was a veteran of WW1. I don't recall a lot of conversation about his time in the service. I do know that he was in France during his tour of duty. Dale Nadine White Moody replies: We were told he worked with the horses. I never knew what that meant until I saw War Horse.|

346|346|2012-12-02 10:30:18|Tom Sims|Bobbie Genelle Barham (AKA Nell Gladney) SHS '63 R.I.P.|Bobbie Genelle Barham (AKA Nell Gladney when her mother was married to Dub Gladney)) SHS '63 R.I.P. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/03337.jpg Bobbie Genelle Barham, age 68, of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at a Texarkana hospital. She was born July 22, 1944 in Searcy, Arkansas to George Grandberry and Edna Pauline Barham. Bobbie graduated from Stamps High School in 1963, attended college at A&M in Monticello, LA, Louisiana Tech at Ruston, LA, and was a lifetime member of Arkansas Am Vet's Post 1994, a service organization. Bobbie was honorably discharged from the United States Air Force after serving six years. While at college she was a member of Alpha Sigma Tau sorority; when leaving college Bobbie went to Minden, LA to teach at the Evergreen Presbyterian Vocational School for the mentally challenged. She was promoted to assistant supervisor of Total Girls Program in just a few short years. She participated faithfully in the Special Olympics for both boys and girls. Shortly thereafter Bobbie transitioned to Belle Chase State School, working in Vocational Rehabilitation Program, and Physical Educational with Olympics being high priority. Bobbie chaperoned student meets in New Orleans, LA, and on to nationals in Los Angeles, CA. The students enjoyed the meets, and it gave them a feeling of success. Bobbie was preceded in death by her Father "Pete"�Barham of Searcy, Mother, Pauline Ratcliff; Sister, Linda Jones Barham, and half Sister Joyce Lynn. Bobbie had three special friends; Juanita Hickman, Marjorie Harrison, and Effie Phillips. A best special companion, four legged 'Cricket',my dog. A graveside service will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, November 24, 2012, at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps, Arkansas, under the direction of A.O. Smith Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Arkansas Special Olympics, or the Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

347|347|2012-12-06 04:04:37|Carol|LOUISE ROPER Will Be 96 Years Young!|Hello, Stamps Group! This Saturday, my Grandma Louise Roper will be celebrating her 96th Birthday, in Waskom, TX, with family & friends. She is the mother of Bobbie Roper Jahns, of Hamilton, TX; Oscar Paul Roper, of Ft. Worth, TX; & Wayne 'Pug' Roper, of Waskom. Since I live in Washington state, I won't be at the party for her. I'm hoping that some of y'll will be able to make this a really Happy Birthday, & can send her 'birthday greetings', like just a little hand written note, or a postcard. I know that she will be very shocked & surprised if she gets more birthday greetings than usual. I know that it's kind of 'late notice', but I only thought to do it a couple of days ago. I also wanted to ask Tom if it would be alright to post it, & he gave approval. Last week, my dad's family had a cake for Grandma, & they usually give scratch lottery tickets as gifts. When Grandma had finished with her tickets, she'd won $55.00! She was so excited & surprised, & could not believe she'd won that much! She started to have a good time with scratch tickets. So here it comes [I did ask Tom if I could mention this]: if there's anyone who could send Grandma a $1.00 scratch ticket I KNOW that she's going to be beside herself, & totally amazed that there are so many nice people who would do this for her. Thanks! LOUISE ROPER c/o Tony Foster 7859 FM 9 S Waskom, TX 75692|

348|347|2012-12-06 08:52:57|Stu Tribble|Re: LOUISE ROPER Will Be 96 Years Young!|WOW 96.... Will do Carol. �By the way I live on Vashon Island in WA state.Stu TribbleSHS '61Sent from my iPad On Dec 6, 2012, at 4:04 AM, "Carol" cmr_der@yahoo.com wrote: � Hello, Stamps Group! This Saturday, my Grandma Louise Roper will be celebrating her 96th Birthday, in Waskom, TX, with family & friends. She is the mother of Bobbie Roper Jahns, of Hamilton, TX; Oscar Paul Roper, of Ft. Worth, TX; & Wayne 'Pug' Roper, of Waskom. Since I live in Washington state, I won't be at the party for her. I'm hoping that some of y'll will be able to make this a really Happy Birthday, & can send her 'birthday greetings', like just a little hand written note, or a postcard. I know that she will be very shocked & surprised if she gets more birthday greetings than usual. I know that it's kind of 'late notice', but I only thought to do it a couple of days ago. I also wanted to ask Tom if it would be alright to post it, & he gave approval. Last week, my dad's family had a cake for Grandma, & they usually give scratch lottery tickets as gifts. When Grandma had finished with her tickets, she'd won $55.00! She was so excited & surprised, & could not believe she'd won that much! She started to have a good time with scratch tickets. So here it comes [I did ask Tom if I could mention this]: if there's anyone who could send Grandma a $1.00 scratch ticket I KNOW that she's going to be beside herself, & totally amazed that there are so many nice people who would do this for her. Thanks! LOUISE ROPER c/o Tony Foster 7859 FM 9 S Waskom, TX 75692
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349|347|2012-12-09 22:35:58|Myrtle Barr|Re: LOUISE ROPER Will Be 96 Years Young!|Happy belated birthday to Louise Roper!� My brother, Bill Peck, dated Bobbie for awhile years ago.� Hello to all!Myrtle Sue Peck Barr (just turned 80 on Novemeber 6 this year) bFrom: Carol cmr_der@yahoo.com bTo: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bSent: Thursday, December 6, 2012 6:04 AM bSubject: [StampsArk] LOUISE ROPER Will Be 96 Years Young! � Hello, Stamps Group! This Saturday, my Grandma Louise Roper will be celebrating her 96th Birthday, in Waskom, TX, with family & friends. She is the mother of Bobbie Roper Jahns, of Hamilton, TX; Oscar Paul Roper, of Ft. Worth, TX; & Wayne 'Pug' Roper, of Waskom. Since I live in Washington state, I won't be at the party for her. I'm hoping that some of y'll will be able to make this a really Happy Birthday, & can send her 'birthday greetings', like just a little hand written note, or a postcard. I know that she will be very shocked & surprised if she gets more birthday greetings than usual. I know that it's kind of 'late notice', but I only thought to do it a couple of days ago. I also wanted to ask Tom if it would be alright to post it, & he gave approval. Last week, my dad's family had a cake for Grandma, & they usually give scratch lottery tickets as gifts. When Grandma had finished with her tickets, she'd won $55.00! She was so excited & surprised, & could not believe she'd won that much! She started to have a good time with scratch tickets. So here it comes [I did ask Tom if I could mention this]: if there's anyone who could send Grandma a $1.00 scratch ticket I KNOW that she's going to be beside herself, & totally amazed that there are so many nice people who would do this for her. Thanks! LOUISE ROPER c/o Tony Foster 7859 FM 9 S Waskom, TX 75692 |

350|254|2012-12-13 14:59:58|Earl Rogers|Re: Divided Town|AubreyCongrats on the UAMS phy award . I read about in the newsletter they �sent.Well deserved�Take care�EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.426.8873Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Aug 15, 2012, at 4:09 PM, JWaddell@bmnet.com wrote: � I don't remember the "white" or "colored" signs, but you have to remember I was born in 1957. I do remember that in the 1960s all white people lived on one side of the Cotton Belt and all African-American people lived on the other side, although everyone seemed to come and go without notice. I don't know how African-American people felt when they came to the white side of town in the 1960s or vice versa, but I remember regular interactions with African-American people when I was a child, such as an older, really nice gentleman named "Griffin" who delivered our groceries from Petrey's Grocery. I also remember that Aaron Wesley (who went by the odd nickname of "Snowball"), who played football and ran track for Stamps in the late 60s and early 70s, would walk by my house on School Street and stop and speak to me, as he also knew my big brother Eddie. I definitely remember Dewberry, as I would see him pass my house on School Street as he headed to Highway 82 or I would see him on the Triangle. I also remember that I was never made to feel unwelcome when I went to the African-American side of the Cotton Belt, which I often did to fish or ride my bike or buy a coke at Johnson's Grocery (which I learned in adulthood played
a pivotal role in Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings") or buy some hamburgers from a lady named "Ethel" who my mother knew. Also, when my mother had surgery a couple of times in the 1960s we hired an African-American lady named "Jimmie" to do the housework until Mom recovered. Also, an African-American man named "Monroe" with a wagon, a white horse, and a white mule served as a one-man Stamps sanitation department, tirelessly emptying Stampsians' trash barrels and hauling the trash to the dump for a small monthly fee. I remember Dr. Charles Cross' office had two entrances and two waiting rooms, which I later figured out that one was for whites and the other for African-Americans. I remember that playing Stamps Ellis in high school boys basketball was a big deal and that Ellis usually won. I remember an Ellis student named Ajax Johnson who ran track meets at Stamps High and usually won the 100 and 200. I remember that whites and blacks did not worship together and that confused me greatly. And, at least when I left Stamps in 1971, white and black funeral preparations were done in separate buildings and burials were in separate sections of Lakeside Cemetery. I remember school integration in the fall of 1970 (my 7th grade year). My sister Ellen and I would walk up the street and catch a bus over to Stamps Ellis Middle School, where all the 5th through 8th graders went under the new integration plan. I do not remember any trouble as a result of the integration. I for one was fascinated at meeting all the kids my age who I had never knew existed, like Evelyn Dismuke (with whom I competed for math grades), Hal Prevo, Alfred Madison, Stanley Cornelius, Mike Philson, Tyrus Lowe, etc. I also had my first African-American teachers, Coach Richards for science and Reverend Wynn for math. Rev. Wynn remains one of my three favorite teachers of all time at any level of school. He would probably be fired today, because he unapologetically and enthusiastically taught math as the "language of God." Aubrey J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D., FAPhA, BCOP Professor University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN Oncology Pharmacist Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN Lieutenant Colonel (Retired), United States Army This communication may contain protected health information (PHI) that is legally protected from inappropriate disclosure by the Privacy Standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and relevant Tennessee Laws. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you should notify the sender immediately by telephone or by return e-mail and delete this message from your computer. Direct questions to the Blount Memorial Hospital Privacy Officer at 865-977-4675. |

351|254|2012-12-13 15:16:35|JWaddell@bmnet.com|Re: Divided Town|Thanks, Earl.

J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D.,
FAPhA, BCOP
Professor
University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN
Oncology Pharmacist
Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN
Lieutenant Colonel (Retired), United States Army

bEarl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com/b

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12/13/2012 05:59 PM

To "StampsArk@yahoogroups.com"
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Aubrey
Congrats on the UAMS phy award . I read about in the newsletter they �sent.
Well deserved
Take care
Earl

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On Aug 15, 2012, at 4:09 PM, uJWaddell@bmnet.com/u
wrote:

I don't remember the "white" or "colored" signs, but you have to remember I was born in 1957. I do remember that in the 1960s all white people lived on one side of the Cotton Belt and all African-American people lived on the other side, although everyone seemed to come and go without notice. I don't know how African-American people felt when they came to the white side of town in the 1960s or vice versa, but I remember regular interactions with African-American people when I was a child, such as an older, really nice gentleman named "Griffin" who delivered our groceries from Petrey's Grocery. I also remember that Aaron Wesley (who went by the odd nickname of "Snowball"), who played football and ran track for Stamps in the late 60s and early 70s, would walk by my house on School Street and stop and speak to me, as he also knew my big brother Eddie. I definitely remember Dewberry, as I would see him pass my house on School Street as he headed to Highway 82 or I would see him on the Triangle. I also remember that I was never made to feel unwelcome when I went to the African-American side of the Cotton Belt, which I often did to fish or ride my bike or buy a coke at Johnson's Grocery (which I learned in adulthood played a pivotal role in Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings") or buy some hamburgers from a lady named "Ethel" who my mother knew. Also, when my mother had surgery a couple of times in the 1960s we hired an African-American lady named "Jimmie" to do the housework until Mom recovered. Also, an
African-American man named "Monroe" with a wagon, a white horse, and a white mule served as a one-man Stamps sanitation department, tirelessly
emptying Stampsians' trash barrels and hauling the trash to the dump for a small monthly fee. I remember Dr. Charles Cross' office had two entrances and two waiting rooms, which I later figured out that one was for whites and the other for African-Americans. I remember that playing Stamps Ellis in high school boys basketball was a big deal and that Ellis usually won.
I remember an Ellis student named Ajax Johnson who ran track meets at Stamps High and usually won the 100 and 200. I remember that whites and blacks did
not worship together and that confused me greatly. And, at least when I left Stamps in 1971, white and black funeral preparations were done in separate buildings and burials were in separate sections of Lakeside Cemetery. I remember school integration in the fall of 1970 (my 7th grade year). My sister Ellen and I would walk up the street and catch a bus over to Stamps Ellis Middle School, where all the 5th through 8th graders went under the new integration plan. I do not remember any trouble as a result of the integration. I for one was fascinated at meeting all the kids my age who I had never knew existed, like Evelyn Dismuke (with whom I competed for math grades), Hal Prevo, Alfred Madison, Stanley Cornelius, Mike Philson, Tyrus Lowe, etc. I also had my first African-American teachers, Coach Richards for science and Reverend Wynn for math. Rev. Wynn remains one of my three favorite teachers of all time at any level of school. He would probably be fired today, because he unapologetically and enthusiastically taught math as the "language of God."

Aubrey

J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D., FAPhA, BCOP
Professor
University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN
Oncology Pharmacist
Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN
Lieutenant Colonel (Retired), United States Army

352|332|2012-12-16 19:29:58|mth2md@cox.net|Re: WW1 Veterans|My father-in-law, Carl Davis served with the 12th Engineers (Light Railway) in France during 1917 and 1918. The unit mainly consisted of soldiers from Missouri, mostly from the St. Louis area, and they participated in numerous campaigns from the time of their arrival until after Armistice Day. He had worked in the railroad shops in Pine Bluff for the Cotton Belt Line prior to joining the AEF, thus his assignment to a light railway unit. We have a photograph of his company taken just after their arrival back to the U. S. following the war. Murray Harris|

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353|353|2013-01-24 07:28:51|Tom Sims|2012/2013 LCHS Basketball Results|2012/2013 LCHS Basketball Results No reported wins for either Boys or Girls Boys Date Opponent Result 11/13 Bradley 73 - 25 Loss 11/16 Parkers Chapel 58 - 22 Loss 11/26 Stephens 82 - 44 Loss 11/27 Strong - No result available 11/30 Prescott - No result available 12/04 Blevins 62 - 22 Loss 12/07 Foreman 61 - 29 Loss 12/11 Dierks 38 - 37 Loss 12/14 Murfreesboro - No result available 12/17 Gurdon - No result available 12/21 Spring Hill - No result available 12/27 Stephens 90 - 50 Loss 01/04 Mineral Springs - No result available 01/08 Blevins - No result available 01/11 Foreman 60 - 31 Loss 01/15 Dierks - No result available 01/18 Murfreesboro - No result available 01/22 Gurdon - No result available Girls 11/13 Bradley 59 - 33 Loss 11/28 Norphlet 60 - 17 Loss No results available for 17 other games. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

354|354|2013-01-26 21:20:23|Tom Sims|Karen Rochelle Lindsey Nipper, R.I.P.|Karen Rochelle Lindsey Nipper, R.I.P. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03360.jpg Karen, 69, of Benton, LA, died January 20, 2013 at her home after a lengthy battle with heart and kidney disease. Karen was born August 10, 1943 in Buckner, AR. She was preceded in death by her father, Byron L. Lindsey.Karen is survived by her loving husband of 45 years, David Lynn Nipper; sons, Jarrod Nipper and wife Lacy, Zane Nipper and fiancee' Rachael all of the Shreveport-Bossier area; mother, Esther Lindsey, 92, of Stamps, AR; brother, Kent Lindsey and wife Lise' and niece, Karah, all of Atlanta, GA; grandson, Skylar; granddaughters Kennedy, McKenzie and Teddy and nieces, Geri Lynn Hardy and Kim Jones. A second memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, January 24, 2013 at the First United Methodist Church in Stamps, AR. Officiating will be Rev. Charles Walthall and Rev. Mark Rivers.|

355|355|2013-02-02 19:36:29|Tom Sims|Archive - ROBERT B. NEILL, R.I.P.|------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com To: "Tom Sims" TomESims@Cox.net Subject: Re: ROBERT B. NEILL, R.I.P. Date sent: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 14:28:44 -0600 Robert's father worked in the saw mill. (I guess you knew there was a saw mill there at one time). I am sure I have a picture of him somewhere in all the mill pictures I have. I was taught when I was about 10 years old to fly fish. I went fishing every day I was not in school or church on Sunday or the WX too bad. Back then they called it the "pond". You know it as Lake June. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Sims" TomESims@Cox.net To: "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com Cc: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:20 AM Subject: Re: ROBERT B. NEILL, R.I.P. Tom: I remember being inside Robert's home when I was about six, but I can't picture anyone else in his family. I do remember that their house was pretty rundown and unpainted. I saw Robert frequently over the years when I visited my parents and remember his mail carrying days and his involvement with the First Baptist church. He was a Deacon, usher and was the unpaid Sexton, after J.C. Smith (the previous unpaid Sexton) died. Robert was an avid hunter and fisherman all of his life and I don't believe he ever married. Back in the 80's he had a live-in lady friend, who probably qualified as a common law wife. Robert lived in a small home in the new section, north of 82, on or near Buchanan Street. He was a good friend of my parents and was always checking on and helping my Mom with anything that needed doing. Best, Tom Sims ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com To: "Tom Sims" TomESims@Cox.net Subject: Re: ROBERT B. NEILL, R.I.P. Date sent: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:54:34 -0600 Robert's Mother and my Mother were very close friends. I remember all the family real well. They were very kind and humble people. I could really "take you back in time". I can still "see" the Gant home. I appreciate you letting me know about Robert. Tom Gillespie. - |

356|356|2013-02-02 19:36:55|Tom Sims|Archive - Mavis Henry, R.!.P.|------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "Lou Graham Howard" To: "Tom Sims" Subject: Re: Mavis Henry, R.!.P. Date sent: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:08:51 -0500 Thank you, Tom: Mrs. Henry taught me three of the most valuable courses I have ever had. I still use them today. LouDean Graham Howard ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "Arnell Hollis" To: "Tom Sims" Subject: Re: Mavis Henry, R.!.P. Date sent: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:42:20 -0600 Mrs. Henry was my bookeeping and shorthand teacher, jr. and sr. years. 1951-52 ----- She was a wonderful teacher and everyone loved her. She visited some of our class reunions and we enjoyed her so very much. She was a beautiful woman inside and out and will be greatly missed. Arnell Hollis Russellville, AR 72802 ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Wayne Roper To: 'Tom Sims' Subject: RE: Mavis Henry, R.!.P. Date sent: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:23:46 +0000 I had Mr. Henry in a math class at Stamps and later at SSC. I can't remember if either my wife or me had Mrs. Henry. I think we may have had Mrs. Fallin in most of the business classes that we took.. I remember that she was a very classy lady and always very nice to us. I was just telling some of the guys here at work about "Cookie" Graham and "Hammer Handle" Hansen. (I don't know if you knew either one of those guys when you were at Stamps, although I think my brother may have had Mr. Graham in Agri when he was there ('51 or '52). After I had left Stamps and during visits many years later, I would be running over near the football field and Mr. Henry would be walking from his home down to the field and back. I guess he may have retired from college by then. I would jog along with him and we visited many times. We lost a few last year and I guess it will continue. Pug Roper -----Original Message----- From: Tom Sims [mailto:TomESims@Cox.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:18 AM To: SHS Mailing List Subject: Mavis Henry, R.!.P. Mavis Henry, R.!.P. I've received word that Mavis Henry died today. Mrs Henry taught business at Stamps for many years. She was the widow of George Henry who taught math - He later joined the staff at Southern Arkansas University. ________________ The Henry's started teaching at SHS in the 50's, after I graduated in 1951. They taught my Brother '56 and he thought very highly of them. TES SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

357|357|2013-02-02 19:53:29|Tom Sims|Archive - Jarnigan's Pond|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marilou0841@aol.com Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:43 AM Subject: Information To: tomesims@cox.net, tomesims@west-point.org Cc: sidney_melear@yahoo.com, earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Sid Melear who lives in Lafayette, LA now -- said he thought that Uncle Mark Jarnigan's Pond should be added to the list -- "Gone Now". He said that after the swimming pool in Stamps closed, everyone in Stamps swam in "Uncle Mark's Pond". I remember the swimming pool (was young) but I DID learn to swim in Uncle Mark's Pond. If I remember right -- Tony, Bill (Bugs) Rogers (brothers) and other friends built the diving board . For several years it was the only place we had to swim -- Do not remember when people stopped swimming there... Uncle Mark was married to My Daddy's (Travis Rogers) sister Willie Rogers. Uncle Mark operated a liquor store in Stamps for several years --WAY BACK. Sid can give you more information than I can .... Concerning the Pond. Marilou Rogers Nelson 14 Regency Drive Texarkana, AR 71854 Class of 59 870 774 4792|

358|358|2013-02-02 19:53:37|Tom Sims|Archive - Cil Theater|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dale White dewhite28@att.net Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:50 PM Subject: Fw: Cil Theater To: Tom Sims TomESims@cox.net Now, it has nothing to do with age, it's just because I've been gone a LLLLLLOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG time. The street mentioned below was not Antigo but Thomas. The origional Ford Place was on the Church Street side of the triangle. At the opposit end from Beasley Hardware. The phone number was # 7. There was a Pool Hall on South Thomas between Kelly's Drug and Jarnagan's (sp) Liquor Store. Mr. Kelly lived at the top of the hill on Church Street across from Perkins Grocery. Nix had a store on Thomas behind Peoples Drug. I forget just what the business was. There was a Barber Shop in that block also. Was his name Hicks? There was a Ruperds ( I know this spelling is wrong) Grocery across the pond at the Y between the McKamie Road and Oak Grove Road. Lavelle Fitzgerald and I were walking to his house on the Oak Grove road. We came to this store and pooled our worldly fortune together and came up with 5 penny's. Star Chewing Tobacco sold for 10 cents a plug. A plug was 1/2" thick by 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" square. We asked Mr Ruperd if he would sell us half a plug? Now for a chewing man, there is about 6 chews in a half plug. Well, we cut that in two and put it in our jaw. We started walking and spitting. There's just no way a fellow can handle that much tobacco at one time. We didn't stay with the road but began to cut through the fields and pastures. And crawling over the fences as we came to them. Before we arrived at Lavelle's house, we had swallowed so much tobacco juice, we could no longer crawl over the fences. We were drunk on tobacco and had to crawl under the fences. I'll never forget that store. By the way, it was at that Y that Happy Teague, James' dad turned over and burned to death because he was trapped in. This would have been in the late 40's. J. K. Jones was the City Marshall in the 30's and early 40's before Hollis Gallaway's dad became Marshall. Many Saturday's, Mr. Jones would sell BBQ Goat on the Triangle. Mr. Gallaway lost a son during WWII. Hollis's younger brother. That's all for now. Dale ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale White To: Tom Sims Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 5:11 PM Subject: Cil Theater Tom, I think I just gave some wrong information. Since I go way back, I was talking about the theater on Main Street, not the theater that was built on Andigo if that was the street name. Dale |

359|356|2013-02-03 10:10:29|Earl Rogers|Re: Archive - Mavis Henry, R.!.P.|I am so sorry to hear that!�Mr and Mrs Henry were fantastic teachers and people. I had the both.I remember taking my first 2 math courses at SSC...they were repeats of what Mr Henry taught me!One of their daughters...Carla.?? ...was one of our Pharmacy clerkship students at the Little Rock VAMC in 1976 or 1977.We did have some wonderful teachers at SHS!!Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Feb 2, 2013, at 10:35 PM, Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "Lou Graham Howard" To: "Tom Sims" Subject: Re: Mavis Henry, R.!.P. Date sent: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:08:51 -0500 Thank you, Tom: Mrs. Henry taught me three of the most valuable courses I have ever had. I still use them today. LouDean Graham Howard ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "Arnell Hollis" To: "Tom Sims" Subject: Re: Mavis Henry, R.!.P. Date sent: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:42:20 -0600 Mrs. Henry was my bookeeping and shorthand teacher, jr. and sr. years. 1951-52 ----- She was a wonderful teacher and everyone loved her. She visited some of our class reunions and we enjoyed her so very much. She was a beautiful woman inside and out and will be greatly missed. Arnell Hollis Russellville, AR 72802 ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Wayne Roper To: 'Tom Sims' Subject: RE: Mavis Henry, R.!.P. Date sent: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:23:46 +0000 I had Mr. Henry in a math class at Stamps and later at SSC. I can't remember if either my wife or me had Mrs. Henry. I think we may have had Mrs. Fallin in most of the business classes that we took.. I remember that she was a very classy lady and always very nice to us. I was just telling some of the guys here at work about "Cookie" Graham and "Hammer Handle" Hansen. (I don't know if you knew either one of those guys when you were at Stamps, although I think my brother may have had Mr. Graham in Agri when he was there ('51 or '52). After I had left Stamps and during visits many years later, I would be running over near the football field and Mr. Henry would be walking from his home down to the field and back. I guess he may have retired from college by then. I would jog along with him and we visited many times. We lost a few last year and I guess it will continue. Pug Roper -----Original Message----- From: Tom Sims [mailto:TomESims@Cox.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:18 AM To: SHS Mailing List Subject: Mavis Henry, R.!.P. Mavis Henry, R.!.P. I've received word that Mavis Henry died today. Mrs Henry taught business at Stamps for many years. She was the widow of George Henry who taught math - He later joined the staff at Southern Arkansas University. __________________ The Henry's started teaching at SHS in the 50's, after I graduated in 1951. They taught my Brother '56 and he thought very highly of them. TES SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ |

360|360|2013-02-03 22:13:40|Tom Sims|Re: Jarnigan's Pond|On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 8:14 AM, RSinque@aol.com wrote: Hello Tom, I too was a "Jarnigan Pond Swimmer". Mr. Jarnigan had a son that I believe was named James Earnest. Is this correct? If so, when did he graduate from SHS? Ronnie Sinquefield SHS '55 Appended below is the death notice for Jame Ernest in 2011, and my remembrance of him. I don't know if, or how, he was related to Mark Jarnigan, the pond owner, or who owned Jarnagin's liquor store before Lafayette county went dry. I too went swimming in Jarnagin's pond, but don't remember Mark Jarnagin or any of his family. Tom Sims Internet Death Notice JARNAGIN, JAMES E. Published: January 14, 2011 JARNAGIN--James E., passed away peacefully on Sunday, January 9, 2011 in Springdale, Arkansas at the age of 85. Before moving to Arkansas, James was a long time resident of 2 Beekman Place, New York City, NY. James Graduated from Harvard University in 1949, and worked as an Editor for Colliers Encyclopedia and Family Circle Magazine. James was a member of the West Side Tennis Club, The University Club and a Patron of the Metropolitan Opera. A Memorial Service will be held at 1:00pm April 8, 2011 at Christ's Church, Park Ave., New York City, NY. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in his memory to the Central Park Conservancy. James Ernest was raised by Dr. Keith and was the Band Drum Major at SHS. He was seven or eight years older than me and when I looked into joining the band once, he told me that my talents lay in other directions. In 1954 or 1955 he contacted me through my mother when he was an editor for a publishing house in NYC. He and a friend visited me at West Point and we played tennis and shared a meal. I remember him as being very nice and very intelligent. Tom Sims|

361|360|2013-02-04 08:19:44|Tom Sims|Re: Jarnigan's Pond|Ronnie Sinquefield SHS '55 wrote: Hello Tom, I too was a "Jarnigan Pond Swimmer". Mr. Jarnigan had a son that I believe was named James Earnest. Is this correct? If so, when did he graduate from SHS? Ronnie Sinquefield SHS '55 _ Marilou Rogers Nelson '59 sends: * My brother Earl Marcus Rogers should be able to tell you more -- When Brother Bill (Bugs) Rogers died -- he wanted to use one of the several unused plots -which Aunt Willie Jarnigan had owned -- ones where Aunt Willie Jarnigan, Mark Jarnigan, Uncle Mark's first wife, and Maw and Paw Rogers were buried. Earl contacted the son and visited with him and got permission to bury Brother Bill in that area. It is across the lane from Mother's family plots, which is nice. Talking about using the pond -- Uncle Mark Jarnigan's pond -- I sure wish Bill and Tony Rogers were still around to tell you just how this started -- I guess when the pool downtown close -- the kids needed someplace to swim and everyone ended swimming in Uncle Mark's Pond. Bill, Tony and some of other the others build a diving board and that is where I learned to swim. Interesting!!!!!! Marilou Rogers Nelson (Class of 59) Parents Mary and Travis Rogers -- Children Tony Rogers (deceased) , Bill (Bugs) Rogers (deceased) , Marilou Rogers Nelson (Texarkana. AR ) , and Earl Marcus Rogers (Richmond, VA)|

362|360|2013-02-04 09:09:34|Wayne Roper|Re: Jarnigan's Pond|Jarnigan's pond was still in use in the mid-60's. Still had a diving board. Several of us used to go there, or to White Oak-if we could find a ride. Pug Roper -----Original Message----- From: Tom Sims [mailto:tes3355@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 10:03 AM To: [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] Cc: Wayne Roper; Earl M. Rogers; Gary Nichols; Stuart Tribble; JWaddell@bmnet.com; Marilou0841@aol.com; sidney_melear@yahoo.com; Darrell Kuykendall; Lou Graham Howard; Dale White; Nelda Perkison; Carolyn Roper; T.F.Gillespie; Ronnie Sinquefield; Sid Dickson; David Denman '58; Wayne Patterson '58; Mark Herrmann; Jeff Rehm; Bill & Nadine Moody; Carol Richardson Subject: Re: Jarnigan's Pond Ronnie Sinquefield SHS '55 wrote: Hello Tom, I too was a "Jarnigan Pond Swimmer". Mr. Jarnigan had a son that I believe was named James Earnest. Is this correct? If so, when did he graduate from SHS? Ronnie Sinquefield SHS '55 _______________________________ Marilou Rogers Nelson '59 sends: * My brother Earl Marcus Rogers should be able to tell you more -- When Brother Bill (Bugs) Rogers died -- he wanted to use one of the several unused plots -which Aunt Willie Jarnigan had owned -- ones where Aunt Willie Jarnigan, Mark Jarnigan, Uncle Mark's first wife, and Maw and Paw Rogers were buried. Earl contacted the son and visited with him and got permission to bury Brother Bill in that area. It is across the lane from Mother's family plots, which is nice. Talking about using the pond -- Uncle Mark Jarnigan's pond -- I sure wish Bill and Tony Rogers were still around to tell you just how this started -- I guess when the pool downtown close -- the kids needed someplace to swim and everyone ended swimming in Uncle Mark's Pond. Bill, Tony and some of other the others build a diving board and that is where I learned to swim. Interesting!!!!!! Marilou Rogers Nelson (Class of 59) Parents Mary and Travis Rogers -- Children Tony Rogers (deceased) , Bill (Bugs) Rogers (deceased) , Marilou Rogers Nelson (Texarkana. AR ) , and Earl Marcus Rogers (Richmond, VA)|

363|360|2013-02-04 19:51:41|Tom Sims|Re: Jarnigan's Pond|Earl Rogers sends: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Date: Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:10 AM Subject: Re: Jarnigan's Pond To: Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com Cc: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com, "[Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, Gary Nichols morningwoodranch@hotmail.com, Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net, "JWaddell@bmnet.com" JWaddell@bmnet.com, "Marilou0841@aol.com" Marilou0841@aol.com, "sidney_melear@yahoo.com" sidney_melear@yahoo.com, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com, Lou Graham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com, Dale White dewhite28@att.net, Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com, Carolyn Roper carolynroper@earthlink.net, "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com, Ronnie Sinquefield RSinque@aol.com, Sid Dickson siddickson@sbcglobal.net, David Denman '58 dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com, Wayne Patterson '58 thepattersons@livingston.net, Mark Herrmann bidmussolini@yahoo.com, Jeff Rehm scanman1958@yahoo.com, Bill & Nadine Moody nbydoom@windstream.net, Carol Richardson cmr_der@yahoo.com Last June (2012) while visiting stamps, I drove out by Uncle Mark Jarnagin's pond....it has grown up so much you can't see it from oak grove road...and it looks much smaller to me NOW. Uncle Mark died in summer of 50 or 51? Aunt Willie ( my daddy's sister) let me keep my horse in her pasture, so I would many times ride him from my house , thru the pasture to uncle Marks pond to swim. I don't think anyone swims there now...not sure where folks swim now. Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net|

364|360|2013-02-04 19:51:47|Stu Tribble|Re: Jarnigan's Pond|My mother had a very healthy respect for snakes (the only good snakes is a dead snake type respect) that was transferred to me. �So when I went swimming at Jarnigan's pond or White Oak I would do my best to scare any reptilian within a 1/2 mile using rocks, branches or whatever. �Think I beaned Red Lewis once. �Sorry Red.Sent from my iPad On Feb 4, 2013, at 9:11 AM, Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com wrote: � Jarnigan's pond was still in use in the mid-60's. Still had a diving board. Several of us used to go there, or to White Oak-if we could find a ride. Pug Roper -----Original Message----- From: Tom Sims [mailto:tes3355@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 10:03 AM To: [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] Cc: Wayne Roper; Earl M. Rogers; Gary Nichols; Stuart Tribble; JWaddell@bmnet.com; Marilou0841@aol.com; sidney_melear@yahoo.com; Darrell Kuykendall; Lou Graham Howard; Dale White; Nelda Perkison; Carolyn Roper; T.F.Gillespie; Ronnie Sinquefield; Sid Dickson; David Denman '58; Wayne Patterson '58; Mark Herrmann; Jeff Rehm; Bill & Nadine Moody; Carol Richardson Subject: Re: Jarnigan's Pond Ronnie Sinquefield SHS '55 wrote: Hello Tom, I too was a "Jarnigan Pond Swimmer". Mr. Jarnigan had a son that I believe was named James Earnest. Is this correct? If so, when did he graduate from SHS? Ronnie Sinquefield SHS '55 _______________________________ Marilou Rogers Nelson '59 sends: *** My brother Earl Marcus Rogers should be able to tell you more -- When Brother Bill (Bugs) Rogers died -- he wanted to use one of the several unused plots -which Aunt Willie Jarnigan had owned -- ones where Aunt Willie Jarnigan, Mark Jarnigan, Uncle Mark's first wife, and Maw and Paw Rogers were buried. Earl contacted the son and visited with him and got permission to bury Brother Bill in that area. It is across the lane from Mother's family plots, which is nice. Talking about using the pond -- Uncle Mark Jarnigan's pond -- I sure wish Bill and Tony Rogers were still around to tell you just how this started -- I guess when the pool downtown close -- the kids needed someplace to swim and everyone ended swimming in Uncle Mark's Pond. Bill, Tony and some of other the others build a diving board and that is where I learned to swim. Interesting!!!!!! Marilou Rogers Nelson (Class of 59) Parents Mary and Travis Rogers -- Children Tony Rogers (deceased) , Bill (Bugs) Rogers (deceased) , Marilou Rogers Nelson (Texarkana. AR ) , and Earl Marcus Rogers (Richmond, VA) |

366|360|2013-02-06 07:38:16|Earl Rogers|Re: Jarnigan's Pond|How did he do that?�Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Feb 5, 2013, at 9:23 PM, "Richard H. Davis, Jr." richard_h_davis@yahoo.com wrote: � In the late forties Mark Jarnigan took away a wart on my hand. bFrom: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.combTo: [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] StampsArk@yahoogroups.combSent: Mon, February 4, 2013 9:51:44 PMbSubject: [StampsArk] Re: Jarnigan's Pond� Earl Rogers sends:---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Earl M Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.comDate: Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:10 AMSubject: Re: Jarnigan's PondTo: Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.comCc: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com, "[Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]"StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, Gary Nicholsmorningwoodranch@hotmail.com, Stuart Tribblesgtribble@centurytel.netJWaddell@bmnet.com" JWaddell@bmnet.comMarilou0841@aol.com" Marilou0841@aol.comsidney_melear@yahoo.com"sidney_melear@yah oo.com, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com, LouGraham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com, Dale White dewhite28@att.net,Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com, Carolyn Ropercarolynroper@earthlink.net, "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com,Ronnie Sinquefield RSinque@aol.com, Sid Dicksonsiddickson@sbcglobal.net, David Denman '58dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com,
Wayne Patterson '58thepattersons@livingston.net, Mark Herrmannbidmussolini@yahoo.com, Jeff Rehm scanman1958@yahoo.com, Bill &Nadine Moody nbydoom@windstream.net, Carol Richardsoncmr_der@yahoo.comLast June (2012) while visiting stamps, I drove out by Uncle MarkJarnagin's pond....it has grown up so much you can't see it from oakgrove road...and it looks much smaller to me NOW.Uncle Mark died in summer of 50 or 51?Aunt Willie ( my daddy's sister) let me keep my horse in her pasture,so I would many times ride him from my house , thru the pasture touncle Marks pond to swim.I don't think anyone swims there now...not sure where folks swim now.Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC MSC USAR ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA 23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net |

367|360|2013-02-06 09:05:46|Wayne Roper|Re: Jarnigan's Pond Wayne RoperFeb 6, 2013 He probably rubbed it and mumbled something. That worked on me when my Grandpa did it about 50 years ago on my knee.

Pug

From: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com [mailto:StampsArk@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Earl Rogers Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 9:38 AM To: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [StampsArk] Re: Jarnigan's Pond

How did he do that?

Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net

368|360|2013-02-06 09:23:53|Earl Rogers|Re: Jarnigan's Pond|Pug,Me tooMother called it CONJURING it away!EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Feb 6, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.com wrote: � He probably rubbed it and mumbled something. That worked on me when my Grandpa did it about 50 years ago on my knee.Pug �From: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com [mailto:StampsArk@yahoogroups.com] bOn Behalf Of /bEarl RogersbSent:/b Wednesday, February 06, 2013 9:38 AMbTo:/b StampsArk@yahoogroups.combSubject:/b Re: [StampsArk] Re: Jarnigan's Pond �� How did he do that?�Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net � � � �On Feb 5, 2013, at 9:23 PM, "Richard H. Davis, Jr." richard_h_davis@yahoo.com wrote:� In the late forties Mark Jarnigan took away a wart on my hand. �From: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.combTo:/b [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] StampsArk@yahoogroups.combSent:/b Mon, February 4, 2013 9:51:44 PMbSubject:/b [StampsArk] Re: Jarnigan's Pond� Earl Rogers sends:---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Earl M Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.comDate: Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:10 AMSubject: Re: Jarnigan's PondTo: Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.comCc: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com, "[Stamps Ark Yahoo
Group]"StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, Gary Nicholsmorningwoodranch@hotmail.com, Stuart Tribblesgtribble@centurytel.netJWaddell@bmnet.com" JWaddell@bmnet.comMarilou0841@aol.com" Marilou0841@aol.comsidney_melear@yahoo.com"sidney_melear@yah oo.com, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com, LouGraham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com, Dale White dewhite28@att.net,Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com, Carolyn Ropercarolynroper@earthlink.net, "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com,Ronnie Sinquefield RSinque@aol.com, Sid Dicksonsiddickson@sbcglobal.net, David Denman '58dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com, Wayne Patterson '58thepattersons@livingston.net, Mark Herrmannbidmussolini@yahoo.com, Jeff Rehm scanman1958@yahoo.com, Bill &Nadine Moody nbydoom@windstream.net, Carol Richardsoncmr_der@yahoo.comLast June (2012) while visiting stamps, I drove out by Uncle MarkJarnagin's pond....it has grown up so much you can't see it from oakgrove road...and it looks much smaller to me NOW.Uncle Mark died in summer of 50 or 51?Aunt Willie ( my daddy's sister) let me keep my horse in her pasture,so I would many times ride him from my house , thru the pasture touncle Marks pond to swim.I don't think anyone swims there now...not sure where folks swim now.Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC MSC USAR ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA 23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net |

370|360|2013-02-09 10:17:02|Earl Rogers|Re: Jarnigan's Pond|Never underestimate the power of persuasion .Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Feb 8, 2013, at 9:36 PM, "Richard H. Davis, Jr." richard_h_davis@yahoo.com wrote: � My Dad took me to see Mr. Jarnigan.� Mr. Jarnigan rubbed the wart and told me not to look at it for two weeks.� All acid treatments and other tries had failed to get rid of it for over a year.� I tried to follow what he told me to do.� About ten days later I thought about it, looked, and it was gone.� It has never returned.� You tell me how he did it. bFrom: Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.combTo: "StampsArk@yahoogroups.com" StampsArk@yahoogroups.combSent: Wed, February 6, 2013 9:38:18 AMbSubject: Re: [StampsArk] Re: Jarnigan's Pond� How did he do that?�Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC �MSC �USAR �ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA �23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Feb 5, 2013, at 9:23 PM, "Richard H. Davis, Jr." richard_h_davis@yahoo.com wrote: � In the late forties Mark Jarnigan took away a wart on my hand. bFrom: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.combspan
style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;"To: [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] StampsArk@yahoogroups.combSent: Mon, February 4, 2013 9:51:44 PMbSubject: [StampsArk] Re: Jarnigan's Pond� Earl Rogers sends:---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Earl M Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.comDate: Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:10 AMSubject: Re: Jarnigan's PondTo: Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.comCc: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com, "[Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]"StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, Gary Nicholsmorningwoodranch@hotmail.com, Stuart Tribblesgtribble@centurytel.netJWaddell@bmnet.com" JWaddell@bmnet.comMarilou0841@aol.com" Marilou0841@aol.comsidney_melear@yahoo.com"sidney_melear@yah oo.com, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com, LouGraham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com, Dale White dewhite28@att.net,Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com, Carolyn Ropercarolynroper@earthlink.net, "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com,Ronnie Sinquefield RSinque@aol.com, Sid Dicksonsiddickson@sbcglobal.net, David Denman '58dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com, Wayne Patterson '58thepattersons@livingston.net, Mark Herrmannbidmussolini@yahoo.com, Jeff Rehm scanman1958@yahoo.com, Bill &Nadine Moody nbydoom@windstream.net, Carol Richardsoncmr_der@yahoo.comLast June (2012) while visiting stamps, I drove out by Uncle MarkJarnagin's pond....it has grown up so much you can't see it from oakgrove road...and it looks much smaller to me NOW.Uncle Mark died in summer of 50 or 51?Aunt Willie ( my daddy's sister) let me keep my horse in her pasture,so I would many times ride him from my house , thru the pasture touncle Marks pond to swim.I don't think anyone swims there now...not sure where folks swim now.Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC MSC USAR ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA 23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net |

371|360|2013-02-09 11:43:12|Larry H. Gentry|Re: Jarnigan's Pond|Tell me I'm good lookin'! Please! Persuasion!Larry� bFrom: Earl Rogers bTo: "StampsArk@yahoogroups.com" bCc: "StampsArk@yahoogroups.com" bSent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 12:16 PM bSubject: Re: [StampsArk] Re: Jarnigan's Pond � Never underestimate the power of persuasion .Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.netOn Feb 8, 2013, at 9:36 PM, "Richard H. Davis, Jr." richard_h_davis@yahoo.com wrote: � My Dad took me to see Mr. Jarnigan.� Mr. Jarnigan rubbed the wart and told me not to look at it for two weeks.� All acid treatments and other tries had failed to get rid of it for over a year.� I tried to follow what he told me to do.� About ten days later I thought about it, looked, and it was gone.� It has never returned.� You tell me how he did it. bFrom: Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.combTo: "StampsArk@yahoogroups.com" StampsArk@yahoogroups.combSent: Wed, February 6, 2013 9:38:18 AMbSubject: Re: [StampsArk] Re: Jarnigan's Pond� How did he do that?�Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC �MSC �USAR �ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA �23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Feb 5, 2013, at 9:23 PM, "Richard H. Davis, Jr." richard_h_davis@yahoo.com wrote: � In the late forties Mark Jarnigan took away a wart on my hand. bFrom: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.combTo: [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] StampsArk@yahoogroups.combSent: Mon, February 4, 2013 9:51:44 PMbSubject: [StampsArk] Re: Jarnigan's Pond� Earl Rogers sends:---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Earl M Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.comDate: Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:10 AMSubject: Re: Jarnigan's PondTo: Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.comCc: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com, "[Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]"StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, Gary Nicholsmorningwoodranch@hotmail.com, Stuart Tribblesgtribble@centurytel.netJWaddell@bmnet.com" JWaddell@bmnet.comMarilou0841@aol.com" Marilou0841@aol.comsidney_melear@yahoo.com"sidney_melear@yah oo.com, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com, LouGraham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com, Dale White dewhite28@att.net,Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com, Carolyn Ropercarolynroper@earthlink.net, "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com,Ronnie Sinquefield RSinque@aol.com, Sid Dicksonsiddickson@sbcglobal.net, David Denman '58dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com, Wayne Patterson '58thepattersons@livingston.net, Mark Herrmannbidmussolini@yahoo.com, Jeff Rehm scanman1958@yahoo.com, Bill &Nadine Moody nbydoom@windstream.net, Carol Richardsoncmr_der@yahoo.comLast June (2012) while visiting stamps, I drove out by Uncle MarkJarnagin's pond....it has grown up so much you can't see it from oakgrove road...and it looks much smaller to me NOW.Uncle Mark died in summer of 50 or 51?Aunt Willie ( my daddy's sister) let me keep my horse in her pasture,so I would many times ride him from my house , thru the pasture touncle Marks pond to swim.I don't think anyone swims there now...not sure where folks swim now.Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC MSC USAR ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA 23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net

372|360|2013-02-10 07:30:29|Earl Rogers|Re: Jarnigan's Pond|Some things are beyond help....like me and you!Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Feb 9, 2013, at 2:32 PM, "Larry H. Gentry" sarge538@yahoo.com wrote: � Tell me I'm good lookin'! Please! Persuasion!Larry� bFrom: Earl Rogers bTo: "StampsArk@yahoogroups.com" bCc: "StampsArk@yahoogroups.com" bSent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 12:16 PM bSubject: Re: [StampsArk] Re: Jarnigan's Pond � Never underestimate the power of persuasion .Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.netOn Feb 8, 2013, at 9:36 PM, "Richard H. Davis, Jr." richard_h_davis@yahoo.com wrote: � My Dad took me to see Mr. Jarnigan.� Mr. Jarnigan rubbed the wart and told me not to look at it for two weeks.� All acid treatments and other tries had failed to get rid of it for over a year.� I tried to follow what he told me to do.� About ten days later I thought about it, looked, and it was gone.� It has never returned.� You tell me how he did it. bFrom: Earl Rogers
earl.rogers1661@yahoo.combTo: "StampsArk@yahoogroups.com" StampsArk@yahoogroups.combSent: Wed, February 6, 2013 9:38:18 AMbSubject: Re: [StampsArk] Re: Jarnigan's Pond� How did he do that?�Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC �MSC �USAR �ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA �23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Feb 5, 2013, at 9:23 PM, "Richard H. Davis, Jr." richard_h_davis@yahoo.com wrote: � In the late forties Mark Jarnigan took away a wart on my hand. bFrom: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.combTo: [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] StampsArk@yahoogroups.combSent: Mon, February 4, 2013 9:51:44 PMbSubject: [StampsArk] Re: Jarnigan's Pond� Earl Rogers sends:---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Earl M Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.comDate: Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:10 AMSubject: Re: Jarnigan's PondTo: Wayne Roper WRoper@ulcoleman.comCc: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com, "[Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]"StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, Gary Nicholsmorningwoodranch@hotmail.com, Stuart Tribblesgtribble@centurytel.netJWaddell@bmnet.com" JWaddell@bmnet.comMarilou0841@aol.com" Marilou0841@aol.comsidney_melear@yahoo.com"sidney_melear@yah oo.com, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com, LouGraham Howard lghoward@triad.rr.com, Dale White dewhite28@att.net,Nelda Perkison gafarm@hotmail.com, Carolyn Ropercarolynroper@earthlink.net, "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com,Ronnie Sinquefield RSinque@aol.com, Sid Dicksonsiddickson@sbcglobal.net, David Denman '58dsdenmandyersburgtn@msn.com, Wayne Patterson '58thepattersons@livingston.net, Mark Herrmannbidmussolini@yahoo.com, Jeff Rehm scanman1958@yahoo.com, Bill Nadine Moody nbydoom@windstream.net, Carol Richardsoncmr_der@yahoo.comLast June (2012) while visiting stamps, I drove out by Uncle MarkJarnagin's pond....it has grown up so much you can't see it from oakgrove road...and it looks much smaller to me NOW.Uncle Mark died in summer of 50 or 51?Aunt Willie ( my daddy's sister) let me keep my horse in her pasture,so I would many times ride him from my house , thru the pasture touncle Marks pond to swim.I don't think anyone swims there now...not sure where folks swim now.Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC MSC USAR ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA 23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net |

373|373|2013-02-21 19:29:53|Tom Sims|Donald Ray Eddy, SHS '49, R.I.P.|Donald Ray Eddy, SHS '49, R.I.P. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03365.jpg MR. DONALD RAY EDDY DURHAM: Mr. Donald Ray Eddy, 81, died February 16, 2013 at Hock Family Pavilion. He was born in Stamps, AR to the late John Henry Eddy and Evie Hamilton Eddy. Mr. Eddy retired from the U.S. Air Force following twenty years of service and was then employed by GTE as an engineer for sixteen years. He is survived by his loving and devoted wife of 58 years, Monique Eddy; children, Bruno Eddy and wife, Carol, Monica Moore, and Michael Eddy and wife, Anne and family; grandchildren, Brian Eddy, Jason Eddy, Joshua Moore, and Shannon Eddy; great-grandchildren Samantha Eddy, Reagan Eddy, and Noah Eddy. A memorial service with military honors will be held Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 2 p.m. at Clements Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Mark Stephens officiating. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in memory of Donald R. Eddy to Hock Family Pavilion, 4023 N. Roxboro Rd., Durham, NC 27704. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51
TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

374|373|2013-02-22 10:48:44|Tom Sims|Re: Donald Ray Eddy, SHS '49, R.I.P.|On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Bill & Nadine Moody nbydoom@windstream.net wrote: Didn't Donald have a sister named Betty Jo? She was not listed with the survivors. Donald Ray Eddy and "Bear" Eddy were both in SHS '49, although I don't know if "Bear" graduated (his picture isn't in the '49 Hilltopper). I don't believe they were related. "Bear" Eddy died a long time ago and Betty Jo was his sister, as I recall. Tom Sims|

375|373|2013-02-24 16:14:27|Tom Sims|Re: Donald Ray Eddy, SHS '49, R.I.P.|I just found her in the '51 Hilltopper. Her name was Betty Jo and she was 5 years behind me - in my brother's class. Best, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nick Nick1934@verizon.net Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:32 PM Subject: RE: Donald Ray Eddy, SHS '49, R.I.P. To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com Bear, had a younger sister I did not remember her name, she was a lot younger than Bear. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Sims [mailto:tes3355@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 12:43 PM To: Bill & Nadine Moody Cc: [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]; Glendon and Ellen Nicholas '52 Subject: Re: Donald Ray Eddy, SHS '49, R.I.P. On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Bill & Nadine Moody nbydoom@windstream.net wrote: Didn't Donald have a sister named Betty Jo? She was not listed with the survivors. Donald Ray Eddy and "Bear" Eddy were both in SHS '49, although I don't know if "Bear" graduated (his picture isn't in the '49 Hilltopper). I don't believe they were related. "Bear" Eddy died a long time ago and Betty Jo was his sister, as I recall. Tom Sims|

376|376|2013-02-24 16:31:46|Tom Sims|Re: The Hilltopper|On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 7:58 AM, RSinque@aol.com wrote: Hello Tom, Does anyone know what year the first Hilltopper was published? Ronnie Sinquefield SHS '55 I don't know, but I have my copy of the '47 Hilltopper. Tom Sims|

377|377|2013-03-02 16:09:00|Tom Sims|SHS '53 60th Reunion|Ive heard a rumor that SHS '53 will be having a 60th reunion gathering during 2013. If anyone has any details, send them to me and I'll post them here on this mailing list and on the Stamps Yahoo group. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

378|378|2013-03-02 16:14:39|Tom Sims|Re: Johnny's class reunion|This is the first I've heard about a 2013 reunion. I just posted an inquiry on my Stamps mailing list. I believe Corrine married Leroy Wheelington. Best, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: nbydoom@windstream.net Date: Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 9:04 AM Subject: Fwd: Johnny's class reunion To: Tom TomESims@west-point.org Johnny Lewis From: "Julius and Margaret Szakasits" jandm@entouch.net To: "Nadine Moody" nbydoom@windstream.net Subject: Johnny's class reunion Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:13:13 -0600 Hi Nadine.My brother John's class is having a reunion and he is trying to contact anyone left in Stamps to find our details. I suggested Corrine but I cannot remember Leroy's last name. He has tried to locate Bill Russell but has been unable to find a contact for him. Do you know of anyone he might contact and how to do it? I'd appreciate any help you can give. I'll forward it on to him. Hope you are doing fine. Hugs, Margaret |

379|377|2013-03-03 09:36:45|Earl Rogers|Re: SHS '53 60th Reunion|TomThat is fantasticPlease let me know any details.I am a '64 grad, but we cannot seem to get our act together to have another...and our 50th is coming soon!!If possible I would attend the 53 reunion...that was Buggs (Bills) class...Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Mar 2, 2013, at 7:08 PM, Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � Ive heard a rumor that SHS '53 will be having a 60th reunion gathering during 2013. If anyone has any details, send them to me and I'll post them here on this mailing list and on the Stamps Yahoo group. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

380|380|2013-03-03 12:36:41|Tom Sims|2000 Picture of Bill "Bugs" Rogers and Oscar Paul Roper|2000 Picture of Bill "Bugs" Rogers and Oscar Paul Roper This picture from Carol Richardson is now in the Stamps Yahoo Group Photos Directory. Direct link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/photos/album/2038056 25/pic/1120152891/view?picmode=original&mode=tn&order=ordina l&start=1&dir=asc or http://tinyurl.com/bu7ddo5|

381|377|2013-03-03 14:40:27|Tom Sims|Re: SHS '53 60th Reunion|Earl: The rumor has been clarified to be for SHS '54 for sometime in 2014. Still no details. I'll post any feedback that I receive for SHS reunions. Best, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com Date: Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 9:36 AM Subject: Re: [StampsArk] SHS '53 60th Reunion To: "StampsArk@yahoogroups.com" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Cc: "Marilou0841@aol.com" Marilou0841@aol.com, sidney melear sidney_melear@yahoo.com Tom That is fantastic Please let me know any details. I am a '64 grad, but we cannot seem to get our act together to have another...and our 50th is coming soon!! If possible I would attend the 53 reunion...that was Buggs (Bills) class... Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net _______________________ On Mar 2, 2013, at 7:08 PM, Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com wrote: Ive heard a rumor that SHS '53 will be having a 60th reunion gathering during 2013. If anyone has any details, send them to me and I'll post them here on this mailing list and on the Stamps Yahoo group. |

382|380|2013-03-05 07:37:49|Tom Sims|Re: 2000 Picture of Bill "Bugs" Rogers and Oscar Paul Roper|Tom Sims wrote: 2000 Picture of Bill "Bugs" Rogers and Oscar Paul Roper This picture from Carol Richardson is now in the Stamps Yahoo Group Photos Directory. Direct link: http://tinyurl.com/bu7ddo5 Earl Rogers asks: Where was this taken?? Earl Rogers ** Lou Dean Graham Howard replies From the background, this photo appears to have been taken during the 50th class reunion (class of 1953) in Stamps in 2003. Lou Dean Graham Howard|

383|383|2013-03-14 20:00:18|Tom Sims|Esther Lindsey, R.I.P.|Esther Lindsey, R.I.P. Esther O'Neal Lindsey, age 92, of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Saturday, February 23, 2013, at St. Michael Hospital in Texarkana. Mrs. Lindsey was born December 4, 1920, in Columbia County, Arkansas, to Joseph Cleveland and Myrtie Caswell O'Neal. She was a loving daughter, friend, mother, and grandmother. Mrs. Lindsey was a member of The First United Methodist Church in Stamps, AR, a past member of the Order of the Easter Star and La Societe de la Femme, and retired from Western Auto. Mrs. Lindsey was preceded in death by her husband, Byron Lindsey, and daughter, Karen Nipper. She is survived by one son, Kent Lindsey and wife, Lise of Atlanta, GA; son-in-law, David Nipper of Benton, LA; grandchildren, Karah Lindsey of Atlanta, GA; Jarrod Nipper and wife, Lacy; and Zane Nipper and fiancée, Rachael all of the Shreveport-Bossier area; great grandchildren, Skylar, Kennedy, McKenzie and Teddy also of the Shreveport-Bossier area; and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral Services will be held at 2 pm Saturday, March 2, 2013, at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR, with Rev. Mark Rivers officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps, AR. Visitation will be held from 5-7 pm Friday, March 1, 2013, at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

384|384|2013-04-14 10:33:17|Tom Sims|Carrol Allen SHS '56, R.I.P.|CURTIS CARROL ALLEN Curtis Carrol Allen, age 74, of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, passed away Thursday, April 11, 2013. Mr. Allen was born November 11, 1938, in Stamps, Arkansas, to Curtis and Euna Allen. He was a longtime member of the Stamps Volunteer Fire Department. Mr. Allen was preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by his wife, Betty Stevens Allen of Arkadelphia, AR; his sons, Guy Allen and wife, Amy of Arkadelphia; and Jerry Allen and wife, Cletauis of Stamps, AR; daughter, Penny Allen of Arkadelphia; brother, Mac Allen of Stamps, AR; sister-in-law, Sarah Burns of Stamps, AR; and five grandchildren. Memorial Services will be determined at a later date. Memorials may be made to Stamps Volunteer Fire Department or Liberty Cemetery. Cards may be sent to Guy Allen, 1927 Central Rd, Arkadelphia, Arkansas 71923. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

385|384|2013-04-14 17:15:20|Tom Sims|Re: Carrol Allen SHS '56, R.I.P.|Carrol was in my Brother's class at SHS and ran an auto repair business next to the Stamps Cafe for many years. He lived across the road from the Grimmett's, in the country out near Liberty Church. After Mr. Grimmett died, Mrs Grimmett lived there alone, and her son Bill Ed (my classmate) lived about a mile away. While Bill Ed was county sherrif, Mrs. Grimmett heard someone prowling around her house one night and she called Bill Ed on the phone. Bill Ed wasn't home, so Gay (his wife) called Bill Ed on the radio, and he said he was on his way. Carrol Allen often monitored the police band on his radio, and that night he was sitting in his house, wearing only his skivvies, when he heard Gay's message. He grabbed a sawed off shotgun, ran across the road, tackled the prowler (a black man), sat on the prowler's stomach, put the shotgun barrel under his chin and told him to stay put. Carrol was a very large person and when Bill Ed arrived, the very terrified prowler was thankful that he was being arrested and no longer had Carrol sitting on his stomach.|

386|386|2013-04-29 19:41:54|LouH|Obituary|� b style=""font face="Arial Narrow"VETAspan style=""� /spanGWYNspan style=""� /spanGRAHAMspan style=""� /spanBLEWSTER/font/b � December 29, 1926 � November 17, 2012 � �� Veta Gwyn Graham Blewster, 85, went to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Saturday, November 17, 2012�� at her residence. �� She graduated from Arkansas State Teachers College in Conway in 1948 with a degree in Elementary Education and a minor in Music.� She was a public school music teacher in Stamps, Arkansas; Magnolia, Arkansas; Stillwater, Oklahoma; Ponca City, Oklahoma; Pine Bluff, Arkansas; and for 30 years in the El Dorado School System.� Veta enjoyed playing the piano.� She accompanied her husband and children, as well as many vocalists in the area.� She was active in several community music groups. For many years, Veta was an active member of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, a professional honorary society for women educators.� She was "Teacher of the Year" in El Dorado in 1982, retired in 1985, and joined her husband in operating Blewster's Antiques in 1986. �� She was an active choir member in First United Methodist Church for over forty years, was director of the Methodist Youth Fellowship, and a teacher and member of the Open Door Sunday School class. �� Veta and her husband enjoyed aviation.� She was one of the few women aviators in El Dorado who could boast of being a survivor of an airplane crash while piloting. �� She was preceded in death by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan E. Graham of Stamps, Arkansas; and her brother, Reverend Doyne E. Graham of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. �� Veta is survived by her husband, W. Carroll Blewster, Sr. of El Dorado, Arkansas; two children � Gwyn Blewster Stuart of El Dorado, Arkansas and W. Carroll Blewster, Jr. of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; her sister, Lou Dean Graham Howard and her husband, Robert H. Howard of High Point, North Carolina; four grandchildren � Rachel Stuart Haas of Shreveport, Louisiana; Sarah Stuart Storm of Franklin, Tennessee;� Winston C. Blewster, III of New Orleans, Louisiana; Winifred Blewster of New Orleans, Louisiana; and six great grandchildren. �� Veta and Carroll were members of the Clan Graham Society.�� |

387|387|2013-04-29 19:56:46|Tom Sims|VETA GWYN GRAHAM BLEWSTER, R.I.P.|VETA GWYN GRAHAM BLEWSTER, R.I.P. December 29, 1926 "� November 17, 2012 Veta Gwyn Graham Blewster, 85, went to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Saturday, November 17, 2012 at her residence. She graduated from Arkansas State Teachers College in Conway in 1948 with a degree in Elementary Education and a minor in Music. She was a public school music teacher in Stamps, Arkansas; Magnolia, Arkansas; Stillwater, Oklahoma; Ponca City, Oklahoma; Pine Bluff, Arkansas; and for 30 years in the El Dorado School System. Veta enjoyed playing the piano. She accompanied her husband and children, as well as many vocalists in the area. She was active in several community music groups. For many years, Veta was an active member of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, a professional honorary society for women educators. She was "Teacher of the Year" in El Dorado in 1982, retired in 1985, and joined her husband in operating Blewster's Antiques in 1986. She was an active choir member in First United Methodist Church for over forty years, was director of the Methodist Youth Fellowship, and a teacher and member of the Open Door Sunday School class. Veta and her husband enjoyed aviation. She was one of the few women aviators in El Dorado who could boast of being a survivor of an airplane crash while piloting. She was preceded in death by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan E. Graham of Stamps, Arkansas; and her brother, Reverend Doyne E. Graham of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Veta is survived by her husband, W. Carroll Blewster, Sr. of El Dorado, Arkansas; two children "� Gwyn Blewster Stuart of El Dorado, Arkansas and W. Carroll Blewster, Jr. of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; her sister, Lou Dean Graham Howard and her husband, Robert H. Howard of High Point, North Carolina; four grandchildren "� Rachel Stuart Haas of Shreveport, Louisiana; Sarah Stuart Storm of Franklin, Tennessee; Winston C. Blewster, III of New Orleans, Louisiana; Winifred Blewster of New Orleans, Louisiana; and six great grandchildren. Veta and Carroll were members of the Clan Graham Society. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

388|388|2013-05-15 21:39:26|Tom Sims|Ann Hudgens Russell, SHS '51 R.I.P.|Ann Hudgens Russell, SHS '51 R.I.P. My classmate, Ann Hudgens Russell, died this afternoon (Wednesday 15 May) around 3:00. The Family will be making funeral arrangements tomorrow. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

389|388|2013-05-17 08:38:21|Tom Sims|Re: Ann Hudgens Russell, SHS '51 R.I.P.|Ann's Obituary _ ALICE ANN RUSSELL Alice Ann Russell, age 79, of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Mrs. Russell was born August 21, 1933, in Stamps to Otis "Bud"� and Maureen Hudgins. She graduated from Stamps High School and attended Southern State College to study music. She worked as a High School Band Director for a few years. Mrs. Russell began working at the Department of Human Services in 1966 and retired in 1994 after twenty-eight years. She was a loving wife and mother who always thought of her family first. Mrs. Russell was preceded in death by her parents; and brother, William Otis Hudgins and sister-in-law, Carolyn Hudgins. She is survived by her husband of fifty-seven years, Clifford Crockett Russell, Jr., having married in Stamps on June 25, 1955; two sons, William Clifford Russell of Falcon, AR, and Robert Brown Russell and wife, Tammie of Stamps, AR; grandchildren, Chris Russell, Kathryn Russell, Amelia Russell, and Luke Russell; four great grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews, relatives, and friends. Graveside Services will be held at 5 pm Saturday, May 18, 2013, at Falcon Cemetery under the direction of Smith Funeral Homes with Bro. Mike Turner officiating. Visitation will be held from 6-8 pm Friday, May 17, 2013, at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, AR. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com.|

390|376|2013-05-18 11:16:18|LouH|Re: The Hilltopper|Tom, You may have a copy of the first Hilltopper in the '47. Veta graduated from SHS in '44. There was no Hilltopper then. I completed 6th grade in '47. I remember the Hilltopper being started, but I am not sure of the year. If the yearbook was started before '44, it may have been stopped because of WWII. When we were cleaning Mother's house for the last time,Dad had a lot of the Hilltoppers. I asked Mavis Henry if the SHS Library could use them. She was glad to take them to that library, because someone "in their wisdom" had discarded the collection of SHS yearbooks as something they did not need to keep. Doyne and I kept our Senior yearbooks. Lou Graham Howard '53 --- In StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, Tom Sims tes3355@... wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 7:58 AM, RSinque@... wrote: Hello Tom, Does anyone know what year the first Hilltopper was published? Ronnie Sinquefield SHS '55 I don't know, but I have my copy of the '47 Hilltopper. Tom Sims |

391|376|2013-05-18 19:20:27|Tom Sims|Re: The Hilltopper|Lou Graham Howard wrote: Tom, You may have a copy of the first Hilltopper in the '47. Veta graduated from SHS in '44. There was no Hilltopper then. I completed 6th grade in '47. I remember the Hilltopper being started, but I am not sure of the year. If the yearbook was started before '44, it may have been stopped because of WWII. When we were cleaning Mother's house for the last time,Dad had a lot of the Hilltoppers. I asked Mavis Henry if the SHS Library could use them. She was glad to take them to that library, because someone "in their wisdom" had discarded the collection of SHS yearbooks as something they did not need to keep. Doyne and I kept our Senior yearbooks. Lou Graham Howard '53 _ Interesting. I didn't have any idea about how far back the Hilltopper's go. So, I wonder if they had annuals before 1947 with another name. I know they changed the name from Hilltopper to something else later on. Tom Sims|

392|392|2013-05-20 11:07:50|LouH|Thank You for This Site.|Tom, Thank you for setting up this site. I appreciate the obituaries, but when I read Donald Eddy's, I realized for the first time that he, his wife and family were in Durham, NC and my family is in High Point, NC - not far away. Donald and his family lived near us on Opera Street in Stamps. He was like a brother to Doyne and me. The last time I saw him was at Southern State. He was a senior and I a freshman. Although many members of this site may be retired, it would be nice to know where they live and anything they wish to share about themselves or family members. I am a member of two YAHOO Groups, but I have not tried to 'Start a Group'. There may be restrictions. Lou Graham Howard SHS '53|

393|376|2013-05-21 20:00:07|JC Smith|Re: The Hilltopper| Tom: � I talked to my Aunt, Elizabeth Galloway Williams.� She said Stamps didn't have a year book when she was in school.� She said the school paper had a gossip column called Clean Mud. � Aunt Elizabeth is celebrating her 92nd birthday today. � J C Smith Jr � ----- Original Message ----- bFrom:/b Tom Sims bTo:/b [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] bSent:/b Saturday, May 18, 2013 9:19 PM bSubject:/b [StampsArk] Re: The Hilltopper � Lou Graham Howard wrote:Tom,You may have a copy of the first Hilltopper in the '47. Veta graduated fromSHS in '44. There was no Hilltopper then. I completed 6th grade in '47. Iremember the Hilltopper being started, but I am not sure of the year.If the yearbook was started before '44, it may have been stopped because ofWWII.When we were cleaning Mother's house for the last time,Dad had a lot of theHilltoppers. I asked Mavis Henry if the SHS Library could use them. She wasglad to take them to that library, because someone "in their wisdom" haddiscarded the collection of SHS yearbooks as something they did not need tokeep.Doyne and I kept our Senior yearbooks.Lou Graham Howard '53_Interesting.I didn't have any idea about how far back the Hilltopper's go.So, I wonder if they had annuals before 1947 with another name.I know they changed the name from Hilltopper to something elselater on.Tom Sims |

394|376|2013-05-24 06:18:50|Seth Baker|Re: The Hilltopper| Friends: FYI,� I have a copy of the 1946 Hilltopper, the first year they published after the war. Seth Baker From: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Sat, May 18, 2013 9:20:31 PMbSubject: [StampsArk] Re: The Hilltopper � Lou Graham Howard wrote:Tom,You may have a copy of the first Hilltopper in the '47. Veta graduated fromSHS in '44. There was no Hilltopper then. I completed 6th grade in '47. Iremember the Hilltopper being started, but I am not sure of the year.If the yearbook was started before '44, it may have been stopped because ofWWII.When we were cleaning Mother's house for the last time,Dad had a lot of theHilltoppers. I asked Mavis Henry if the SHS Library could use them. She wasglad to take them to that library, because someone "in their wisdom" haddiscarded the collection of SHS yearbooks as something they did not need tokeep.Doyne and I kept our Senior yearbooks.Lou Graham Howard '53_________________Interesting.I didn't have any idea about how far back the Hilltopper's go.So, I wonder if they had annuals before 1947 with another name.I know they changed the name from Hilltopper to something elselater on.Tom Sims |

395|395|2013-06-11 21:41:24|Tom Sims|Bill A. McKamie SHS '59 R.I.P.|Bill A. McKamie SHS '59 R.I.P. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03380.jpg Bill A. McKamie, 72, of Texarkana, Ark., died Sunday, June 2, 2013, in a local hospital. Mr. McKamie was born April 29, 1941, Falcon, Ark. He was retired from Borden Milk Company, an employee of Texarkana Gazette, and a member of Christ United Methodist Church. Survivors include his wife, Reba Peyton McKamie of Texarkana; two daughters, Maleah Powell and Mindy Morton of Lewisville, Ark.; two stepdaughters, Donna Morris of Maud, Texas, and Debbie Brister of Texarkana; one stepson, Wayne Liston of Texarkana; one brother, Arvis McKamie of Indianapolis; eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a number of other relatives. Memorial services will be 3 p.m. Tuesday at Texarkana Funeral Home, Arkansas, with the Rev. David Kassos officiating. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/

396|396|2013-06-13 20:31:15|Tom Sims|Stamps Contact List|I've just set up a "Stamps Contact List" link for listing contact information on anyone who cares to be included. My data is the only entry now and I'll add anyone who posts or sends me their information. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m The link is now on the Stamps Yahoo page and on the SHS '51 page. I'll give it wider exposure if there's any interest here. I would also enjoy reading biographical data on people from Stamps, and there is some on '51 grads on the '51 website. Everyone is welcome/encouraged to share theirs here. I run several Yahoo groups and believe that anyone can start a group. Tom Sims _____________________________________ Lou Graham Howard wrote: Thank you for setting up this site. I appreciate the obituaries, but when I read Donald Eddy's, I realized for the first time that he, his wife and family were in Durham, NC and my family is in High Point, NC - not far away. Donald and his family lived near us on Opera Street in Stamps. He was like a brother to Doyne and me. The last time I saw him was at Southern State. He was a senior and I a freshman. Although many members of this site may be retired, it would be nice to know where they live and anything they wish to share about themselves or family members. I am a member of two YAHOO Groups, but I have not tried to 'Start a Group'. There may be restrictions. Lou Graham Howard SHS '53|

397|396|2013-06-13 21:25:29|JC Smith|Re: Stamps Contact List| Tom: � Please add my contact Information: � James C� (J C) Smith Jr� SHS 65� San Antonio, TX� (210) 522-6167�� n5rxs@satx.rr.com � Thank you � J C Smith � ----- Original Message ----- bFrom:/b Tom Sims bTo:/b [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] bSent:/b Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:28 PM bSubject:/b [StampsArk] Stamps Contact List � I've just set up a "Stamps Contact List" link for listing contact informationon anyone who cares to be included. My data is the only entry now andI'll add anyone who posts or sends me their information.http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/S HS/0_List.htmThe link is now on the Stamps Yahoo page and on the SHS '51 page.I'll give it wider exposure if there's any interest here.I would also enjoy reading biographical data on people from Stamps,and there is some on '51 grads on the '51 website. Everyone iswelcome/encouraged to share theirs here.I run several Yahoo groups and believe that anyone can start a group.Tom Sims_____________________________________Lou Graham Howard wrote:Thank you for setting up this site. I appreciate the obituaries, but when Iread Donald Eddy's, I realized for the first time that he, his wife andfamily were in Durham, NC and my family is in High Point, NC - not far away.Donald and his family lived near us on Opera Street in Stamps. He was like abrother to Doyne and me. The last time I saw him was at Southern State. Hewas a senior and I a freshman.Although many members of this site may be retired, it would be nice to knowwhere they live and anything they wish to share about themselves or familymembers.I am a member of two YAHOO Groups, but I have not tried to 'Start a Group'.There may be restrictions.Lou Graham HowardSHS '53 |

398|396|2013-06-13 21:55:20|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps Contact List|On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:25 PM, JC Smith n5rxs@satx.rr.com wrote: Please add my contact Information: James C (J C) Smith Jr SHS 65 San Antonio, TX (210) 522-6167 n5rxs@satx.rr.com Done. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m TES|

399|396|2013-06-13 22:37:36|Stu Tribble|Re: Stamps Contact List|Stuart Tribble �SHS '61 Vashon Island, �WA. 206-463-2374. sgtribble@centurytel.netSent from my iPad On Jun 13, 2013, at 8:28 PM, Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � I've just set up a "Stamps Contact List" link for listing contact information on anyone who cares to be included. My data is the only entry now and I'll add anyone who posts or sends me their information. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m The link is now on the Stamps Yahoo page and on the SHS '51 page. I'll give it wider exposure if there's any interest here. I would also enjoy reading biographical data on people from Stamps, and there is some on '51 grads on the '51 website. Everyone is welcome/encouraged to share theirs here. I run several Yahoo groups and believe that anyone can start a group. Tom Sims _____________________________________ Lou Graham Howard wrote: Thank you for setting up this site. I appreciate the obituaries, but when I read Donald Eddy's, I realized for the first time that he, his wife and family were in Durham, NC and my family is in High Point, NC - not far away. Donald and his family lived near us on Opera Street in Stamps. He was like a brother to Doyne and me. The last time I saw him was at Southern State. He was a senior and I a freshman. Although many members of this site may be retired, it would be nice to know where they live and anything they wish to share about themselves or family members. I am a member of two YAHOO Groups, but I have not tried to 'Start a Group'. There may be restrictions.
Lou Graham Howard SHS '53 |

400|396|2013-06-14 07:47:39|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps Contact List|On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Stu Tribble stu.tribble@yahoo.com wrote: Stuart Tribble SHS '61 Vashon Island, WA. 206-463-2374. sgtribble@centurytel.net You're on the list now: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m TES|

401|401|2013-06-14 10:03:00|Earl Rogers|high school reunion|I was just back home in Stamps visiting. WE NEED TO HAVE ANOTHER CLASS OF 1964 REUNION....AND ANY OTHER CLASS THAT WANTS TO JOIN US. 2014 will be our FIFTIETH (50)_ YEAR OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND WE NEED TO GET TOGETHER WHILE THERE ARE STILL SOME OF US LEFT. I will gladly drive in for our reunion from Richmond Virginia, and I will be glad to do what ever work needs to be done that I can accomplish from afar. Last time we had a reception at the Stamps City Hall across from old Ford Place, and dinner at a motel in Texarkana. I think I can set this up over the phone from Virginia, if yall want to have a reunion. Many other classes have been very good about having regular reunions., Class of 64 has had only 2 in past 49 years....we can do better....besides I would like to see everyone's smiling face once again;. LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK, AND WHEN YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A REUNION, IF YOU DO. Earl M. Rogers Stamps High School Class of 1964 Class President earl.rogers1661@gmail.com|

402|396|2013-06-14 10:29:15|Earl Rogers|Re: Stamps Contact List|Tomyou are very timely , as usual.Please add me to the list.Earl M. Rogersearl.rogers@comcast.netearl.rogers1661@gmail.comTom:I just posted a message on yahoo, but would like you to broadcast this in any other manner you can. thanks so much for all you do to keep us in touch with one another.Tom: fyi: �Sidney Melear and I visited with John Raymond McDonald �(SHS class of 1948) in St Michael's rehab hospt Wednesday, June 12.The next day I got a call from Patsy Hanson Traywick, (Patsy is Fay Hanson's youngest daughter, class of 1954, I think)that the docs had to amputate John Raymond's second leg due to severe �circulatory insufficiency. �His leg was black in spots and looked like gangrene had set in. �He survived the surgery and will probably be transferred to HOMESTEAD MANOR IN STAMPS WHEN HE HAS RECUPERATED.Note to all Stamps class of 1964 alumni and other interested folks:�I was just in Stamps visiting, and� WE NEED TO HAVE ANOTHER CLASS REUNION.THE STAMPS HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1964 WILL BE OUT OF SCHOOL 50 (FIFTY) YEARS IN 2014!! � AND WE HAVE �ONLY HAD TWO (2) REUNIONS IN 49 YEARS.I will be glad to do whatever legwork is necessary and that I can do from Virginia for us to get together, and I would love to see any other former Stamps students and/or friends. � Our little town is so small that we all share common friends and acquaintances.�Last time we had a reception at the Stamps City Hall and a dinner at a motel in Texarkana. �I think I can set that up over the telephone.Is there any interest in the class of 1964 (and other classes) getting together? �if so , give me some dates? and suggested places , if not City Hall for reception?I look forward to hearing from yall.Earl M. RogersStamps High SchoolPresident of the Class of 1964Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jun 13, 2013, at 10:28 PM, Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � I've just set up a "Stamps Contact List" link for listing contact information on anyone who cares to be included. My data is the only entry now and I'll add anyone who posts or sends me their information. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m The link is now on the Stamps Yahoo page and on the SHS '51 page. I'll give it wider exposure if there's any interest here. I would also enjoy reading biographical data on people from Stamps, and there is some on '51 grads on the '51 website. Everyone is welcome/encouraged to share theirs here. I run several Yahoo groups and believe that anyone can start a group. Tom Sims _____________________________________ Lou Graham Howard wrote: Thank you for setting up this site. I appreciate the obituaries, but when I read Donald Eddy's, I realized for the first time that he, his wife and family were in Durham, NC and my family is in High Point, NC - not far away. Donald and his family lived near us on Opera Street in Stamps. He was like a brother to Doyne and me. The last time I saw him was at Southern State. He was a senior and I a freshman. Although many members of this site may be retired, it would be nice to know where they live and anything they wish to share about themselves or family members. I am a member of two YAHOO Groups, but I have not tried to 'Start a Group'. There may be restrictions. Lou Graham Howard SHS '53 |

403|401|2013-06-14 15:20:12|Larry H. Gentry|Re: high school reunion|Great idea! Sign me up.Larry bFrom: Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com bTo: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bSent: Friday, June 14, 2013 12:02 PM bSubject: [StampsArk] high school reunion � I was just back home in Stamps visiting. WE NEED TO HAVE ANOTHER CLASS OF 1964 REUNION....AND ANY OTHER CLASS THAT WANTS TO JOIN US. 2014 will be our FIFTIETH (50)_ YEAR OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND WE NEED TO GET TOGETHER WHILE THERE ARE STILL SOME OF US LEFT. I will gladly drive in for our reunion from Richmond Virginia, and I will be glad to do what ever work needs to be done that I can accomplish from afar. Last time we had a reception at the Stamps City Hall across from old Ford Place, and dinner at a motel in Texarkana. I think I can set this up over the phone from Virginia, if yall want to have a reunion. Many other classes have been very good about having regular reunions., Class of 64 has had only 2 in past 49 years....we can do better....besides I would like to see everyone's smiling face once again;. LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK, AND WHEN YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A REUNION, IF YOU DO. Earl M. Rogers Stamps High School Class of 1964 Class President earl.rogers1661@gmail.com |

404|401|2013-06-15 07:34:13|Earl Rogers|Re: high school reunion|I was hoping to see your smiling faceTake careSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jun 14, 2013, at 12:59 PM, "Larry H. Gentry" sarge538@yahoo.com wrote: � Great idea! Sign me up.Larry bFrom: Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com bTo: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bSent: Friday, June 14, 2013 12:02 PM bSubject: [StampsArk] high school reunion � I was just back home in Stamps visiting. WE NEED TO HAVE ANOTHER CLASS OF 1964 REUNION....AND ANY OTHER CLASS THAT WANTS TO JOIN US. 2014 will be our FIFTIETH (50)_ YEAR OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND WE NEED TO GET TOGETHER WHILE THERE ARE STILL SOME OF US LEFT. I will gladly drive in for our reunion from Richmond Virginia, and I will be glad to do what ever work needs to be done that I can accomplish from afar. Last time we had a reception at the Stamps City Hall across from old Ford Place, and dinner at a motel in Texarkana. I think I can set this up over the phone from Virginia, if yall want to have a reunion. Many other classes have been very good about having regular reunions., Class of 64 has had only 2 in past 49 years....we can do better....besides I would like to see everyone's smiling face once again;. LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK, AND WHEN YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A REUNION,
IF YOU DO. Earl M. Rogers Stamps High School Class of 1964 Class President earl.rogers1661@gmail.com |

405|396|2013-06-16 01:16:55|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps Contact List|Earl: You're on the list now. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m Sorry to hear about John Raymond's health problems. I've known John Raymond forever, and have seen him many times when I made return visits to Stamps over the years. The last time I remember seeing and talking with him was in 1989. Patsy Hanson Trawick worked at the bank and was a neighbor of my mother on East Honeysuckle, and she and John Raymond were Significant Others to each other. Tom Sims ______________________________________ Earl Rogers wrote: Tom you are very timely , as usual. Please add me to the list. Earl M. Rogers Tom: fyi: Sidney Melear and I visited with John Raymond McDonald (SHS class of 1948) in St Michael's rehab hospt Wednesday, June 12. The next day I got a call from Patsy Hanson Traywick, (Patsy is Fay Hanson's youngest daughter, class of 1954, I think)that the docs had to amputate John Raymond's second leg due to severe circulatory insufficiency. His leg was black in spots and looked like gangrene had set in. He survived the surgery and will probably be transferred to HOMESTEAD MANOR IN STAMPS WHEN HE HAS RECUPERATED.|

406|396|2013-06-16 06:52:18|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps Contact List|We now have 6 entries on the Stamps Contact List and they are scattered all over the USA. Coast to coast and in between. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m|

407|396|2013-06-16 18:05:58|mth2md|Re: Stamps Contact List|Tom, Add me and Judy to the Stamps contact list. Murray and Judy (Davis) Harris W5XH@cox.net, Jah2@cox.net (either email will work) 1940 W. Pratt Drive, Fayetteville, AR 72701 SHS 1961|

408|396|2013-06-16 18:42:31|Earl Rogers|Re: Stamps Contact List|TomI'm on the road now but patsy Hanson traywick called this am to tell me John Raymond mc Donald died last nightHe had his second leg amputated due to poor circulation the other day and threw. Blood clot.His obit should be out soonEarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jun 16, 2013, at 8:50 AM, Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � We now have 6 entries on the Stamps Contact List and they are scattered all over the USA. Coast to coast and in between. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m |

409|409|2013-06-16 21:44:02|Tom Sims|John Raymond McDonald, SHS '48 R.I.P.|John Raymond McDonald, SHS '48 R.I.P. John Raymond died Saturday 15 June after he had his second leg amputated due to poor circulation. I'll post his obituary on the Stamps Yahoo website if it becomes available. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

410|396|2013-06-16 22:04:01|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps Contact List| Tom, Add me and Judy to the Stamps contact list. Murray and Judy (Davis) Harris W5XH@cox.net, Jah2@cox.net (either email will work) 1940 W. Pratt Drive, Fayetteville, AR 72701 SHS 1961 You're on the list now. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m Best, Tom Sims|

411|409|2013-06-17 08:27:50|Tom Sims|Re: John Raymond McDonald, SHS '48 R.I.P.|Obituary http://www.aosmithfuneralhome.com/Pages/JohnRMcDonald.aspx John R. McDonald John R. McDonald, age 83, of Stamps, Arkansas passed away at a Texarkana Hospital Saturday, June 15, 2013. He was born June 13, 1930 in Stamps, Arkansas to James C. and Augusta Knott McDonald. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Stamps, and a Korean War Veteran. He is survived by One Brother; James McDonald of Ashdown, Nephew Jimmy McDonald of Texarkana, Niece Ann Musial of Bentonville, Arkansas, a loving friend Patsy Traywick of Stamps, and many other friends and relatives. A Graveside service will be held at 2p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps with Bro. Mike Turner officiating. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com|

412|412|2013-06-19 15:46:08|Tom Sims|Tom Sims Biographical Information|Tom Sims Biographical Information Here's the link to my Personal Web Page on the SHS '51 website, which includes my Biographical Information: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/TES.htm Tom Sims|

413|413|2013-06-19 15:46:23|Tom Sims|James Aubrey Waddell Biographical Information|In response to the Biographical Information suggestion, Aubrey Waddell starts the ball rolling. _____________________ James Aubrey Waddell Biographical Information James Aubrey Waddell, North Little Rock Sylvan Hills High '76 (would have been Stamps '76 but we moved from Stamps in 1971 to what was then the outskirts of North Little Rock and is now part of Sherwood, AR). Graduated from UAMS College of Pharmacy 1983 with BS in Pharmacy. Worked as pharmacist at Helena Hospital in Helena, AR, from 1983 to 1984. Was second lieutenant in 810th Station Hospital U.S. Army Reserve unit at Camp Robinson, AR, from 1981 to 1984. Commissioned second lieutenant, Regular Army, U.S. Army Medical Service Corps in 1984 and served 21 years of active duty, divided among Texas, Georgia, Arizona, Republic of Korea, New Jersey, and Washington, DC. While in Army, obtained Doctor of Pharmacy degree from UAMS and received residency training in hospital pharmacy and oncology pharmacy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC. Retired from U.S. Army as Lieutenant Colonel in 2005 and joined faculty of University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville Campus. Since 2005 have practiced and taught oncology pharmacy for the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy at Blount Memorial Hospital in Maryville, TN. Spouse of 28 years is Debbie (McKinney) Waddell (Sylvan Hills '79, BS Business Administration UCA '83), high school sweetheart. Two sons, Alex, 20, (sophomore soccer player at Maryville College) and Austin, 18, (Freshman soccer player at Lee University). Sunday School teacher and choir member at First Baptist of Alcoa, TN. Hobbies include distance running (400 career races including three Boston Marathons and New York Marathon) and soccer refereeing (over 600 matches refereed). Debbie's hobby is trail hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains.|

415|414|2013-06-30 18:31:18|mth2md|Mary Ann Davis Hastings|Judy's sister and my sister-in-law, Mary Ann Davis Hastings, passed away on the 26th of June from ovarian carcinoma and renal failure. She was a graduate of SHS and attended Magnolia A&M and then the University of Oklahoma. This is the obituary published in the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Murray Harris HASTINGS Mary Ann Hastings went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, June 26, 2013. She died peacefully at home on her husband's, Reg, birthday.Beloved wife of the late Reg Hastings of 62 years. Loving mother of Scott Hastings (Diny), Sharon Billeaud (Paul) and Ann LeBlanc (the late Ashton "Manny"). Sister of Judy Harris (Murray). Aunt of four special nieces. Also survived by six grandchildren, Brian (Andrea) and Eric Billeaud, Katie Lewis (Peter), Scott and Reggie Hastings, and Joey LeBlanc, and two great grandchildren Paul James and Mary Beth Billeaud. Mary Ann was born September 20, 1928 in Nashville, Arkansas to Carl and Mary Davis. After the death of her mother, in childbirth, she spent her early years looking for a good mom for her and wife for Papaw. She found Julia Bridges and proposed to her. Mamaw was the epitome of unconditional love. Later, a sister Judy was added to make the family complete. She and Reg attended University of Oklahoma, where she obtained her degree in Home Economics and later received an Education Certification from Holy Cross College in New Orleans. She touched many lives as a teacher, first at Grace Presbyterian Church in Lafayette, Aurora Gardens Academy, and Belle Chasse Elementary in New Olreans. She helped with many family moves as an Exxon wife with the final move to New Orleans in 1969. She was active in Republican Woman organizations; chairman for many years of the Walnut Bend Night Out Against Crime. She spent much time helping with political campaigns in New Orleans and any cause she felt passionate about. She loved to host friends and family and show them her New Orleans. Family and friends of the family are invited to attend the visitation at Oak Park Baptist Church, 1110 Kabel Drive, New Orleans, La., on Saturday, June 29, 2013 from 1pm to 2pm. Funeral service will follow. Interment will be private. MOTHE FUNERAL HOME is in charge of the arrangements. For directions or to view and sign the online guestbook, please visit: www.mothefunerals.com|

416|396|2013-07-04 23:15:30|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps Contact List|Earl Rogers wrote: As we approach the 50th anniv of the class of 1964 I am trying to figure out how to put a class reunion ( and other classes too) together. Anyone have any experience with an ad in the Lafayette co paper or magnolia paper or the Texarkana gazette? Any idea where to,have this get together..and when ( June 2014?) It would be a shame to let our 50th anniv pass without a get together? As I recall, when we had our 50th in 2001, we limited our organizing efforts to contacting every classmate (and teacher) we had data for and searching the internet for ones we couldn't find from classmate contact. I believe we got word to every living classmate except one, and we suspect that she had died (still don't know for sure). I don't believe we formally invited or notified other classes, but all were welcome and several attended one or more events. We had two official events: Lunch and reception in the First Baptist Church social room and dinner and banquet in a private room at a restaurant in Magnolia. In addition we had several smaller, informal functions and had planned to attend a home game, but it had been cancelled or re-scheduled for some reason. The main organizers and our Stamps classmates worked very hard to make our 50th a success and I thought it worked out very well. Keep us posted on any plans. Tom Sims SHS '51|

417|417|2013-07-14 10:49:01|Tom Sims|Ovie Stevens, R.I.P.|Ovie Stevens, R.I.P. Ovie Stevens, age 90, of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Monday, June 24, 2013. Mrs. Stevens was born May 14, 1923, in Lawhon, Louisiana, to Walter and Cora Lee Peevy. She was a fifty year member of the Order of the Eastern Star and a longtime member of First Baptist Church in Stamps. Mrs. Stevens was preceded in death by her parents; adoptive mother, Elda Spinks; husband, R.E. "Bud"� Stevens; two brothers, Coot Peevy and Lynn Peevy; and great granddaughter, Ashlee Jewell Ann Fitzgerlad. She is survived by two daughters, Cora Ann Fitzgerald and Sherry Lee Phillips both of Stamps, AR; sister, Dorothy Jean May and husband, Will of Magnolia, AR; grandchildren, Temple Foreman and wife, Cheyanne, Krystalle Ann Lawrence and husband, Matt both from Stamps, AR, Kathy Ann Fitzgerald, LaDonna Harrell and husband, Blake both of Magnolia, AR, Neeley Phillips of Benton, AR, Joe Phillips and wife, Karen of Stamps, AR, and Clint W. Phillips and wife, Catherine of Magnolia, AR; ten great grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews, and other relatives. Funeral Services will be held at 2 pm Wednesday, June 26, 2013, at First Baptist Church in Stamps, AR, with Bro. Mike Turner officiating. Interment will follow at Oak Grove Cemetery in Stamps under the direction of Smith Funeral Homes of Stamps, AR. Visitation will held from 6-8 pm Tuesday, June 25, 2013, at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, AR. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. Ovie and Bud were next door neighbors to my parents on School Street for many years. They were good friends and involved in many church and Masonic/Eastern Star activities with them. I went to school with Ovie's sisters and brothers. Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

418|418|2013-08-14 21:18:28|Tom Sims|SHS '64 50th Reunion in 2014|SHS '64 50th Reunion in 2014 If you have any contact information for any of the Reuter sisters, pleas send directly to Darrell Kuykendall: dwk1944@gmail.com _ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com Date: Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 3:22 PM Subject: Trying to locate some Stamps people To: Tom Sims TES3355@gmail.com Tom: I need your help. The class of 1964 is trying to put together a class reunion, and I was contacted to try and find one of theirs, a Gracie Reuter. I told Earl Rogers that I would try to locate her, but the only email and physical address that I had for Donna Reuter Hammond was in Fruitland Park, Florida and it did not work out and I have simply been unable to locate any of the Reuter girls. This address I had was for Donna and her sister Maggie, I believe. So, I was hoping that maybe you could put the word out to help try and locate any one of the four Reuter girls. Their names are/were Linda Reuter, Donna Reuter Hammond, Gracie Reuter, and Maggie Reuter. I graduated in 1962, and Linda probably graduated some five or six years before me. Donna graduated in 1962, Gracie in 1964, and Maggie was three or four years younger than Gracie. They lived on the left side of the road up Jarnigans Hill across the road from the Rogers. Any help you can give me would be appreciated. Thanks. Darrell W. Kuykendall, "62 3081 North Wyatt Drive El Dorado, Arkansas 71730 870-863-6203|

419|418|2013-08-15 07:39:15|Tom Sims|Re: SHS '64 50th Reunion in 2014|Marilou Rogers Nelson sends: _ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: marilou0841@aol.com Date: Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 6:32 AM Subject: Re: SHS '64 50th Reunion in 2014 To: tes3355@gmail.com Linda Reuter married a Randy Houck from Magnolia -- may not still be together -- He worked for his uncle Joy Houck who had movie theaters and bowling alleys. I think they lived in Shreveport, Longview or New Orleans (Louisiana) at one time.. Marilou Rogers Nelson -----Original Message----- From: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com To: [Stamps Ark Yahoo Group] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, Aug 14, 2013 11:17 pm Subject: SHS '64 50th Reunion in 2014 SHS '64 50th Reunion in 2014 If you have any contact information for any of the Reuter sisters, pleas send directly to Darrell Kuykendall: dwk1944@gmail.com|

420|420|2013-08-15 10:31:45|Tom Sims|Linda Reuter|Carrol Madlock sends: _______________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: carroll madlock madlock1@sbcglobal.net Date: Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:36 AM Subject: Linda Reuter To: "TES3355@gmail.com" TES3355@gmail.com Tom, I think Linda Reuter lives around Magnolia, Ar. Her husband works for the police dept or sheriff's dept I think. Get in touch with Smead Grimmett and he can probably tell you more than I can. Linda was in the class of 56. Carrol Madlock|

421|421|2013-09-07 07:43:05|TES3355|Harmony Grove (Camden) 20 - LCHS 0|6 SEP: Harmony Grove (Camden) 20 - LCHS 0 After losing all of their games in 2012, the last 5 by forfiet, LCHS has a football team again, and opened the 2013 season last night at Harmony Grove. LCHS now has a Facebook page which is current and fairly active: https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools?hc_location= stream or http://tinyurl.com/ko2quf3 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

422|422|2013-09-07 10:48:45|TES3355|Correction: Horatio 20 - LCHS 0|Tom Sims reported: 6 SEP: Harmony Grove (Camden) 20 - LCHS 0 My bad. LCHS actually played and lost to Horatio 20-0 last night. I was also following the Bearden - Harmony Grove game on the internet and got the two teams confused. Tom Sims|

423|423|2013-09-13 21:50:27|TES3355|Lafayette County 35 - Genoa Central (Texarkana) 23|LC Football 06 SEP: @ Harmony Grove (Camden) 20 - LC 0 13 SEP: LC 35 - @ Genoa Central (Texarkana) 23 Pictures LC Jrs. before win over Genoa Central on Thursday http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03407.jpg LC Band @ Genoa Central Game http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03408.jpg LC before Genoa Central Game http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03409.jpg LC after Genoa Central Game http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03410.jpg * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

424|423|2013-09-14 16:51:20|Earl Rogers|Re: Lafayette County 35 - Genoa Central (Texarkana) 23|Lc won one???Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Sep 14, 2013, at 12:48 AM, TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � LC Football 06 SEP: @ Harmony Grove (Camden) 20 - LC 0 13 SEP: LC 35 - @ Genoa Central (Texarkana) 23 Pictures LC Jrs. before win over Genoa Central on Thursday http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03407.jpg LC Band @ Genoa Central Game http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03408.jpg LC before Genoa Central Game http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03409.jpg LC after Genoa Central Game http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03410.jpg * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ |

425|423|2013-09-14 17:52:21|Myrtle Barr|Re: Lafayette County 35 - Genoa Central (Texarkana) 23|I can't believe it!! �:-o bFrom: Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com bTo: "StampsArk@yahoogroups.com" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bSent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 6:51 PM bSubject: Re: [StampsArk] Lafayette County 35 - Genoa Central (Texarkana) 23 � Lc won one???Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Sep 14, 2013, at 12:48 AM, TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � LC Football 06 SEP: @ Harmony Grove (Camden) 20 - LC 0 13 SEP: LC 35 - @ Genoa Central (Texarkana) 23 Pictures LC Jrs. before win over Genoa Central on Thursday http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03407.jpg LC Band @ Genoa Central Game http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03408.jpg LC before Genoa Central Game http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03409.jpg LC after Genoa Central Game http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03410.jpg * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive
anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ |

426|426|2013-09-16 10:16:07|TES3355|Elizabeth Galloway Williams SHS '39, R.I.P.|ELIZABETH G. WILLIAMS Elizabeth G. Williams, age 92, passed away Saturday, September 14, 2013, in Schertz, Texas. She was born in Stamps, Arkansas on May 21, 1921, to L.D. Galloway Sr. and Mattie Phillips Galloway. Elizabeth graduated from Stamps High School in 1939 and from Ouachita University in 1943. On January 17, 1944, she married Alvah S. Williams in the First Baptist Church of Stamps. Mrs. Williams taught school in Arkansas and Texas. In 1952 she and her family moved to LaMarque, Texas where she was a school teacher and librarian until her retirement in 1983. Following her husband's retirement in 1984, Elizabeth and Alvah moved back to Stamps. She taught Sunday school at First Baptist Church of Stamps for many years. In 2003, Elizabeth and Alvah moved to San Antonio to be near their daughter and son-in-law. Elizabeth moved to Schertz, TX following Alvah's death in 2011. Mrs. Williams was preceded in death by her husband of 67 years, her parents, her sister, Lucille Galloway Smith and her brother L.D. Galloway Jr. Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law Anne and Ed Ziegenhorn; grandsons and wives Kevin and Rebecca Ziegenhorn, Scott and Dinorah Ziegenhorn, and five great grandchildren. Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, September 18, 2013, at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, AR, and at 1 p.m., Thursday, September 19, 2013, in the Smith Funeral Chapel in Stamps followed by Funeral services at 2 p.m. in the same location, with Bro. Mike Turner officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, Stamps, Arkansas, Lakeside Cemetery, Stamps, Arkansas, or a charity of personal choice. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

427|426|2013-09-16 10:42:17|Earl Rogers|Re: Elizabeth Galloway Williams SHS '39, R.I.P.|Thanks Take care Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Sep 16, 2013, at 1:15 PM, TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: ELIZABETH G. WILLIAMS Elizabeth G. Williams, age 92, passed away Saturday, September 14, 2013, in Schertz, Texas. She was born in Stamps, Arkansas on May 21, 1921, to L.D. Galloway Sr. and Mattie Phillips Galloway. Elizabeth graduated from Stamps High School in 1939 and from Ouachita University in 1943. On January 17, 1944, she married Alvah S. Williams in the First Baptist Church of Stamps. Mrs. Williams taught school in Arkansas and Texas. In 1952 she and her family moved to LaMarque, Texas where she was a school teacher and librarian until her retirement in 1983. Following her husband's retirement in 1984, Elizabeth and Alvah moved back to Stamps. She taught Sunday school at First Baptist Church of Stamps for many years. In 2003, Elizabeth and Alvah moved to San Antonio to be near their daughter and son-in-law. Elizabeth moved to Schertz, TX following Alvah's death in 2011. Mrs. Williams was preceded in death by her husband of 67 years, her parents, her sister, Lucille Galloway Smith and her brother L.D. Galloway Jr. Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law Anne and Ed Ziegenhorn; grandsons and wives Kevin and Rebecca Ziegenhorn, Scott and Dinorah Ziegenhorn, and five great grandchildren. Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, September 18, 2013, at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, AR, and at 1 p.m., Thursday, September 19, 2013, in the Smith Funeral Chapel in Stamps followed by Funeral services at 2 p.m. in the same location, with Bro. Mike Turner officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, Stamps, Arkansas, Lakeside Cemetery, Stamps, Arkansas, or a charity of personal choice. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ ------------------------------------ Post message: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links |

428|428|2013-09-20 22:30:40|TES3355|Fouke 41 - Lafayette County 0|LC Football 06 SEP: @ Harmony Grove (Camden) 20 - LC 0 13 SEP: LC 35 - @ Genoa Central (Texarkana) 23 20 SEP: Fouke 41 @ LC 0 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

429|428|2013-09-21 07:23:01|Earl Rogers|Re: Fouke 41 - Lafayette County 0|I guess 1 win is better than none!Take careSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Sep 21, 2013, at 1:29 AM, TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � LC Football 06 SEP: @ Harmony Grove (Camden) 20 - LC 0 13 SEP: LC 35 - @ Genoa Central (Texarkana) 23 20 SEP: Fouke 41 @ LC 0 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ |

430|430|2013-09-27 21:28:31|TES3355|Murfreesboro 40 - Lafayette County 6|LC Football 06 SEP: @ Horatio 20 - LC 0 13 SEP: LC 35 - @ Genoa Central (Texarkana) 23 20 SEP: Fouke 41 @ LC 0 27 SEP: Murfreesboro 40 @ LC 6 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

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432|432|2013-10-04 22:28:43|TES3355|Spring Hill (Hope) 34 - Lafayette County 20|Spring Hill (Hope) 34 - Lafayette County 20 LC Football 06 SEP: @ Horatio 20 - LC 0 13 SEP: LC 35 - @ Genoa Central (Texarkana) 23 20 SEP: Fouke 41 @ LC 0 27 SEP: Murfreesboro 40 @ LC 6 04 OCT: @ Spring Hill (Hope) 34 - LC 20 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

433|432|2013-10-05 10:12:37|Earl Rogers|Re: Spring Hill (Hope) 34 - Lafayette County 20|Well....at least they are scoring!!!We need a coach Daughtry or rip Powell?Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Oct 5, 2013, at 1:21 AM, TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � Spring Hill (Hope) 34 - Lafayette County 20 LC Football 06 SEP: @ Horatio 20 - LC 0 13 SEP: LC 35 - @ Genoa Central (Texarkana) 23 20 SEP: Fouke 41 @ LC 0 27 SEP: Murfreesboro 40 @ LC 6 04 OCT: @ Spring Hill (Hope) 34 - LC 20 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ |

434|434|2013-10-08 20:38:05|TES3355|Dale White SHS '47 Letters to the Editor|Here are two letters from Dale White SHS '47, that were published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph this summer. ______ When I was 11 years old, I worked at a Service Station every afternoon after school and all day Saturday for $2.50 a week. There was a time that I delivered News Papers and had to be at the Train Depot at 6:AM when the papers arrived. Later during my teen years, I worked at the Service Station during the summer months for$12.50 a week. I worked on the platform of the Local Ice Plant. I worked at the Post Office delivering mail morning and afternoon while also going to school during WWII. I drove a School Bus during my Senior Year in school and had To be at the lower end of the route and ready to begin picking up students by 7:AM. What I'm saying is, I began my working career by the age of 11 and was always able to find Work. The main reason was that I wanted and needed to work, and those who hired me were not forced to pay me more than I was worth or any more than they would have to pay anyone else to do the same work. Today, even if the economy was humming and jobs were available, there are many jobs That would not be filled because the talent needed to do some jobs is not worth what the Employer is forced to pay because of the minimum wage law. As a result of the minimum wage law, kids who have finished school and are not planning further education, cannot find work because of what it would cost to be hired. The result Is that we have a nation of teens and young 20's who have not developed any work skills. This minimum wage law affects all in that age group and is especially much harder on the young blacks. Now, some crazy idiot is suggesting that the JOB KILLER LAW be raised to $9.00 an hour, when actually, the law should be killed altogether. Purchasing Power is the bottom line. If the no talent individual has to be paid the minimum wage, then those with a skill will Have to be paid at a higher rate. And on up the line it goes. So, a loaf of bread that cost so much will now have to be increased to cover the wages of all that were used to produce that bread. The result is that the purchasing power is now no greater than it was to begin With. Kill the bill and let SUPPLY and DEMAND have it's natural effect. Dale White Tyler Let me begin by saying I do not claim to be a military expert. However, I am a four year veteran of the First No Win War, Korea. I am also a hawk when it comes to protecting the United States of America and our way of life under the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Having said that, it makes me sick to see pictures on TV of our young men and women who have lost arms, legs and in too many instances, their lives. Now understand, I know war is not a game. It is a terrible thing To experence. What makes me sick is Why, Why, are they fighting in a far- away land that's made up primarily of a people who were already fignting each other, and have been all their lives? And will continue doing so long after our young men and women are no longer there. There is something very wrong when you consider that we have been in Iraq for about 12 years and don't even have the city of Baghdad secure. We entered Afghanstan after Russia, having fought there for 7 years, gave it up as a no win war. Let those people fight each other. It's all they know. They thrive on it. I had an uncle in the 82nd Air-Borne Paratroopers during WWII. He made 5 Official Jumps. In war, an official jump is always behind enemy lines. Those jumps were; North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, and Germany. As you see, after a country was secure, our troops moved on to the next country and finally to Germany. We fought Germany and won the war. We fought Japan and won the war. We fought both at the same time and still won WWII in 3 1/2 years. Not 12 years! When we put our young in harms way, we should be committed to fight to win. General MacArthur was forbidden to cross the 38th parallel in Korea and we haven't won a war since. Could it be that during WWII, we were fighting a country and not a group of people in a country? Dale White Tyler|

435|434|2013-10-09 11:02:27|Earl Rogers|Re: Dale White SHS '47 Letters to the Editor|Thanks , TomIs dale white kin to A L white , the furniture mfg?Not sure I agree about his idea of minimum wage.But he has "W" to thanks for our entanglement in Afghanistan and Iraq!Take careEarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Oct 8, 2013, at 11:36 PM, TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � Here are two letters from Dale White SHS '47, that were published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph this summer. When I was 11 years old, I worked at a Service Station every afternoon after school and all day Saturday for $2.50 a week. There was a time that I delivered News Papers and had to be at the Train Depot at 6:AM when the papers arrived. Later during my teen years, I worked at the Service Station during the summer months for$12.50 a week. I worked on the platform of the Local Ice Plant. I worked at the Post Office delivering mail morning and afternoon while also going to school during WWII. I drove a School Bus during my Senior Year in school and had To be at the lower end of the route and ready to begin picking up students by 7:AM. What I'm saying is, I began my working career by the age of 11 and was always able to find Work. The main reason was that I wanted and needed to work, and those who hired me were not forced to pay me more than I was worth or any more than they would have to pay anyone else to do the same work. Today, even if the economy was humming and jobs were available, there are many jobs That would not be filled because the talent needed to do some jobs is not worth what the Employer is forced to pay because of the minimum wage law. As a result of the minimum wage law, kids who have finished school and are not planning further education, cannot find work because of what it would cost to be hired. The result Is that we have a nation of teens and young 20's who have not developed any work skills. This minimum wage law affects all in that age group and is especially much harder on the young blacks. Now, some crazy idiot is suggesting that the JOB KILLER LAW be raised to $9.00 an hour, when actually, the law should be killed altogether. Purchasing Power is the bottom line. If the no talent individual has to be paid the minimum wage, then those with a skill will Have to be paid at a higher rate. And on up the line it goes. So, a loaf of bread that cost so much will now have to be increased to cover the wages of all that were used to produce that bread. The result is that the purchasing power is now no greater than it was to begin With. Kill the bill and let SUPPLY and DEMAND have it's natural effect. Dale White Tyler Let me begin by saying I do not claim to be a military expert. However, I am a four year veteran of the First No Win War, Korea. I am also a hawk when it comes to protecting the United States of America and our way of life under the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Having said that, it makes me sick to see pictures on TV of our young men and women who have lost arms, legs and in too many instances, their lives. Now understand, I know war is not a game. It is a terrible thing To experence. What makes me sick is Why, Why, are they fighting in a far- away land that's made up primarily of a people who were already fignting each other, and have been all their lives? And will continue doing so long after our young men and women are no longer there. There is something very wrong when you consider that we have been in Iraq for about 12 years and don't even have the city of Baghdad secure. We entered Afghanstan after Russia, having fought there for 7 years, gave it up as a no win war. Let those people fight each other. It's all they know. They thrive on it. I had an uncle in the 82nd Air-Borne Paratroopers during WWII. He made 5 Official Jumps. In war, an official jump is always behind enemy lines. Those jumps were; North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, and Germany. As you see, after a country was secure, our troops moved on to the next country and finally to Germany. We fought Germany and won the war. We fought Japan and won the war. We fought both at the same time and still won WWII in 3 1/2 years. Not 12 years! When we put our young in harms way, we should be committed to fight to win. General MacArthur was forbidden to cross the 38th parallel in Korea and we haven't won a war since. Could it be that during WWII, we were fighting a country and not a group of people in a country? Dale White Tyler |

436|434|2013-10-09 11:14:01|Stu Tribble|Re: Dale White SHS '47 Letters to the Editor|Same here EarlSent from my iPad On Oct 9, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com wrote: � Thanks , Tom Is dale white kin to A L white , the furniture mfg?Not sure I agree about his idea of minimum wage.But he has "W" to thanks for our entanglement in Afghanistan and Iraq!Take careEarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.netOn Oct 8, 2013, at 11:36 PM, TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � Here are two letters from Dale White SHS '47, that were published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph this summer. When I was 11 years old, I worked at a Service Station every afternoon after school and all day Saturday for $2.50 a week. There was a time that I delivered News Papers and had to be at the Train Depot at 6:AM when the papers arrived. Later during my teen years, I worked at the Service Station during the summer months for$12.50 a week. I worked on the platform of the Local Ice Plant. I worked at the Post Office delivering mail morning and afternoon while also going to school during WWII. I drove a School Bus during my Senior Year in school and had To be at the lower end of the route and ready to begin picking up students by 7:AM. What I'm saying is, I began my working career by the age of 11 and was always able to find Work. The main reason was that I wanted and needed to work, and those who hired me were not forced to pay me more than I was worth or any more than they would have to pay anyone else to do the same work. Today, even if the economy was humming and jobs were available, there are many jobs That would not be filled because the talent needed to do some jobs is not worth what the Employer is forced to pay because of the minimum wage law. As a result of the minimum wage law, kids who have finished school and are not planning further education, cannot find work because of what it would cost to be hired. The result Is that we have a nation of teens and young 20's who have not developed any work skills. This minimum wage law affects all in that age group and is especially much harder on the young blacks. Now, some crazy idiot is suggesting that the JOB KILLER LAW be raised to $9.00 an hour, when actually, the law should be killed altogether. Purchasing Power is the bottom line. If the no talent individual has to be paid the minimum wage, then those with a skill will Have to be paid at a higher rate. And on up the line it goes. So, a loaf of bread that cost so much will now have to be increased to cover the wages of all that were used to produce that bread. The result is that the purchasing power is now no greater than it was to begin With. Kill the bill and let SUPPLY and DEMAND have it's natural effect. Dale White Tyler Let me begin by saying I do not claim to be a military expert. However, I am a four year veteran of the First No Win War, Korea. I am also a hawk when it comes to protecting the United States of America and our way of life under the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Having said
that, it makes me sick to see pictures on TV of our young men and women who have lost arms, legs and in too many instances, their lives. Now understand, I know war is not a game. It is a terrible thing To experence. What makes me sick is Why, Why, are they fighting in a far- away land that's made up primarily of a people who were already fignting each other, and have been all their lives? And will continue doing so long after our young men and women are no longer there. There is something very wrong when you consider that we have been in Iraq for about 12 years and don't even have the city of Baghdad secure. We entered Afghanstan after Russia, having fought there for 7 years, gave it up as a no win war. Let those people fight each other. It's all they know. They thrive on it. I had an uncle in the 82nd Air-Borne Paratroopers during WWII. He made 5 Official Jumps. In war, an official jump is always behind enemy lines. Those jumps were; North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, and Germany. As you see, after a country was secure, our troops moved on to the next country and finally to Germany. We fought Germany and won the war. We fought Japan and won the war. We fought both at the same time and still won WWII in 3 1/2 years. Not 12 years! When we put our young in harms way, we should be committed to fight to win. General MacArthur was forbidden to cross the 38th parallel in Korea and we haven't won a war since. Could it be that during WWII, we were fighting a country and not a group of people in a country? Dale White Tyler |

437|434|2013-10-09 14:31:04|Larry H. Gentry|Re: Dale White SHS '47 Letters to the Editor|Outstanding!!!LHG On , Stu Tribble stu.tribble@yahoo.com wrote: � Same here EarlSent from my iPadOn Oct 9, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com wrote: � Thanks , TomIs dale white kin to A L white , the furniture mfg?Not sure I agree about his idea of minimum wage.But he has "W" to thanks for our entanglement in Afghanistan and Iraq!Take careEarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.netOn Oct 8, 2013, at 11:36 PM, TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � Here are two letters from Dale White SHS '47, that were published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph this summer. When I was 11 years old, I worked at a Service Station every afternoon after school and all day Saturday for $2.50 a week. There was a time that I delivered News Papers and had to be at the Train Depot at 6:AM when the papers arrived. Later during my teen years, I worked at the Service Station during the summer months for$12.50 a week. I worked on the platform of the Local Ice Plant. I worked at the Post Office delivering mail morning and afternoon while also going to school during WWII. I drove a School Bus during my Senior Year in school and had To be at the lower end of the route and ready to begin picking up students by 7:AM. What I'm saying is, I began my working career by the age of 11 and was always able to find Work. The main reason was that I wanted and needed to work, and those who hired me were not forced to pay me more than I was worth or any more than they would have to pay anyone else to do the same work. Today, even if the economy was humming and jobs were available, there are many jobs That would not be filled because the talent needed to do some jobs is not worth what the Employer is forced to pay because of the minimum wage law. As a result of the minimum wage law, kids who have finished school and are not planning further education, cannot find work because of what it would cost to be hired. The result Is that we have a nation of teens and young 20's who have not developed any work skills. This minimum wage law affects all in that age group and is especially much harder on the young blacks. Now, some crazy idiot is suggesting that the JOB KILLER LAW be raised to $9.00 an hour, when actually, the law should be killed altogether. Purchasing Power is the bottom line. If the no talent individual has to be paid the minimum wage, then those with a skill will Have to be paid at a higher rate. And on up the line it goes. So, a loaf of bread that cost so much will now have to be increased to cover the wages of all that were used to produce that bread. The result is that the purchasing power is now no greater than it was to begin With. Kill the bill and let SUPPLY and DEMAND have it's natural effect. Dale White Tyler Let me begin by saying I do not claim to be a military expert. However, I am a four year veteran of the First No Win War, Korea. I am also a hawk when it comes to protecting the United States of America and our way of life under the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Having said that, it makes me sick to see pictures on TV of our young men and women who have lost arms, legs and in too many instances, their lives. Now understand, I know war is not a game. It is a terrible thing To experence. What makes me sick is Why, Why, are they fighting in a far- away land that's made up primarily of a people who were already fignting each other, and have been all their lives? And will continue doing so long after our young men and women are no longer there. There is something very wrong when you consider that we have been in Iraq for about 12 years and don't even have the city of

438|434|2013-10-09 14:40:46|sarge538|Re: Dale White SHS '47 Letters to the Editor|"W" wasn't the cause of the war in Afghanistan or Libya. Murdering Islamic SOBs were the cause. 9/11/01 happened, and more atrocities were probably on the way. GOOD GRIEF!!!� ---In stampsark@yahoogroups.com, sarge538@... wrote:Outstanding!!!LHG On , Stu Tribble stu.tribble@... wrote: � Same here EarlSent from my iPadOn Oct 9, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@... wrote: � Thanks , TomIs dale white kin to A L white , the furniture mfg?Not sure I agree about his idea of minimum wage.But he has "W" to thanks for our entanglement in Afghanistan and Iraq!Take careEarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@...On Oct 8, 2013, at 11:36 PM, TES3355 tes3355@... wrote: � Here are two letters from Dale White SHS '47, that were published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph this summer. When I was 11 years old, I worked at a Service Station every afternoon after school and all day Saturday for $2.50 a week. There was a time that I delivered News Papers and had to be at the Train Depot at 6:AM when the papers arrived. Later during my teen years, I worked at the Service Station during the summer months for$12.50 a week. I worked on the platform of the Local Ice Plant. I worked at the Post Office delivering mail morning and afternoon while also going to school during WWII. I drove a School Bus during my Senior Year in school and had To be at the lower end of the route and ready to begin picking up students by 7:AM. What I'm saying is, I began my working career by the age of 11 and was always able to find Work. The main reason was that I wanted and needed to work, and those who hired me were not forced to pay me more than I was worth or any more than they would have to pay anyone else to do the same work. Today, even if the economy was humming and jobs were available, there are many jobs That would not be filled because the talent needed to do some jobs is not worth what the Employer is forced to pay because of the minimum wage law. As a result of the minimum wage law, kids who have finished school and are not planning further education, cannot find work because of what it would cost to be hired. The result Is that we have a nation of teens and young 20's who have not developed any work skills. This minimum wage law affects all in that age group and is especially much harder on the young blacks. Now, some crazy idiot is suggesting that the JOB KILLER LAW be raised to $9.00 an hour, when actually, the law should be killed altogether. Purchasing Power is the bottom line. If the no talent individual has to be paid the minimum wage, then those with a skill will Have to be paid at a higher rate. And on up the line it goes. So, a loaf of bread that cost so much will now have to be increased to cover the wages of all that were used to produce that bread. The result is that the purchasing power is now no greater than it was to begin With. Kill the bill and let SUPPLY and DEMAND have it's natural effect. Dale White Tyler
Let me begin by saying I do not claim to be a military expert. However, I am a four year veteran of the First No Win War, Korea. I am also a hawk when it comes to protecting the United States of America and our way of life under the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Having said that, it makes me sick to see pictures on TV of our young men and women who have lost arms, legs and in too many instances, their lives. Now understand, I know war is not a game. It is a terrible thing To experence. What makes me sick is Why, Why, are they fighting in a far- away land that's made up primarily of a people who were already fignting each other, and have been all their lives? And will continue doing so long after our young men and women are no longer there. There is something very wrong when you consider that we have been in Iraq for about 12 years and don't even have the city of Baghdad secure. We entered Afghanstan after Russia, having fought there for 7 years, gave it up as a no win war. Let those people fight each other. It's all they know. They thrive on it. I had an uncle in the 82nd Air-Borne Paratroopers during WWII. He made 5 Official Jumps. In war, an official jump is always behind enemy lines. Those jumps were; North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, and Germany. As you see, after a country was secure, our troops moved on to the next country and finally to Germany. We fought Germany and won the war. We fought Japan and won the war. We fought both at the same time and still won WWII in 3 1/2 years. Not 12 years! When we put our young in harms way, we should be committed to fight to win. General MacArthur was forbidden to cross the 38th parallel in Korea and we haven't won a war since. Could it be that during WWII, we were fighting a country and not a group of people in a country? Dale White Tyler

439|434|2013-10-09 16:16:09|Earl Rogers|Re: Dale White SHS '47 Letters to the Editor|And we are still looking for WMD!!Besides...." He tried to kill my daddy."W and his cronies told us too many lies.Read the book : HUBERIOUS�What a whacko way to send us to war , ....too many lives and too much money lost,...Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Oct 9, 2013, at 5:40 PM, sarge538@yahoo.com wrote: � "W" wasn't the cause of the war in Afghanistan or Libya. Murdering Islamic SOBs were the cause. 9/11/01 happened, and more atrocities were probably on the way. GOOD GRIEF!!!� ---In stampsark@yahoogroups.com, sarge538@... wrote:Outstanding!!!LHG On , Stu Tribble stu.tribble@... wrote: � Same here EarlSent from my iPadOn Oct 9, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@... wrote: � Thanks , TomIs dale white kin to A L white , the furniture mfg?Not sure I agree about his idea of minimum wage.But he has "W" to thanks for our entanglement in Afghanistan and Iraq!Take careEarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �MSC �USAR �ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@...On Oct 8, 2013, at 11:36 PM, TES3355 tes3355@... wrote: � Here are two letters from Dale White SHS '47, that were published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph this summer. When I was 11 years old, I worked at a Service Station every afternoon after school and all day Saturday for $2.50 a week. There was a time that I delivered News Papers and had to be at the Train Depot at 6:AM when the papers arrived. Later during my teen years, I worked at the Service Station during the summer months for$12.50 a week. I worked on the platform of the Local Ice Plant. I worked at the Post Office delivering mail morning and afternoon while also going to school during WWII. I drove a School Bus during my Senior Year in school and had To be at the lower end of the route and ready to begin picking up students by 7:AM. What I'm saying is, I began my working career by the age of 11 and was always able to find Work. The main reason was that I wanted and needed to work, and those who hired me were not forced to pay me more than I was worth or any more than they would have to pay anyone else to do the same work. Today, even if the economy was humming and jobs were available, there are many jobs That would not be filled because the talent needed to do some jobs is not worth what the Employer is forced to pay because of the minimum wage law. As a result of the minimum wage law, kids who have finished school and are not planning further education, cannot find work because of what it would cost to be hired. The result Is that we have a nation of teens and young 20's who have not developed any work skills. This minimum wage law affects all in that age group and is especially much harder on the young blacks. Now, some crazy idiot is suggesting that the JOB KILLER LAW be raised to $9.00 an hour, when actually, the law should be killed altogether. Purchasing Power is the bottom line. If the no talent individual has to be paid the minimum wage, then those with a skill will Have to be paid at a higher rate. And on up the line it goes. So, a loaf of bread that cost so much will now have to be increased to cover the wages of all that were used to produce that bread. The result is that the purchasing power is now no greater than it was to begin With. Kill the bill and let SUPPLY and DEMAND have it's natural effect. Dale White Tyler Let me begin by saying I do not claim to be a military expert. However, I am a four year veteran of the First No Win War, Korea. I am also a hawk when it comes to protecting

the United States of America and our way of life under the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Having said that, it makes me sick to see pictures on TV of our young men and women who have lost arms, legs and in too many instances, their lives. Now understand, I know war is not a game. It is a terrible thing To experence. What makes me sick is Why, Why, are they fighting in a far- away land that's made up primarily of a people who were already fignting each other, and have been all their lives? And will continue doing so long after our young men and women are no longer there. There is something very wrong when you consider that we have been in Iraq for about 12 years and don't even have the city of Baghdad secure. We entered Afghanstan after Russia, having fought there for 7 years, gave it up as a no win war. Let those people fight each other. It's all they know. They thrive on it. I had an uncle in the 82nd Air-Borne Paratroopers during WWII. He made 5 Official Jumps. In war, an official jump is always behind enemy lines. Those jumps were; North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, and Germany. As you see, after a country was secure, our troops moved on to the next country and finally to Germany. We fought Germany and won the war. We fought Japan and won the war. We fought both at the same time and still won WWII in 3 1/2 years. Not 12 years! When we put our young in harms way, we should be committed to fight to win. General MacArthur was forbidden to cross the 38th parallel in Korea and we haven't won a war since. Could it be that during WWII, we were fighting a country and not a group of people in a country? Dale White Tyler |

440|434|2013-10-10 07:30:53|TES3355|Re: Dale White SHS '47 Letters to the Editor|Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks , Tom Is dale white kin to A L white , the furniture mfg? Not sure I agree about his idea of minimum wage. But he has "W" to thanks for our entanglement in Afghanistan and Iraq! Take care Earl On Oct 8, 2013, at 11:36 PM, TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: Here are two letters from Dale White SHS '47, that were published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph this summer ... I believe Alan White, who ran the furniture factory, was Dale's brother, but I haven't found any documentation in my records. Tom Sims|

441|434|2013-10-10 19:25:47|TES3355|Dale White SHS '47 Letters to the Editor|Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks , Tom Is dale white kin to A L white , the furniture mfg? Not sure I agree about his idea of minimum wage. But he has "W" to thanks for our entanglement in Afghanistan and Iraq! Take care Earl Dale White replies: Earl missed the point regarding the fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. The point I wanted to make was, regardless of where the fighting is taking place, if we put our young men and women in harms way we should fight to win or not fight at all. On minimum wage, the important thing is purchasing power of a dollar. And, Yes, the founder of Alan White was my older brother. Dale|

442|442|2013-10-11 20:57:06|TES3355|Lafayette County 36 - Foreman 31|Lafayette County 36 - Foreman 31 LC Football 06 SEP: @ Horatio 20 - LC 0 13 SEP: LC 35 - @ Genoa Central (Texarkana) 23 20 SEP: Fouke 41 @ LC 0 27 SEP: Murfreesboro 40 @ LC 6 04 OCT: @ Spring Hill (Hope) 34 - LC 20 11 OCT: @LC 36 - Foreman 31 Homecoming 11 OCT Pictures: LC Cougars Post Game http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03414.jpg LC 2013 Homecoming Court http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03415.jpg LC Cougars @ halftime http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03416.jpg LC Band http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03417.jpg * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

443|443|2013-10-18 21:23:39|TES3355|Dierks 63 - Lafayette County 20|Dierks 63 - Lafayette County 20 LC Football 06 SEP: @ Horatio 20 - LC 0 13 SEP: LC 35 - @ Genoa Central (Texarkana) 23 20 SEP: Fouke 41 @ LC 0 27 SEP: Murfreesboro 40 @ LC 6 04 OCT: @ Spring Hill (Hope) 34 - LC 20 11 OCT: @ LC 36 - Foreman 31 Homecoming 18 OCT: @ Dierks 63 - LC 20 FWIW, Dierks is undefeated (7-0) this year and they won their closest game by 12 points. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

444|444|2013-10-25 19:56:05|TES3355|Gurdon 54 - Lafayette County 14|Gurdon 54 - Lafayette County 14 LC Football 06 SEP: @ Horatio 20 - LC 0 13 SEP: LC 35 - @ Genoa Central (Texarkana) 23 20 SEP: Fouke 41 @ LC 0 27 SEP: Murfreesboro 40 @ LC 6 04 OCT: @ Spring Hill (Hope) 34 - LC 20 11 OCT: @ LC 36 - Foreman 31 Homecoming 18 OCT: @ Dierks 63 - LC 20 25 OCT Gurdon 54 - @ LC 14 Gurdon's only loss was to undefeated Dierks 2014 SHS Reunion Planned Derrell Patterson reports that SHS '64 is planning a reunion in June 2014. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

445|396|2013-10-28 21:14:11|derrell_patterson|Re: Stamps Contact List|�Tom please add meo the contact List you started.Derrell E. Patterson email derrell_patterson@yahoo.com STAMPS CLASS OF 1964 ---In stampsark@yahoogroups.com, tes3355@... wrote:I've just set up a "Stamps Contact List" link for listing contact information on anyone who cares to be included. My data is the only entry now and I'll add anyone who posts or sends me their information. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m The link is now on the Stamps Yahoo page and on the SHS '51 page. I'll give it wider exposure if there's any interest here. I would also enjoy reading biographical data on people from Stamps, and there is some on '51 grads on the '51 website. Everyone is welcome/encouraged to share theirs here. I run several Yahoo groups and believe that anyone can start a group. Tom Sims _____________________________________ Lou Graham Howard wrote: Thank you for setting up this site. I appreciate the obituaries, but when I read Donald Eddy's, I realized for the first time that he, his wife and family were in Durham, NC and my family is in High Point, NC - not far away. Donald and his family lived near us on Opera Street in Stamps. He was like a brother to Doyne and me. The last time I saw him was at Southern State. He was a senior and I a freshman. Although many members of this site may be retired, it would be nice to know where they live and anything they wish to share about themselves or family members. I am a member of two YAHOO Groups, but I have not tried to 'Start a Group'. There may be restrictions. Lou Graham Howard SHS
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446|396|2013-10-28 22:04:03|TES3355|Re: Stamps Contact List|On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:15 PM, derrell_patterson@yahoo.com wrote: Tom please add meo the contact List you started. Derrell E. Patterson email derrell_patterson@yahoo.com STAMPS CLASS OF 1964 ---In stampsark@yahoogroups.com, tes3355@... wrote: I've just set up a "Stamps Contact List" link for listing contact information on anyone who cares to be included. My data is the only entry now and I'll add anyone who posts or sends me their information. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m Done. Tom Sims|

447|447|2013-11-01 20:42:34|TES3355|Mineral Springs 38 - Lafayette County 8|Mineral Springs 38 - Lafayette County 8 LC Football 06 SEP: @ Horatio 20 - LC 0 13 SEP: LC 35 - @ Genoa Central (Texarkana) 23 20 SEP: Fouke 41 @ LC 0 27 SEP: Murfreesboro 40 @ LC 6 04 OCT: @ Spring Hill (Hope) 34 - LC 20 11 OCT: @ LC 36 - Foreman 31 Homecoming 18 OCT: @ Dierks 63 - LC 20 25 OCT Gurdon 54 - @ LC 14 01 NOV @ Mineral Springs 38 - LC 8 2013 Football season is over for LC. Lafayette County School District FaceBook Page 30 OCT 2013 Well Cougar fans, the Jr High Football Season is officially over. The Jr Cougars ended the season with 5 losses and 4 wins. The young offensive line did an excellent job blocking for LePatrick Miller who led the Cougars with 1023 offensive yards and 8 touchdowns. Shout out to all the Jr Cougars for their exceptionally hard work and perseverance as they played football this season. We are so proud of each and every one of you. We are looking forward to an even better season next year!! Way to Go JR Cougars!! Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Anyone can read the StampsArk Yahoo group messages, but you must join the group to post messages. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have
email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

448|448|2013-11-07 16:23:52|TES3355|Re: Reading Msgs|On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:04 PM, RSinque@aol.com wrote: Hello Tom, I notice a change in your Stamps Forum. Must you now be a member of the group to read messages? The "conversations" tab can no longer be selected. Ronnie Sinquefield SHS '55 Looks like you now have to join the Stamps group in order to read the messages. Bummer. Yahoo is making a lot of changes to Yahoo groups and this must be one of them. And now it doesn't appear there's any way to allow non-members to read the Stamps messages. Tom Sims|

449|449|2013-11-13 18:39:24|TES3355|Oscar Paul Roper SHS '53, R.I.P.|Oscar Paul Roper Birth: Feb. 4, 1936, Stamps, Lafayette County, Arkansas Death: Jul. 21, 2013, Ft. Worth, Tarrant County, Texas Oscar Paul Roper, 77, passed away Sunday, July 21, 2013. Oscar was born Feb. 4, 1936, in Stamps, Ark. He worked for Essner Manufacturing from 1953 to 2001. An award for employees who demonstrate excellence and precision in their area of manufacturing is given annually in his name. He was an avid football fan, hunter and fisherman. But his biggest love was spending time with his family. He will be missed by all whose lives he touched. He was preceded in death by his father, O.D. Roper; and sister, Jean Foster Survivors: Wife, Carolyn Roper; sons, Brian Roper and Preston Roper and wife, Carol; mother, Louise Roper; sister, Barbara Jahns and husband, W.T.; and brother, Wayne Roper and wife, Carilon. Funeral: 9:30 a.m. Friday in Greenwood Chapel. Interment: Greenwood Memorial Park. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Greenwood Funeral Home. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list,
send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

450|450|2013-11-21 07:34:50|TES3355|Stanley Wayne James SHS '56, R.I.P.|Stanley Wayne James SHS '56, R.I.P. I've received word that Stanley James passed away yesterday morning, Wednesday, 20 November. No other details yet, except that he will be buried in Stamps. Stanley was a classmate and close friend of my brother. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

451|450|2013-11-22 17:14:19|TES3355|Re: Stanley Wayne James SHS '56, R.I.P.|Stanley's Obituary http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03429.jpg * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

452|450|2013-11-23 08:42:17|Earl Rogers|Re: Stanley Wayne James SHS '56, R.I.P.|Thanks.very muchSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Nov 22, 2013, at 8:13 PM, TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � Stanley's Obituary http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03429.jpg * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/ |

453|453|2013-11-30 22:06:17|TES3355|Hugh Pierce SHS '56, R.I.P.|Hugh Pierce SHS '56, R.I.P. Hugh Pierce died yesterday, 29 November. No other details ______________________________________ Stu Tribble wants to contact Benji Strange My mom had a box of photos that just came into my possession and I found several photo of Benji, his older sister and his mom and dad. I'm in a couple of the photos which were taken at Narrows Dam probably in about 1952 or 53. I would love to share them with Benji but the phone numbers I have for him are incorrect. Can anyone help me? Thanks, Stu Tribble email: bflatstu@me.com * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht mIf you have email addresses for anyone who mightlike to be on this SHS mailing list, send them tome and I'll add them to list. Let me know if youwish to be removed from the SHS mailing list.Tom Sims, SHS '51TES3355@gmail.comSHS 1951http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/Stamp s Ark Yahoo Grouphttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

454|431|2013-12-01 01:01:38|JWaddell@bmnet.com|Aubrey Waddell is out of the office.|I will be out of the office starting 11/27/2013 and will not return until 12/02/2013. I will respond to your message when I return. If you need to contact me for any reason, please call 865-696-7945. ________________________________ This communication may contain protected health information (PHI) that is legally protected from inappropriate disclosure by the Privacy Standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and relevant Tennessee Laws. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you should notify the sender immediately by telephone or by return e-mail and delete this message from your computer. Direct questions to the Blount Memorial Hospital Privacy Officer at 865-977-4675.|

455|455|2013-12-10 07:06:38|TES3355|Van Loy "Pete"� Phillips SHS '56, R.I.P.|Van Loy "Pete"� Phillips SHS '56, R.I.P. Van Loy "Pete"� Phillips, age 75, of Stamps, Arkansas passed away peacefully at his home Monday, December 9, 2013. He was born on April 25, 1938 in Stamps, Arkansas to James Ila and Olive Charlene Hollis Phillips. Mr. Phillips was preceded in death by his parents, Brother; James "Buddy"� Phillips, and two sisters; Janette Elam and Joann Martin. He is survived by his wife; Mollie Phillips, Son; Randy Phillips and wife Wanda of Stamps, Daughter, Angelia Hovarter and husband Jimmie, all of Stamps, Arkansas. Also surviving is three sisters; Ora Plumley of Magnolia, Arkansas, Sue Bridges of Magnolia, Arkansas, and Ila Nell Campbell of Laneburg, Arkansas, two Grandchildren; Heath Phillips, Coleen Chase and husband Brad, two Great-Grandchildren; Hayden Chase and Claire Chase, two Special Friends; Jeremy Dies and Natalie Pettit James. Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps with Bro. Tom Hooten and Bro. Jamie Knighton officiating. Interment will follow in Shiloh Cemetery in Buckner under the direction of A.O. Smith Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 6-9 p.m. Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at the funeral home. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com * Van was a classmate and close friend of my brother. He was one of his larger classmates and a good football player. TES * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll
post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

456|456|2013-12-26 19:26:05|TES3355|Joan West DeLamar R.I.P.|Joan West DeLamar R.I.P. Joan DeLamar, age 72, of El Dorado, Arkansas, passed away peacefully Thursday, December 24, 2013 at Hudson Memorial Nursing Home in El Dorado. She was born on November 16, 1941 in Waldo, Arkansas to Lyle Arthur and Hattie Mae Waters West. She was a member of Silver Springs Methodist Church. A special thanks goes to the caring staff at Medical Center of South Arkansas, Hudson Memorial Nursing Home, and Life Touch Hospice. Mrs. DeLamar was preceded in death by her parents, Husband James DeLamar, and Sister and Brother-in-Law Betty and Harold Baker. She is survived by two Sons: Byron DeLamar and wife Rhonda, and Jeff DeLamar, both of Troy, Arkansas; one Daughter Katrina Abbott and Husband John of El Dorado, Arkansas; Grandchildren: Jamie Bevins, Matt DeLamar, Nathan DeLamar, Ben Abbott, Abby Abbott, Zach Abbott, Lacey Dodson, Brandon Sweet, Kristin Sweet; Eight Great-Grandchildren; two Brothers, Don West and Wife Joanie of Elabell, Georgia, and David West of Camden, Arkansas; Sister-in-Law Shelba Russell and Husband Randolph of Elliot, Arkansas, and Brother-in-Law Randy DeLamar and wife Peggy of Camden, Arkansas, and numerous nieces, nephews, and other relatives. Graveside services will be held at DeLamar Cemetery 2 p.m. Friday, December 27, 2013 with Bro. Jerry Arrington officiating under the direction of A.O. Smith Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, December 26, 2013 at the funeral home in Stamps. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to Silver Springs Methodist Church, Hudson Memorial Nursing Home, or Life
Touch Hospice in El Dorado. The family will be at Silver Springs Methodist Church at 11 a.m. Friday. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

2014 Yahoo Messages
457|457|2014-01-09 07:41:15|TES3355|Clifford Crockett Russell, Jr. SHS '50, R.I.P.|Clifford Crockett Russell, Jr. (July 26, 1932 - January 7, 2014) Clifford Crockett Russell, Jr., age 81 of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Tuesday, January 7, 2014. Mr. Russell was born July 26, 1932, in Annona, Texas, to Mary Brown and Clifford Russell, Sr. He graduated from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville with a degree in Education. After graduation, he joined the U.S. Army. He taught High School Science for three years in Stamps and later went to work with Bodcaw Insurance Company in Stamps. Mr. Russell owned and operated the NAPA Auto Parts Store for several years. In his retirement years, he built and ran chicken houses at the family farm in Falcon. His most enjoyable times were spent at the farm in Falcon with his sons and grandchildren, hunting, working the cows, cutting hay and just hanging out at the farm house. Mr. Russell was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Alice Ann Russell; and brother, Ed Russell and sister-in-law, Helen Russell. He is survived by two sons, William Clifford Russell of Falcon, AR, and Robert Brown Russell and wife, Tammie of Stamps, AR; brother, Bill Russell and wife, Brenda of Stamps, AR; grandchildren, Chris Russell, Kathryn Russell, Amelia Russell, Luke Russell and wife, Brittany; four great grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. Graveside Services will be held at 2 pm Friday, January 10, 2014, at Falcon Cemetery with Bro. Mike Turner officiating under the direction of Smith Funeral Homes of Stamps, AR. Visitation will be held from 6-8 pm Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. ___________________________ Clifford was a good friend of mine @ SHS. We hung out together, both worked on the Hilltopper, and he played basketball with me. TES * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

458|458|2014-01-09 08:43:54|Derrell Patterson|Stamps High Class of 1964 50th year class reunion|I have finally got a date and schedule set for our 50 year reunion. �The Date:�Saturday June 28, 2014The Time:�1:00 PM to 5:00 PMThe Place: Stamps City Complex��207 Antigo Street��Stamps, ArThis will be a come and go invite going out to our teachers and schoolmates especially to adjacent classes.We will enjoy fellowship and an evening meal�at 6PM�at the local Get-N-Go Restaurant.Questions Regarding this can be sent to�delonpatterson@gmail.comSent from my iPad|

459|458|2014-01-09 19:13:28|TES3355|Stamps High Class of 1964 50th year class reunion|Derrell Patterson posted this announcement on the Stamps Yahoo Group today. I have finally got a date and schedule set for our 50 year reunion. The Date: Saturday June 28, 2014 The Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM The Place: Stamps City Complex 207 Antigo Street Stamps, Ar This will be a come and go invite going out to our teachers and schoolmates especially to adjacent classes. We will enjoy fellowship and an evening meal at 6PM at the local Get-N-Go Restaurant. Questions Regarding this can be sent to delonpatterson@gmail.com|

460|458|2014-01-10 15:15:44|Derrell Patterson|Re: Stamps High Class of 1964 50th year class reunion|Thank you!Sent from my iPad On Jan 9, 2014, at 9:12 PM, TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � Derrell Patterson posted this announcement on the Stamps Yahoo Group today. I have finally got a date and schedule set for our 50 year reunion. The Date: Saturday June 28, 2014 The Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM The Place: Stamps City Complex 207 Antigo Street Stamps, Ar This will be a come and go invite going out to our teachers and schoolmates especially to adjacent classes. We will enjoy fellowship and an evening meal at 6PM at the local Get-N-Go Restaurant. Questions Regarding this can be sent to delonpatterson@gmail.com |

461|458|2014-01-13 10:33:56|Earl Rogers|Re: Stamps High Class of 1964 50th year class reunion|TomThanks for all you do to keep us communicated.Take care. EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jan 9, 2014, at 10:12 PM, TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � Derrell Patterson posted this announcement on the Stamps Yahoo Group today. I have finally got a date and schedule set for our 50 year reunion. The Date: Saturday June 28, 2014 The Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM The Place: Stamps City Complex 207 Antigo Street Stamps, Ar This will be a come and go invite going out to our teachers and schoolmates especially to adjacent classes. We will enjoy fellowship and an evening meal at 6PM at the local Get-N-Go Restaurant. Questions Regarding this can be sent to delonpatterson@gmail.com |

462|98|2014-01-16 23:31:03|TES3355|Stamps Remembrances|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: T.F.Gillespie razorb@gvtc.com Date: Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:51 AM Subject: a picture for you To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com Tom, I don't know whether you are interested in this piece of Stamps "back when" but here it is. Am not interested in showing you me in a "walker or wearing what looks like a gown, but the building across Main Street with the porch around it was a boarding house owned and operated by Mrs. Powell (Boyette Powell's Mother--he was mayor of Stamps many years ago). http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03440.jpg Gillespie This boarding house was moved up the street in the back ground, placed on the right side of the street and maintained and operated for several years. The Methodist church is on that property. The year--I am 92 so you can figure it out. Tom Gillespie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:30 AM Subject: Re: a picture for you To: "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com Tom: I'm always interested in anything you remember about Stamps. I believe the father of my SHS '51 classmate, Barbara Powell, was Shelly Powell, and I always thought he was the mayor of Stamps at one time. Looking at Glen Ward's history of Stamps, which is on the Stamps Yahoo Group home page: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PGW.htm I see that it lists S.M. Powell as mayor from 1932 - 1934. I have never heard of a Boyette Powell, but the Boyette name does sound familiar. I remember people renting @ the Powell boarding house from when I lived for a few months in the Gant house, on other side of Methodist church, in 1933. You may be interested to know that I recently had contact (long phone converstion) with Bob Williams, my childhood friend and your next door neighbor. I hadn't seen or talked with him since they moved to Hope in the early 40's. Bob is the only member of the Williams family still alive. He confirmed that Tommy graduated from Annapolis and retired as a Captain. He also said the he believed that you went to Annapolis and graduated a couple of years before Tommy. I didn't know that. Bob lives in Texas now. Best wishes, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: T.F.Gillespie razorb@gvtc.com Date: Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:10 PM Subject: HI To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com You are correct-- I was thinking of "Dub" Gladney. Shelly Powell was a artist in his own way. If I remember correctly he carved out all the graduation class names on the sidewalks of SHS. And Glen Ward--I guess he was one of my idols back then. What a wonderful gentleman he was. I will send you a picture now and then as I "run up on one". If you get "up to here" with them, just let me know. I had an appointment to Annapolis, but decided not to try to go. I wound up in the Navy as a Petty Officer 3rd class Radio Technician and came out as A Chief Petty Officer (Chief Aircraft Radio Technician) in 1945. Was in the first control aircraft unit this country had. You can look up STAG-1 or STAG ONE or Special Task Air One and see a little about us. Very little was known about us as we were top secret back then. ---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:28 AM Subject: Re: HI To: "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com Tom: Dub Gladney was a plumber and was good friends with my Dad. I didn't know that Shelly Powell had artistic talents or that he did the names on the school sidewalk, Some additional names were done on the rear sidewalk to Home Ec and FFA buildings when I was in grade school, and they were done by Perry Ormand (who I believe was the janitor then). I remember Shelly Powell as a house painter. I believe he painted with brushes and later got spray painting gear. I knew Glen Ward, and his family,very well, and didn't fully appreciate him until much later in life. He was a very humble and giving man. He was my scoutmaster and I went on many camping trips with him, and he supervised most of my merit badges. He never owned a car, riding a bike instead, and he had false teeth that whistled when he talked. He gave me a copy of the Stamps History that he wrote, when I was in Stamps in 1989. A truly great man. If it's OK with you, I'm going to post our email exchanges on the Stamps Yahoo group, for archiving purposes. Best wishes, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thomas Gillespie razorb@gvtc.com Date: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:26 AM Subject: Re: HI To: TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com You have my permission to post our e-mail exchanges. Perry Ormand--how well I remember him. My class of '39 was, I think, was the first walk behind the school. The fellow before Ormand was Percy Perkins. Another wonderful character. My best to you. (Another Tom) Gillespie ---------- Forwarded message
---------- From: TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:22 PM Subject: Re: HI To: Thomas Gillespie razorb@gvtc.com Tom: Perry Ormand's son, Bobby, was about three years younger than me, and I heard that he was a very good football player. Bobby's cousin, J.D. Ormand was two years behind me, and was probably one of the best SHS football players, all-time. J.D. was a long time postal worker in Stamps and his wife, Lanie Sue, was in county government. Wade Hanson was the school janitor when I was in high school, and I was one of his asst. janitors my senior year. I swept the floors on the upper floor of SHS every day. The Hanson's had two daughters who were a few years older than me, and Mrs. Hanson ran the School cafeteria. Best, Tom Sims|

463|98|2014-01-17 00:21:59|Myrtle Barr|Re: Stamps Remembrances|I lived next door to Barbara Powell and her family in a large two story house that was built by the Buchanan family (they were responsible for the lumber business being in Stamps). �This large house was later torn down to make room for a baseball field for Stamps HS. �This has always irritated me that this beautiful house with knotty pine paneling in the large entry way (with stairway) was torn down having NO regard for the history of Stamps lumber barons. �The house that Barbara (my best friend) lived in must be the one that became the boarding house spoken of in an earlier e-mail. The Buchanan house had two screened porches (upstairs and downstairs) along the whole side of the house. �We (the Peck family) had a ping pong table in the upper screened porch where many a competitive game was fiercely enjoyed. �Barbara always beat me at ping pong! � �Memories!! � On Friday, January 17, 2014 1:31 AM, TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: T.F.Gillespie razorb@gvtc.com Date: Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:51 AM Subject: a picture for you To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com Tom, I don't know whether you are interested in this piece of Stamps "back when" but here it is. Am not interested in showing you me in a "walker or wearing what looks like a gown, but the building across Main Street with the porch around it was a boarding house owned and operated by Mrs. Powell (Boyette Powell's Mother--he was mayor of Stamps many years ago). http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03440.jpg Gillespie This boarding house was moved up the street in the back ground, placed on the right side of the street and maintained and operated for several years. The Methodist church is on that property. The year--I am 92 so you can figure it out. Tom Gillespie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:30 AM Subject: Re: a picture for you To: "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com Tom: I'm always interested in anything you remember about Stamps. I believe the father of my SHS '51 classmate, Barbara Powell, was Shelly Powell, and I always thought he was the mayor of Stamps at one time. Looking at Glen Ward's history of Stamps, which is on the Stamps Yahoo Group home page: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PGW.htm I see that it lists S.M. Powell as mayor from 1932 - 1934. I have never heard of a Boyette Powell, but the Boyette name does sound familiar. I remember people renting @ the Powell boarding house from when I lived for a few months in the Gant house, on other side of Methodist church, in 1933. You may be interested to know that I recently had contact (long phone converstion) with Bob Williams, my childhood friend and your next door neighbor. I hadn't seen or talked with him since they moved to Hope in the early 40's. Bob is the only member of the Williams family still alive. He confirmed that Tommy graduated from Annapolis and retired as a Captain. He also said the he believed that you went to Annapolis and graduated a couple of years before Tommy. I didn't know that. Bob lives in Texas now. Best wishes, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: T.F.Gillespie
razorb@gvtc.com Date: Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:10 PM Subject: HI To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com You are correct-- I was thinking of "Dub" Gladney. Shelly Powell was a artist in his own way. If I remember correctly he carved out all the graduation class names on the sidewalks of SHS. And Glen Ward--I guess he was one of my idols back then. What a wonderful gentleman he was. I will send you a picture now and then as I "run up on one". If you get "up to here" with them, just let me know. I had an appointment to Annapolis, but decided not to try to go. I wound up in the Navy as a Petty Officer 3rd class Radio Technician and came out as A Chief Petty Officer (Chief Aircraft Radio Technician) in 1945. Was in the first control aircraft unit this country had. You can look up STAG-1 or STAG ONE or Special Task Air One and see a little about us. Very little was known about us as we were top secret back then. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:28 AM Subject: Re: HI To: "T.F.Gillespie" razorb@gvtc.com Tom: Dub Gladney was a plumber and was good friends with my Dad. I didn't know that Shelly Powell had artistic talents or that he did the names on the school sidewalk, Some additional names were done on the rear sidewalk to Home Ec and FFA buildings when I was in grade school, and they were done by Perry Ormand (who I believe was the janitor then). I remember Shelly Powell as a house painter. I believe he painted with brushes and later got spray painting gear. I knew Glen Ward, and his family,very well, and didn't fully appreciate him until much later in life. He was a very humble and giving man. He was my scoutmaster and I went on many camping trips with him, and he supervised most of my merit badges. He never owned a car, riding a bike instead, and he had false teeth that whistled when he talked. He gave me a copy of the Stamps History that he wrote, when I was in Stamps in 1989. A truly great man. If it's OK with you, I'm going to post our email exchanges on the Stamps Yahoo group, for archiving purposes. Best wishes, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thomas Gillespie razorb@gvtc.com Date: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:26 AM Subject: Re: HI To: TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com You have my permission to post our e-mail exchanges. Perry Ormand--how well I remember him. My class of '39 was, I think, was the first walk behind the school. The fellow before Ormand was Percy Perkins. Another wonderful character. My best to you. (Another Tom) Gillespie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:22 PM Subject: Re: HI To: Thomas Gillespie razorb@gvtc.com Tom: Perry Ormand's son, Bobby, was about three years younger than me, and I heard that he was a very good football player. Bobby's cousin, J.D. Ormand was two years behind me, and was probably one of the best SHS football players, all-time. J.D. was a long time postal worker in Stamps and his wife, Lanie Sue, was in county government. Wade Hanson was the school janitor when I was in high school, and I was one of his asst. janitors my senior year. I swept the floors on the upper floor of SHS every day. The Hanson's had two daughters who were a few years older
than me, and Mrs. Hanson ran the School cafeteria. Best, Tom Sims

464|464|2014-01-17 18:51:24|TES3355|Obituary: Betty Jean Silvey Baker|Found this on the internet Obituary: Betty Jean Silvey Baker Betty Jean Silvey Baker, age 70, of Stamps, Arkansas died Wednesday, June 4, 2003 at St. Michael Hospital in Texarkana, Texas. She was born December 5, 1932 in Wilisville, Arkansas. Mrs. Baker was a member of The First United Methodist Church of Stamps, a homemaker and a retired grocery store owner & operator in Stamps. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Daphne Cole. She is survived by: her husband, Harold Baker of Stamps; one son, Mark Baker of Stamps; two brothers, Don West of Cincinnati, OH and David West of Taylor, AR; one sister, Joan DeLamar of Stephens, AR; and granddaughter, Nicole Baker Baldwin of Texarkana, AR. Funeral services were held at 4:00 pm on Friday, June 6, 2003 at The Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps with Rev. Carl Palmer and Rev. Charles Walthall officiating and burial in Lakeside Cemetery under the direction of Smith Funeral Home of Stamps.|

465|465|2014-01-17 18:51:28|TES3355|Obituary: C. P. Baker|Found this on the internet Obituary: C. P. Baker C. P. Baker, age 80, of Stamps, Arkansas passed away on January 20, 2010. He was born May 11, 1929 to Bruce and Eva Mae Baker. He was a loving father and papaw who enjoyed hunting, fishing and watching baseball. He was a Veteran of the Korean War. Mr. Baker was preceded in death by: his parents; his brother and sister-in-law, Harold and Betty Jean Baker; his nephew, Mark Baker; and his niece, Daphne Cole. He is survived by: his wife of 41 years, Ester Beene Baker; his sons, David Paul Baker & wife Angie of Stamps and Curtis Harrison & wife Kelly of Stamps; three grandchildren, Collin Paul Baker and Lance Michael Harrison, both of Stamps and Christopher Ryan Harrison of Henderson, NV; sister, Betty Vonderlin & husband Chuck of Houston, TX; nephew, Paul Milwee and niece, Sally Milwee, both of Houston; and a host of other relatives and friends. Services will be held at 2:00 pm on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps with Bro. Ernie Sorrels officiating and burial at Lakeside Cemetery under the direction of Smith Funeral Home.|

466|465|2014-01-17 19:00:05|Larry H. Gentry|Re: Obituary: C. P. Baker|Does anyone know what happened to Daphne Baker Cole? Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android b From:/span /b TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com; b To:/span /b StampsArk@yahoogroups.com; b Subject:/span /b [StampsArk] Obituary: C. P. Baker b Sent:/span /b Sat, Jan 18, 2014 2:50:57 AM � Found this on the internet Obituary: C. P. Baker C. P. Baker, age 80, of Stamps, Arkansas passed away on January 20, 2010. He was born May 11, 1929 to Bruce and Eva Mae Baker. He was a loving father and papaw who enjoyed hunting, fishing and watching baseball. He was a Veteran of the Korean War. Mr. Baker was preceded in death by: his parents; his brother and sister-in-law, Harold and Betty Jean Baker; his nephew, Mark Baker; and his niece, Daphne Cole. He is survived by: his wife of 41 years, Ester Beene Baker; his sons, David Paul Baker & wife Angie of Stamps and Curtis Harrison & wife Kelly of Stamps; three grandchildren, Collin Paul Baker and Lance Michael Harrison, both of Stamps and Christopher Ryan Harrison of Henderson, NV; sister, Betty Vonderlin & husband Chuck of Houston, TX; nephew, Paul Milwee and niece, Sally Milwee, both of Houston; and a host of other relatives and friends. Services will be held at 2:00 pm on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps with Bro. Ernie Sorrels officiating and burial at Lakeside Cemetery under the direction of Smith Funeral Home. |

467|465|2014-01-17 19:41:17|J C Smith|Re: Obituary: C. P. Baker| Larry: I believe she died during open heart surgery.� We still lived in Little Rock at the time.� J C Smith On 1/17/2014 8:57 PM, Larry H. Gentry wrote: � Does anyone know what happened to Daphne Baker Cole? Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android b spanFrom:/span /b TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com; b spanTo:/span /b StampsArk@yahoogroups.com; b spanSubject:/span /b [StampsArk] Obituary: C. P. Baker b spanSent:/span /b Sat, Jan 18, 2014 2:50:57 AM � Found this on the internet Obituary: C. P. Baker C. P. Baker, age 80, of Stamps, Arkansas passed away on January 20, 2010. He was born May 11, 1929 to Bruce and Eva Mae Baker. He was a loving father and papaw who enjoyed hunting, fishing and watching baseball. He was a Veteran of the Korean War. Mr. Baker was preceded in death by: his parents; his brother and sister-in-law, Harold and Betty Jean Baker; his nephew, Mark Baker; and his niece, Daphne Cole. He is survived by: his wife of 41 years, Ester Beene Baker; his sons, David Paul Baker & wife Angie of Stamps and Curtis Harrison & wife Kelly of Stamps; three grandchildren, Collin Paul Baker and Lance Michael Harrison, both of Stamps and Christopher Ryan Harrison of Henderson, NV; sister, Betty Vonderlin & husband Chuck of Houston, TX; nephew, Paul Milwee and niece, Sally Milwee, both of Houston; and a host of other relatives and friends. Services will be held at 2:00 pm on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps with Bro. Ernie Sorrels officiating and burial at Lakeside Cemetery under the direction of Smith Funeral Home.

468|98|2014-01-17 20:16:51|TES3355|Re: Stamps Remembrances|Email from Marilou Rogers Nelson: Sent this information to David Orr (Orr Auto Dealership) in Texarkana -- Ola Powell and his father (think I have that right) were brother and sister and He and his brother Maurice (Mo) spent summers in Stamps -- I guess to get out the City!!! He has done some research on family and talks to Barbara often. All of this is interesting... Marilou Rogers Nelson Texarkana, AR Email from David Orr: Barbara was a good tennis player. Played at Hendrix. I remember Shelley being a sign painter. He and Ola and my parents went to the Miller County Court House on 12/22/22 and were married. Email from Marilou Rogers Nelson: Barbara Powell died??? and Norma Jean still alive?? Or the other way around??? Know that Rodney died several years ago.... Marilou RogersNelson Barbara died in 1990. Here's a note from Norma Jean on Barbar's SHS '51 Personal Web Page in 2001: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/BP.htm "Barbara was born May 24, 1932 - deceased August 25, 1990. She was on the Junior and Senior basketball teams and was an excellent player. Junior Coach was David Clary. High school coach was James Bolton. She was homecoming queen 1949 or '50. She Attended Hendrix College, Conway, AR three years: 1951, 1952 and 1953. (I think she made lemon icebox pies and sold them.!) She was a Phys Ed major - move to Minden LA and taught various subjects - met and married Pat Nation, Minden High School Football Coach. Had wedding in Stamps, AR. Became a member of the Eastern Star and was very active. She and Pat had four children: Cindy, Terri, Christi, and Patrick. She graduated from LA Tech. Norma Powell Lang (Sister)" Barbara was a very good basketball player, but she must have improved a lot in tennis, because she was just learning the game in high school and not very good. Tom Sims|

469|464|2014-01-17 20:20:19|loudghoward|Re: Obituary: Betty Jean Silvey Baker|Thank you, Tom. I knew Betty Jean and Harold well. Lou Dean Graham Howard P.S. My brother, Doyne, died in 2011. Did you receive his obituary? ---- TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: Found this on the internet Obituary: Betty Jean Silvey Baker Betty Jean Silvey Baker, age 70, of Stamps, Arkansas died Wednesday, June 4, 2003 at St. Michael Hospital in Texarkana, Texas. She was born December 5, 1932 in Wilisville, Arkansas. Mrs. Baker was a member of The First United Methodist Church of Stamps, a homemaker and a retired grocery store owner & operator in Stamps. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Daphne Cole. She is survived by: her husband, Harold Baker of Stamps; one son, Mark Baker of Stamps; two brothers, Don West of Cincinnati, OH and David West of Taylor, AR; one sister, Joan DeLamar of Stephens, AR; and granddaughter, Nicole Baker Baldwin of Texarkana, AR. Funeral services were held at 4:00 pm on Friday, June 6, 2003 at The Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps with Rev. Carl Palmer and Rev. Charles Walthall officiating and burial in Lakeside Cemetery under the direction of Smith Funeral Home of Stamps. ------------------------------------ Post message: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Yahoo Groups Links |

470|98|2014-01-17 20:35:02|TES3355|Re: Stamps Remembrances|Myrtle Barr barrsmom@yahoo.com wrote: The house that Barbara (my best friend) lived in must be the one that became the boarding house spoken of in an earlier e-mail. Don't think so. The boarding house next to the Methodist church that Tom Gillespie cited and Barbar's house were both in place during my days in Stamps. Tom Sims|

471|98|2014-01-17 20:41:16|TES3355|Re: Stamps Remembrances|Email from Dale White: Just a little information about Boyette Powell and Shelly Powell. Shelly made his living as a painter. And was very good at painting signs. He had the habit of putting his small paint brush in his mouth to bring it to a point when doing letters. That was before people knew that the lead in paint was harmful to the body. If I'm correct, that caused Shelly to go blind before he passed away. Boyette Powell put in the first Dairy Queen in our part of the country. It was located in Lewisville. Later, he built a lumber supply business that was located between Stamps and Lewisville. I think he was a half brother or step brother to Harold, C.P., and Betty Baker's mother. Mrs. Baker was a daughter of Will Petry (sp) who had a grocery store on Main Street. There is some connection between Will Petry and Bouette Powell's mother. Tom Gillispie would know more than I on this since he is 7 years older. Dale You've jogged my memory, and I now recall that Shelly painted signs and who Boyette Powell was. Betty Lou Baker was my classmate and married Bobby Milwee, a good football player from Lewisville, after high school. He died at an early age and she remarried Chuck Vonderlin and she lived in Houston TX the last that I heard. There were two other Betty Baker's, Harold's wife, Betty Silvey Baker, and Hubert's wife, Betty Burke Baker. Hubert was the Stamps weatherman for years and his sister, Dorothy Baker Hanson was my classmate. Tom Sims|

472|464|2014-01-17 21:07:06|TES3355|Re: Obituary: Betty Jean Silvey Baker|Lou Dean Graham Howard wrote: My brother, Doyne, died in 2011. Did you receive his obituary? I just found Doyne's obituary on the internet: Doyne E. Graham Doyne E. Graham, age 77 of Murfreesboro, passed away on February 7, 2011 at Middle Tennessee Medical Center. He was raised in Stamps, AR, but currently resided in Murfreesboro. He was a member of the Holston United Methodist Conference and attended First United Methodist Church in Murfreesboro. Doyne attended Hendrix College in Conway, AR and Emory University's Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, GA. He retired in 1998 after pastoring for 42 years in Arkansas and East Tennessee. Doyne was preceded in death by his parents, Nathan E. Graham and Regina Sutherland Graham. He is survived by his wife of 51-? years, Betty Ruth Peek Graham of Murfreesboro; two sons, Ronald Doyne (Virginia) Graham of Murfreesboro and Terrell Alan Graham of Murfreesboro; one daughter, Rebecca Graham (Mike) Rock of Hermitage, TN; two sisters, Veta Graham (Carroll) Blewster of Arkansas and Lou Dean Graham (Bob) Howard of North Carolina; and four grandchildren, Andrea Rock, Nathan Graham, Ethan Rock and Zachary Graham. Church service will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, February 10, 2011 at First United Methodist Church, with Rev. Michael O'Bannon and Rev. Thad Austin officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Franklin, TN with family and friends serving as Active Pallbearers. Challenger Sunday School Class will serve as Honorary Pallbearers. Visitation with the family will be from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at Jennings & Ayers Funeral Home, 820 South Church St., Murfreesboro, TN 37130. Please leave condolences at www.jenningsandayers.com. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to First United Methodist Church Building Fund, 265 West Thomas Lane, Murfreesboro, TN 37129. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dnj/obituary.aspx?n=doyne-e -graham&pid=148464779 Jennings & Ayers Funeral Home, (615) 893-2422.|

473|464|2014-01-17 21:18:37|loudghoward|Re: Obituary: Betty Jean Silvey Baker|Thank you, Tom. Lou Dean ---- TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: Lou Dean Graham Howard wrote: My brother, Doyne, died in 2011. Did you receive his obituary? I just found Doyne's obituary on the internet: Doyne E. Graham Doyne E. Graham, age 77 of Murfreesboro, passed away on February 7, 2011 at Middle Tennessee Medical Center. He was raised in Stamps, AR, but currently resided in Murfreesboro. He was a member of the Holston United Methodist Conference and attended First United Methodist Church in Murfreesboro. Doyne attended Hendrix College in Conway, AR and Emory University's Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, GA. He retired in 1998 after pastoring for 42 years in Arkansas and East Tennessee. Doyne was preceded in death by his parents, Nathan E. Graham and Regina Sutherland Graham. He is survived by his wife of 51-? years, Betty Ruth Peek Graham of Murfreesboro; two sons, Ronald Doyne (Virginia) Graham of Murfreesboro and Terrell Alan Graham of Murfreesboro; one daughter, Rebecca Graham (Mike) Rock of Hermitage, TN; two sisters, Veta Graham (Carroll) Blewster of Arkansas and Lou Dean Graham (Bob) Howard of North Carolina; and four grandchildren, Andrea Rock, Nathan Graham, Ethan Rock and Zachary Graham. Church service will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, February 10, 2011 at First United Methodist Church, with Rev. Michael O'Bannon and Rev. Thad Austin officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Franklin, TN with family and friends serving as Active Pallbearers. Challenger Sunday School Class will serve as Honorary Pallbearers. Visitation with the family will be from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at Jennings & Ayers Funeral Home, 820 South Church St., Murfreesboro, TN 37130. Please leave condolences at www.jenningsandayers.com. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to First United Methodist Church Building Fund, 265 West Thomas Lane, Murfreesboro, TN 37129. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dnj/obituary.aspx?n=doyne-e -graham&pid=148464779 Jennings & Ayers Funeral Home, (615) 893-2422. ------------------------------------ Post message: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Yahoo Groups Links |

474|465|2014-01-18 10:11:42|Larry H. Gentry|Re: Obituary: C. P. Baker|Really! How sad.Thanks,Larry bFrom: J C Smith n5rxs@satx.rr.com bTo: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bSent: Friday, January 17, 2014 9:41 PM bSubject: Re: [StampsArk] Obituary: C. P. Baker � Larry: I believe she died during open heart surgery.� We still lived in Little Rock at the time.� J C Smith On 1/17/2014 8:57 PM, Larry H. Gentry wrote: � Does anyone know what happened to Daphne Baker Cole? Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android b spanFrom:/span /b TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com; b spanTo:/span /b StampsArk@yahoogroups.com; b spanSubject:/span /b [StampsArk] Obituary: C. P. Baker b spanSent:/span /b Sat, Jan 18, 2014 2:50:57 AM � Found this on the internet Obituary: C. P. Baker C. P. Baker, age 80, of Stamps, Arkansas passed away on January 20, 2010. He was born May 11, 1929 to Bruce and Eva Mae Baker. He was a loving father and papaw who enjoyed hunting, fishing and watching baseball. He was a Veteran of the Korean War. Mr. Baker was preceded in death by: his parents; his brother and sister-in-law, Harold and Betty Jean Baker; his nephew, Mark Baker; and his niece, Daphne Cole. He is survived by: his wife of 41 years, Ester Beene Baker; his sons, David Paul Baker & wife Angie of Stamps and Curtis Harrison & wife Kelly of Stamps; three grandchildren, Collin Paul Baker and Lance Michael Harrison, both of Stamps and Christopher Ryan Harrison of Henderson, NV; sister, Betty Vonderlin & husband Chuck of Houston, TX; nephew, Paul Milwee and niece, Sally Milwee, both of Houston; and a host of other relatives and friends. Services will be held at 2:00 pm on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps with Bro. Ernie Sorrels officiating and burial at Lakeside Cemetery under the direction of Smith Funeral Home.

475|475|2014-01-20 08:13:20|TES3355|Bennie Jean Tucker Willis SHS '52, R.I.P.|Glendon Nicholas reports that Bennie Jean Tucker Willis died on Thursday 16 January 2014. Funeral will be today at the First Baptist Church in New Hope. I knew Bennie Jean at SHS. She was married to Frank Willis, a good friend and football teammate. I last saw them at our 50th reunion in 2001. Frank died in 2010. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

476|476|2014-01-22 23:07:46|TES3355|Request Contact Information for Rodney Nicholas, SHS '57|Glendon Nicholas sends the following request: _ Please ask everyone on your mail List for any one that might have any information about Rodney Nicholas, like phone number, address. Carolyn (Nicholas) Simmons graduated with him in 1957 and is helping put together a class reunion. She can be reached 870-533-2508. I would like to know also, he is my only Nicholas nephew And have not seen him in several years, the last address and Phone I have is no longer correct. Thanks in advance. Glendon _ * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StampsArk/|

477|477|2014-01-29 20:06:12|TES3355|Lakeside Cemetery|Lakeside Cemetery i was recently asked who you should contact if you want some information about Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps. Ralph Boulware had been the person to talk with for many years, but since he died, I didn't know a current contact. I looked on the internet and found a link (but no contact person): http://us.geoview.info/lakeside_cemetery,4118175 I called Smith Funeral home and they said the person to talk with now is: Virginia Brazil 870-533-2927 FWIW, I know Virginia and her husband Buster. She ran a beauty shop that my mother used when I was in Stamps in 1989. Here's a listing of graves @ Lakeside: A through K http://interment.net/data/us/ar/lafayette/lakeside/lakeside_ ak.htm L through Y http://interment.net/data/us/ar/lafayette/lakeside/lakeside_ ly.htm Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951
http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/|

478|478|2014-02-21 21:04:33|TES3355|2014 SAU Rip Powell Invitational Golf Tournament|Earl Rogers sends: __________________________________ 2014 SAU Rip Powell Invitational Golf Tournament http://www.saufoundation.org/2014/01/07/4th-annual-rip-powel l-invitational-golf-tournament/ Friday, April 25, 2014 @ Magnolia Country Club Proceeds from this tournament will be used to name the Mulerider football field in Coach Powell's honor. Rip Powell was a very successful football coach at SHS and SAU. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/|

479|479|2014-02-27 11:35:17|TES3355|David Benjamin "Doc" Harrison, SHS '54, R.I.P.|David Benjamin "Doc" Harrison, SHS '54, R.I.P. David Benjamin Harrison, age 79, of Magnolia, Arkansas, passed away Sunday, February 23, 2014. Mr. Harrison was born August 4, 1934, to Louis and Ever Harrison in Stamps, Arkansas. He was a Navy Veteran, retired from Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant and a graduate of Stamps High School. Mr. Harrison was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Dr. Betty Carolyn Cook Harrison; son, Jerry David Harrison; brother, Ervin Lewis "Buddy" Harrison; and sister, Marie Downs. He is survived by his daughter, Phyllis Harrison Bennett and husband, William Charles of Magnolia, AR; sister, Susie Brantley of Sibley, LA; grandchildren, Paul David Bennett of Columbus, GA, and Lynley Nicole Bennett of Magnolia, AR; and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 pm Wednesday, February 26, 2014, at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Bro. Joe Brown officiating. Interment will follow at Ebenezer Cemetery in Bluff City, AR. Visitation will be held from 6:00-8:00 pm Tuesday, February 25, 2014, at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. ________________________________________ Doc was an excellent athlete and played a lot, as a Freshman, on our 1950 undefeated (regular season) football team. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/|

480|480|2014-02-28 07:47:16|TES3355|Walter "Tommy" Jones, SHS '49, R.I.P.|Walter "Tommy" Jones, SHS '49, R.I.P. (3 FEB 1931 - 26 FEB 2014) http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03444.jpg __________________________________________ Tommy played halfback on the first post WWII SHS football team in 1948, until he suffered a spleen injury during a game that required an operation. Team members donated blood that was used for the operation. Tommy was the fastest player on the team. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/|

481|481|2014-02-28 19:42:02|TES3355|LCHS Cougar Running Back, #14 Tre'Darius Burks', highlight video|LCHS Cougar Running Back, #14 Tre'Darius Burks', highlight video http://www.hudl.com/athlete/o/3411719/highlights/133630375|

482|481|2014-03-01 07:06:48|Earl Rogers|Re: LCHS Cougar Running Back, #14 Tre'Darius Burks', highlight video|WowHe does look good. And a junior ,too.Can we win some games next year..Please keep me posted.Take care. EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Feb 28, 2014, at 10:41 PM, TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � LCHS Cougar Running Back, #14 Tre'Darius Burks', highlight video http://www.hudl.com/athlete/o/3411719/highlights/133630375 |

483|481|2014-03-01 08:00:50|Derrell Patterson|Re: LCHS Cougar Running Back, #14 Tre'Darius Burks', highlight video|I agree this guy looks like good.Sent from my iPad On Mar 1, 2014, at 9:06, Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com wrote: � WowHe does look good. And a junior ,too.Can we win some games next year..Please keep me posted.Take care. EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.netOn Feb 28, 2014, at 10:41 PM, TES3355 tes3355@gmail.com wrote: � LCHS Cougar Running Back, #14 Tre'Darius Burks', highlight video http://www.hudl.com/athlete/o/3411719/highlights/133630375 |

484|484|2014-04-22 08:39:36|TES3355|LCSD Students and teachers having fun at Spring Fling 2014!!|LCSD Students and teachers having fun at Spring Fling 2014!! 29 Pictures https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/photos/pcb.5 23466337773987/523464874440800/?type=1&theater or http://tinyurl.com/kpahmoc|

485|485|2014-04-22 15:46:05|TES3355|Lafayette County Jr. High quiz bowl team|Lafayette County Jr. High quiz bowl team https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/photos/a.406 553222798633.1073741828.276170109170279/524516624335625/?typ e=1&theater or http://tinyurl.com/lkmze8r|

486|486|2014-04-26 11:01:35|TES3355|Dr. Charles Cross R.I.P.|I've received word that Dr. Charles Cross has died in North Carolina. No other details and I haven't found anything on the internet. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/|

487|487|2014-04-27 10:13:51|Lou Howard|Alred Cross Obituary: View Obituary for Alred Cross by Hanes Lineber|

488|486|2014-04-27 10:38:37|TES3355|Re: Dr. Charles Cross R.I.P.|Dr. Alred Charles Cross, Jr. GREENSBORO-Alred "Charlie" Cross passed away at Moses Cone hospital on Friday, April 25th , 2014. He was born on July 8th, 1927 in Stamps, Arkansas. He attended Hendrix College and the University of Arkansas Medical School. He was in private general practice in Stamps, AR for over 15 years before going to work for Western Electric as the Medical Director for the next 21 years until he retired. Charlie was preceded in death by his parents, Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Cross, Sr. of Stamps, AR and his sister Jane Morgan of Jasper, TX. He is survived by his wife, Patsy, daughter Trish Plunkett and husband John Plunkett of Colfax, NC, daughter Liz Joyce and husband Tim Joyce of Greensboro, NC, grandchildren Connor Plunkett and Kelsey Joyce, and niece, Maggie Case of Austin, TX. Memorial service will be held Tuesday April 29th, 2014 at 11:00 a.m., at West Market United Methodist Church, 302 W. Market Street, Greensboro, NC, 27401 with Rev. Pam Strader officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to West Market United Methodist Church. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.htm If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/|

489|489|2014-04-28 07:39:52|TES3355|Re: Hi|Tom: Your remembrances of Stamps are always interesting, and I'm sharing your Al Cross story with the Yahoo Group. I remember the whole Cross family. Best, Tom Sims Tom Gillespie, SHS '39 writes: Tom I really appreciate you sending me the info on Charles Cross. People's Drug Store was always a place I could go and have fun with his father. When I was drum major of the band, on every Friday afternoon during foot ball season, I would always stop the band and play in front of the place. There were always people gathered at the point and I would twirl my baton and throw it up in the air. He told me he would give me $5 if I could throw it as high as the top of the building. The next time we stopped, I had a "good feeling" with my baton. He was outside watching and up it went. I just had the feeling that I did it so after the parade I went home, changed clothes and went to get "my money". Al said it was not that high. I was very disappointed as I thought different. My friend Jimmy Burke and I took pictures, did our own developing and printing, etc. I told Jimmy Mr. Cross said "no". Jimmy said I did. He had taken a photo that showed I did. He printed it out, we took it to Mr. Cross and he opened the cash register and handed me the money. Some where I still have the photo. (I just had to tell the story). Hope it didn't bore you. I could tell a lot of wonderful things about that family and although I have not been in contact with Charles for many years I will never forget his kindness to my Mother and helping me take care of her and making the right decisions. Again, forgive me for my "long winded" conversation and thank you again for remembering me. Tom Gillespie|

490|489|2014-04-28 09:50:53|earl.rogers1661|Re: Hi|I enjoy your stories.I remember dr cross and was his patient while in HS and SSC. And I worked for mr cross at Peoples DS and had Mrs cross for 6 th grade. �But I did not know dr cross had a sister. Can anyone tell me about her? �When did she graduate SHS? �And who loves in the crosses " new" house on hwy 82 out near the new LCHS?.Earl|

491|489|2014-04-28 15:16:08|Lou Howard|Re: Hi|Earl,Jane, Dr. Cross's sister, was about 3-4 years older than he.� This means she was 10 or 11 years older than I.� I graduated in 1953.� I knew her because she attended my church and my sister, Veta Gwyn, was between the ages of Jane and Charles.Jane was pretty with dark hair.��She probably favored her mother when Mrs. Cross was young.I did not know Mrs. Cross taught sixth grade.� I knew her as a high school English teacher.Lou Dean Graham Howard�� On Monday, April 28, 2014 12:50 PM, "earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com" earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com wrote: � I enjoy your stories.I remember dr cross and was his patient while in HS and SSC. And I worked for mr cross at Peoples DS and had Mrs cross for 6 th grade. �But I did not know dr cross had a sister. Can anyone tell me about her? �When did she graduate SHS? �And who loves in the crosses " new" house on hwy 82 out near the new LCHS?.Earl

492|489|2014-04-29 07:45:38|Earl Rogers|Re: Hi|Thanks so muchTake care. EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Apr 28, 2014, at 3:36 PM, Lou Howard loughoward@yahoo.com wrote: � Earl,Jane, Dr. Cross's sister, was about 3-4 years older than he.� This means she was 10 or 11 years older than I.� I graduated in 1953.� I knew her because she attended my church and my sister, Veta Gwyn, was between the ages of Jane and Charles.Jane was pretty with dark hair.��She probably favored her mother when Mrs. Cross was young.I did not know Mrs. Cross taught sixth grade.� I knew her as a high school English teacher.Lou Dean Graham Howard�� On Monday, April 28, 2014 12:50 PM, "earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com" earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com wrote: � I enjoy your stories.I remember dr cross and was his patient while in HS and SSC. And I worked for mr cross at Peoples DS and had Mrs cross for 6 th grade. �But I did not know dr cross had a sister. Can anyone tell me about her? �When did she graduate SHS? �And who loves in the crosses " new" house on hwy 82 out near the new LCHS?.Earl |

493|493|2014-04-29 13:27:16|loudghoward|Dr. A.C. Cross| This morning I attended the Memorial Service for Dr. Charles Cross which was held in the West Market Street United Methodist Church in Greensboro, NC. It was a lovely service because of its simplicity.� I knew he was retired, but I did not know he was a gardener.� From the minister's comments, he and his wife,Patsy, raised vegetables and gave them to people who needed food.� His description reminded me of what my mother did as long as I can remember. � After the service, I had an opportunity to speak to Patsy.� She was the one who told me Charles did not suffer long.� He was working in the garden, had a stroke, was taken to the hospital, and died the next day.� "The fact that he did not have to suffer long was a blessing,"� as she said. � I agreed with her. � Sincerely, LouDean Graham Howard�� |

494|494|2014-05-06 17:45:21|TES3355|First names of Lafayette County School District students|Appended is the list of LCSD students who participated in The Arkansas state track meet yesterday. I am amazed at the first names of young people these days. "John Hall" is a throwback to earlier times. Tom Sims Good Luck to the Cougar Track teams today! The following students are participating in the State Competition at Gurdon: Tredarius Burks Juwan Dismuke Jaylon Dardon Nik Sanders Tyrian Johnson Deandre Iverson Kleavis Johnson Cualan Williams Deandre Stewart Dartravis Mcghee Lederrick Lemay John Hall Jacolby Easter Marqualin Davis Sienna Easter Summer Cleboski Cynetra Ward Jarkelah Solomon|

495|495|2014-05-08 15:36:28|Tom Sims|Stephen Glen Ward, R.I.P.|Stephen Glen Ward (December 19, 1929 - May 6, 2014) An old aviator, Stephen Glen Ward, age 84, has "Gone West."� His life will be celebrated Saturday May 10 at 10:00 AM at Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, AR. Visitation will be conducted 6-8 PM Friday May 9 at the same location. Steve was born to Glen and Dorothy Ward on Dec 19, 1929 in Stamps, AR and died May 6, 2014 in Bossier City, LA. Eyeing the heavens, he earned a pilot license in 1948 and continued a lifetime association with aircraft. A U.S. Navy veteran, he was an aircraft mechanic with VF144 "Bitter Birds"� during and after the Korean War. He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arkansas in 1958 and joined Boeing in Wichita, KS to complete work on the B-52 program. In 1961, he relocated to Crossett, AR with the Georgia-Pacific Paper Company and in 1968 moved to Ashdown, AR with Nekoosa Paper Company from which he retired in 1985 as a senior engineer. Steve married Hazel Warren of Springhill, LA in June 1955. Steve and Hazel were inseparable during their nearly 57 years of marriage until her death in 2012. They are now reunited in heaven, absent from the body, but forever with the Lord. Together, they have a daughter, Vickie Lee of Sherwood, AR; she is married to Dr. Richard Lee, pastor of First Baptist Church, Sherwood. Steve and Hazel's son, Colonel Warren Ward, USAF (ret) and his wife, Amanda Ward, live in Benton, LA. Steve is also survived by a sister, Joanna Dubose and husband CMSgt Jack Dubose, USAF (ret) of Aiken, SC; brother Leon Ward and wife Barbara Ward of Holly Lake, TX. He has four grandchildren: Stephen Lee and wife Robyn Lee of Sherwood, AR; Bryan Lee and wife Shannon Lee of Bryant, AR; Michaella Ward of Benton, LA and Ethan Ward of Benton, LA. He has one great-grandson, Gideon Lee of Sherwood, AR. The family is grateful to the superb staff at the Northwest Louisiana War Veteran's Home in Bossier City. Memorials may be directed to Millwood Baptist Church, 800 Hwy 32 E, Ashdown, AR, 71822. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/|

496|431|2014-05-08 19:02:17|JWaddell@bmnet.com|Aubrey Waddell is out of the office.|I will be out of the office starting 05/07/2014 and will not return until 05/12/2014. I will respond to your message when I return. If you need to contact me for any reason, please call 865-696-7945. ________________________________ This communication may contain protected health information (PHI) that is legally protected from inappropriate disclosure by the Privacy Standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and relevant Tennessee Laws. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you should notify the sender immediately by telephone or by return e-mail and delete this message from your computer. Direct questions to the Blount Memorial Hospital Privacy Officer at 865-977-4675.|

497|497|2014-05-19 17:34:34|Tom Sims|LCHS Band Banquet|LCHS Band Banquet https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/photos/a.406 553222798633.1073741828.276170109170279/539321326188488/?typ e=1&theater or http://tinyurl.com/ny4dpo8|

498|458|2014-05-20 08:21:15|derrell_patterson|Re: Stamps High Class of 1964 50th year class reunion|Could you repost this event weekly for the next 5 weeks?Derrell Patterson|

499|458|2014-05-20 08:44:01|earl.rogers1661|Re: Stamps High Class of 1964 50th year class reunion|Derrell: �Thanks so much for all your hard work. �The reunion should be a HOOT!! �I know I'm looking forward to it.Tom Sims: Thanks for all your work on this YAHOO website. It is great! ThanksCharlotte Walthall : �Thank you and your group for putting together the food, drinks, decorations, name tags, etc...... yall are fantastic. thanks.Earl|

500|500|2014-05-23 08:24:08|Tom Sims|SHS 1964 50th Reunion|SHS 1964 50th Reunion The Date: Saturday June 28, 2014 The Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM The Place: Stamps City Complex 207 Antigo Street Stamps, Ar This will be a come and go invite going out to our teachers and schoolmates especially to adjacent classes. We will enjoy fellowship and an evening meal at 6PM at the local Get-N-Go Restaurant. Questions Regarding this can be sent to delonpatterson@gmail.com * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/|

501|501|2014-05-23 22:33:41|Tom Sims|Best Wishes to SHS '64 from SHS '39|Please extend to the SHS class of 1964 at their 50th class reunion the congratulations and best wishes from the SHS class of 1939 and may you have many more. Tom Gillespie '39|

502|501|2014-05-24 06:06:44|Derrell Patterson|Re: Best Wishes to SHS '64 from SHS '39|I will do this, thanks for your help Tom.Sent from my iPad On May 24, 2014, at 12:32 AM, "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Please extend to the SHS class of 1964 at their 50th class reunion the congratulations and best wishes from the SHS class of 1939 and may you have many more. Tom Gillespie '39 |

503|503|2014-05-28 10:42:05|Tom Sims|Marguerite Ann Johnson, AKA Maya Angelou, R.I.P.|Marguerite Ann Johnson, AKA Maya Angelou, R.I.P. Her book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was about her life in Stamps from 1931 to 1942. Wikipedia page for Maya Angelou: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou _______________________________________ I remember her when she lived in Stamps, and I knew her grandmother and uncle. I spoke with her, very briefly, at a reception after a lecture she gave in the 1980's. She didn't care to talk about Stamps with me. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/|

504|431|2014-05-28 13:01:05|JWaddell@bmnet.com|Aubrey Waddell is out of the office.|I will be out of the office starting 05/27/2014 and will not return until 05/30/2014. I will respond to your message when I return. If you need to contact me for any reason, please call 865-696-7945. ________________________________ This communication may contain protected health information (PHI) that is legally protected from inappropriate disclosure by the Privacy Standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and relevant Tennessee Laws. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you should notify the sender immediately by telephone or by return e-mail and delete this message from your computer. Direct questions to the Blount Memorial Hospital Privacy Officer at 865-977-4675.|

505|503|2014-05-28 13:28:57|Derrell Patterson|Re: Marguerite Ann Johnson, AKA Maya Angelou, R.I.P.|I remember the family, but never knew her personally. Seems to me the Johnson's operated a food store. Is this correct?Sent from my iPad On May 28, 2014, at 12:40 PM, "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Marguerite Ann Johnson, AKA Maya Angelou, R.I.P. Her book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was about her life in Stamps from 1931 to 1942. Wikipedia page for Maya Angelou: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou _______________________________________ I remember her when she lived in Stamps, and I knew her grandmother and uncle. I spoke with her, very briefly, at a reception after a lecture she gave in the 1980's. She didn't care to talk about Stamps with me. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/ |

506|503|2014-05-28 16:07:27|loudghoward|Re: Marguerite Ann Johnson, AKA Maya Angelou, R.I.P.|Maya has lived in Winston-Salem, NC forty years - maybe more. I have heard her speak at least twice - once in Greensboro and once in High Point. A year before I heard her the first time, I read her book,"I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings". I went back stage to meet her. We had a nice conversation. I let her know how much I really did enjoy her program and appreciated the fact that she was so multitalented. When I mentioned I grew up in Stamps, her face froze. I remember her grandmother's store and seeing her uncle sit on the porch. Years later after she had spoken in High Point at a Martin Luther King Day program, people wanted to speak to her. Most of those she saw when she came out were Caucasian. She spoke to about two people and left. I think she really felt uncomfortable in the midst of so many who were Caucasian. I wonder if she ever realized that many of these people genuinely appreciated the way she wrote and the speeches she gave. LouDean Graham Howard P.S. - Tom, does replying to this message place it in the Stamp, Ark. Group? ---- "Derrell Patterson delonpatterson@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: I remember the family, but never knew her personally. Seems to me the Johnson's operated a food store. Is this correct? Sent from my iPad On May 28, 2014, at 12:40 PM, "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Marguerite Ann Johnson, AKA Maya Angelou, R.I.P. Her book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was about her life in Stamps
from 1931 to 1942. Wikipedia page for Maya Angelou: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou _______________________________________ I remember her when she lived in Stamps, and I knew her grandmother and uncle. I spoke with her, very briefly, at a reception after a lecture she gave in the 1980's. She didn't care to talk about Stamps with me. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/ |

507|503|2014-05-29 09:20:50|Earl Rogers|Re: Marguerite Ann Johnson, AKA Maya Angelou, R.I.P.|THanks for your observations.I got the feeling that she did not have fond memories of her time in stamps, or towards white folks.....it was a different time and I'm sure I cannot appreciate all she ( and other blacks) went thru .But she was a talent.Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On May 28, 2014, at 7:07 PM, "lghoward@triad.rr.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Maya has lived in Winston-Salem, NC forty years - maybe more. I have heard her speak at least twice - once in Greensboro and once in High Point. A year before I heard her the first time, I read her book,"I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings". I went back stage to meet her. We had a nice conversation. I let her know how much I really did enjoy her program and appreciated the fact that she was so multitalented. When I mentioned I grew up in Stamps, her face froze. I remember her grandmother's store and seeing her uncle sit on the porch. Years later after she had spoken in High Point at a Martin Luther King Day program, people wanted to speak to her. Most of those she saw when she came out were Caucasian. She spoke to about two people and left. I think she really felt uncomfortable in the midst of so many who were Caucasian. I wonder if she ever realized that many of these people genuinely appreciated the way she wrote and the speeches she gave. LouDean Graham Howard P.S. - Tom, does replying to this message place it in the Stamp, Ark. Group? ---- "Derrell Patterson delonpatterson@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: I remember the family, but never knew her personally. Seems to me the Johnson's operated a food store. Is this correct? Sent from my iPad On May 28, 2014, at 12:40 PM, "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Marguerite Ann Johnson, AKA Maya Angelou, R.I.P. Her book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was about her life in Stamps from 1931 to 1942. Wikipedia page for Maya Angelou: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou _______________________________________ I remember her when she lived in Stamps, and I knew her grandmother and uncle. I spoke with her, very briefly, at a reception after a lecture she gave in the 1980's. She didn't care to talk about Stamps with me. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to
me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/ |

508|508|2014-06-02 16:19:14|Tom Sims|Reminder: SHS 1964 50th Reunion|SHS 1964 50th Reunion The Date: Saturday June 28, 2014 The Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM The Place: Stamps City Complex 207 Antigo Street Stamps, Ar This will be a come and go invite going out to our teachers and schoolmates especially to adjacent classes. We will enjoy fellowship and an evening meal at 6PM at the local Get-N-Go Restaurant. Questions Regarding this can be sent to delonpatterson@gmail.com|

509|508|2014-06-03 09:12:09|Earl Rogers|Re: Reminder: SHS 1964 50th Reunion|I sure hope EVERYONE will come......classmates, schoolmates, teachers, friends , parents...EVERYONETake care. EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jun 2, 2014, at 6:56 PM, "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � SHS 1964 50th Reunion The Date: Saturday June 28, 2014 The Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM The Place: Stamps City Complex 207 Antigo Street Stamps, Ar This will be a come and go invite going out to our teachers and schoolmates especially to adjacent classes. We will enjoy fellowship and an evening meal at 6PM at the local Get-N-Go Restaurant. Questions Regarding this can be sent to delonpatterson@gmail.com |

510|510|2014-06-12 22:10:20|Tom Sims|Reminder - SHS 1964 50th Reunion|SHS 1964 50th Reunion The Date: Saturday June 28, 2014 The Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM The Place: Stamps City Complex 207 Antigo Street Stamps, Ar This will be a come and go invite going out to our teachers and schoolmates especially to adjacent classes. We will enjoy fellowship and an evening meal at 6PM at the local Get-N-Go Restaurant. Questions Regarding this can be sent to delonpatterson@gmail.com * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/|

511|511|2014-06-12 22:10:33|Tom Sims|Maya Angelou Comments|Maya Angelou comments that were sent directly to Tom Sims _________________________ Dale White wrote: If I recall correctly, her uncle had a store across the pond. It seems his name was Willie Johnson. Not sure. Dale ********** Stu Tribble wrote: I've read some of her books and poetry. She was Poet Laurette when Bill Clinton was President. I'd have to say that Stamps was not a happy memory for her so she probably didn't want to think those thoughts. I've been "friends"� on Facebook page for years. She always exuded inspirational and happy messages. Stu Tribble Sallie Del Vecchio wrote: Yes. She had bad memories, a lot of the abuse by her uncle (?), I think. I know she said there were some hard roads in Stamps. Later, she acknowledged the hard roads everywhere. One of the best speaking voices ever. Nadine Moody wrote: Her book was very enlightening. Her time in Stamps must have been bad. She was so superior in knowledge I would have loved sitting down and visiting with her an hour or so.|

512|47|2014-06-14 19:18:58|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|Dale White '47 told me the following Stamps story in 2011. _ Speaking of things that go way back, here's a story you may not know of. On the corner, across Thomas Street from People's Drug, there was a Gulf Service station on the corner of Thomas and Main. At one time, it was run by a fellow by the name of Waldo. (He had two sons, Bo and Pete. Bo was the first boy from Stamps who was killed during WWII. Pete Waldo married Jarvie Williams later).Hollis Galloway had his Insurance Office there years later. At any rate, when Lafayette county was still wet, there were two Liquor Stores in Stamps: Fuller's located at the West end of Main Street. Next to Baker's Barber Shop and Jarnigan's Liquor Store in the last building on South Thomas. Across from Cox's grocery. Well as you know, there wasn't a lot of activity down that way. Most of the traffic was on the triangle along Main and Church Streets. So, before Galloway located his Insurance Office in that old Gulf Station building, the building was vacant. Jarnigan decided to move his liquor store there. Not long after that, the Baptist, not liking the fact that a liquor store was so close to their building, got out their ruler and measured the distance from their property to the liquor store. It was just too close. The Baptist got busy and started a campaign to make the county dry. After that, traffic picked up between Stamps and Garland City. While I'm telling old stories, I'll tell about one that occurred in Baker's Drug. As you know, Dr. Baker had his office in the back half of Baker's Drug. Dr. Keith's office was across the triangle and up stairs. There was a small statue fellow by the name of Carroll Hamm who was referred to as a Constable and wore a gun. There was another fellow by the name of Clint LeMay who had been a game warden. It seems that there was some kind of ill feelings between these two. Clint and his wife decided to move to Arizona for health reasons and he was going around saying goodby. I think Baker's Drug probably made more money from their Soda Fountain than from drugs. Did a big coke business. As Clint's wife was driving him around, he had been doing a little celebrating and was two sheets in the wind. He saw Carroll inside Baker's and had his wife stop and let him out. Well, Clint was a large man and Carroll was small and when he went inside, he grabbed Carroll and pushed him back against the Marble Fountain. The story, as it was told, was that Carroll told Clint, "you're choking me". Clint wouldn't turn him loose so Carroll pulled out his gun and shot LeMay in the upper leg. Only intending to get him off. They say that Clint turned Carroll loose and said, "you shot me", and sat down in the floor. Since it was in Dr. Baker's place and he wasn't in, no one would call Dr. Keith across the street. They let Clint Lemay sit there in the middle of the floor and loose so much blood he died before they could get him to Magnolia. This is all you get this time. DEW|

513|47|2014-06-14 20:40:07|sarge538|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|Very interesting little story! Thanks for posting it.|

514|514|2014-06-14 20:55:36|Tom Sims|SHS Memories|Read from the bottom up ________________________ Tom Sims '51 comments: Pug, your sister that I knew best was Barbara (is this Bobby?) and she was SHS '52. Seth Baker was SHS '47. I remember seeing a SHS football game in 1939 or 1940. It was a night game and the football field was located west of Thomas and south of 82. I also recall hearing that SHS had a lot of older players pre-WWII and may have had some WWI vets playing at one time. I believe they played a tough schedule (maybe some college teams) and were very good. SHS discontinued football during WWII and started again in 1948, my sophmore year. I believe I was the only player on the team who had ever played highschool football before, since we had lived in Bearden my freshman year, where I was a sub on a very good Bearden team. We had at least 1 military vet on our Bearden team, and I believe he had been a marine. My freshman year in Bearden I weighed 105# and was 5' 1" tall. When I graduated from SHS in '51 I had grown to 155# and was 6' 1". We lost every game my sophmore year, won about half my junior year and were undefeated during the regular season my senior year. The military vet (probably army vet) you are thinking of is Leonard Benefield: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/SHS_1950001 .jpg Rear: Edward Hatfield, Leonard Benefield, Charles Mackey, Jimmy Farley, Tommy Sims, Front: Richard Boyd, Jimmy Willard, Joe Dan Oglesby, U.B. Bond, Billy Kuykendall [1950 Seniors] Leonard was my classmate, having joined our class in my junior year. I don't know anything else about him before 1949. I suspect that our coach, George Doherty, worked some sort of a deal to get Leonard to SHS. Leonard was a lot more mature than most of the team and was the best high school football player I've ever seen. He played fullback our junior year and center our senior year, and was a linebacker on defense both years. He was team co-captain our junior year and captain our senior year and made all-state. Leonard was a terror on the football field, but was very nice, quiet and mild-mannered otherwise. I never saw Leonard again after highschool, but understand that he got a football scholarship to Southern State and was one of the best linebackers they ever had. I heard that Leonard had some serious health issues and that he died at a very early age, probably while he was at Southern State. Leonard had married a local girl (don't remember who) and I met Leonard's son, Dale Benefield, when I was in Stamps in 1989. I believe he was married to Dub Gladney's daughter (or step-daughter) and probably had some children. He looked a lot like Leonard and I heard that he had been a very good football player at SHS. I'm pretty sure that Dale died at a very early age, not too long after I met him. ______________________ Wayne "Pug" Roper wrote: I'm pretty sure the player was Dale Benefield that the article was about. _ Earl Rogers wrote: Wow You did have some neat stuff I would love to see that old sewing machine. Charlotte Walthall ' s brother, Stevie, is a piano tuner for u of Texas in Austin. Sorry to hear about all the trophies and pics Tony spoke of some WWII vets playing football. I'll bet tom sims recalls them. TOM : who do you remember returning from WWII and playing football??? Was there a BENEFIELD?? __ Wayne "Pug" Roper wrote: I think there were a few desks, but not old ones. That building was used by some kind of federal government or city government community function for minority kids and their Mom's at one time. They really trashed it up when it was vacated and no one took the time to clean up the clutter. The trophy case was sort of vandalized and broken trophies from our day are all over the place right inside the entrance and also on the floor in the study hall. That trophy case had a picture of one of my uncles and

his football team, back when they still wore leather helmets. I never could find any trace of that. I read on Facebook the other day about one of the football players that had returned to Stamps from WWII to finish his education and was on one of the football teams that had such a good record back then. I can just imagine-a former soldier playing on the other side of the line from you. Would probably get my attention as a 16-17 year old. My Mom moved to Hamilton to live w/my older sister a few years ago and I ended up with most of her old pictures and boxes of stuff she had rat-holed. I found some old copies of the "Buzz,"� the school's newsletter when Buggs and O.P. were seniors. There was an article looking into the future about what the graduates would be doing several years after graduation. Oscar Paul was predicted to be "touring"� somewhere teaching how to dynamite fish out of creeks, etc. I forgot what your brother was supposed to be doing way in the future, but it was probably along those same lines. Our youngest daughter, Misty, hauled Mom's old piano down here and she has it in her home. Mom got that piano for her birthday when she was 10 or 11 years old. It was just a bit out of tune, to put it mildly. I found a piano tuner in Shreveport and he came out and worked on it at Misty's house. The guy's name was C.B. Roper or something like that and he was about 75 years old and a distant relative. That was really a surprise. Misty also has my grandmother's old Singer treadle sewing machine in their "antique room, or old stuff room"�-no telling how old that is.
_ Earl Rogers wrote: There is some great old wood in there! Was any furniture ( desks, etc ) still in there?? __ Wayne "Pug" Roper wrote: I guess the City owns it, never thought about that. I think someone had simply broken the lock on the front doors. Hate to say it, but if someone actually bought the school and tore it down they could make a fortune selling the wood in Shreveport or Little Rock. Companies are now dredging old timbers from rivers -especially around Monroe and selling it for new homes. _ Earl Rogers wrote: Thanks for the update on the old school. I would like to see it. I am,sorry to hear its in such bad shape. Who owns it? Why is it open?? I'm surprised it's not burned down by now,,! Wayne "Pug" Roper wrote: ... I guess you have been seeing some of the posts regarding the condition of the old school house that has been on Face Book a time or two. I had taken our youngest grandson to the school several years ago to show him the names of the graduates in the concrete panels in front of the school. He found the front doors to the school unlocked and we toured the building, then walked over to the auditorium and it was unlocked and we prowled around there. Looked in the old dressing rooms and found a lot of names that I recognized written on the walls. We went back to my Moms' house and took her up there for a tour. This past Friday, our youngest grandson and his mom and dad (she is our youngest daughter) went back and
we all walked through the school building again. This time the auditorium was locked, so we didn't make it inside. I was able to tell them which rooms were our classes, but the condition of the school is really, really bad. On our first trip, Mama would point out the rooms she remembered when she and Daddy went there. I drove them by Jinx's house and showed them the "Fisk"� tire sign that an oak tree has almost grown over completely. We have a couple of pics of it that I'm going to send to Jinx, 'cause I think he mentioned the sign in one of his Facebook comments a few months ago. We had stopped in front of L.D. Galloway's old home and a guy living beside that house was driving down his driveway and stopped to tell me that the sign used to be a "Fisk"� tire sign. I told him I remembered that, because I used to ride by it on my bicycle about 50 some odd years ago. I found out he was Seth Baker. We got to talking and he remembered Bobby, my oldest sister. They are about the same age ...|

515|514|2014-06-14 21:06:21|Tom Sims|Re: SHS Memories|I just remembered that Leonard's biography was on his SHS '51 Personal Web Page. Biography (2001) Leonard Purnell Benefield, Jr., married Dorothy Daugherty of Stamps. They had one son, Leonard Dale Benefield who was born on 23 June 1953. Leonard died 20 September 1954. Leonard Dale died 19 September 1992. Leonard's parents were Leonard and Gracie Benefield of Haynesville, LA. He had six sisters and one brother. Tom Sims|

516|516|2014-06-15 07:15:28|Tom Sims|William D. "Bill" Sims|William D. "Bill" Sims 15 June 1938 - 19 September 2002 All-State Quarterback Stamps AR High School 1956 BA, Ouachita Baptist College 1961 ME, Stephen F. Austin State University 1972 High School Teacher, Coach, Administrator Loving Husband, Father, Grandfather, Son and Brother A Good Man. R.I.P.|

517|514|2014-06-15 08:48:37|Earl Rogers|Re: SHS Memories|TomThanks so much for the info and pic. �Amazing! �Great history.Thanks so muchTake care. EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jun 14, 2014, at 11:53 PM, "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Read from the bottom up ____________________ Tom Sims '51 comments: Pug, your sister that I knew best was Barbara (is this Bobby?) and she was SHS '52. Seth Baker was SHS '47. I remember seeing a SHS football game in 1939 or 1940. It was a night game and the football field was located west of Thomas and south of 82. I also recall hearing that SHS had a lot of older players pre-WWII and may have had some WWI vets playing at one time. I believe they played a tough schedule (maybe some college teams) and were very good. SHS discontinued football during WWII and started again in 1948, my sophmore year. I believe I was the only player on the team who had ever played highschool football before, since we had lived in Bearden my freshman year, where I was a sub on a very good Bearden team. We had at least 1 military vet on our Bearden team, and I believe he had been a marine. My freshman year in Bearden I weighed 105# and was 5' 1" tall. When I graduated from SHS in '51 I had grown to 155# and was 6' 1". We lost every game my sophmore year, won about half my junior year and were undefeated during the regular season my senior year. The military vet (probably army vet) you are thinking of is Leonard Benefield: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/SHS_1950001 .jpg Rear: Edward Hatfield, Leonard Benefield, Charles Mackey, Jimmy Farley, Tommy Sims, Front: Richard Boyd, Jimmy Willard, Joe Dan Oglesby, U.B. Bond, Billy Kuykendall [1950 Seniors] Leonard was my classmate, having joined our class in my junior year. I don't know anything else about him before 1949. I suspect that our coach, George Doherty, worked some sort of a deal to get Leonard to SHS. Leonard was a lot more mature than most of the team and was the best high school football player I've ever seen. He played fullback our junior year and center our senior year, and was a linebacker on defense both years. He was team co-captain our junior year and captain our senior year and made all-state. Leonard was a terror on the football field, but was very nice, quiet and mild-mannered otherwise. I never saw Leonard again after highschool, but understand that he got a football scholarship to Southern State and was one of the best linebackers they ever had. I heard that Leonard had some serious health issues and that he died at a very early age, probably while he was at Southern State. Leonard had married a local girl (don't remember who) and I met Leonard's son, Dale Benefield, when I was in Stamps in 1989. I believe he was married to Dub Gladney's daughter (or step-daughter) and probably had some children. He looked a lot like Leonard and I heard that he had been a very good football player at SHS. I'm pretty sure that Dale died at a very early age, not too long after I met him. ______________________ Wayne "Pug"
Roper wrote: I'm pretty sure the player was Dale Benefield that the article was about. _ Earl Rogers wrote: Wow You did have some neat stuff I would love to see that old sewing machine. Charlotte Walthall ' s brother, Stevie, is a piano tuner for u of Texas in Austin. Sorry to hear about all the trophies and pics Tony spoke of some WWII vets playing football. I'll bet tom sims recalls them. TOM : who do you remember returning from WWII and playing football??? Was there a BENEFIELD?? __ Wayne "Pug" Roper wrote: I think there were a few desks, but not old ones. That building was used by some kind of federal government or city

government community function for minority kids and their Mom's at one time. They really trashed it up when it was vacated and no one took the time to clean up the clutter. The trophy case was sort of vandalized and broken trophies from our day are all over the place right inside the entrance and also on the floor in the study hall. That trophy case had a picture of one of my uncles and his football team, back when they still wore leather helmets. I never could find any trace of that. I read on Facebook the other day about one of the football players that had returned to Stamps from WWII to finish his education and was on one of the football teams that had such a good record back then. I can just imagine-a former soldier playing on the other side of the line from you. Would probably get my attention as a 16-17 year old. My Mom moved to Hamilton to live w/my older sister a few years ago and I ended up with most of her old pictures and boxes of stuff she had rat-holed. I found some old copies of the "Buzz,"� the school's newsletter when Buggs and O.P. were seniors. There was an article looking into the future about what the graduates would be doing several years after graduation. Oscar Paul was predicted to be "touring"� somewhere teaching how to dynamite fish out of creeks, etc. I forgot what your brother was supposed to be doing way in the future, but it was probably along those same lines. Our youngest daughter, Misty, hauled Mom's old piano down here and she has it in her home. Mom got that piano for her birthday when she was 10 or 11 years old. It was just a bit out of tune, to put it mildly. I found a piano tuner in Shreveport and he came out and worked on it at Misty's house. The guy's name was C.B. Roper or something like that and he was about 75 years old and a distant relative. That was really a surprise. Misty also has my grandmother's old Singer treadle sewing machine in their "antique room, or old stuff room"�-no telling how old that is. _ Earl Rogers wrote: There is some great old wood in there! Was any furniture ( desks, etc ) still in there?? __ Wayne "Pug" Roper wrote: I guess the City owns it, never thought about that. I think someone had simply broken the lock on the front doors. Hate to say it, but if someone actually bought the school and tore it down they could make a fortune selling the wood in Shreveport or Little Rock. Companies are now dredging old timbers from rivers -especially around Monroe and selling it for new homes. _ Earl Rogers wrote: Thanks for the update on the old school. I would like to see it. I am,sorry to hear its in such bad shape. Who owns it? Why is it open?? I'm surprised it's not burned down by now,,! Wayne "Pug" Roper wrote: ... I guess you have been seeing some of the posts regarding the condition of the old school house that has been on Face Book a time or two. I had taken our youngest grandson to the school several years ago to show him the names of the graduates in the concrete panels in front of the school. He found the front doors to the school unlocked and we toured the building, then walked over to
the auditorium and it was unlocked and we prowled around there. Looked in the old dressing rooms and found a lot of names that I recognized written on the walls. We went back to my Moms' house and took her up there for a tour. This past Friday, our youngest grandson and his mom and dad (she is our youngest daughter) went back and we all walked through the school building again. This time the auditorium was locked, so we didn't make it inside. I was able to tell them which rooms were our classes, but the condition of the school is really, really bad. On our first trip, Mama would point out the rooms she remembered when she and Daddy went there. I drove them by Jinx's house and showed them the "Fisk"� tire sign that an oak tree has almost grown over completely. We have a couple of pics of it that I'm going to send to Jinx, 'cause I think he mentioned the sign in one of his Facebook comments a few months ago. We had stopped in front of L.D. Galloway's old home and a guy living beside that house was driving down his driveway and stopped to tell me that the sign used to be a "Fisk"� tire sign. I told him I remembered that, because I used to ride by it on my bicycle about 50 some odd years ago. I found out he was Seth Baker. We got to talking and he remembered Bobby, my oldest sister. They are about the same age ... |

518|514|2014-06-15 12:57:23|JWaddell@bmnet.com|Re: SHS Memories|Whenever I think of the name Dale Benefield,
I think of three things:

1. Dale Benefield returning a kickoff (I think it was the second half kickoff) for a touchdown in the rain at Keith Field to provide the winning margin in a 12-6 win over Prescott in one of the early games of the 1969 football season.

2. The 1969 Yellowjackets, coached by Joe Cowling, the team that went undefeated and won Stamps' last class B state title, finishing the undefeated season with a 43-24 thumping of Mineral Springs on a cold night at Keith Field, a game in which we trailed about 24-6 before coming back and blowing the Hornets away.

3. Dale had a half-sister, Anita Gale Hudgens (I suppose the widowed Mrs. Benefield must have married someone named Hudgens and they had Anita Gale). Anita Gale was by far the most beautiful girl in what would be the Stamps class of 1976, in my humble opinion.

My family, as I have told before in this medium, left Stamps in 1971. Does anyone know what caused Leonard and Dale to die such early deaths?

Aubrey

J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D.,
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University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN
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I just remembered that Leonard's biography was on his SHS '51 Personal Web Page.

Biography (2001)

Leonard Purnell Benefield, Jr., married Dorothy Daugherty of Stamps. They had one son, Leonard Dale Benefield who was born on 23 June 1953.

Leonard died 20 September 1954.

Leonard Dale died 19 September 1992.

Leonard's parents were Leonard and Gracie Benefield of Haynesville, LA. He had six sisters and one brother.

________________

Tom Sims

519|514|2014-06-15 13:50:50|Earl Rogers|Re: SHS Memories|AubreyThanks for the info. �I was about to ask about Dale BENEFIELD. �I remember him as several years behind me( as you too). �And I remember the stories that my brother �tony told me about Leonard BENEFIELD and his football skills in the late 1940's. �Tony graduated SHS in 1950.And when I first met dale BENEFIELD I thought he must be his son.Thanks so much.And tell those orange clad Vols.....WPS for me!!!Take care. EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jun 15, 2014, at 3:57 PM, "JWaddell@bmnet.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Whenever I think of the name Dale Benefield, I think of three things: 1. Dale Benefield returning a kickoff (I think it was the second half kickoff) for a touchdown in the rain at Keith Field to provide the winning margin in a 12-6 win over Prescott in one of the early games of the 1969 football season. 2. The 1969 Yellowjackets, coached by Joe Cowling, the team that went undefeated and won Stamps' last class B state title, finishing the undefeated season with a 43-24 thumping of Mineral Springs on a cold night at Keith Field, a game in which we trailed about 24-6 before coming back and blowing the Hornets away. 3. Dale had a half-sister, Anita Gale Hudgens (I suppose the widowed Mrs. Benefield must have married someone named Hudgens and they had Anita Gale). Anita Gale was by far the most beautiful girl in what would be the Stamps class of 1976, in my humble opinion. My family, as I have told before in this medium, left Stamps in 1971. Does anyone know what caused Leonard and Dale to die such early deaths? Aubrey J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D., FAPhA, BCOP Professor University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN Oncology Pharmacist Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN Lieutenant Colonel, USA Retired b"Tom Sims a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:tes3355@gmail.com"tes3355@gmail.com/a [StampsArk]" a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:StampsArk@yahoogroups.com"StampsArk@yahoogroup s.com/a/b Sent by: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com 06/15/2014 12:05 AM Please respond to StampsArk@yahoogroups.com To StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, cc "T.F. Gillespie '39" razorb@gvtc.com, "Bill and Carolyn Kuykendall '51" bckuykendall@att.net, "Seth Baker '47" seth4755@att.net, "ite '47" dewhite28@suddenlink.net Subject [StampsArk] Re: SHS Memories � I just remembered that Leonard's biography was on his SHS '51 Personal Web Page. Biography (2001) Leonard Purnell Benefield, Jr., married Dorothy Daugherty of Stamps. They had one son, Leonard Dale Benefield who was born on 23 June 1953. Leonard died 20 September 1954. Leonard Dale died 19 September 1992. Leonard's parents were Leonard and Gracie Benefield of Haynesville, LA. He had six sisters and one brother. Tom Sims This communication may contain protected health information (PHI) that is legally protected from inappropriate disclosure by the Privacy Standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and relevant Tennessee Laws. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you should notify the sender immediately by telephone or by return e-mail and delete this message from your computer. Direct questions to the Blount Memorial Hospital Privacy Officer at 865-977-4675. |

520|47|2014-06-15 14:14:35|JERRY BALLOU|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|MY name is Jerry Ballou, and I remember that shooting, I stood outside and looked in the window.At the time I did not know the man on the floor, but it stayed in my mind for some time after. All I could see was the pool of blood around the man on the floor, and wondered why no one was helping him.��|

521|514|2014-06-15 16:24:50|J C Smith|Re: SHS Memories| Aubrey: I remember hearing that Dale collapsed at work in Magnolia and was transferred by helicopter to Texarkana. I believe he had a brain aneurism. J C Smith Jr. On 6/15/2014 2:57 PM, JWaddell@bmnet.com [StampsArk] wrote: � Whenever I think of the name Dale Benefield, I think of three things: 1. Dale Benefield returning a kickoff (I think it was the second half kickoff) for a touchdown in the rain at Keith Field to provide the winning margin in a 12-6 win over Prescott in one of the early games of the 1969 football season. 2. The 1969 Yellowjackets, coached by Joe Cowling, the team that went undefeated and won Stamps' last class B state title, finishing the undefeated season with a 43-24 thumping of Mineral Springs on a cold night at Keith Field, a game in which we trailed about 24-6 before coming back and blowing the Hornets away. 3. Dale had a half-sister, Anita Gale Hudgens (I suppose the widowed Mrs. Benefield must have married someone named Hudgens and they had Anita Gale). Anita Gale was by far the most beautiful girl in what would be the Stamps class of 1976, in my humble opinion. My family, as I have told before in this medium, left Stamps in 1971. Does anyone know what caused Leonard and Dale to die such early deaths? Aubrey J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D., FAPhA, BCOP Professor University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN Oncology Pharmacist Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN Lieutenant Colonel, USA Retired b"Tom Sims href="mailto:StampsArk@yahoogroups.com"StampsArk@yahoogrou ps.com/a/b Sent by: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com 06/15/2014 12:05 AM Please respond to StampsArk@yahoogroups.com To StampsArk@yahoogroups.com,

cc "T.F. Gillespie '39" razorb@gvtc.com, "Bill and Carolyn Kuykendall '51" bckuykendall@att.net, "Seth Baker '47" seth4755@att.net, "ite '47" dewhite28@suddenlink.net Subject [StampsArk] Re: SHS Memories � I just remembered that Leonard's biography was on his SHS '51 Personal Web Page. Biography (2001) Leonard Purnell Benefield, Jr., married Dorothy Daugherty of Stamps. They had one son, Leonard Dale Benefield who was born on 23 June 1953. Leonard died 20 September 1954. Leonard Dale died 19 September 1992. Leonard's parents were Leonard and Gracie Benefield of Haynesville, LA. He had six sisters and one brother. Tom Sims This communication may contain protected health information (PHI) that is legally protected from inappropriate disclosure by the Privacy Standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and relevant Tennessee Laws. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you should notify the sender immediately by telephone or by return e-mail and delete this message from your computer. Direct questions to the Blount Memorial Hospital Privacy Officer at 865-977-4675.

522|47|2014-06-16 09:02:20|loudghoward|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|Jerry, My name is Lou Dean (Graham) Howard. Did you live on N. Opera Street? Lou Dean ---- "JERRY BALLOU balloujerry@yahoo.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: MY name is Jerry Ballou, and I remember that shooting, I stood outside and looked in the window. At the time I did not know the man on the floor, but it stayed in my mind for some time after. All I could see was the pool of blood around the man on the floor, and wondered why no one was helping him.�� |

523|514|2014-06-16 17:49:25|Wayne Roper|Re: SHS Memories|Tom-Bobby and Barbara is one and the same.

Thanks for all of the information. I remember some of the things that are posted and have heard stories about a lot of the other items that show up on this site from time to time.

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Thanks so much for the info and pic. Amazing! Great history.
Thanks so much
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On Jun 14, 2014, at 11:53 PM, "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.commailto:tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.commailto:StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Read from the bottom up

________

Tom Sims '51 comments:

Pug, your sister that I knew best was Barbara (is this

Bobby?) and she was SHS '52. Seth Baker was SHS '47.

I remember seeing a SHS football game in 1939 or 1940. It was a night game and the football field was located west of Thomas and south of 82.

I also recall hearing that SHS had a lot of older players pre-WWII and may have had some WWI vets playing at one time. I believe they played a tough schedule (maybe some college teams) and were very good.

SHS discontinued football during WWII and started again in 1948, my sophmore year. I believe I was the only player on the team who had ever played highschool football before, since we had lived in Bearden my freshman year, where I was a sub on a very good Bearden team. We had at least 1 military vet on our Bearden team, and I believe he had been a marine.

My freshman year in Bearden I weighed 105# and was 5' 1" tall. When I graduated from SHS in '51 I had grown to 155# and was 6' 1".

We lost every game my sophmore year, won about half my junior year and were undefeated during the regular season my senior year.

The military vet (probably army vet) you are thinking of is Leonard Benefield:

http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/SHS_1950001 .jpg

Rear: Edward Hatfield, Leonard Benefield, Charles Mackey, Jimmy Farley, Tommy Sims, Front: Richard Boyd, Jimmy Willard, Joe Dan Oglesby, U.B. Bond, Billy Kuykendall [1950 Seniors]

Leonard was my classmate, having joined our class in my junior year. I don't know anything else about him before 1949. I suspect that our coach, George Doherty, worked some sort of a deal to get Leonard to SHS.

Leonard was a lot more mature than most of the team and was the best high school football player I've ever seen. He played fullback our junior year and center our senior year, and was a linebacker on defense both years. He was team co-captain our junior year and captain our senior year and made all-state. Leonard was a terror on the football field, but was very nice, quiet and mild-mannered otherwise.

I never saw Leonard again after highschool, but understand that he got a football scholarship to Southern State and was one of the best linebackers they ever had. I heard that Leonard had some serious health issues and that he died at a very early age, probably while he was at Southern State.

Leonard had married a local girl (don't remember who) and I met Leonard's son, Dale Benefield, when I was in Stamps in 1989. I believe he was married to Dub Gladney's daughter (or step-daughter) and probably had some children. He looked a lot like Leonard and I heard that he had been a very good football player at SHS. I'm pretty sure that Dale died at a very early age, not too long after I met him.

______________________

Wayne "Pug" Roper wrote:

I'm pretty sure the player was Dale Benefield that the article was about.

_

Earl Rogers wrote:

Wow

You did have some neat stuff

I would love to see that old sewing machine.

Charlotte Walthall ' s brother, Stevie, is a piano tuner for u of Texas in Austin.

Sorry to hear about all the trophies and pics

Tony spoke of some WWII vets playing football.

I'll bet tom sims recalls them.

TOM : who do you remember returning from WWII and playing
football??? Was there a BENEFIELD??

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Wayne "Pug" Roper wrote:

I think there were a few desks, but not old ones. That building was used by some kind of federal government or city government community function for minority kids and their Mom's at one time. They really trashed it up when it was vacated and no one took the time to clean up the clutter.

The trophy case was sort of vandalized and broken trophies from our day are all over the place right inside the entrance and also on the floor in the study hall. That trophy case had a picture of one of my uncles and his football team, back when they still wore leather helmets. I never could find any trace of that.

I read on Facebook the other day about one of the football players that had returned to Stamps from WWII to finish his education and was on one of the football teams that had such a good record back then. I can just imagine-a former soldier playing on the other side of the line from you. Would probably get my attention as a 16-17 year old.

My Mom moved to Hamilton to live w/my older sister a few years ago and I ended up with most of her old pictures and boxes of stuff she had rat-holed. I found some old copies of the "Buzz,"� the school's newsletter when Buggs and O.P. were seniors. There was an article looking into the future about what the graduates would be doing several years after graduation. Oscar Paul was predicted to be "touring"� somewhere teaching how to dynamite fish out of creeks, etc. I forgot what your brother was supposed to be doing way in the future, but it was probably along those same lines.

Our youngest daughter, Misty, hauled Mom's old piano down here and she has it in her home. Mom got that piano for her birthday when she was 10 or 11 years old. It was just a bit out of tune, to put it mildly. I found a piano tuner in Shreveport and he came out and worked on it at Misty's house. The guy's name was C.B. Roper or something like that and he was about 75 years old and a distant relative. That was really a surprise. Misty also has mygrandmother's old Singer treadle sewing machine in their "antique room, or old stuff room"�-no telling how old that is.

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Earl Rogers wrote:

There is some great old wood in there!

Was any furniture ( desks, etc ) still in there??

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Wayne "Pug" Roper wrote:

I guess the City owns it, never thought about that. I think someone had simply broken the lock on the front doors.

Hate to say it, but if someone actually bought the school and tore it down they could make a fortune selling the wood in Shreveport or Little Rock. Companies are now dredging old timbers from rivers -especially around Monroe and selling it for new homes.

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Earl Rogers wrote:

Thanks for the update on the old school. I would like to see it.

I am,sorry to hear its in such bad shape.

Who owns it? Why is it open?? I'm surprised it's not burned down by now,,!

______

Wayne "Pug" Roper wrote:
... I guess you have been seeing some of the posts regarding the condition of the old school house that has been on Face Book a time or two. I had taken our youngest grandson to the school several years ago to show him the names of the graduates in the concrete panels in front of the school. He found the front doors to the school unlocked and we toured the building, then walked over to the auditorium and it was unlocked and we prowled around there. Looked in the old dressing rooms and found a lot of names that I recognized written on the walls. We went back to my Moms' house and took her up there for a tour.

This past Friday, our youngest grandson and his mom and dad (she is our youngest daughter) went back and we all walked through the school building again. This time the auditorium was locked, so we didn't make it inside.

I was able to tell them which rooms were our classes, but the condition of the school is really, really bad. On our first trip, Mama would point out the rooms she remembered when she and Daddy went there.

I drove them by Jinx's house and showed them the "Fisk"� tire sign that an oak tree has almost grown over completely. We have a couple of pics of it that I'm going to send to Jinx, 'cause I think he mentioned the sign in one of his Facebook comments a few months ago. We had stopped in front of L.D. Galloway's old home and a guy living beside that house was driving down his driveway and stopped to tell me that the sign used to be a "Fisk"� tire sign. I told him I remembered that, because I used to ride by it on my bicycle about 50 some odd years ago. I found out he was Seth Baker. We got to talking and he remembered Bobby, my oldest sister. They are about the same age ...

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524|516|2014-06-20 07:00:13|loudghoward|Re: William D. "Bill" Sims|Tom, Thank you for including the information about Bill. He died at a young age. I knew who he was, but I did not know him well. It appears that he led a full, productive life. Bless him, Lou Dean ---- "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: William D. "Bill" Sims 15 June 1938 - 19 September 2002 All-State Quarterback Stamps AR High School 1956 BA, Ouachita Baptist College 1961 ME, Stephen F. Austin State University 1972 High School Teacher, Coach, Administrator Loving Husband, Father, Grandfather, Son and Brother A Good Man. R.I.P. ------------------------------------ Posted by: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com ------------------------------------ Post message: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Yahoo Groups Links |

525|516|2014-06-20 08:29:05|Earl Rogers|Re: William D. "Bill" Sims|I remember bill as the SHS QB.I was in grade school and Buggs and tony had already graduated SHSHe was a force on the field....big, tall and rangy.Sorry to hear of his loss.And TOM: �thank you so much for all you do to facilitate the communication among us STAMPSITES!! � You do a fantastic jobThanks so muchEarl �Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jun 20, 2014, at 9:00 AM, "lghoward@triad.rr.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Tom, Thank you for including the information about Bill. He died at a young age. I knew who he was, but I did not know him well. It appears that he led a full, productive life. Bless him, Lou Dean ---- "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: William D. "Bill" Sims 15 June 1938 - 19 September 2002 All-State Quarterback Stamps AR High School 1956 BA, Ouachita Baptist College 1961 ME, Stephen F. Austin State University 1972 High School Teacher, Coach, Administrator Loving Husband, Father, Grandfather, Son and Brother A Good Man. R.I.P. ------------------------------------ Posted by: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com ------------------------------------ Post message: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Yahoo Groups Links |

526|516|2014-06-20 18:23:30|Wayne Roper|Re: William D. "Bill" Sims|Tom-I agree with Earl. Thank you very much for all of the updates.

Wayne (Pug) Roper
SHS �65

From: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com [mailto:StampsArk@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 10:29 AM
To: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [StampsArk] William D. "Bill" Sims

I remember bill as the SHS QB. I was in grade school and Buggs and tony had already graduated SHS He was a force on the field....big, tall and rangy. Sorry to hear of his loss.

And TOM: thank you so much for all you do to facilitate the communication among us STAMPSITES!! You do a fantastic job Thanks so much

Earl
Sent from my iPad:
Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.
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Earl.rogers@comcast.netmailto:Earl.rogers@comcast.net

On Jun 20, 2014, at 9:00 AM, "lghoward@triad.rr.commailto:lghoward@triad.rr.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.commailto:StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Tom,

Thank you for including the information about Bill. He died at a young age. I knew who he was, but I did not know him well. It appears that he led a full, productive life.

Bless him,
Lou Dean

---- "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.commailto:tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.commailto:StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote:
William D. "Bill" Sims

15 June 1938 - 19 September 2002

All-State Quarterback

Stamps AR High School 1956

BA, Ouachita Baptist College 1961

ME, Stephen F. Austin State University 1972

High School Teacher, Coach, Administrator

Loving Husband, Father, Grandfather, Son and Brother

A Good Man.

R.I.P.

------------------------------------
Posted by: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.commailto:tes3355@gmail.com
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527|47|2014-06-20 22:14:35|Tom Sims|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|I remember the Ballou's living across the street from the school house on Buchanan. They were between the superintendent's house and Mrs. Strange's, along with the Seymour's and Lewis'. Tom Sims _ Jerry, My name is Lou Dean (Graham) Howard. Did you live on N. Opera Street? Lou Dean ---- "JERRY BALLOU balloujerry@yahoo.com wrote: MY name is Jerry Ballou, and I remember that shooting, |

528|47|2014-06-20 22:53:48|Lou Howard|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|Thanks, Tom:I am sure you are correct. �What year did Jerry graduate, if he graduated from SHS? �I remember him, because his last name was interesting. � I had never heard it before his family moved to Stamps.Lou Dean� On Saturday, June 21, 2014 1:02 AM, "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � I remember the Ballou's living across the street from the school house on Buchanan. They were between the superintendent's house and Mrs. Strange's, along with the Seymour's and Lewis'. Tom Sims _ Jerry, My name is Lou Dean (Graham) Howard. Did you live on N. Opera Street? Lou Dean ---- "JERRY BALLOU balloujerry@yahoo.com wrote: MY name is Jerry Ballou, and I remember that shooting,

529|47|2014-06-21 07:31:34|JERRY BALLOU|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|You are right we did live across the street from Stamps school, But I�left ,Stamps around 1950. We moved there in 1941. I was only 6 years old. Living in Stamps was the greatest time in my life. It was like living a�Tom Sawers life. When we left I was Hart broken.Jerry Ballou� On Saturday, June 21, 2014 12:53 AM, "Lou Howard loughoward@yahoo.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Thanks, Tom:I am sure you are correct. �What year did Jerry graduate, if he graduated from SHS? �I remember him, because his last name was interesting. � I had never heard it before his family moved to Stamps.Lou Dean� On Saturday, June 21, 2014 1:02 AM, "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � I remember the Ballou's living across the street from the school house on Buchanan. They were between the superintendent's house and Mrs. Strange's, along with the Seymour's and Lewis'. Tom Sims _ Jerry, My name is Lou Dean (Graham) Howard. Did you live on N. Opera Street? Lou Dean ---- "JERRY BALLOU balloujerry@yahoo.com wrote: MY name is Jerry Ballou, and I remember that shooting,

530|47|2014-06-21 08:58:55|JWaddell@bmnet.com|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|Jerry,

Where did your family move when you left Stamps? I went to high school with some Ballou's at Sylvan Hills High in North Little Rock, and Ballou is not the most common name in the world.

Aubrey

J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D.,
FAPhA, BCOP
Professor
University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN
Oncology Pharmacist
Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN
Lieutenant Colonel, USA Retired

b"JERRY BALLOU balloujerry@yahoo.com
[StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com/b
Sent by: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com
06/21/2014 10:31 AM
To "StampsArk@yahoogroups.com"
Subject Re: [StampsArk] Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone

You are right we did live across the street from Stamps school, But I left ,Stamps around 1950. We moved there in 1941. I was only 6 years old. Living in Stamps was the greatest time in my life. It was like living a Tom Sawers life. When we left I was Hart broken.

Jerry Ballou

On Saturday, June 21, 2014 12:53 AM, "Lou
Howard loughoward@yahoo.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Thanks, Tom:

I am sure you are correct. �What year did Jerry graduate, if he graduated from SHS? �I remember him, because his last name was interesting. � I had never heard it before his family moved to Stamps.

Lou Dean

On Saturday, June 21, 2014 1:02 AM, "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote:

I remember the Ballou's living across the street from the school house on Buchanan.

They were between the superintendent's house and Mrs. Strange's, along with the Seymour's and Lewis'.

Tom Sims

_

Jerry,

My name is Lou Dean (Graham) Howard. Did you live on N. Opera Street?

Lou Dean

---- "JERRY BALLOU balloujerry@yahoo.com wrote:

MY name is Jerry Ballou, and I remember that shooting,

531|47|2014-06-21 15:08:15|JERRY BALLOU|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|We moved to Victoria, TX. Of which I did not like at first, but got better in time. On Saturday, June 21, 2014 10:58 AM, "JWaddell@bmnet.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Jerry, Where did your family move when you left Stamps? I went to high school with some Ballou's at Sylvan Hills High in North Little Rock, and Ballou is not the most common name in the world. Aubrey J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D., FAPhA, BCOP Professor University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN Oncology Pharmacist Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN Lieutenant Colonel, USA Retired b"JERRY BALLOU balloujerry@yahoo.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com/b Sent by: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com 06/21/2014 10:31 AM Please respond to StampsArk@yahoogroups.com To "StampsArk@yahoogroups.com" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, cc Subject Re: [StampsArk] Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone � You are right we did live across the street from Stamps school, But I left ,Stamps around 1950. We moved there in 1941. I was only 6 years old. Living in Stamps was the greatest time in my life. It was like living a Tom Sawers life. When we left I was Hart broken. Jerry Ballou On Saturday, June 21, 2014 12:53 AM, "Lou Howard loughoward@yahoo.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Thanks, Tom: I am sure you are correct. �What year did Jerry graduate, if he graduated from SHS? �I remember him, because his last name was interesting. � I had never heard it before his family moved to Stamps.
Lou Dean On Saturday, June 21, 2014 1:02 AM, "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � I remember the Ballou's living across the street from the school house on Buchanan. They were between the superintendent's house and Mrs. Strange's, along with the Seymour's and Lewis'. Tom Sims ___________________ Jerry, My name is Lou Dean (Graham) Howard. Did you live on N. Opera Street? Lou Dean ---- "JERRY BALLOU balloujerry@yahoo.com wrote: MY name is Jerry Ballou, and I remember that shooting,

532|532|2014-06-22 07:05:46|Tom Sims|SHS 1964 50th Reunion - Next Saturday|SHS 1964 50th Reunion The Date: Saturday June 28, 2014 The Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM The Place: Stamps City Complex 207 Antigo Street Stamps, Ar This will be a come and go invite going out to our teachers and schoolmates especially to adjacent classes. We will enjoy fellowship and an evening meal at 6PM at the local Get-N-Go Restaurant. Questions Regarding this can be sent to delonpatterson@gmail.com * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/|

533|532|2014-06-22 11:02:44|Earl Rogers|Re: SHS 1964 50th Reunion - Next Saturday|Thanks so much.I hope everyone who knows anyone in our class will come by city hall to say HI !!I am so excited to see everyone.Take care. EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jun 22, 2014, at 8:48 AM, "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � SHS 1964 50th Reunion The Date: Saturday June 28, 2014 The Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM The Place: Stamps City Complex 207 Antigo Street Stamps, Ar This will be a come and go invite going out to our teachers and schoolmates especially to adjacent classes. We will enjoy fellowship and an evening meal at 6PM at the local Get-N-Go Restaurant. Questions Regarding this can be sent to delonpatterson@gmail.com * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims,
SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/ |

534|47|2014-06-22 20:06:36|loughoward|Re: Stamps things I remember that are long gone|Jerry,I am glad you were interested enough to join our group.Lou Dean Graham Howard|

535|535|2014-06-28 07:39:14|Tom Sims|Re: SHS 1964 50th Reunion - Today!|Tom Gillespie and the class of '39 and my class of '51 send our congratulations and best wishes to SHS '64 who are celebrating their 50th reunion today. Tom Sims|

536|535|2014-06-29 18:10:15|Derrell Patterson|Re: SHS 1964 50th Reunion - Today!|Great reunion we had about 29 out of possible 41 attend with probably a larger number from other classes and local visitors.Sent from my iPad On Jun 28, 2014, at 9:38 AM, "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Tom Gillespie and the class of '39 and my class of '51 send our congratulations and best wishes to SHS '64 who are celebrating their 50th reunion today. Tom Sims |

537|535|2014-06-29 18:12:46|Derrell Patterson|Re: SHS 1964 50th Reunion - Today!|Thanks for your support and help. Definitely a lot more people know of this site and the historic memories that have been shared. Thank you!Sent from my iPad On Jun 28, 2014, at 9:38 AM, "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Tom Gillespie and the class of '39 and my class of '51 send our congratulations and best wishes to SHS '64 who are celebrating their 50th reunion today. Tom Sims |

538|535|2014-06-29 19:01:56|Earl Rogers|Re: SHS 1964 50th Reunion - Today!|TomThanks for all you do to keep,us informed and together.Stamps is the tie that bindsTake care. EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jun 29, 2014, at 8:12 PM, "Derrell Patterson delonpatterson@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Thanks for your support and help. Definitely a lot more people know of this site and the historic memories that have been shared. Thank you!Sent from my iPadOn Jun 28, 2014, at 9:38 AM, "Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Tom Gillespie and the class of '39 and my class of '51 send our congratulations and best wishes to SHS '64 who are celebrating their 50th reunion today. Tom Sims |

539|535|2014-06-29 19:09:20|Tom Sims|Re: SHS 1964 50th Reunion - Today!|Derrell Patterson wrote: Great reunion we had about 29 out of possible 41 attend with probably a larger number from other classes and local visitors. The picture didn't get posted on the Stamps Forum because Yahoo usually strips pictures out of emails on Yahoo Forums. Here's a link to the picture of SHS '64: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F/S0353.jpg It's also on the SHS '51 website now: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_P.htm If someone wants to ID the attendees, I'll put them in the caption on the '51 website and send then to the Stamps email mailing list.. Tom Sims|

540|540|2014-07-14 18:20:07|Tom Sims|Betty J. Stevens Allen, R.I.P.|Betty J. Stevens Allen (November 19, 1937 - June 23, 2014) Betty J. Allen, age 76, of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, passed away Monday, June 23, 2014 at the St. Vincent Hospice Faculty in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Mrs. Allen was born November 19, 1937 in Hope, Arkansas, to Guy and Joyce Willis Stevens. Mrs. Allen worked for a number of years with the Lafayette County Extension Service as a Home Economist. She was a longtime member of the Liberty Baptist Church in Stamps, Arkansas. Mrs. Allen was preceded in death by her husband, Curtis Carrol Allen and parents. She is survived by her sons, Jerry Allen and wife, Cletauis of Stamps, AR and Guy Allen and wife, Amy of Arkadelphia, AR; one daughter, Penny Allen of Arkadelphia, AR; five grandchildren; brother-in-law, Mac Allen and sister, Sarah Burns both of Stamps, AR. Memorial Services will be announced at a later date. Arrangements were made under the direction of Smith Funeral Homes of Stamps, AR.|

541|541|2014-07-15 07:14:15|Tom Sims|Tom Oxford SHS '55, R.I.P.|I just learned of Tom's death today. TES ____________________________________ TOM OXFORD http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03502.jpg Services for Robert T. "Tom" Oxford, 76, of Tyler will be held on Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at 2:30 p.m. at Stewart Family Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Josh Green, the Rev. Dave Trader and the Rev. Steve Pelz officiating. Burial will follow in Cathedral in the Pines Cemetery in Tyler under the direction of Stewart Family Funeral Home. Mr. Oxford passed away Saturday, March 1, 2014, at his residence. He was born Dec. 21, 1937, in Stamps, Ark., to Paul and Linnie Andrews Oxford. Tom was a member of Southern Oaks Baptist Church in Tyler. He became an ordained deacon of Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Dallas in 1964. He graduated from Stamps High School. Tom was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He met and married Sarah Ann Loper in 1960 in Athens and they moved to Tyler in 2001. Robert worked for B.F. Goodrich and Ameripol-Synpol. He was a faithful Christian who loved and trusted his Lord. Tom was loved and cherished by his family and was proud of them. He loved gardening and shared the love of growing things with everyone. In addition to his parents, Tom was preceded in death by brothers, Glen and J.L. Oxford; and sisters, Adolphus Beasley, Margaret Burris and Marial Turley. He is survived by his loving family including his wife of 53 years, Sarah Ann Loper Oxford, of Tyler; daughter, Nancy Trader and husband David, of Texarkana, Ark.; sons, Edward Paul Oxford, of Long Beach, Calif., Timothy Oxford and wife Bonnie, of Tomball and Mark Oxford and wife Laurel, of Rockville, Va.; grandchildren, Tricia McKnight and husband Josh, of Texarkana, Ark., Katie, Kristin and Chloe Oxford, all of Spring; brothers, Jim Oxford and wife Mari Beth, of Flint, and Ed Oxford and wife Betty, of Waco. Pallbearers will be Danny Jackson, David French, Don Nichols, Arlin Harris, Reynard McGaffey and Dean Loper. Visitation is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday, March 3, 2014, at Stewart Family Funeral Home, 7525 Old Jacksonville Highway, in Tyler. If desired, memorials may be made to The Hospice of East Texas Foundation, 4111 University Blvd., Tyler, 75701. Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph on Mar. 3, 2014 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/|

542|542|2014-07-27 20:30:07|Tom Sims|First Annual Stamps Rotary Banquet|First annual Stamps Rotary Banquet 26 July 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the high school cafeteria in Stamps The first annual rotary club banquet was a smashing success! First and foremost, thank you to all the members of the community, and even surrounding communities that came out, for showing your support. We would also like to thank our Interact - Rotary International members for their help. They really are an awesome bunch of young folks! We would also like to thank Bro. Mark Rivers for his time, and the wonderful job he did as auctioneer. Last, but certainly not least, thank you to Lafayette County School System for helping us secure a venue for the banquet. Many thanks to all! Pictures: https://www.facebook.com/StampsArkansasRotaryClub/photos/pcb .715877535126052/715877395126066/?type=1&theater or http://tinyurl.com/m4yk88b|

543|543|2014-08-30 01:17:44|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County 2014 Football Schedule|Lafayette County 2014 Football Schedule: https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/photos/a.406 553222798633.1073741828.276170109170279/596141753839778/?typ e=1&theater or http://tinyurl.com/lsj3pmk It appears that the 25 AUG game was a practice game. Jr. High tied and the high school won. Don't know the scores. _____________________________ Here's the Lafayette County football record for last 10 years: Year Coach Name Record 2013 R. Phillips 2-7-0 2012 R. Phillips 0-9-0 2011 P. Binkley 3-7-0 2010 j. McBride 4-7-0 2009 J. McBride 4-6-0 2008 J. McBride 6-5-0 2007 P. Binkley 5-6-0 2006 P. Binkley 8-5-0 2005 ??? 4-6-0 2004 P. Binkley 4-6-0 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/|

544|544|2014-09-07 11:43:07|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County 15 - Hermitage 12|First Game Lafayette County 15 @ Hermitage 12|

545|544|2014-09-08 07:31:20|earl.rogers1661|Re: Lafayette County 15 - Hermitage 12|Alright!!!! Good start. � Will the game be replayed on ESPN or SEC network???Thanks, Tom�|

546|544|2014-09-08 19:18:01|barrsmom@yahoo.com|Re: Lafayette County 15 - Hermitage 12|
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547|547|2014-09-12 22:31:09|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County 40 - Genoa Central 6|Lafayette County 40 - Genoa Central (Texarkana) 6 Lafayette County is now 2-0 for 2014 season.|

548|547|2014-09-13 10:23:14|earl.rogers1661|Re: Lafayette County 40 - Genoa Central 6|FANTASTIC!! � two in a row...... I am proud to be a former Yellow Jacket..... and now a Couger!!Thanks, Tom, for the information. Earl|

549|549|2014-09-19 21:34:59|Tom E. Sims|Smackover 40 - Lafayette County 8|Tonight's game @ Stamps Smackover 40 - Lafayette County 8|

550|550|2014-09-24 20:49:31|Larry H. Gentry|Stamps, 1912|In case you missed this in the i id="ygrps-yiv-1258763581yui_3_16_0_1_1411614867395_4105"Ark . Democrat-Gazette/i today.Stamps, 1912, the LaFayette Hotel...photo attached.Don't know if it's true or not but relatives claimed that we were related to Mr. Stamps.LHG�"If�you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got."� Anonymous |

551|550|2014-09-24 21:05:00|Tom E. Sims|Re: Stamps, 1912|'Larry H. Gentry' sarge538@yahoo.com wrote: In case you missed this in the Ark. Democrat-Gazette today. Stamps, 1912, the LaFayette Hotel...photo attached. Don't know if it's true or not but relatives claimed that we were related to Mr. Stamps. LHG Larry: Attachments don't go through on the Stamps Yahoo group. You can upload the picture to the Photo Directory or send it to me and I'll do it. Tom Sims|

552|550|2014-09-24 21:16:11|loughoward|Re: Stamps, 1912|Tom,I could not find the picture.Lou Howard|

553|550|2014-09-25 08:34:19|Larry H. Gentry|Re: Stamps, 1912|Trying, again, to get the photo to you.LHG� Subject: Stamps, 1912 In case you missed this in the Ark. Democrat-Gazette today.Stamps, 1912, the LaFayette Hotel...photo attached.Don't know if it's true or not but relatives claimed that we were related to Mr. Stamps. LHG� "If�you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got."� Anonymous

554|554|2014-09-25 14:00:59|Jean Galbraith|Stamps 1912|With the info you all have provided, I logged into http://www.arkansasdemocratgazette.com/ and viewed the photo mentioned in their daily photo file for Sept. 24, 2014.Jean G.|

555|554|2014-09-25 15:26:11|Tom E. Sims|Re: Stamps 1912|Jean Galbraith jeang37@bellsouth.net wrote: With the info you all have provided, I logged into http://www.arkansasdemocratgazette.com/ and viewed the photo mentioned in their daily photo file for Sept. 24, 2014. I also found the picture and posted it in the Photo Directory: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/photos/photost ream/lightbox/22583245?orderBy=mtime&sortOrder=desc&photoFil ter=ALL#zax/22583245 or http://tinyurl.com/lduxrs3 Here's another link to the picture: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03521.jpg TES|

556|554|2014-09-25 15:34:30|Larry H. Gentry|Re: Stamps 1912|THANKS!Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone b From:/span /b 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com; b To:/span /b StampsArk@yahoogroups.com; b Subject:/span /b Re: [StampsArk] Stamps 1912 b Sent:/span /b Thu, Sep 25, 2014 10:24:38 PM � Jean Galbraith jeang37@bellsouth.net wrote: With the info you all have provided, I logged into http://www.arkansasdemocratgazette.com/ and viewed the photo mentioned in their daily photo file for Sept. 24, 2014. I also found the picture and posted it in the Photo Directory: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/photos/photost ream/lightbox/22583245?orderBy=mtime&sortOrder=desc&photoFil ter=ALL#zax/22583245 or http://tinyurl.com/lduxrs3 Here's another link to the picture: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03521.jpg TES |

557|554|2014-09-26 06:37:15|Lou Howard|Re: Stamps 1912|Thanks, Tom.Lou bFrom: "'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bTo: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bSent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 6:24 PM bSubject: Re: [StampsArk] Stamps 1912 � Jean Galbraith jeang37@bellsouth.net wrote: With the info you all have provided, I logged into http://www.arkansasdemocratgazette.com/ and viewed the photo mentioned in their daily photo file for Sept. 24, 2014. I also found the picture and posted it in the Photo Directory: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/photos/photost ream/lightbox/22583245?orderBy=mtime&sortOrder=desc&photoFil ter=ALL#zax/22583245 or http://tinyurl.com/lduxrs3 Here's another link to the picture: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03521.jpg TES

558|558|2014-09-26 22:58:42|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County 42 - Murfreesboro 36|Lafayette County 42 @ Murfreesboro 36 Lafayette County is now 3 - 1 this year.|

559|558|2014-09-27 07:50:33|Earl Rogers|Re: Lafayette County 42 - Murfreesboro 36|fantastic!!!keep up the good work.thanksTake care. EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Sep 27, 2014, at 1:57 AM, "'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Lafayette County 42 @ Murfreesboro 36 Lafayette County is now 3 - 1 this year. |

560|554|2014-10-01 14:45:46|JWaddell@bmnet.com|Re: Stamps 1912|Tom,

When and in what location was the last time this hotel existed in Stamps? I assume that it is long since torn down?

Thanks,

Aubrey

J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D., FAPhA, BCOP
Professor
University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN
Oncology Pharmacist
Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN
Lieutenant Colonel, USA Retired

"'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com
Sent by: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com
09/25/2014 06:24 PM
To StampsArk@yahoogroups.com,
Subject Re: [StampsArk] Stamps 1912

Jean Galbraith jeang37@bellsouth.net wrote:

With the info you all have provided, I logged into

http://www.arkansasdemocratgazette.com/

and viewed the photo mentioned in their daily photo file for Sept. 24, 2014.

I also found the picture and posted it in the Photo Directory:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/photos/photost ream/lightbox/22583245?orderBy=mtime&sortOrder=desc&photoFil ter=ALL#zax/22583245

or

http://tinyurl.com/lduxrs3

Here's another link to the picture:

http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03521.jpg

TES

561|554|2014-10-01 16:17:08|Larry H. Gentry|Re: Stamps 1912|I was told that it burned in the early '50s. Don't know for sure where it was located. a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com?.src=iOS"br/br/Se nt from Yahoo Mail for iPhone/a

562|550|2014-10-01 17:02:54|Jean Galbraith|Re: Stamps, 1912|I don't know much about the Stamps Hotel from 1912, but do know that the hotel which burned in the early 50s was "The European Hotel," located on Main Street. It was near or just past the narrow end of the triangle on the South side of the street. Tom, you remember that hotel and fire, don't you? Jean Galbraith On Thursday, September 25, 2014 10:34 AM, "'Larry H. Gentry' sarge538@yahoo.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Trying, again, to get the photo to you.LHG Subject: Stamps, 1912 In case you missed this in the Ark. Democrat-Gazette today.Stamps, 1912, the LaFayette Hotel...photo attached.Don't know if it's true or not but relatives claimed that we were related to Mr. Stamps. LHG "If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got."� Anonymous |

563|550|2014-10-01 23:53:48|Tom E. Sims|Re: Stamps, 1912|Aubrey Waddell wrote: When and in what location was the last time this hotel existed in Stamps? I assume that it is long since torn down? __________________________________________ I don't remember the Lafayette Hotel at all, so it was probably gone by 1938 when we moved to Stamps. It and several other older pictures are on the SHS '51 Historical (Pre 1940) Pictures page: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_P_Hist. htm TES|

564|550|2014-10-02 00:29:47|Tom E. Sims|Re: Stamps, 1912|Jean Galbraith wrote: I don't know much about the Stamps Hotel from 1912, but do know that the hotel which burned in the early 50s was "The European Hotel," located on Main Street. It was near or just past the narrow end of the triangle on the South side of the street. Tom, you remember that hotel and fire, don't you? ___________________________________________ I've only returned to Stamps for visits since graduating from SHS in 1951, so I wasn't there when it burned, but I heard about the fire. And, I remember the European Hotel very well. My mother and I stayed a few nights there when we first moved to Stamps in 1938. Tom Sims|

565|565|2014-10-03 21:51:25|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County 6 - Spring Hill 0|Spring Hill (Hope) @ Lafayette County Lafayette County 6 - Spring Hill 0 Lafayette County is now 4-1|

566|566|2014-10-10 22:39:33|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County 20 - Foreman 14|Lafayette County 20 @ Foreman 14 Lafayette County is now 5-1 this year|

567|567|2014-10-17 20:05:56|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County Cougars 37 - Dierks 14|Tonight's 17 October Homecoming game Dierks @ Lafayette County Lafayette County Cougars 37 - Dierks 14 Lafayette County improves to 6-1 for the season Go Cougars! * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/|

568|568|2014-10-24 20:33:35|Tom E. Sims|Gurdon 36 - Lafayette County 7|Lafayette County @ Gurdon Gurdon 36 - Lafayette County 7|

569|568|2014-10-25 07:14:47|Earl Rogers|Re: Gurdon 36 - Lafayette County 7|Damn!!! Those Gordon go Devils were always tough!! Thanks Take care Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Oct 24, 2014, at 11:29 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Lafayette County @ Gurdon Gurdon 36 - Lafayette County 7

570|570|2014-10-31 21:36:24|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County 36 - Mineral Springs 26|Mineral Springs @ Lafayette County Lafayette County 36 - Mineral Springs 26 Lafayette County's record is now 7-2|

571|570|2014-11-01 07:08:29|Earl Rogers|Re: Lafayette County 36 - Mineral Springs 26|Now we're talking...... Back to our old windy ways!, Good job!, Thanks , Tom. Take care, Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Nov 1, 2014, at 12:31 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Mineral Springs @ Lafayette County Lafayette County 36 - Mineral Springs 26 Lafayette County's record is now 7-2

572|572|2014-11-07 15:32:42|Tom E. Sims|Allison Keith Williams SHS '52, R.I.P.|Allison Keith Williams (July 27, 1934 - November 3, 2014) Allison Keith Williams, age 80, of Houston, Texas, passed away Monday, November 3, 2014 in Round Rock, Texas. She was born July 27, 1934 in Stamps, Arkansas to A.W. Keith, Jr. and Lillian Allison Keith. Mrs. Williams loved her family and enjoyed her time working with children. She was an avid animal lover and a supporter of many animal causes. She was a long time educator, teaching in Port O'Connor, Port Lavaca, and Houston, Texas. She received her Bachelors and Master's degree from the University of Houston in Victoria. She was preceded in death by her parents and husband, John A. Williams, Jr. She is survived by her son, Keith Williams of Woodsboro, Texas; daughters Laura Haynes of Bastrop, Texas and Stephanie Williams of Katy, Texas and beloved grandchildren Matthew and Megan Haynes, and Rylan and Evan Crawford. Graveside services will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, November 8, 2014 at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps, Arkansas with Bro. Mike Turner officiating under the direction of A.O. Smith Funeral Home. Memorial donations may be made to any animal charity or Alzheimer's Association of your choice. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/|

573|573|2014-11-07 16:28:29|Tom E. Sims|Mount Ida 46 - Lafayette County 26|Lafayette County @ Mount Ida Mount Ida 46 - Lafayette County 26 Lafayette County finishes regular season with 7-3 record. Play-offs next week.|

574|573|2014-11-07 16:44:49|Earl Rogers|Re: Mount Ida 46 - Lafayette County 26|Fantastic!!! Good to see a winning season!! Let's get better next year! Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:27 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Lafayette County @ Mount Ida Mount Ida 46 - Lafayette County 26 Lafayette County finishes regular season with 7-3 record. Play-offs next week.

575|575|2014-11-13 11:45:32|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County Bonfire Rally Tonight|Lafayette County Bonfire Rally Tonight https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/photos/a.406 553222798633.1073741828.276170109170279/636980159755937/?typ e=1&theater or http://goo.gl/Iee65b Lafayette County @ Magnet Cove tomorrow night in 1st round play-off game. Magnet Cove has the same 7-3 record as Lafayette County, and is 5-0 this year at home. 64 years ago, the 10-0 Stamps Yellowjackets played Magnet Cove in their 1st round play-off game @ Stamps. It was a cold night and it had snowed before the game. Final score 13-13, and SHS advanced to next round on the most penetrations of opponents 20 yard line rule. We should have won 14-13. I was the extra point holder for Leonard Benefield and there was a bad snap from center. I picked up the ball and completed a pass to Frank Willis in the end zone. Official said the extra point was no good because my knee was down while awaiting the snap. I'm sure my knee didn't touch the ground after I got the ball, and the point should have been good. Tom Sims|

576|575|2014-11-13 16:18:28|Earl Rogers|Re: Lafayette County Bonfire Rally Tonight|Wow!, I did not know that. Was Tony on that team??? Take care, Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Nov 13, 2014, at 2:44 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Lafayette County Bonfire Rally Tonight https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/photos/a.406 553222798633.1073741828.276170109170279/636980159755937/?typ e=1&theater or http://goo.gl/Iee65b Lafayette County @ Magnet Cove tomorrow night in 1st round play-off game. Magnet Cove has the same 7-3 record as Lafayette County, and is 5-0 this year at home. 64 years ago, the 10-0 Stamps Yellowjackets played Magnet Cove in their 1st round play-off game @ Stamps. It was a cold night and it had snowed before the game. Final score 13-13, and SHS advanced to next round on the most penetrations of opponents 20 yard line rule. We should have won 14-13. I was the extra point holder for Leonard Benefield and there was a bad snap from center. I picked up the ball and completed a pass to Frank Willis in the end zone. Official said the extra point was no good because my knee was down while awaiting the snap. I'm sure my knee didn't touch the ground after I got the ball, and the point should have been good. Tom Sims

577|575|2014-11-13 17:37:28|Tom E. Sims|Re: Lafayette County Bonfire Rally Tonight|Earl Rogers wrote: Wow!, I did not know that. Was Tony on that team??? No. This was the year after Tony graduated. TES|

578|578|2014-11-14 21:16:54|Tom E. Sims|Magnet Cove 28 - Lafayette County 24|Lafayette County @ Magnet Cove Magnet Cove 28 - Lafayette County 24|

579|579|2014-12-14 23:16:18|Tom E. Sims|Minor Oglesby SHS '48, R.I.P.|Minor Oglesby (March 23, 1930 - December 7, 2014) Minor Oglesby passed away Sunday, December 7, 2014 in a Hot Springs, Arkansas hospital. Mr. Oglesby was born to M.W. and Willie Mae Oglesby on March 23, 1930 in McKamie, AR. He graduated as valedictorian of the Stamps High School class of 1948. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana Tech and a Masters Degree of Automotive Engineering in Detroit, MI. Mr. Oglesby served in the U.S. Army in Atlanta, GA and Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL. He retired from Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, OK in 1985 and was self-employed until 1997 when he retired a second time. He was a member of Tau Beta Pi and Omicron Delta Kappa honorary fraternities and a lifetime member of the American Society of Professional Engineers. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Bartlesville where he served as a deacon and in other areas until moving to Hot Springs in 2013. Mr. Oglesby married his high school sweetheart, Christine Cleveland, on December 22, 1950. Mr. Oglesby is survived by his wife; two daughters, Denise of Fayetteville, AR and Kaye Neal and husband, Richard of Hot Springs, AR; brother, Ronald Oglesby of Plano, TX; three grandchildren, Randee Watson and husband, Nick of Magnolia, AR, Travis Ashby and wife, Shanna of Tulsa, OK and Laurie Pinner and husband, Adam of Hope, AR; and seven great grandchildren. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, December 11, 2014 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Rev. Jere Wilson officiating. Interment will follow at Wilson Cemetery in Lewisville, AR. Visitation will be held from 6:00-7:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

580|580|2014-12-15 20:59:46|Tom E. Sims|Dorothy Virginia Smith, R.I.P.|Dorothy Virginia Smith SHS Home Ec Teacher (April 10, 1930 - December 6, 2014) Obituary: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03546.jpg * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

581|581|2014-12-29 10:39:59|Tom E. Sims|Lorene Vines, R.I.P.|Lorene Vines, R.I.P. Obituary: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03549.jpg * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

2015 Yahoo Messages
582|582|2015-01-09 21:43:26|Tom E. Sims|Martha Jean Fields Gaines SHS '47, R.I.P.|Martha Jean Fields Gaines SHS '47, R.I.P. No details available. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

583|583|2015-01-12 08:16:33|Tom E. Sims|Re: Martha Jean Fields Gaines SHS '47|Ronnie Sinquefield sent Martha Jean's obituary _ Martha Jean Gaines Martha Jean Gaines, 85 of Waldo, Arkansas, passed away Friday, January 9, 2015 at Chambers Memorial Hospital in Danville. She was born January 11, 1929 in Stamps, Arkansas to the late Lewie Chester "Buddy" and Susie Marie Tatom Fields. She was retired from Alcoa where she worked in the accounting department. She was a member of the Magnolia Church of Christ. She was preceded in death by her husband, Stewart Harold Gaines; her parents; grandson, Steven Delaney; sister, Frances Ellen; brothers, LC Fields and Dickie Fields. Survivors include her sons and daughters-in-law, Terry and Sara Gaines of Little Rock, Russell and Sharon Gaines of Benton; daughter and son-in-law, Debra and Andy Tackett of Danville; sister, Emily Sabo of Texarkana, Texas; brother, Mike and Sharon Fields of Mt. Pleasant, Texas; grandchildren, Jennifer and Ramon Arteaga, Heather and Jeremy Casey, Crystal and Jason Kavanaug, Adrienne and Brian Meachum, Daniel and Kim Gaines, Derek Gaines, Dylan Gaines, and Andrew and Emily Tackett; great-grandchildren, Elizabeth, Cade, and Lily Meachum, Murron and Uriah Arteaga, Mickayla and Wyatt Casey, Madison, Caleb, and Rylee Gaines, Jay, Jordan, and Justin Kavanaugh. Funeral services will begin at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 13th at Lewis Funeral Home Chapel in Magnolia, Arkansas with Brother John McCourt officiating. The family will receive visitors at the Chapel from 1:00-2:00 p.m. before the service. Burial will be at Columbia Cemetery,
Waldo.|

584|584|2015-01-29 15:55:28|Tom E. Sims|Jimmy Nix SHS '51, R.I.P.|Jimmy Nix (February 12, 1933 - January 20, 2015) Jimmy L. Nix, age 81, of Stamps, Arkansas passed away Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at the Magnolia Regional Medical Center. He was born to Andrew and Verna Bailiff Nix in Stamps, Arkansas on February 12, 1933. Jimmy was a member of the Liberty Baptist Church in Stamps, a veteran of the United States Army, and retired from the Texas Eastern Pipeline. Mr. Nix was preceded in death by his parents; daughter, Carala Castor, and special brother-in-law, Ronnie Watson. He is survived by his loving wife of fifty-nine years, Mary Nell Nix of Stamps; two grandsons, Rodney Castor and wife Kayla of Mena,AR, and Chad Castor and wife Dezzarai of Siloam Springs, AR; two great-grandsons, Hayden Castor, and Harlin Castor; one sister, Ruth Taylor and husband Harvey of Stamps,AR; Three Nephews, Drew Russell and wife Amber, Aaron Russell, and Garrett Russell; numerous other relatives, and his special dog, Punkin. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 24, 2015 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps with the Bro. William Willis and Bro. Ernie Sorrells officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside cemetery under the direction of A.O. Smith Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 5-7 pm Friday, January 23, 2015 at the funeral home. _________ Jimmy was my classmate and a good friend, who I don't remember ever seeing again after we graduated from SHS in 1951. He started with '51 in the first grade and did all 12 years with the class. Jimmy's '51 Personal Web Page:
http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/JN.htm Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

585|584|2015-01-29 16:00:41|Larry H. Gentry|Re: Jimmy Nix SHS '51, R.I.P.|Tom,Really appreciate your updates, etc.Do know if anyone has collected photos of folks from all or a lot of the yearbooks of SHS? I'd like to, especially, be able to download photos from 1962-1966 if they're available somewhere.Thanks,Larry� "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,�but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." �Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From: "'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com To: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 5:30 PM Subject: [StampsArk] Jimmy Nix SHS '51, R.I.P. � Jimmy Nix (February 12, 1933 - January 20, 2015) Jimmy L. Nix, age 81, of Stamps, Arkansas passed away Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at the Magnolia Regional Medical Center. He was born to Andrew and Verna Bailiff Nix in Stamps, Arkansas on February 12, 1933. Jimmy was a member of the Liberty Baptist Church in Stamps, a veteran of the United States Army, and retired from the Texas Eastern Pipeline. Mr. Nix was preceded in death by his parents; daughter, Carala Castor, and special brother-in-law, Ronnie Watson. He is survived by his loving wife of fifty-nine years, Mary Nell Nix of Stamps; two grandsons, Rodney Castor and wife Kayla of Mena,AR, and Chad Castor and wife Dezzarai of Siloam Springs, AR; two great-grandsons, Hayden Castor, and Harlin Castor; one sister, Ruth Taylor and husband Harvey of Stamps,AR; Three Nephews, Drew Russell and wife Amber, Aaron Russell, and Garrett Russell; numerous other relatives, and his special dog, Punkin. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 24, 2015 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps with the Bro. William Willis and Bro. Ernie Sorrells officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside cemetery under the direction of A.O. Smith Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 5-7 pm Friday, January 23, 2015 at the funeral home. _______________________________________ Jimmy was my classmate and a good friend, who I don't remember ever seeing again after we graduated from SHS in 1951. He started with '51 in the first grade and did all 12 years with the class. Jimmy's '51 Personal Web Page: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/JN.htm Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info #yiv8138058550 #yiv8138058550 -- #yiv8138058550ygrp-mkp {border:1px
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586|584|2015-01-29 16:13:40|Earl Rogers|Re: Jimmy Nix SHS '51, R.I.P.|Tom Thanks very much for the sad news. I do appreciate your efforts to keep us all informed, Much appreciated. Take care, Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jan 29, 2015, at 6:30 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Jimmy Nix (February 12, 1933 - January 20, 2015) Jimmy L. Nix, age 81, of Stamps, Arkansas passed away Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at the Magnolia Regional Medical Center. He was born to Andrew and Verna Bailiff Nix in Stamps, Arkansas on February 12, 1933. Jimmy was a member of the Liberty Baptist Church in Stamps, a veteran of the United States Army, and retired from the Texas Eastern Pipeline. Mr. Nix was preceded in death by his parents; daughter, Carala Castor, and special brother-in-law, Ronnie Watson. He is survived by his loving wife of fifty-nine years, Mary Nell Nix of Stamps; two grandsons, Rodney Castor and wife Kayla of Mena,AR, and Chad Castor and wife Dezzarai of Siloam Springs, AR; two great-grandsons, Hayden Castor, and Harlin Castor; one sister, Ruth Taylor and husband Harvey of Stamps,AR; Three Nephews, Drew Russell and wife Amber, Aaron Russell, and Garrett Russell; numerous other relatives, and his special dog, Punkin. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 24, 2015 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps with the Bro. William Willis and Bro. Ernie Sorrells officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside cemetery under the direction of A.O. Smith Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 5-7 pm Friday, January 23, 2015 at the funeral home. _______________________________________ Jimmy was my classmate and a good friend, who I don't remember ever seeing again after we graduated from SHS in 1951. He started with '51 in the first grade and did all 12 years with the class. Jimmy's '51 Personal Web Page: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/JN.htm Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info

587|584|2015-01-30 11:40:28|JWaddell@bmnet.com|Re: Jimmy Nix SHS '51, R.I.P.|This obituary mentions that Jimmy Nix was preceded in death by his "special brother-in-law" Ronnie Watson and that he is survived by his sister Ruth Taylor. If I am not mistaken, Ronnie and Ruth were a young married couple in Stamps when Ronnie very tragically died from an allergic reaction to a penicillin injection he received as treatment for a throat infection. That's one of those things that if you live in Memphis, everybody forgets it in an hour, but if you live in Stamps, everybody still talks about it. I know I remember that like it was yesterday. Everyone was devastated that this young man died in such a random way. Aubrey J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D., FAPhA, BCOP Professor University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN Oncology Pharmacist Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN Lieutenant Colonel, USA Retired From: "Tom E. Sims" tes3355@gmail.com To: "[Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, Date: 01/29/2015 06:30 PM Subject: Jimmy Nix SHS '51, R.I.P. Jimmy Nix (February 12, 1933 - January 20, 2015) Jimmy L. Nix, age 81, of Stamps, Arkansas passed away Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at the Magnolia Regional Medical Center. He was born to Andrew and Verna Bailiff Nix in Stamps, Arkansas on February 12, 1933. Jimmy was a member of the Liberty Baptist Church in Stamps, a veteran of the United States Army, and retired from the Texas Eastern Pipeline. Mr. Nix was preceded in death by his parents; daughter, Carala Castor, and special brother-in-law, Ronnie Watson. He is survived by his loving wife of fifty-nine years, Mary Nell Nix of Stamps; two grandsons, Rodney Castor and wife Kayla of Mena,AR, and Chad Castor and wife Dezzarai of Siloam Springs, AR; two great-grandsons, Hayden Castor, and Harlin Castor; one sister, Ruth Taylor and husband Harvey of Stamps,AR; Three Nephews, Drew Russell and wife Amber, Aaron Russell, and Garrett Russell; numerous other relatives, and his special dog, Punkin. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 24, 2015 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps with the Bro. William Willis and Bro. Ernie Sorrells officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside cemetery under the direction of A.O. Smith Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 5-7 pm Friday, January 23, 2015 at the funeral home. _______________________________________ Jimmy was my classmate and a good friend, who I don't remember ever seeing again after we graduated from SHS in 1951. He started with '51 in the first grade and did all 12 years with the class. Jimmy's '51 Personal Web Page: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/JN.htm Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email
addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info ________________________________ This communication may contain protected health information (PHI) that is legally protected from inappropriate disclosure by the Privacy Standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and relevant Tennessee Laws. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you should notify the sender immediately by telephone or by return e-mail and delete this message from your computer. Direct questions to the Blount Memorial Hospital Privacy Officer at 865-977-4675.

588|584|2015-01-30 21:52:30|Tom E. Sims|Re: Jimmy Nix SHS '51, R.I.P.|'Larry H. Gentry' sarge538@yahoo.com wrote: Tom,Really appreciate your updates, etc.Do know if anyone has collected photos of folks from all or a lot of the yearbooks of SHS? I'd like to, especially, be able to download photos from 1962-1966 if they're available somewhere.Thanks,Larry I don't know. TES|

589|589|2015-02-18 17:24:50|Tom E. Sims|John "Buddy" Farley SHS '52, R.I.P.|John "Buddy" Farley died this morning, 18 February, in St. Michael Hosptial. Buddy was married to Norma Kay Tatom. Smith Funeral Home will handle the arrangements. I played football and basketball @ SHS with Buddy and he was a good friend. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

590|589|2015-02-28 23:27:12|Tom E. Sims|Re: John "Buddy" Farley SHS '52, R.I.P.|John Edward "Buddy" Farley, Jr. (September 25, 1934 - February 18, 2015) John Edward "Buddy"� Farley, Jr., age 80 of Buckner, Arkansas passed away Wednesday, February 18, 2015 in Christus St. Michaels Hospital in Texarkana. Buddy was born to John Edward, Sr. and Dorothy Johnson Farley on September 25, 1934. He was a third generation master carpenter, U.S. Army Veteran, crossword enthusiast, fan of all athletics, and a member of the First United Methodist Church of Stamps, Arkansas. Mr. Farley was survived by his wife of fifty-four years, Norma Kay Tatom Farley of the home; daughter, Rose Wiegand and husband, James of Stamps, AR; son, John Edward Farley III and wife, Patty of Buckner, AR; two granddaughters, Audrey Wiegand of Springhill, AR and Grace Farley of Buckner, AR; step-granddaughter, Tami Ross and husband, Clint of Charleston, SC; one brother, Mike Farley and wife, Trish of Houston, TX; five nephews; two great-nephews; and two nieces. Graveside Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 21, 2015 at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps, AR with Rev. Mark Rivers officiating under the direction of Smith Funeral Homes of Stamps, AR. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com.|

591|591|2015-04-06 17:28:37|Tom E. Sims|Stamps, Arkansas Rotary Club Announcement - 6 April 2015|Stamps, Arkansas Rotary Club Announcement - 6 April 2015 The Dedication of the Maya Angelou Special Stamp will be hosted at Cougar Arena on Wednesday, April 8 at 10:00 a.m. U.S. Congressman Bruce Westerman will be the guest speaker. It is open to the public and refreshments will be served! * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

592|591|2015-04-06 17:56:31|Tom E. Sims|Re: Stamps, Arkansas Rotary Club Announcement - 6 April 2015|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sallie Del salliedelvecchio@yahoo.com Date: Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 5:29 PM Subject: Re: Stamps, Arkansas Rotary Club Announcement - 6 April 2015 To: "TES3355@gmail com" tes3355@gmail.com Wow. That is so cool. At least, that's my opinion. ________ Stamps, Arkansas Rotary Club Announcement - 6 April 2015 The Dedication of the Maya Angelou Special Stamp will be hosted at Cougar Arena on Wednesday, April 8 at 10:00 a.m. U.S. Congressman Bruce Westerman will be the guest speaker. It is open to the public and refreshments will be served!|

593|591|2015-04-07 07:41:23|Lou Howard|Re: Stamps, Arkansas Rotary Club Announcement - 6 April 2015|I agree with Sallie. �Maya and her community deserve recognition. �I admire the teacher who encouraged her in reading which lead her to writing. LouDean Graham Howard From: "'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com To: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Cc: Sallie Del salliedelvecchio@yahoo.com Sent: Monday, April 6, 2015 8:41 PM Subject: [StampsArk] Re: Stamps, Arkansas Rotary Club Announcement - 6 April 2015 � ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sallie Del salliedelvecchio@yahoo.com Date: Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 5:29 PM Subject: Re: Stamps, Arkansas Rotary Club Announcement - 6 April 2015 To: "TES3355@gmail com" tes3355@gmail.com Wow. That is so cool. At least, that's my opinion. Stamps, Arkansas Rotary Club Announcement - 6 April 2015 The Dedication of the Maya Angelou Special Stamp will be hosted at Cougar Arena on Wednesday, April 8 at 10:00 a.m. U.S. Congressman Bruce Westerman will be the guest speaker. It is open to the public and refreshments will be served!

594|594|2015-04-18 09:07:05|earl.rogers1661|James Kennedy and Donnie Teague: Viet Nam Veterans Memorial|Tom Sims was kind enough to post on our Yahoo Stamps mail group the letters i got back from the VNVM regarding James Kennedy and Donnie Teague. Thanks to several kind folks who gathered the necessary documentation for James and Donnie, I was able to send a memorial request into the VNVM on their behalf.
The VNVM will conduct an IN MEMORY program to honor James Kennedy and Donnie Teague for their service and sacrifice on Saturday, June 20, 2015, at 10 AM at the Viet Nam Memorial (The Wall) in Washington, DC.

I was happy to get them this recognition, but I regret I was unable to get their names inscribed on the wall.
Thanks to so many folks that gathered the necessary information and documentation, as I would never have been able to do that myself.
This all started as a result of our SHS Class of 1964 50th reunion. It was a grand affair and it was so great to see so many class mates and fellow students from SHS. The SHS Class of 1964 plans to hold another Class reunion sometime in 2016, and everyone is invited.....so please, everyone come.
Thanks again to everyone who help gather all the documentation to get James and Donnie this much deserved recognition for their sacrifice and service.
Earl Rogers
LTC (ret) USAR

595|595|2015-05-01 21:16:34|Tom E. Sims|Car wash and burgers!!!|From Lafayette County School District Facebook page: The Lafayette County Cougar football team will be at Stamps City Hall on Saturday 2 May between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. to raise money for football camp! Car wash and burgers!!! These boys are ready to cook and clean for you....for a small fee!!|

596|596|2015-05-05 10:44:03|Tom E. Sims|Stamps, Arkansas Rotary Club Announcement|Stamps, Arkansas Rotary Club Announcement This Thursday, May 7, 2015 at Lake June we will hold our annual fishing derby. Come out and support our local seniors, enjoy a hotdog, and fellowship. We have several prizes for biggest fish, etc. The derby will be start at 11 am, going until 1 pm. REGISTRATION starts at 10 am. Come join in the fun!|

597|596|2015-05-05 16:32:32|Tom E. Sims|Re: Stamps, Arkansas Rotary Club Announcement|JERRY BALLOU writes: _ You mean there are fish still in old stamps pond!! That makes me fell good ! Jerry Ballou|

598|598|2015-05-05 18:46:58|Myrtle Barr|the pond|

I heard that the pond is only 12 inches deep....how can there be fish in there? ,,,,,,

599|598|2015-05-06 16:48:43|earl.rogers1661|Re: the pond|Lake June is more than 12 inches deep. It is a shallow lake. I remember water skiing there as a kid. You can stand up in most parts. It was built as a log holder for bodcaw lumber company, so they weren't too interested in digging it deep. Just deep enough to float logs . Earl rogers

600|598|2015-05-06 20:40:49|LaMetra Alsheksalih|Re: the pond|Yes I can attest to the fact that it is shallow at least in some places. I fell out of a bass boat and couldn't swim. My brother was driving and he thought he had killed me. Just as he eased the boat close enough to rescue me and get me into the boat I discovered I could touch bottom. Then I got so hysterical laughing I couldn't get into the boat. We laughed about that for many years and kept the secret from our parents because my dad's rule was always wear life jackets and we had forgotten to take them. My brother is gone now but that is one of many of my great memories of him. RIP Lil Bro! Sent from my iPhone|

601|598|2015-05-09 23:38:38|Tom E. Sims|Re: the pond|Earl Rogers wrote: Lake June is more than 12 inches deep. It is a shallow lake. I remember water skiing there as a kid. You can stand up in most parts. It was built as a log holder for bodcaw lumber company, so they weren't too interested in digging it deep. Just deep enough to float logs . ___ JERRY BALLOU replied: You know Earl That's right! Stamps pond was a holding pond for logs, Because I remember a large saw dust pile on the side by the rail road. This picture is one of me and Joe Pelt, and I think Joe Boyd on Stamps pond. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03561.jpg Time about summer of 1945. Jerry Ballou _ Here's Jerry with a bass from Lake June: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03562.jpg _ Earl Rogers replied: Jerry: I never cease to be amused!!! Today y'all would have been fined for not having a life preserver!!! Yall were pretty fancy, to have a boat!!! All I remember was a casting rod with black line and an old lucky 13 fishing plug!!! ___ Tom Sims writes: I caught a 3 1/2 pound large-mouth bass from Lake June, probably around 1946. It was the first fish I ever caught with a rod and reel, and I was using a Lucky 13, which was my favorite plug. Tom Sims|

602|598|2015-05-10 11:41:40|Derrell Patterson|Re: the pond|I remember the first white perch (crappie) I caught was from the little island next to the park. Using a Zebco Model 11 casting toward the Cemetery. Sent from my iPad On May 10, 2015, at 1:37 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Earl Rogers wrote: Lake June is more than 12 inches deep. It is a shallow lake. I remember water skiing there as a kid. You can stand up in most parts. It was built as a log holder for bodcaw lumber company, so they weren't too interested in digging it deep. Just deep enough to float logs . _ JERRY BALLOU replied: You know Earl That's right! Stamps pond was a holding pond for logs, Because I remember a large saw dust pile on the side by the rail road. This picture is one of me and Joe Pelt, and I think Joe Boyd on Stamps pond. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03561.jpg Time about summer of 1945. Jerry Ballou ___ Here's Jerry with a bass from Lake June: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03562.jpg _ Earl Rogers replied: Jerry: I never cease to be amused!!! Today y'all would have been fined for not having a life preserver!!! Yall were pretty fancy, to have a boat!!! All I remember was a casting rod with black line and an old lucky 13 fishing plug!!! _____ Tom Sims writes: I caught a 3 1/2 pound
large-mouth bass from Lake June, probably around 1946. It was the first fish I ever caught with a rod and reel, and I was using a Lucky 13, which was my favorite plug. Tom Sims

603|603|2015-05-10 17:50:10|Tom E. Sims|SHS Pictures|Here are some pictures taken by Don Ballou, that Jerry Ballou sent to me. Some of my ID's were just guesses. Corrections welcomed. Tom Sims _ 1948 SHS Football Tesm http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03566b.jpg Rear: Buddy Farley, Glen Dodson, Jimmy Willard, Raymond Wooten, Gene Owens, Calvin Jacks, Bear Eddy, Artie Clark, Billy Peck, Bobby Stevens, Tommy Jones, E W Johnson, Tommy Strange, Jesse Sanders, John Ray Hart, Charles Mackey, Frank Willis, Edward Hatfield, George Doherty Front: James Clark, Tommy Sims, Tony Rogers, Billy Martin, Joe Dan Oglesby, U B Bond, Jessie Paul Fain, Bugs Rogers, Sidney Melear, Billy Jones, Billy Kuykendall, Lynn Peevy, James Hurley ___________________ SHS Cheerleaders - c1948 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03567_570. jpg Dolores Hart, Ann Williams, Georgia Ann Langley, David Paul Lovell, Jean Lewis, Dorothy Petty, Sue White, Myrtle Sue Peck, Mrs. Doherty ___________________ SHS Girls - c1948 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03563.jpg Rear: Kalene Thomas, Delilah Owen, Gay Weed, Virginia Nell Guttry, Bobbie Ray Bolton, Mary Peace, Georgia Ann Langley, Marion Davis Front: ?, Catherine Strange, Mary Nell Minter, Barbara Pinkston, Bettye Jo Murphy, Shirley Dodson, Barbara Powell, Allison Keith _ SHS Playground - c1948 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03564.jpg Billy Thompson, John Ray Hart, Billy Kuykendall, Tommy Sims, U B Bond
___________________ SHS Boys - c1947 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03565.jpg Joe Dan Oglesby, Billy Kuykendall, Clifford Smith, Billy Ed Grimmett, Richard Boyd, Edward Hatfield, Ray Radford, Buddy Farley|

604|604|2015-05-21 17:40:14|Tom E. Sims|SHS '62 Reunion Announcement|SHS '62 Reunion Announcement The class of '62 is having a reunion on October 10, 2015 at 1:00PM at the Stamps Municipal Building. We want to invite all Stamps graduates from that era (pretty much from the 50s through the 60s) to be a part of our get together. It will not be anything fancy, just a meet and greet to catch up with what has been going on in our lives and to reconnect with people who have been a part of our lives in the past. We will probably have sodas and water refreshments, but no food. That night the '62 graduates and their families will have a Dutch treat dinner at The Rails Restaurant in Magnolia at about 7:00 PM. Please post this on the Stamps Mailing List a few times to let people have a chance to put it on their calendars. Also, post it a time or two a week or so before the reunion. Our class has been very good in having reunions over the years and have enjoyed the connections we have maintained. At our 50th year reunion everyone decided that they wanted to get together more frequently than every five years, so this is the first of the every three years reunions. I think that our class feels that we grew up at the best time, at the best school, and in the best town that we could ask for and we enjoy getting together to celebrate this. Thanks, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com 870-863-6203 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

605|605|2015-05-23 10:58:39|Tom E. Sims|William Neal Clark SHS '62 R.I.P.|William Neal Clark William Clark, age 71, of Monroe, Georgia passed away Monday, May 18, 2015. A memorial service to celebrate the life of William Clark will be held 11:00 A.M. on Thursday, May 21, 2105 at First Baptist Church in Monroe, GA, www.fbcmonroe.com. The family will receive on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from 6:00 "� 8:00 P.M. at the Carter Watkins House in Monroe, GA. Mr. Clark was preceded in death by his father, Otho Clark. He is survived by his mother, Joanna Clark; wife, Phyllis Harber Clark; children, Neal Clark, Steve Clark, Charles Clark, Jay Seago, Alice McClure and Cate Clark Bright; 8 grandchildren; and 1 great grandson. Those desiring may make contributions to The Benevolence Fund at First Baptist Church, 202 McDaniel ST, Monroe, GA 30655. Messages of condolence may be made by visiting www.GeorgiaCremation.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS
'51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

606|605|2015-05-23 12:04:32|Earl Rogers|Re: William Neal Clark SHS '62 R.I.P.|William played right defensive half back on our 1961 season SHS undefeated football team, and was a hard hitter. He will be missed. Earl rogers Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On May 23, 2015, at 1:57 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: William Neal Clark William Clark, age 71, of Monroe, Georgia passed away Monday, May 18, 2015. A memorial service to celebrate the life of William Clark will be held 11:00 A.M. on Thursday, May 21, 2105 at First Baptist Church in Monroe, GA, www.fbcmonroe.com. The family will receive on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from 6:00 "� 8:00 P.M. at the Carter Watkins House in Monroe, GA. Mr. Clark was preceded in death by his father, Otho Clark. He is survived by his mother, Joanna Clark; wife, Phyllis Harber Clark; children, Neal Clark, Steve Clark, Charles Clark, Jay Seago, Alice McClure and Cate Clark Bright; 8 grandchildren; and 1 great grandson. Those desiring may make contributions to The Benevolence Fund at First Baptist Church, 202 McDaniel ST, Monroe, GA 30655. Messages of condolence may be made by visiting www.GeorgiaCremation.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info

607|607|2015-05-23 16:26:47|Earl Rogers|Re: facebook|Marilou What year was that of you with pigtails?? Love Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On May 23, 2015, at 6:08 PM, marilou0841@aol.com wrote: I puts some "old" pictures on MY "facebook"... See if you can pick them up?? Marilou Rogers Nelson, Texarkana, AR

608|608|2015-06-17 18:49:35|Tom E. Sims|Carilon May Roper, R.I.P.|Carilon May Roper (February 4, 1947 - June 15, 2015) http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03576.jpg Carilon May Roper, age 68 of Waskom, Texas passed away Monday, June 15, 2015 surrounded by her family. Mrs. Roper was born February 4, 1947 in Magnolia, Arkansas to Authur and Ada May. She was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother. Carilon battled Multiple Sclerosis for 39 years and was an inspiration to many. She never complained or gave up and always considered herself blessed. Mrs. Roper was preceded in death by her father, Authur May; father-in-law, O.D. Roper; and sister-in-law, Kerry May. She is survived by her husband of 48 years, Wayne "Pug"� Roper of the home; mother, Ada May of Stamps, AR; two daughters, Misty Manshack and husband, Jerry of Waskom, TX and Wendy Russell and husband, Mike of Stamps, AR; two grandsons, Dylan Manshack and Christopher Russell; one sister, Jean Matthews and husband, Bill; brother, Larry May; mother-in-law, Louise Roper of Hamilton, TX; and many nieces, nephews and friends. A special thanks to Good Shepherd Home Care of Marshall, TX; Willis-Knighton Hospital in Bossier City, LA; and Dr. Steve Kitchings and staff at the Willis-Knighton Hyperbaric and Wound Care in Shreveport, LA. Funeral Services will be held at 3:00 p.m. Saturday, June 20, 2015 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Bro. Mickey May officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps. Visitation will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Friday, June 19, 2015 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps. In lieu of flowers,
donations may be made to a memorial fund in the name of Carilon Roper at any Chase Bank (for assistance call Elaine Sutton 903-926-3810). This account is to provide financial assistance and support for a single mother battling Multiple Sclerosis. If a Chase Bank is not convenient, checks may be mailed to A.O. Smith Funeral Homes, 805 Thomas Street, Stamps, AR 71860 in care of Wendy Russell. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."� II Timothy 4:7. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

609|609|2015-06-21 17:26:52|Tom E. Sims|Reminder: SHS '62 Reunion Announcement|SHS '62 Reunion Announcement The class of '62 is having a reunion on October 10, 2015 at 1:00PM at the Stamps Municipal Building. We want to invite all Stamps graduates from that era (pretty much from the 50s through the 60s) to be a part of our get together. It will not be anything fancy, just a meet and greet to catch up with what has been going on in our lives and to reconnect with people who have been a part of our lives in the past. We will probably have sodas and water refreshments, but no food. That night the '62 graduates and their families will have a Dutch treat dinner at The Rails Restaurant in Magnolia at about 7:00 PM. Please post this on the Stamps Mailing List a few times to let people have a chance to put it on their calendars. Also, post it a time or two a week or so before the reunion. Our class has been very good in having reunions over the years and have enjoyed the connections we have maintained. At our 50th year reunion everyone decided that they wanted to get together more frequently than every five years, so this is the first of the every three years reunions. I think that our class feels that we grew up at the best time, at the best school, and in the best town that we could ask for and we enjoy getting together to celebrate this. Thanks, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com 870-863-6203 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

610|609|2015-06-22 12:07:50|Earl Rogers|Re: Reminder: SHS '62 Reunion Announcement|Great work, as usual, Darrell You do a great job and thanks for all your help with our class of 1964 reunion. I do hope I can make it back to see yall. Take care Earl rogers Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jun 21, 2015, at 8:24 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: SHS '62 Reunion Announcement The class of '62 is having a reunion on October 10, 2015 at 1:00PM at the Stamps Municipal Building. We want to invite all Stamps graduates from that era (pretty much from the 50s through the 60s) to be a part of our get together. It will not be anything fancy, just a meet and greet to catch up with what has been going on in our lives and to reconnect with people who have been a part of our lives in the past. We will probably have sodas and water refreshments, but no food. That night the '62 graduates and their families will have a Dutch treat dinner at The Rails Restaurant in Magnolia at about 7:00 PM. Please post this on the Stamps Mailing List a few times to let people have a chance to put it on their calendars. Also, post it a time or two a week or so before the reunion. Our class has been very good in having reunions over the years and have enjoyed the connections we have maintained. At our 50th year reunion everyone decided that they wanted to get together more frequently than every five years, so this is the first of the every three years reunions. I think that our class feels that we grew up at the best time, at the best school, and in the best town that we could ask for and we enjoy getting together to celebrate this. Thanks, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com 870-863-6203 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info

611|609|2015-06-22 18:48:09|Derrell Patterson|Re: Reminder: SHS '62 Reunion Announcement|Thanks for the email, I likewise do plan to visit. Sent from my iPad On Jun 22, 2015, at 2:07 PM, Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Great work, as usual, Darrell You do a great job and thanks for all your help with our class of 1964 reunion. I do hope I can make it back to see yall. Take care Earl rogers Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jun 21, 2015, at 8:24 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: SHS '62 Reunion Announcement The class of '62 is having a reunion on October 10, 2015 at 1:00PM at the Stamps Municipal Building. We want to invite all Stamps graduates from that era (pretty much from the 50s through the 60s) to be a part of our get together. It will not be anything fancy, just a meet and greet to catch up with what has been going on in our lives and to reconnect with people who have been a part of our lives in the past. We will probably have sodas and water refreshments, but no food. That night the '62 graduates and their families will have a Dutch treat dinner at The Rails Restaurant in Magnolia at about 7:00 PM. Please post this on the Stamps Mailing List a few times to let people have a chance to put it on their calendars. Also, post it a time or two
a week or so before the reunion. Our class has been very good in having reunions over the years and have enjoyed the connections we have maintained. At our 50th year reunion everyone decided that they wanted to get together more frequently than every five years, so this is the first of the every three years reunions. I think that our class feels that we grew up at the best time, at the best school, and in the best town that we could ask for and we enjoy getting together to celebrate this. Thanks, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com 870-863-6203 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info [Non-text
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613|613|2015-07-10 15:32:57|Tom E. Sims|Frances Lindsey, R.I.P.|Frances Lindsey (October 26, 1922 - July 10, 2015) Frances Lindsey, age 92, of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Friday, July 10, 2015. Mrs. Lindsey was born October 26, 1922 in Buckner, Arkansas to Loyd and Effie Lewis. She was the oldest member of First United Methodist Church in Stamps where she served on the board for many years. Mrs. Lindsey owned and operated Lindsey Grocery in Stamps for forty-two years with her husband, Maurice. She was a second momma to numerous people and known and loved by many. Mrs. Lindsey was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Maurice Lindsey; and sister, Ruby Hartsfield. She is survived by her daughter, Linda Eades of Magnolia, AR; two sons, Ron Lindsey and wife, Sherry of Magnolia, AR and Robert Lindsey and wife, Donna of Sherwood, AR; five grandchildren, Don Jackson; Kristal McDonald and husband, Robert; Kim Barker and husband, Chris; Mandy Lindsey and husband, Rich and Stacy Lindsey and husband, Mike; seven great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, July 12, 2015 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Rev. John Noggle officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps. Visitation will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Saturday, July 11, 2015 at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

614|613|2015-07-11 07:28:19|Earl Rogers|Re: Frances Lindsey, R.I.P.|Tom Thanks so,much but very sad news. I went to SHS with her two sons and she was a wonderful lady. I'm so glad she got to come to our 1964 SHS 59th reunion. We lost a good one with her passing. Take care, Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jul 10, 2015, at 5:29 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Frances Lindsey (October 26, 1922 - July 10, 2015) Frances Lindsey, age 92, of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Friday, July 10, 2015. Mrs. Lindsey was born October 26, 1922 in Buckner, Arkansas to Loyd and Effie Lewis. She was the oldest member of First United Methodist Church in Stamps where she served on the board for many years. Mrs. Lindsey owned and operated Lindsey Grocery in Stamps for forty-two years with her husband, Maurice. She was a second momma to numerous people and known and loved by many. Mrs. Lindsey was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Maurice Lindsey; and sister, Ruby Hartsfield. She is survived by her daughter, Linda Eades of Magnolia, AR; two sons, Ron Lindsey and wife, Sherry of Magnolia, AR and Robert Lindsey and wife, Donna of Sherwood, AR; five grandchildren, Don Jackson; Kristal McDonald and husband, Robert; Kim Barker and husband, Chris; Mandy Lindsey and husband, Rich and Stacy Lindsey and husband, Mike; seven great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, July 12, 2015 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Rev. John Noggle officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps. Visitation will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Saturday, July 11, 2015 at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info

615|613|2015-07-11 10:03:12|JWaddell@bmnet.com|Re: Frances Lindsey, R.I.P.|There was a time when Lindsey Grocery there on Thomas Street in Stamps was
the ONLY place in Stamps you could buy a 45 rpm record. I bought my first two 45 rpms, "Lonely Days, Lonely Nights" by the BeeGees and "Hang on to Your Life" by the Guess Who, in Lindsey Grocery, from Mrs. Lindsey, in 1971. They also had a great selection of bubble gum in there. I went through a lot of bubble gum in those days.

Aubrey
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Professor
University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN
Oncology Pharmacist
Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN
Lieutenant Colonel, USA Retired

From: "Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com [StampsArk]"

StampsArk@yahoogroups.com
To: "StampsArk@yahoogroups.com" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com, Sims Tom
tes3355@gmail.com,
Date: 07/11/2015 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [StampsArk] Frances Lindsey, R.I.P.
Sent by: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com

Tom Thanks so,much but very sad news. I went to SHS with her two sons and she was a wonderful lady. I'm so glad she got to come to our 1964 SHS 59th reunion.

We lost a good one with her passing.

Take care, Earl

Sent from my iPad:
Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.
LTC USA ret.
Rx Consulting, LLC
11524 Stillbrook Road
Richmond, VA 23236-2408
PH: 804.794.9541
C: 804.399-2758
Earl.rogers@comcast.net

On Jul 10, 2015, at 5:29 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Frances Lindsey

(October 26, 1922 - July 10, 2015)

Frances Lindsey, age 92, of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Friday, July 10, 2015. Mrs. Lindsey was born October 26, 1922 in Buckner, Arkansas to Loyd and Effie Lewis. She was the oldest member of First United Methodist Church in Stamps where she served on the board for many years. Mrs. Lindsey owned and operated Lindsey Grocery in Stamps for forty-two years with her husband, Maurice. She was a second momma to numerous people and known and loved by many.

Mrs. Lindsey was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Maurice Lindsey; and sister, Ruby Hartsfield.

She is survived by her daughter, Linda Eades of Magnolia, AR; two sons, Ron Lindsey and wife, Sherry of Magnolia, AR and Robert Lindsey and wife, Donna of Sherwood, AR; five grandchildren, Don Jackson; Kristal McDonald and husband, Robert; Kim Barker and husband, Chris; Mandy Lindsey and husband, Rich and Stacy Lindsey and husband, Mike; seven great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, July 12, 2015 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Rev. John Noggle officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps. Visitation will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Saturday, July 11, 2015 at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com.

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616|616|2015-07-11 23:00:52|Tom E. Sims|JR Deputy of Lafayette County Badge|Glendon Nicholas wrote: Tom, Do you are anyone you know what year and who was Sheriff and What we did to receive this badge for JR Deputy of Lafayette county? http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03577.jpg I found mine while going through some of my Mothers boxes. Thanks in advance Glendon Nicholas Nick1934@verizon.net Glendon: I don't recall ever hearing anything about JR Deputies. The only sherifs I remember are Buck Baker from Bradley, and later Bill Ed Grimmett and Harlis Camp. Tom Sims|

617|617|2015-07-11 23:05:54|Tom E. Sims|Lindsey's|Dale: I believe Lindsey's was first located next to the bank and across the street from Cabe's on Main Street (Marlar's Grocery was there later) next to the park and gazebo. They moved from there to Thomas Street, just east of the Triangle, next to the Newspaper office. Mrs Thomas had the store @ Central and the highway (they lived in the back) before she built Jitney Jungle across from Masonic Lodge on west Thomas. Later she built the Piggly Wiggly back @ her original location @ Central and the highway. Yep, Antigo was the highway. Best, TES ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: dewhite28@suddenlink.net dewhite28@suddenlink.net Date: Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 4:18 PM Subject: LINDSEY To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com Tom, if I remember correctly, Mrs Lindsey first set up business in the Cox Grocery location on what became Andigo Street. Catty-corner from the Liquor Store, then back toward the highway just past the triangle. Finally out on the highway at the end of Central Avenue. If I'm wrong, it's not the first time. Dale ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: dewhite28@suddenlink.net dewhite28@suddenlink.net Date: Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 12:19 PM Subject: THOMAS STREET To: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com I'm now confused. It hit me last night that the street I had in mind may very well be Thomas St. And the Highway was named Antigo. (sp) . Not important! Dale|

618|616|2015-07-12 18:51:18|J C Smith|Re: JR Deputy of Lafayette County Badge|I remember receiving a JR Deputy badge when I was in grade school. I can't remember the grade or year, but I think the Sheriff presented a program at school. I believe Buck Baker was sheriff at that time. He was sheriff for a number of years until his death around 1962 or 1963. J C Smith Jr On 7/12/2015 12:43 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] wrote: Glendon Nicholas wrote: Tom, Do you are anyone you know what year and who was Sheriff and What we did to receive this badge for JR Deputy of Lafayette county? http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03577.jpg I found mine while going through some of my Mothers boxes. Thanks in advance Glendon Nicholas Nick1934@verizon.net Glendon: I don't recall ever hearing anything about JR Deputies. The only sherifs I remember are Buck Baker from Bradley, and later Bill Ed Grimmett and Harlis Camp. Tom Sims ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ This email is free from viruses and malware because Ad-Aware Email Protection http://www.lavasoft.com/products/features.php?t=email is active. |

619|616|2015-07-13 07:59:57|Earl Rogers|Re: JR Deputy of Lafayette County Badge|Wow....that's reaching back a ways....it was very early 50's ....maybe before I started grade school. Buck baker was the first county sheriff I remember! But I don't remember that program being around when I was in junior high or high school, and buck baker was the sheriff then.... Great program....thanks for the memory Take care, Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jul 12, 2015, at 12:43 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Glendon Nicholas wrote: Tom, Do you are anyone you know what year and who was Sheriff and What we did to receive this badge for JR Deputy of Lafayette county? http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03577.jpg I found mine while going through some of my Mothers boxes. Thanks in advance Glendon Nicholas Nick1934@verizon.net Glendon: I don't recall ever hearing anything about JR Deputies. The only sherifs I remember are Buck Baker from Bradley, and later Bill Ed Grimmett and Harlis Camp. Tom Sims

620|616|2015-07-13 10:40:50|Darrell Kuykendall|Re: JR Deputy of Lafayette County Badge|I remember this fairly well! I believe this was a program sponsored by the Sheriff's office, the Arkansas State Police, and federal law enforcement. It was aimed at encouraging law and order and teaching kids a positive image of police and law enforcement officers. It took place in about 1953-54 or so, sometimes around when I was about eight or nine, and there would be a meeting in Lewisville usually in the summer sponsored by the Sheriff's office, (Buck Baker). The Sheriff's office and State Police would put on some little police or law enforcement program and police demonstration of some type, and afterward they would feed you all the hot dogs and all the Nehi and RC drinks you wanted. If I remember correctly they issued ID membership cards and gave all the kids that joined the Jr Deputy Sheriffs badges. They also fingerprinted all the kids too. I have always wondered if this was one of the ways that the federal fingerprint database came into being. Please understand that this is remembered from some 64 years ago when I was around eight or nine years old and it is through the eyes of a kid that age. To some degree I simply might be simply remembering all the free hot dogs and RCs and Nehi drinks. I have thought about this in the past to some degree and have talked to a few people about it, but not many remember much about it. I think that I remember one police demonstration from that time where someone shot a Tommey Gun, and I have always wondered if this was part of the reason that I wound up collecting firearms. Maybe someone else has some better memories of this stuff. I don't think that it took place more than a year or two though. Darrell Kuykendall On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Wow....that's reaching back a ways....it was very early 50's ....maybe before I started grade school. Buck baker was the first county sheriff I remember! But I don't remember that program being around when I was in junior high or high school, and buck baker was the sheriff then.... Great program....thanks for the memory Take care, Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jul 12, 2015, at 12:43 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Glendon Nicholas wrote: Tom, Do you are anyone you know what year and who was Sheriff and What we did to receive this badge for JR Deputy of Lafayette county? http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/F1/03577.jpg I found mine while going through some of my Mothers boxes. Thanks in advance Glendon Nicholas Nick1934@verizon.net Glendon: I don't recall ever hearing anything about JR Deputies. The only sherifs I remember are Buck Baker from Bradley, and later Bill Ed Grimmett and Harlis Camp. Tom Sims [Non-text
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621|609|2015-07-21 10:32:03|Tom E. Sims|Reminder: SHS '62 Reunion Announcement|SHS '62 Reunion Announcement The class of '62 is having a reunion on October 10, 2015 at 1:00PM at the Stamps Municipal Building. We want to invite all Stamps graduates from that era (pretty much from the 50s through the 60s) to be a part of our get together. It will not be anything fancy, just a meet and greet to catch up with what has been going on in our lives and to reconnect with people who have been a part of our lives in the past. We will probably have sodas and water refreshments, but no food. That night the '62 graduates and their families will have a Dutch treat dinner at The Rails Restaurant in Magnolia at about 7:00 PM. Please post this on the Stamps Mailing List a few times to let people have a chance to put it on their calendars. Also, post it a time or two a week or so before the reunion. Our class has been very good in having reunions over the years and have enjoyed the connections we have maintained. At our 50th year reunion everyone decided that they wanted to get together more frequently than every five years, so this is the first of the every three years reunions. I think that our class feels that we grew up at the best time, at the best school, and in the best town that we could ask for and we enjoy getting together to celebrate this. Thanks, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com 870-863-6203 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

622|609|2015-07-22 08:15:46|LaMetra Alsheksalih|Re: Reminder: SHS '62 Reunion Announcement|I believe The Rail Restaurant has closed. Someone close by might want to check to see if my information is correct. LaMetra Sent from my iPhone On Jun 22, 2015, at 8:48 PM, Derrell Patterson delonpatterson@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Thanks for the email, I likewise do plan to visit. Sent from my iPad On Jun 22, 2015, at 2:07 PM, Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Great work, as usual, Darrell You do a great job and thanks for all your help with our class of 1964 reunion. I do hope I can make it back to see yall. Take care Earl rogers Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jun 21, 2015, at 8:24 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: SHS '62 Reunion Announcement The class of '62 is having a reunion on October 10, 2015 at 1:00PM at the Stamps Municipal Building. We want to invite all Stamps graduates from that era (pretty much from the 50s through the 60s) to be a part of our get together. It will not be anything fancy, just a meet and greet to catch up with what has been going on in our lives and to reconnect with people who have been a part of our lives in the past. We will probably have
sodas and water refreshments, but no food. That night the '62 graduates and their families will have a Dutch treat dinner at The Rails Restaurant in Magnolia at about 7:00 PM. Please post this on the Stamps Mailing List a few times to let people have a chance to put it on their calendars. Also, post it a time or two a week or so before the reunion. Our class has been very good in having reunions over the years and have enjoyed the connections we have maintained. At our 50th year reunion everyone decided that they wanted to get together more frequently than every five years, so this is the first of the every three years reunions. I think that our class feels that we grew up at the best time, at the best school, and in the best town that we could ask for and we enjoy getting together to celebrate this. Thanks, Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com 870-863-6203 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.htm
If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info

623|623|2015-08-20 07:25:58|TES|SHS '62 Reunion Change/Update|Darrell Kuykendall sends: _ Just a reminder and UPDATE about our reunion which is scheduled in about eight weeks from now. Hope you have it on your calendar. Darrell _ FIFTY THREE YEAR REUNION OF THE STAMPS HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1962 The Stamps High School Class of 1962 will have a class reunion on October 10, 2015 at the Stamps City Hall Multipurpose Room, 207 Antigo Street, Stamps, Arkansas. An afternoon get together is planned from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. on that date where friends, parents, and other classmates are invited to drop in and reestablish friendships and contacts. Classmates and guests will also have an opportunity to enjoy "period"� music, examine old yearbooks, peruse photo albums of past reunions, and examine other memorabilia. School mates from between the years 1960 and 1965 are especially invited. CHANGE/UPDATE At approximately 6:30 p.m. that night the '62 graduates and their families and interested friends are invited to attend a Dutch treat dinner at The Get and Go Fish Restaurant at 1023 Antigo Street in Stamps. This is an ala carte seafood restaurant with other foods also available. The cost usually runs from $10-$15 per person including drink, desert, and taxes. The Rails Restaurant we previously used has closed. After some thought and discussion we have decided to allow other school friends outside our class year to participate in this meal function, as space allows, in order to expand the fellowship. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

624|624|2015-08-20 07:43:31|TES|SHS '65 50th Reunion|SHS '65 50th Reunion The class of 1965 is celebrating their 50th reunion on September 19, at the Lafayette County Ag Complex. The complex is located on Hwy 82 between Stamps and Lewisville. We will have visitation between 2 and 5 for all visitors to join us. Our evening meal will be carter by C&C Packing, if any other than our class would like to join us in our meal please let me know so we can get a good count for Randy. Thanks, Linda M Sparrow mokeysparrow@att.net * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

625|625|2015-08-20 11:01:41|TES|William "Bill" Hanson, R.I.P.|William "Bill" Hanson William "Bill"� Hanson, 83, of Stamps, Arkansas passed away peacefully at home with his family and friends at his side on Wednesday August 19, 2015. He was born and raised in the Mt. Vernon Community of Waldo, Arkansas to the late Fred and Louella Hanson. He graduated from Magnolia High School in 1950, Southern State College in 1955, completed two years with the U.S. Navy, being stationed in San Diego, California, until his honorable discharge in 1957, and later completed his master's degree at University of Arkansas in 1961. He was a lifelong public school administrator, English, and Music teacher, with 43 years of experience, seven years in Emerson, Arkansas and thirty-six years in Stamps, Arkansas. He was the Music Minister of First Baptist Church of Stamps for 20 years and also served as a Deacon and Sunday school teacher. He enjoyed playing the piano, singing, entertaining friends and family, traveling, attending church, and riding a good horse. He loved life. He loved Christ and he loved people. He will be greatly missed. He is survived by his wife of 51 years Ellen Hanson, one son Jeff Hanson and wife Mandy of Waldo, Arkansas, one daughter Laurie Dunlap and husband Rich of Texarkana, Texas; four grandchildren, Brice Hanson, Brooke Hanson, Elle Dunlap, and Kate Dunlap; two brothers, AB Hanson of Magnolia, Arkansas and Jerry Hanson and wife Margaret of Ceily,Texas; one nephew, Mike Hanson and wife Susan of Magnolia, Arkansas; numerous great nieces and nephews; and three special friends and caregivers Regina Biddle, Lanora Robideau, and Edwin Johnson as well as Kay Williamson,Anne Fitzgerald,and the staff of Dierksen Hospice of Texarkana, Arkansas: April Edwards, Sharon Davis, Rev. Lee Ligans, Casey Jeans, and Rev. Larry Moore. Visitation with the family will be from 6 "� 8 p.m. Friday, August 21 at Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, Arkansas. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, August 22 at Stamps First Baptist Church with Bro. Mike Turner and Bro. Gene Lindsey officiating. Burial will follow at the Mt. Vernon Church Cemetery in the Mt. Vernon Community of Waldo, Arkansas. Pallbearers are Charlie Goodwin, Mike Hanson, Robby Rogers, Kenny Camp, Joe Sanders, and Rich Dunlap. Honorary Pallbearers are John Huddleston, Glen Turner, Billy Grissom, Edwin Johnson, and Brice Hanson. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

626|625|2015-08-22 08:48:02|TES|Re: William "Bill" Hanson, R.I.P.|I had Mr. Hanson for music class in second grade in 1965-66 at Stamps Elementary. He definitely did not tolerate talking in class! J. Aubrey Waddell, BS Pharm, MA, Pharm.D., FAPhA, BCOP Professor University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN Oncology Pharmacist Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN Lieutenant Colonel, USA Retired|

627|627|2015-08-28 15:20:31|TES|Bobbie Ray Bolton Irvin Allen SHS '51, R.I.P.|Bobbie Ray Irvin Allen (October 18, 1932 - August 28, 2015) Bobbie Ray Irvin Allen, age 82, of Walkers Creek, Arkansas passed away Friday, August 28, 2015. Mrs. Allen was born October 18, 1932 in Oak Grove, Arkansas to P.G. and Frances Elizabeth Bolton. Mrs. Allen was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Al Irvin; husband, J.R. Allen; two brothers, Herman and Dewain Bolton; six sisters, Idell Thompson, Willie Everitt, Merble Fish, Ouida Bethany, Erma Montgomery, and Geneva Leggitt. She is survived by two sisters; Hazel Howell of Taylor, AR, and Emma Poe of Walkers Creek, AR; and a host of other family members and friends. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, August 30, 2015 at First Baptist Church in Taylor, AR with Bro. Randy Wilson and Bro. Jonathan Montgomery officiating. Interment will follow at Oak Grove Cemetery under the direction of Smith Funeral Homes of Stamps, AR. Visitation will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Saturday, August 29, 2015 at First Baptist Church in Taylor. Memorials may be made to the Door Fund at First Baptist Church in Taylor, and Serenity Hospice, 1316 E. Main, c/o Heather Biddle, R.N., Magnolia, AR 71753. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. ______________________________________________ Bobbie Ray was a good friend and SHS '51 classmate of mine. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

628|628|2015-08-29 12:42:51|TES|2015 Lafayette County High School Cougar Football|Pep Rally (Last night - 28 August) Cougar Flash Dance Video (in front of Bodcaw Bank) https://video-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xpt1/v/t42.1790-2/1 1916941_788947524559199_135773832_n.mp4?efg=eyJybHIiOjczNCwi cmxhIjoxMDE2fQ%3D%3D&rl=734&vabr=408&oh=e6b26f78d52c17e44389 f6b514ca0ddb&oe=55E22577 or https://goo.gl/ZODMYS ________ 2014 Football record: 7-4 2015 Football Schedule 8/31 5:30p Bearden (Bearden, AR) Location: Hootens Classic - UAPB 9/4 7:00p Hermitage (Hermitage, AR) Location: Lafayette County High School 9/11 7:30p @ Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) Location: Genoa Central High School 9/25 7:00p Murfreesboro (Murfreesboro, AR) Location: Lafayette County High School 10/2 7:00p @ Spring Hill (Hope, AR) Location: Spring Hill High School 10/9 7:00p Foreman (Foreman, AR) Location: Lafayette County High School 10/16 7:00p @ Dierks (Dierks, AR) Location: Dierks High School 10/23 7:00p Gurdon (Gurdon, AR) Location: Lafayette County High School 10/30 7:00p @ Mineral Springs (Mineral Springs, AR) Location: Mineral Springs High School 11/5 7:00p Mount Ida (Mount Ida, AR) Location: Lafayette County High School _ 2015 Cougar Roster (Some very large players - TES) 1 Javariya Harper 1 Justin White WR, DB Sr. 6-1 156 2 Lederrick Lamay QB Sr. 6-0 158 3 Gage Sanders 4 Joseph Franklin WR, OLB Jr. 6-0 165 5 Deandre Stewart 5 Tyrian Johnson QB, CB Sr. 5-10 160 6 Patrick Johnson RB, CB Sr. 5-8 170 7 Jesse Ward WR, DB Sr. 5-10 168 8 Lepatrick Miller SB, CB Jr. 6-0 170 9 Caleb
Johnson SB, CB Jr. 5-9 175 10 Kleavius Johnson SB Jr. 5-7 145 11 Wayne Cornish WR Jr. 6-1 160 12 Jordan Kelderman OLB Sr. 5-11 145 14 Tre'darius Burks RB Sr. 5-9 215 15 Cualan Williams WR, S Jr. 6-4 210 16 Stepphone Cooper WR, LB Jr. 6-0 205 18 Keandre Wyatt WR, DB Sr. 6-0 185 21 Hunter Leonard WR, CB So. 5-9 145 22 Kelvin Henderson RB, LB Sr. 5-10 178 23 Darryel Smith WR, DB Sr. 6-1 173 24 Demetric Henderson RB, DL Sr. 6-2 260 28 Marquavion Sanders WR, DE So. 6-2 168 32 Eric Samuel HB, LB Jr. 6-0 160 41 Antonio Peterson HB, LB Jr. 5-9 155 50 Marquavious Sanders DE Sr. 6-0 215 51 Tanner Clark OL, DE Sr. 6-0 225 52 Chris Wyrick OL, DL Sr. 5-9 190 53 Mathew Fenske OL, LB Jr. 5-10 165 54 Jesse Adams OL, DL Sr. 5-10 240 55 Kray Jones T Sr. 5-10 242 56 Jacari Johnson OL, DL Sr. 5-11 215 57 Dennis Bingle OL, DL Jr. 5-9 160 58 Khalil Russell OL, LB So. 5-10 155 59 Justin Brown OL, DL So. 5-8 225 60 Seth Glass OL, DL So. 5-11 178 61 Jamie Moss OL, DL Jr. 5-9 234 63 Trey Harper OL, DL So. 6-1 235 67 Marqualin Davis T Sr. 6-2 180 70 Justin Nash OL, DL Sr. 6-2 260 72 Zac Brunson OL, DL So. 6-1 242 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

629|629|2015-09-04 15:42:22|TES|SHS '65 and SHS '62 Reunion Reminders|SHS '65 50th Reunion - 19 September The class of 1965 is celebrating their 50th reunion on September 19, at the Lafayette County Ag Complex. The complex is located on Hwy 82 between Stamps and Lewisville. We will have visitation between 2 and 5 for all visitors to join us. Our evening meal will be carter by C&C Packing, if any other than our class would like to join us in our meal please let me know so we can get a good count for Randy. Thanks, Linda M Sparrow mokeysparrow@att.net _________________________________ FIFTY THREE YEAR REUNION OF THE STAMPS HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1962 - 10 October The Stamps High School Class of 1962 will have a class reunion on October 10, 2015 at the Stamps City Hall Multipurpose Room, 207 Antigo Street, Stamps, Arkansas. An afternoon get together is planned from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. on that date where friends, parents, and other classmates are invited to drop in and reestablish friendships and contacts. Classmates and guests will also have an opportunity to enjoy "period"� music, examine old yearbooks, peruse photo albums of past reunions, and examine other memorabilia. School mates from between the years 1960 and 1965 are especially invited. CHANGE/UPDATE At approximately 6:30 p.m. that night the '62 graduates and their families and interested friends are invited to attend a Dutch treat dinner at The Get and Go Fish Restaurant at 1023 Antigo Street in Stamps. This is an ala carte seafood restaurant with other foods also available. The cost usually runs from $10-$15 per person including drink, desert, and taxes. The Rails Restaurant we previously used has closed. After some thought and discussion we have decided to allow other school friends outside our class year to participate in this meal function, as space allows, in order to expand the fellowship. Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com 870-863-6203 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

630|629|2015-09-12 07:44:56|TES|SHS '65 and SHS '62 Reunion Reminders|Lafayette County High School is 2 - 1 in football this year 8/31 Bearden (Bearden, AR) 20 - 14 Loss 9/4 Hermitage (Hermitage, AR) 65 - 44 Win 9/11 @ Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 40 - 18 Win _ SHS '65 50th Reunion - 19 September The class of 1965 is celebrating their 50th reunion on September 19, at the Lafayette County Ag Complex. The complex is located on Hwy 82 between Stamps and Lewisville. We will have visitation between 2 and 5 for all visitors to join us. Our evening meal will be carter by C&C Packing, if any other than our class would like to join us in our meal please let me know so we can get a good count for Randy. Thanks, Linda M Sparrow mokeysparrow@att.net _ FIFTY THREE YEAR REUNION OF THE STAMPS HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1962 - 10 October The Stamps High School Class of 1962 will have a class reunion on October 10, 2015 at the Stamps City Hall Multipurpose Room, 207 Antigo Street, Stamps, Arkansas. An afternoon get together is planned from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. on that date where friends, parents, and other classmates are invited to drop in and reestablish friendships and contacts. Classmates and guests will also have an opportunity to enjoy "period"� music, examine old yearbooks, peruse photo albums of past reunions, and examine other memorabilia. School mates from between the years 1960 and 1965 are especially invited. CHANGE/UPDATE At approximately 6:30 p.m. that night the '62 graduates and their families and interested friends are invited to attend a Dutch treat dinner at The Get and Go Fish Restaurant at 1023 Antigo Street in Stamps. This is an ala carte seafood restaurant with other foods also available. The cost usually runs from $10-$15 per person including drink, desert, and taxes. The Rails Restaurant we previously used has closed. After some thought and discussion we have decided to allow other school friends outside our class year to participate in this meal function, as space allows, in order to expand the fellowship. Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com 870-863-6203 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

631|631|2015-09-12 07:54:43|TES|Lafayette County High School Play of the day|Lafayette County High School Play of the day in Genoa Central win on 11 September: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yvug7Lb6Kk|

632|632|2015-09-18 15:50:33|TES|SHS '65 50th Reunion Tomorrow, 19 September - SHS '65 Reunion on 10 |SHS '65 50th Reunion - 19 September The class of 1965 is celebrating their 50th reunion on September 19, at the Lafayette County Ag Complex. The complex is located on Hwy 82 between Stamps and Lewisville. We will have visitation between 2 and 5 for all visitors to join us. Our evening meal will be carter by C&C Packing, if any other than our class would like to join us in our meal please let me know so we can get a good count for Randy. Thanks, Linda M Sparrow mokeysparrow@att.net _________________________________ FIFTY THREE YEAR REUNION OF THE STAMPS HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1962 - 10 October The Stamps High School Class of 1962 will have a class reunion on October 10, 2015 at the Stamps City Hall Multipurpose Room, 207 Antigo Street, Stamps, Arkansas. An afternoon get together is planned from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. on that date where friends, parents, and other classmates are invited to drop in and reestablish friendships and contacts. Classmates and guests will also have an opportunity to enjoy "period"� music, examine old yearbooks, peruse photo albums of past reunions, and examine other memorabilia. School mates from between the years 1960 and 1965 are especially invited. CHANGE/UPDATE At approximately 6:30 p.m. that night the '62 graduates and their families and interested friends are invited to attend a Dutch treat dinner at The Get and Go Fish Restaurant at 1023 Antigo Street in Stamps. This is an ala carte seafood restaurant with other foods also available. The cost usually runs from $10-$15 per person including drink, desert, and taxes. The Rails Restaurant we previously used has closed. After some thought and discussion we have decided to allow other school friends outside our class year to participate in this meal function, as space allows, in order to expand the fellowship. Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com 870-863-6203 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

633|633|2015-09-30 15:23:42|TES|Hootens.Com Arkansas Football report|Hootens.Com Arkansas Football report http://www.hootens.com/class-2a-week-5-2015_5724_ct.aspx Comments on LCHS which is 3-1 this year.|

634|633|2015-10-01 10:41:52|Earl Rogers|Re: Hootens.Com Arkansas Football report|Fantastic...thanks for info. Go Cougars!! Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Sep 30, 2015, at 6:22 PM, TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Hootens.Com Arkansas Football report http://www.hootens.com/class-2a-week-5-2015_5724_ct.aspx Comments on LCHS which is 3-1 this year.

635|635|2015-10-02 15:51:16|TES|LCHS Homecoming (9 OCT) and SHS '62 53rd Reunion (10 OCT)|LCHS Homecoming Schedule 9 October 2015 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F1/0360 0.jpg _____________________________________ FIFTY THREE YEAR REUNION OF THE STAMPS HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1962 - 10 October The Stamps High School Class of 1962 will have a class reunion on October 10, 2015 at the Stamps City Hall Multipurpose Room, 207 Antigo Street, Stamps, Arkansas. An afternoon get together is planned from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. on that date where friends, parents, and other classmates are invited to drop in and reestablish friendships and contacts. Classmates and guests will also have an opportunity to enjoy "period"� music, examine old yearbooks, peruse photo albums of past reunions, and examine other memorabilia. School mates from between the years 1960 and 1965 are especially invited. CHANGE/UPDATE At approximately 6:30 p.m. that night the '62 graduates and their families and interested friends are invited to attend a Dutch treat dinner at The Get and Go Fish Restaurant at 1023 Antigo Street in Stamps. This is an ala carte seafood restaurant with other foods also available. The cost usually runs from $10-$15 per person including drink, desert, and taxes. The Rails Restaurant we previously used has closed. After some thought and discussion we have decided to allow other school friends outside our class year to participate in this meal function, as space allows, in order to expand the fellowship. Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com 870-863-6203 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

636|636|2015-10-02 20:57:01|TES|LCHS now 5-1|Lafayette County 44 - Spring Hill 16 LCHS now 5-1 and Spring Hill now 4-1|

637|636|2015-10-03 07:56:24|Earl Rogers|Re: LCHS now 5-1|Thanks.... fantastic.... keep up the good work!! Lots of yellowjacket and red devil spirit and skill in those LC Cougars!! Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Oct 2, 2015, at 11:55 PM, TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Lafayette County 44 - Spring Hill 16 LCHS now 5-1 and Spring Hill now 4-1

638|635|2015-10-03 07:58:34|Earl Rogers|Re: LCHS Homecoming (9 OCT) and SHS '62 53rd Reunion (10 OCT)|Darrell: thanks so much.....Oh...Man.... I wish I could attend to see everyone. Have a great time ...I will be thinking of yall. Take care, Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Oct 2, 2015, at 6:32 PM, TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: LCHS Homecoming Schedule 9 October 2015 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F1/0360 0.jpg _____________________________________ FIFTY THREE YEAR REUNION OF THE STAMPS HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1962 - 10 October The Stamps High School Class of 1962 will have a class reunion on October 10, 2015 at the Stamps City Hall Multipurpose Room, 207 Antigo Street, Stamps, Arkansas. An afternoon get together is planned from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. on that date where friends, parents, and other classmates are invited to drop in and reestablish friendships and contacts. Classmates and guests will also have an opportunity to enjoy "period"� music, examine old yearbooks, peruse photo albums of past reunions, and examine other memorabilia. School mates from between the years 1960 and 1965 are especially invited. CHANGE/UPDATE At approximately 6:30 p.m. that night the '62 graduates and their families and interested friends are invited to attend a Dutch treat dinner at The Get and Go Fish Restaurant at 1023 Antigo Street in Stamps. This is an ala carte seafood restaurant with other foods also available. The cost usually runs from $10-$15 per person including drink, desert, and taxes. The Rails Restaurant we previously used has closed. After some thought and discussion we have decided to allow other school friends outside our class year to participate in this meal function, as space allows, in order to expand the fellowship. Darrell Kuykendall dwk1944@gmail.com 870-863-6203 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info

639|639|2015-10-08 10:39:49|TES|LCHS Football Article and Video|Article with link to video http://www.wholehogsports.com/news/2015/oct/08/hogs-take-not ice-state-receiver/ Direct link to video: http://www.hudl.com/athlete/6459560/highlights/290919375/v2|

640|640|2015-10-09 21:44:20|TES|LCHS 67 - Foreman 17|LCHS 67 - Foreman 17 LCHS is now 5 -1.|

641|640|2015-10-10 09:57:54|Earl Rogers|Re: LCHS 67 - Foreman 17|Fantastic!!! good going...keep it up!! Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Oct 10, 2015, at 12:29 AM, TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: LCHS 67 - Foreman 17 LCHS is now 5 -1.

642|642|2015-10-11 17:18:23|TES|Ronnie Sinquefield, SHS '55 R.I.P.|Ronnie Sinquefield March 19, 1937 - October 9, 2015 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F1/0360 1.jpg Ronnie Sinquefield died October 9, 2015. He was born in Stamps, Arkansas, March 19, 1937. He retired from Day & Zimmerman. He is preceded in death by his parents, Vera and Hubert. He is survived by his wife, Gayle, children: Jodi and Bart, Chris and Jimmie, Tony and Sheran, grandchildren: Randal and Kensie, Daniel and Courtney, great grandchildren: Avery, Brenden and Jaycee, sisters: Lyna Gayle and Janet and a long time friend, Joe. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

643|640|2015-10-12 06:23:44|JWaddell@bmnet.com|Re: LCHS 67 - Foreman 17|Holy cow! This is starting to remind me of the 1969 season!

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Date: 10/10/2015 12:44 AM
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LCHS 67 - Foreman 17

LCHS is now 5 -1.

644|642|2015-10-13 06:33:31|JERRY BALLOU|Re: Ronnie Sinquefield, SHS '55 R.I.P.|Ronnie, was a great friend of mine when were young boys in, Stamps!��I'm so sad to here of his death, but glad to here he had a large family,I'm sure�he had a great life. �Jerry Ballou

645|645|2015-10-16 20:15:52|TES|LCHS 48 - Dierks 40|LCHS 48 - Dierks 40 LCHS is now 6-1.|

646|645|2015-10-17 09:14:04|Earl Rogers|Re: LCHS 48 - Dierks 40|fantastic.... who is coaching the team?? great work...keep it up. Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Oct 16, 2015, at 11:12 PM, TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: LCHS 48 - Dierks 40 LCHS is now 6-1.

647|645|2015-10-18 23:48:20|TES|Re: LCHS 48 - Dierks 40|Earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com wrote: fantastic.... who is coaching the team?? great work...keep it up. Coach Bobby Clark, in his first year, according to an article on the team. BTW, LCHS has three regular season games left, and two of them look very tough: Gurdon next week who has only lost to bigger schools or very good teams in non-district play and Mount Ida who is undefeated and is the favorite to win the district title.|

648|645|2015-10-19 06:27:34|Earl Rogers|Re: LCHS 48 - Dierks 40|thanks for f/u info Go Cougars!! Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Oct 19, 2015, at 2:47 AM, TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com wrote: fantastic.... who is coaching the team?? great work...keep it up. Coach Bobby Clark, in his first year, according to an article on the team. BTW, LCHS has three regular season games left, and two of them look very tough: Gurdon next week who has only lost to bigger schools or very good teams in non-district play and Mount Ida who is undefeated and is the favorite to win the district title.

649|649|2015-10-19 12:37:23|TES|Nelda Jo Chastain Perkison 'SHS, R.I.P.|Nelda Jo Perkison (November 19, 1948 - October 18, 2015) Nelda Jo Perkison, age 66 of Buckner, Arkansas, passed away Sunday, October 18, 2015 at Baptist Health Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. Mrs. Perkison was born November 19, 1948 in Magnolia, Arkansas to Curtis Clifton and Marie Chastain. She was a member of Liberty Baptist Church in Stamps. Nelda enjoyed crocheting and dearly loved her grandchildren. Mrs. Perkison was preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her husband, George Perkison of Buckner, AR; three sons, Rance Perkison and wife, Laura of Buckner, AR, Slade Perkison and wife, Kim also of Buckner, and Lane Perkison and wife, Michelle of Stamps, AR; brother, Rodney Chastain and wife, Joan of Baton Rouge, LA; five grandchildren, Meridith, Khloe, Kade, Owen, and Alli; and numerous friends. Funeral Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Bro. Justin Clark officiating. Interment will follow at Oak Grove Cemetery in McKamie, AR. Visitation will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps. Memorials may be made to Liberty Baptist Church, 53 Lafayette 257, Stamps, AR 71860. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

650|650|2015-10-22 19:36:04|TES|Arkansas 2A Football Rankings|LCHS is #11 in the Arkansas 2A rankings. Gurdon, who they play tomorrow is ranked #10 Mt Ida who they play later is #5.|

651|650|2015-10-23 08:53:41|Earl Rogers|Re: Arkansas 2A Football Rankings|fantastic..... i hope they can play in the rain i wish i was able to attend rather than stuck at txk airport at present. go cougars earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Oct 22, 2015, at 9:20 PM, TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: LCHS is #11 in the Arkansas 2A rankings. Gurdon, who they play tomorrow is ranked #10 Mt Ida who they play later is #5.

652|652|2015-10-23 21:21:41|TES|Gurdon 46 - LCHS 14|Gurdon 46 - LCHS 14 Too bad,|

653|652|2015-10-25 10:27:35|Earl Rogers|Re: Gurdon 46 - LCHS 14|Dang.... I hate that....those Go Devils were always tough. Take care, Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Oct 24, 2015, at 12:19 AM, TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Gurdon 46 - LCHS 14 Too bad,

654|654|2015-10-30 21:10:51|TES|LCHS 58 - Mineral Springs 14|LCHS 58 - Mineral Springs 14 LCHS is now 8 - 2. LCHS plays undefeated Mt. Ida next Friday. Mt. Ida beat Gurdon tonight 42 - 0. Gurdon beat LCHS 46 - 14 last week. TES|

655|655|2015-11-05 22:29:08|TES|Mt, Ida 48 - LCHS 40|Mt, Ida 48 - LCHS 40 Mark Herrmann reports: Mt Ida 48. Laf Co 40..........this was one of the better games I watched this year, was rain delayed with 10 mins to go in the 4th qt. A lot of lightning. ___________________ Regular season is over, LCHS was 7 - 3, and will be in the playoffs. TES|

656|655|2015-11-06 07:28:25|Earl Rogers|Re: Mt, Ida 48 - LCHS 40|Wish I could have been there!! Just glad they are in the playoffs. Go Cougars!! Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Nov 6, 2015, at 1:18 AM, TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Mt, Ida 48 - LCHS 40 Mark Herrmann reports: Mt Ida 48. Laf Co 40..........this was one of the better games I watched this year, was rain delayed with 10 mins to go in the 4th qt. A lot of lightning. _ Regular season is over, LCHS was 7 - 3, and will be in the playoffs. TES

657|657|2015-11-06 20:05:40|TES|LCHS Football|Stamps hosts Strong in a first round playoff game on Friday. _________________ Videos from Mt. Ida game: LCHS scoring plays https://youtu.be/8TJnJRralUg https://youtu.be/vAeGJZ-P1DQ https://youtu.be/p5qKt5BXWVE Other LCHS plays https://youtu.be/FZYPDtFUm9U https://youtu.be/uoRFCS1ErVk|

658|658|2015-11-13 21:37:28|TES|LC 55 - Strong 26|First round playoffs: LC 55 - Strong 26 Now 8-3 this year. Play Mt Ida again next week.|

659|658|2015-11-14 09:43:03|Earl Rogers|Re: LC 55 - Strong 26|Fantastic!!!! Go Cougars!! Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Nov 14, 2015, at 12:07 AM, TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: First round playoffs: LC 55 - Strong 26 Now 8-3 this year. Play Mt Ida again next week.

660|660|2015-11-20 19:54:30|TES|Mt. Ida 42 - LC 14|Mt. Ida 42 - LC 14 LC finished season 8 - 4.|

661|661|2015-12-19 10:20:51|TES|Lafayette County High School Band Christmas Concert|Lafayette County High School Band 2015 Christmas Concert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhJudvnlbX4 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

662|661|2015-12-19 22:01:42|TES|Re: Lafayette County High School Band Christmas Concert| Lafayette County High School Band 2015 Christmas Concert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhJudvnlbX4 Fantastic.... Thanks. I just wish we had you tube back when Mr. Pee Wee Crumpler was Stamps High School band director. What a band.... What a sound. I remember some great Christmas Concerts in old Buchanan Hall.... !! Thanks again. Earl Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.|

663|663|2015-12-26 16:54:00|TES|Tela Camille (Hughes) Ribble, R.I.P.|Tela Camille (Hughes) Ribble (October 22, 1939 "� December 25, 2015) Hot Springs, AR Tela Camille (Hughes) Ribble, age 76, of Hot Springs, Arkansas passed away Friday, December 25, 2015 at her home. She was born on October 22, 1939 in Stamps, Arkansas to John Golston and Ethel (Smith) Hughes. Mrs. Ribble attended Southern State College. She lived in Fort Smith, Arkansas for 28 years where she was active in many community activities, including serving as president of the St. Edwards Hospital Auxiliary. She had been a resident of Hot Springs since 2006. While living in Hot Springs, she was a member of the First United Methodist Church, a member of the Garvin Woodlands Gardens Board, and a member of PEO. She enjoyed traveling, needlepoint, knitting crocheting, and painting. Mrs. Ribble was preceded in death by her parents and a grandson, Sebastian T. Webb. Mrs. Ribble is survived by her husband, Ronnie Ribble of Hot Springs, AR; a son, Steve Arrington and wife Shanna of Van Buren, AR; two daughters Charmane Rohr and husband Rick of Breckenridge, CO, and Tela Ann Webb and husband Chris of El Dorado, AR; a brother, John Edward Hughes and wife Billie; five grandchildren, Elizabeth Rohr Chandler and husband Kyle, Andrew Rohr, Matthew Rohr, Sebastian T. Webb, and Sophie Louise Webb. She is also survived by Ronnie's sons, Alan Ribble and wife Kerry of Texarkana, AR, and Barry Ribble and wife Kelley of Magnolia, AR, along with their children, Sarah Duch and husband Mark, Conner Ribble, and Parker Ribble; and four great-grandchildren Thomas Duch, Coleman Duch, Marie Duch, and Hughes Chandler. Visitation with the family will be held from 6:00p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Monday, December 28, 2015 in the Fellowship Hall of the First United Methodist Church in Hot Springs. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Tuesday, December 29, 2015, at the First United Methodist Church in Hot Springs, with Rev. Michael Maddox officiating. A brief graveside service and interment will follow at 4:00p.m. at Memorial Park Cemetery, in Magnolia, AR, under the direction of A.O. Smith Funeral Home. Honoring Mrs. Ribble as her pallbearers will be Alan Ribble, Barry Ribble, Conner Ribble, Parker Ribble, Mark Duch, Matthew Rohr, Johnny Smith, and Gary Blakney. The family request that memorials be made to: CCMC, Garvin Gardens, or First United Methodist Church, all located in Hot Springs; or to the Union County Community Foundation- Sebastian Webb Fund, of El Dorado, AR. To sign the online guestbook or to share a memory with the family, please visit: www.aosmithfuneralhome.com http://www.aosmithfuneralhome.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm ?o_id=3535998&fh_id=14732 or http://goo.gl/7O1PDQ * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

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664|664|2016-02-08 20:40:16|TES|MayDell Nix, R.I.P.|MayDell Nix (August 12, 1928 - February 7, 2016) http://www.aosmithfuneralhome.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm ?o_id=3593690&fh_id=14732 or http://goo.gl/fsFWsX MayDell Nix, age 87 of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Sunday, February 7, 2016 at her home surrounded by her family. Mrs. Nix was born August 12, 1928 to B.H. and Leetrus Coleman. She was retired from the Alan White Co. and was the owner of The Country Hot House and The Flower Shed. Her pride and joy were her grandchildren. Mrs. Nix was preceded in death by her husband, Aubrey Nix; brothers, Thomas Coleman, Bill Coleman, James Coleman and Carlton Coleman; and one sister, Mayme Millican. She is survived by her three daughters and sons-in-law, Bobbie and Warren Levan, Mayme and Greg Eddy and Billie Jo and John Pierson all of Stamps; three grandchildren, Michelle Eddy, Patrick Pierson and Logan Pierson of Stamps; and two sisters-in-law, Betty Nix of Texarkana, AR and Betty Coleman of Hempstead, TX. Graveside Services will be held at 10a.m. on Saturday, February 13, 2016 at Oak Grove Cemetery in Stamps, AR with Bro. Roy Johnson officiating under the direction of Smith Funeral Homes of Stamps, AR. Visitation will be held from 6-8p.m. on Friday, February 12, 2013 at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, AR. The family request that in lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Calvary Baptist Youth Fund of Stamps, AR. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

665|665|2016-02-17 18:53:48|TES|Buffalo Soldier Recognition Banquet|Buffalo Soldier Recognition Banquet https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/1 2745884_1750922878463225_5780683343916242926_n.jpg?oh=fd8959 b1744996cf61664dfd83d455e2&oe=57248E8E or https://goo.gl/unoNBd Tickets are available!!! Guest speaker: Lt Governor of Arkansas, Tim Griffin. Looking forward to seeing you all there! Thanks in advance for your support|

666|666|2016-03-02 17:10:50|TES|William "Bill" Sledge Riggins SHS '52, R.I.P.|William "Bill" Sledge Riggins http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F1/0361 8.jpg William Sledge"Bill"� Riggins, 81, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, passed away February 28, 2016. He was born May 17, 1934, in Buckner, Arkansas, to the late John Franklin and Laura (Sledge) Riggins. Bill was a member of First Baptist Church of Hot Springs. Bill Graduated from Stamps High School, attended Henderson State Teachers College and earned a BS in Business Administration from Southern State College in Magnolia. Upon graduation, he received a US Navy commission and enjoyed a Naval Air Career that included assignments from Spain to New Orleans and many points in between retiring after 23 years as Commander and Executive Officer at Naval Air Station Dallas. Bill loved the outdoors: his timberland, fishing, boating and flying RC airplanes; especially when sharing them with friends and family. Always valuing integrity, he was passionate about his faith, his country, and many causes. Bill is preceded in death by his parents; brother, Col. Jack Riggins; sisters, Claudine Morgan and Dorothy Landes. Survivors include his loving wife of 20 years, Gloria (Amisano) Riggins of Hot Springs; sons, Dr. William S. "Chip"� Riggins, Jr. (Sylvia) of Houma, Louisiana, Dr. Richard R. Riggins (Dana) of Jasper, Texas; daughters, Rosalind Riggins Ferguson and Elizabeth Riggins Roesch, both of Keller, Texas; sons by marriage, Joseph Ingram (Jill) of Maumelle, Arkansas, John Ingram (Barb) of Raymore, Missouri; sister, Francille Riggins Seymour of Hot Springs; grandchildren, Jarrod, and Jackson Riggins; Zach, Dylan, and Sam Riggins; Jack, Annie, and Will Ferguson; Christopher, Benjamin, Elise, and Emily Roesch; Alex, Jordan, and Jacob Ingram; and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins. Visitation will be at noon Friday, March 4 at Caruth-Hale Funeral Home Chapel with a celebration of Bill's life at 1 pm with Pastor John McCallum officiating. Burial with military honors will be held Saturday, March 5 at 11 am, Lakeside Cemetery, Stamps, Arkansas. Pallbearers will be Bill's grandsons. Honorary pallbearers include Don Miller of Mansfield Texas, Bob Sowell and Sr. Adult #6 Sunday School Class at First Baptist Church of Hot Springs. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to First Baptist Church of Hot Springs Building Fund or M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951
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667|667|2016-03-07 19:51:09|TES|Tommy "Tom" Stevens, R.I.P.|Tommy "Tom" Stevens (May 19, 1940 - March 6, 2016) Tommy "Tom"� Stevens, age 75 of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Sunday, March 6, 2016. Mr. Stevens was born May 19, 1940 in Stamps to John T. and Ruby Nix Stevens. Bro. Stevens pastored several churches for 30 years in Arkansas. He was a member of Liberty Baptist Church, a 50 year Mason and active in the American Legion. He served the citizens of Lafayette County for over 30 years as an Elected Official in the offices of Tax Assessor, County Clerk and Circuit Clerk. Mr. Stevens was preceded in death by his parents; and brother-in-law, Gerald J. Harris. He is survived by his wife, June Helms Stevens; daughter, Neca Pharr and husband, Robert of Magnolia, AR; son, Randal Stevens and wife, Summer of Magnolia, AR; grandsons, Jackson Stevens, Dalton Stevens and soon to be Baby Boy Stevens; step-granddaughters, Fahren and Blair Pharr; and numerous friends and relatives. Funeral Services will be held at 2pm Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Bro. Adam Rogers officiating along with ministers who surrendered during Bro. Tom's ministry; Eric Barbaree, Jr, David Hampton, Neal Ridling, Scott Glass and Tim Vines. Interment will follow at Liberty Cemetery in Stamps. Visitation will be held from 6-8pm Monday, March 7, 2016 at Smith Funeral Homes in Stamps. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

668|668|2016-03-10 15:21:04|TES|Lorene Billings Smith R.I.P.|Lorene Billings Smith (September 30, 1922 - March 9, 2016) Lorene Billings Smith, 93, of Stamps, Arkansas died at home on March 9, 2016. She was born on September 30, 1922 and raised on Bayou Meta and in Humphrey, Arkansas. Her parents were Gladys Huett Billings and William Shannon Billings. She had two brothers, the late Herbert Billings, and Arnold Billings, as well as a half-sister Jan Lord. She married John Woodrow Smith in 1941 and began a life centered on her family. She was married to Woodrow for over 67 years, until his death in 2010. Lorene was a full-time homemaker and mother. Her children remember her as devoted to their upbringing"�a consummate homeroom mom, Brownie Scout sponsor, and school volunteer, as well as a fixture of the community. She was also active in the First Baptist Church of Stamps. In her personal life, she was a creative homemaker, talented seamstress, and enthusiastic gardener. She loved her life on the farm, where she enjoyed hosting friends and family and fishing on the ponds, one dug and stocked with fish just for her! She was an excellent Southern cook, inspiring many to try to replicate that "special something"� she added to her dishes. Lorene and her husband, Woodrow, took many opportunities to travel widely and spent a number of seasons in southern Florida. The couple always found their way back to Lake DeGray, where they spent summers"�along with their grandchildren and great-grandchildren"�navigating the waters, skiing, fishing, and celebrating life. In her later years, Lorene took many sight-seeing adventures across the
U.S. She is remembered as an elegant Southern lady, with a great love and devotion to her family and community. She also had a knack for making all occasions special! Lorene is survived by her two children, John Woodrow Smith, Jr., and his wife Carol, of Stamps; and Gloria Smith Blakney, and her husband Gary, of Little Rock. She was the grandmother of the late Brett Blakney; Laura Smith Curtis (and her husband Alan) of Birmingham, Alabama; John Daniel Smith (and his wife Kerry) of Stamps, Arkansas; and Jane Anne Blakney-Bailey (and her husband Brendon) of Little Rock, Arkansas. She was adored by eight great-grandchildren-Emma, Jack, and Luke Curtis; Kash and Kate Smith; and Izzy, Liam, and Elijah Bailey. Visitation will be at Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, on Friday, March 11, 6-8 pm. The Funeral will be at Smith Funeral Home on Saturday at 4 pm, followed by the interment at Columbia Cemetery in Waldo. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

669|668|2016-03-10 16:46:00|Earl Rogers|Re: Lorene Billings Smith R.I.P.|She was a wonderful lady.... I am so sorry for Johnny and Gloris' loss. Take care Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Mar 10, 2016, at 6:18 PM, TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Lorene Billings Smith (September 30, 1922 - March 9, 2016) Lorene Billings Smith, 93, of Stamps, Arkansas died at home on March 9, 2016. She was born on September 30, 1922 and raised on Bayou Meta and in Humphrey, Arkansas. Her parents were Gladys Huett Billings and William Shannon Billings. She had two brothers, the late Herbert Billings, and Arnold Billings, as well as a half-sister Jan Lord. She married John Woodrow Smith in 1941 and began a life centered on her family. She was married to Woodrow for over 67 years, until his death in 2010. Lorene was a full-time homemaker and mother. Her children remember her as devoted to their upbringing"�a consummate homeroom mom, Brownie Scout sponsor, and school volunteer, as well as a fixture of the community. She was also active in the First Baptist Church of Stamps. In her personal life, she was a creative homemaker, talented seamstress, and enthusiastic gardener. She loved her life on the farm, where she enjoyed hosting friends and family and fishing on the ponds, one dug and stocked with fish just for her! She was an excellent Southern cook, inspiring many to try to replicate that "special something"� she added to her dishes. Lorene and her husband, Woodrow, took many opportunities to travel widely and spent a number of seasons in southern Florida. The couple always found their way back to Lake DeGray, where they spent summers"�along with their grandchildren and great-grandchildren"�navigating the waters, skiing, fishing, and celebrating life. In her later years, Lorene took many sight-seeing adventures across the U.S. She is remembered as an elegant Southern lady, with a great love and devotion to her family and community. She also had a knack for making all occasions special! Lorene is survived by her two children, John Woodrow Smith, Jr., and his wife Carol, of Stamps; and Gloria Smith Blakney, and her husband Gary, of Little Rock. She was the grandmother of the late Brett Blakney; Laura Smith Curtis (and her husband Alan) of Birmingham, Alabama; John Daniel Smith (and his wife Kerry) of Stamps, Arkansas; and Jane Anne Blakney-Bailey (and her husband Brendon) of Little Rock, Arkansas. She was adored by eight great-grandchildren-Emma, Jack, and Luke Curtis; Kash and Kate Smith; and Izzy, Liam, and Elijah Bailey. Visitation will be at Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, on Friday, March 11, 6-8 pm. The Funeral will be at Smith Funeral Home on Saturday at 4 pm, followed by the interment at Columbia Cemetery in Waldo. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the
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670|670|2016-03-13 08:35:34|TES|Mary Vernell Rogers, R.I.P.|Mary Vernell Rogers (November 1, 1920 - March 11, 2016) Mary Vernell Rogers, age 95, of Stamps, AR, passed away March 11, 2016 at Wadley Regional Medical Center in Texarkana, TX. Mrs. Rogers was born November 1, 1920 in, Stamps, AR to Jasper Rudolf and Bertha (Winberry) Chastain. She was the oldest living member of First Baptist Church. . Mrs. Rogers was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Percy Delmas "Pawpaw"� Rogers; four brothers; and one sister. She is survived by her daughter, Cindy Haskett and husband, Wayne Stewart, of Houston, TX; son, Roger Rogers and wife, Pat, of Hot Springs, AR; Sisters, Martha Phillips of Willisville, AR, and Geraldine Mitchell of Texas City, TX; Grandchildren, Kayla, Deidra, Kelli, and Will; Seven Great Grandchildren; and nephew, Craig Hansen. Funeral Services will be held at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel, in Stamps, AR, Monday, March 14, 2016 at 10:00am, officiated by Bro. Mike Turner. Interment will follow at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps, AR, under the direction of Smith Funeral Homes of Stamps, AR. Visitation will be held from 9:00am until service time, Monday, March 14 , 2016 at Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, AR. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

671|671|2016-04-14 08:36:09|TES|Raymond F. Wallace SHS '52, R.I.P.|Raymond F. Wallace (August 2, 1934 - April 13, 2016) Raymond F. Wallace, age 81 of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Wednesday, April 13, 2016. Mr. Wallace was born August 2, 1934 in Stamps to Rube and Mini Wallace. Mr. Wallace was preceded in death by his parents and sister, Elizabeth Alexander. He is survived by his son, Randall "Catfish"� Wallace and girlfriend, Judy Wilson of Stamps, AR; daughter, Laura Laverne Frazier of Magnolia, AR; and grandchild, Josh Matheny of Tennessee. Funeral Services will be held at 2pm Friday, April 15, 2016 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, Arkansas. Interment will follow at Liberty Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6-8pm Thursday, April 14, 2016 at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com.|

672|672|2016-04-21 17:31:33|TES|Ora Elizabeth Phillips Plumley, R.I.P.|Ora Elizabeth Phillips Plumley (June 21, 1930 - April 20, 2016) Ora Elizabeth Plumley, age 85 of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Wednesday, April 20, 2016. Mrs. Plumley was born June 21, 1930 in Stamps to James and Olive Phillips. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. She enjoyed being with her grandchildren. Her hobbies included gardening, sewing, and quilting. Mrs. Plumley was preceded in death by her parents; son, James "Preacher"� Plumley; two brothers, Van L. "Pete"� Phillips and James "Buddy"� Phillips; and two sisters, Joann Martin and Jeanette Elam. She is survived by son, Bill Plumley and wife, Shirley of Grand Prairie, TX; daughter-in-law, Penny Bullard of Holiday Island, AR; four daughters, Wanda Fontaine and husband, Tommy of Weatherford, TX; Doris Sharp and husband, Martel of Magnolia, AR; Charlene Hutchison and husband, Paul of Pittsburg, TX; and Brenda Gray of Ft. Smith, AR; two sisters, Nell Campbell and husband, Ray of Emmet, AR and Sue Bridges of Magnolia, AR; sisters and brothers-in-law, Doris Johnson, Marlene Goodner, Rebecca Sandifer, Doug Plumley, Mollie Phillips, and Jean Phillips; grandchildren, Gary Plumley, George Foster, Mark Hillard, James Michael Plumley, Matt Plumley, Chip Hutchison, Preston Hutchison, Stephen Hutchison, Tommy Tipton, Carrie Gourley, Tammi Bowden, Jennifer Rudder, Miranda Martin, Paula Smith, Tambra Tipton, and Morgan Sanders; twenty-nine great grandchildren; and three great-great grandchildren. Funeral Services will be held at 10am Saturday, April 23, 2016 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Bro. William Smith officiating. Interment will follow Falcon Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6-8pm Friday, April 22, 2016 at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. Family and friends are invited to an additional visitation after the service at the Stamps City Hall. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

673|673|2016-04-24 07:17:33|TES|Robert E. "Bob" Lovell SHS '53, R.I.P.|Robert E. Lovell Posted: Monday, April 11, 2016 10:00 am | Updated: 3:56 pm, Mon Apr 11, 2016. Robert E. "Bob"� Lovell, passed away at home in Galesburg, Ill., on April 6, 2016. Bob was born in Vivian, Louisiana, on Nov. 2, 1935, and was preceded in death by his parents, Martha Elizabeth (Monday) and John Claud Lovell, and nine of his siblings. Bob completed his secondary education in 1953 in Stamps, Arkansas, where the family moved in 1939. In 1956 he graduated from Ouachita College and spent the next 10 years teaching in secondary schools, including three years in Ngoro, Kenya. In 1967 he attained his Doctorate of Philosphy in English from the University of Texas at Austin. He retired as professor emeritus in 1997 from Central Missouri State University after 30 years of teaching. In his retirement, Bob did volunteer work, notably with those afflicted by HIV/AIDS. He extensively traveled the globe, loved to garden and was a magnificent chef and voracious reader. A firm believer in Secular Humanism, who considered his life to be "good without god,"� he accepted his death as a natural end to life. Bob is survived by his spouse of almost 20 years, Gary Robertson; his sisters-inlaw, Debbie Robertson Aguirre, Tammy Robertson Allison, Patricia Robertson; numerous nieces and nephews; and many wonderful friends, namely Faith Lovell of Azle, Texas, Sue Bramlett of Galesburg, Illinois, and Warren Mullin of Bentonville, Arkansas. Cremation has been accorded. A Celebration of Life will be announced at a later date. _________________________________________ Bobby's older brother David Paul was my classmate and one of my best friends growing up in Stamps. The Lovell family operated the Confectionary (on the south side of the Triangle) for a couple of years around 1946. Hot dogs were 5c, hamburgers 10c and a double dip ice cream cone was either 5c or 10c. Tom Sims SHS '51 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

674|673|2016-04-24 10:26:52|Jean Galbraith|Re: Robert E. "Bob" Lovell SHS '53, R.I.P.|More and more people whom I knew are passing on. What else can one expect?� Thank you for posting the obits.Hilda 'Jean' Pipkin Galbraith (sister of Richard Pipkin, who was in your class.)My sympathy to the Lovell family. On Sunday, April 24, 2016 9:17 AM, "TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Robert E. Lovell Posted: Monday, April 11, 2016 10:00 am | Updated: 3:56 pm, Mon Apr 11, 2016. Robert E. "Bob"� Lovell, passed away at home in Galesburg, Ill., on April 6, 2016. Bob was born in Vivian, Louisiana, on Nov. 2, 1935, and was preceded in death by his parents, Martha Elizabeth (Monday) and John Claud Lovell, and nine of his siblings. Bob completed his secondary education in 1953 in Stamps, Arkansas, where the family moved in 1939. In 1956 he graduated from Ouachita College and spent the next 10 years teaching in secondary schools, including three years in Ngoro, Kenya. In 1967 he attained his Doctorate of Philosphy in English from the University of Texas at Austin. He retired as professor emeritus in 1997 from Central Missouri State University after 30 years of teaching. In his retirement, Bob did volunteer work, notably with those afflicted by HIV/AIDS. He extensively traveled the globe, loved to garden and was a magnificent chef and voracious reader. A firm believer in Secular Humanism, who considered his life to be "good without god,"� he accepted his death as a natural end to life. Bob is survived by his spouse of almost 20 years, Gary Robertson; his sisters-inlaw, Debbie Robertson Aguirre, Tammy Robertson Allison, Patricia Robertson; numerous nieces and nephews; and many wonderful friends, namely Faith Lovell of Azle, Texas, Sue Bramlett of Galesburg, Illinois, and Warren Mullin of Bentonville, Arkansas. Cremation has been accorded. A Celebration of Life will be announced at a later date. _________________________________________ Bobby's older brother David Paul was my classmate and one of my best friends growing up in Stamps. The Lovell family operated the Confectionary (on the south side of the Triangle) for a couple of years around 1946. Hot dogs were 5c, hamburgers 10c and a double dip ice cream cone was either 5c or 10c. Tom Sims SHS '51 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info

675|675|2016-04-24 13:13:14|loudghoward|Bobby Lovell|I am very sorry to read of Bob�s death. He was my classmate and attended most of the parties our group had. He has lived in several states. When he retired � I thought � he moved an older sister to Florida to take care of her. I talked with him last in 2003 and lost track of him again. Lou Dean Graham Howard SHS 1953

676|676|2016-05-05 19:33:58|TES|Harlis Kenneth Camp SHS '56, R.I.P.|Harlis Kenneth Camp (September 11, 1936 - May 5, 2016) Harlis Kenneth Camp, age 79 of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Thursday, May 5, 2016 at his home. Mr. Camp was born September 11, 1936 in Stamps to Johnny and Velta Tatum Camp. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Stamps. Mr. Camp started C&C Packing in 1959. He was an auctioneer, rancher, Schaeffer Oil Sales Representative, and sheriff of Lafayette County. He was the past president of Stamps School Board and also past president of the Silver Spur Riding Club. Mr. Camp enjoyed raising exotic animals. Mr. Camp was preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by his wife of sixty years, Sandra Camp of Stamps, AR; three sons, Larry Camp and wife, Missy; Randy Camp and wife, Shelley; and Kenny Camp and wife, Carol all of Stamps; daughter, Kathy Sanders and husband, Joe also of Stamps; two brothers, David Camp and Jim Camp and wife, Joyce all of Stamps; two sisters, JoAnne Hicks of Texarkana, TX and Jean McKelroy of Buckner, AR; eight grandchildren, Jason Sanders, Bryan Sanders, Mandy Hambrice, Garrett Camp, Reed Camp, Kaci Bennett, Cody Camp, and Haley Parsons; and twelve grandchildren. Funeral Services will be held at 2pm Saturday, May 7, 2016 at First Baptist Church in Stamps with Bro. Mike Turner officiating and assisted by Bro. Tom Lofton. Interment will follow at Shiloh Cemetery in Buckner, AR. Pallbearers will be Butch Grimmett, Jerry Otwell, Peter Briggs, Curtis Treadway, Mike Rowe, and Brady Gore. Honorary Pallbearers will be the Minute Men Sunday School Class. Visitation will be held from
6-8pm Friday, May 6, 2016 at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, AR. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. ____________________________________ Harlis and my brother Bill were classmates and key players on a very good football team their last couple of years at SHS. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

677|676|2016-05-07 18:43:17|TES|Re: Harlis Kenneth Camp SHS '56, R.I.P.|Dale White writes: Was surprised to see the Silver Spur Riding Club mentioned in this Obit. I was one of the original members of that club. Pat Patterson (sp) who owned the MSystem Grocery Store on south side of triangle was the one who organized the club and we named it Silver Spur Riding Club. Pat and I went to Texarkana where I bought my Pinto Pony. Ordered a beautiful saddle through Pat and paid $150.00 for it. That was a lot of money in the late 40's. We would go to rodeos and do the figure 8 for entertainment. Harold Baker is the only one I can remember who was also part of that club. When I had to go off to Service in 1950, on very short notice, I had to get rid of my horse, and was only able to get $150.00 for horse and saddle. Fellow by name of Wooten bought it. He had a son close to your age. That son ran into and killed two or three horses out on Hwy 82 across from power plant. I think one of those horses belonged to Dub Keith. Don't remember if the Wooten car was totaled or not. However, the impact threw a horse into the windshield of another car and totaled it. Seems the Wooten boy had a passenger named John Ray Hart. Not sure of name. This is the first time I've thought of this incident in over 66 years. Maybe it will jog your memory. _______________________________________ I remember seeing the Silver Spur Riding Club perform when I was in Stamps. I also remember Pat Patterson and the M System grocery store. I believe at least one Lafayette County Fair was held on Pat's ranch. Raymond Wooten was my age and in my class but didn't
graduate with us. He and his wife started the Fish and Go restaurant in Stamps that was very successful. Carol Lee Wooten was two years younger than me and played on our 1950 undefeated football team, along with John Ray Hart, SHS '52. Aubrey Wooten was a few years older than me. The Wooten's lived on the south side of Lake June and were in the house moving business, among other things. Best, TES|

678|678|2016-05-14 15:18:14|TES|Re: Patricia Lynn Rogers Soileau, R.I.P.|Dale White writes: Pat was known for her healthy, beautiful, and long red hair, as well as a great personality. Dale I remember Pat very well from the First Baptist Church and was going to say exactly what Dale says about her, but got in a hurry to do other things and didn't. Tom Sims|

679|678|2016-05-14 15:36:25|TES|Patricia Lynn Rogers Soileau, R.I.P.|Patricia Lynn Rogers Soileau (December 28, 1928 - May 10, 2016) Patricia Lynn Rogers Soileau went to be with her Lord on Tuesday, May 10, 2016, after a lengthy and heroic struggle with cancer. Visitation: 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Laurel Land Funeral Home in Fort Worth. Graveside Services will be held at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps, Ark, on Wednesday, May 18, at 10:00 AM under the direction of A.O. Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, AR. Pat was born Dec. 28, 1928, in Stamps, Ark., to Lenwood Luke and Nellie Blye Rogers. She gave her life to the Lord, Jesus Christ, as a child and began her lifelong service to him. After graduating from Stamps High School, she attended Ouachita Baptist College. In summers she worked for the Arkansas Baptist Convention, teaching in vacation Bible schools and adult study courses in churches throughout the state. Upon graduating from OBC with a bachelor of science degree in home economics, she went to Hawaii as a summer missionary, where she was assigned to the First Baptist Church of Wailuku, Maui. There began a lifelong love for the people of Hawaii. She then went to Honolulu, where she taught in Hawaii Baptist Academy for a year. A mutual friend introduced Pat to Billie Murray Soileau, who was then serving in the U.S. Navy. They were married Aug. 24, 1954. After Bill was released from active duty, the couple made their home in Fort Worth, except for the three years spent in Hawaii. Pat and Bill had two children. Pat was a faithful follower of Jesus Christ and will be remembered by many as a loving friend and wise counselor. Pat was preceded in death by her parents and her daughter, Sarah Lynn Soileau. Survivors: Those left to cherish her memory are her husband of 61 years, Bill; son, Stephen Murray Soileau and wife, Cheryl; granddaughter, Lana Soileau; sister, Polly Rogers. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

680|680|2016-05-28 17:07:02|TES|SHS '64 52nd year Reunion|SHS '64 52nd year Reunion OCTOBER 15, 2016 (SATURDAY) STAMPS ARKANSAS CITY HALL TIME: 2-5PM; WITH DUTCH TREAT DINNER TO FOLLOW AT 'GET-N-GO' We want to invite all friends and former teachers and anyone else who wants to come visit with us. Derrell Patterson Earl Rogers * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

681|681|2016-07-01 19:04:23|TES|Christine Cleveland Oglesby SHS 1948, R.I.P.|Christine Cleveland Oglesby (October 21, 1930 - July 1, 2016) Christine Oglesby, age 85 of Hot Springs, Arkansas, passed away Friday, July 1, 2016 in Hot Springs following a brief illness. Ann Christine Oglesby was born October 21, 1930 in Stamps, Arkansas to Virgil and Grace Cleveland. She was united in marriage to Minor W. Oglesby on December 22, 1950. He preceded her in death December 7, 2014. She had an unwavering faith in God and was an amazing example of what a Godly woman looks like. She took great joy in lifting her family and those she cared about up to the Lord in prayer. Mrs. Oglesby was a devoted wife and loving mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Mrs. Oglesby is survived by her daughters, Denise Oglesby of Prairie Grove, AR and Kaye Neal and husband, Richard of Pearcy, AR; three grandchildren, Randee Watson and husband, Nick Watson of Magnolia, AR, Travis Ashby and wife, Shanna of Broken Arrow, OK, and Laurie Pinner and husband, Adam of Hope, AR; nine great grandchildren; two sisters, Dot Kitchens and husband, Herschel of Lewisville, AR, Maribeth Fogg and husband, Floyd of Pearl River, LA; and one brother, Virgil Cleveland and wife, Mary Jean of Houston, TX. Funeral Services will be held at 11am Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Rev. Teddy Hill officiating. Interment will follow at Wilson Cemetery in Lewisville, AR. Visitation will be held from 10am-11am before the Service. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Samaritans Purse. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

682|682|2016-07-04 19:49:15|TES|STAMPS BACK WHEN|Dale White wrote: Hello Tom, Trying to remember anything that may be of interest. Not sure this is of interest but, when our family moved to town from McKamie in 1937, I was in the 3rd grade. Our class size that year was 63. So large that the class had to be split, and our half had to meet in the basement as I recall. We were the largest class the school had ever had at that time. We still numbered 41 at time of graduation and the largest graduating class at the time. Probably a dozen of us still living. Back at that time, although Stamps was only a town of about 3,000 people, we probably had more doctors than any other town of that size. There was, Dr. Keith, Dr. Baker, Dr. Strange, Dr. Jack, and Dr. Ellis. Not sure if there was another. Another story regarding Stamps and Lafayette County. Back in those years, the county was Wet ( sold liquor), and we had two liquor stores. Fuller's Liquor located at the west end of the triangle, and Jarginan's (sp), located at the South end of the street across from Cox's Grocery. Don't recall the street name. Well, the old Gulf Service Station that was run by Mr. Waldo became vacant there on the corner of Main across from Peoples Drug. Mr. Jarginan Decided it was a good opportunity to move up on Main with his liquor store. That location was just across the city park from the Baptist Church. You guest it! The Baptist got their tape measure out and discovered that it was against the rules for a liquor store to be that close to a church. A campaign was begun and the county went dry! Mr. Waldo had two sons, Bo and Pete. Bo was the first hometown boy to be killed during WWII. Dale _______________________ Tom Sims replies: The population of Stamps was around 2500 in 1950 and there were 38 in my graduating class in 1951. There was, Dr. Keith, Dr. Baker, Dr. Strange, Dr. Jack, and Dr. Ellis. I remember all of those except Dr. Jack. There was also a Dr. Nichols, who was retired. His grandsons lived on Central Ave and were my age. I don't remember the Waldo's or any liquor stores in Stamps after I moved there in 1938 when I was 5 years old. I do remember the Alvah Williams liquor store on the highway in Buckner before Lafayette County went dry. Tom Sims|

683|682|2016-07-05 07:56:53|Jean Galbraith|Re: STAMPS BACK WHEN|Thanks, Dale for this brief look back at Stamps for the year in which I was born and for the few year surrounding that time.Thanks, also to Tom for the addendum from 1938.I remember the Doctors Strange, Keith, Baker and Jacks, but none of the bars.� Dr. Jacks was retired or practicing from his home on Central Avenue as I remember.Lafayette has been a 'Dry County' as long as I can remember.Again, thanks for the short stroll down memory lane.Jean Galbraith On Monday, July 4, 2016 9:49 PM, "TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Dale White wrote: Hello Tom, Trying to remember anything that may be of interest. Not sure this is of interest but, when our family moved to town from McKamie in 1937, I was in the 3rd grade. Our class size that year was 63. So large that the class had to be split, and our half had to meet in the basement as I recall. We were the largest class the school had ever had at that time. We still numbered 41 at time of graduation and the largest graduating class at the time. Probably a dozen of us still living. Back at that time, although Stamps was only a town of about 3,000 people, we probably had more doctors than any other town of that size. There was, Dr. Keith, Dr. Baker, Dr. Strange, Dr. Jack, and Dr. Ellis. Not sure if there was another. Another story regarding Stamps and Lafayette County. Back in those years, the county was Wet ( sold liquor), and we had two liquor stores. Fuller's Liquor located at the west end of the triangle, and Jarginan's (sp), located at the South end of the street across from Cox's Grocery. Don't recall the street name. Well, the old Gulf Service Station that was run by Mr. Waldo became vacant there on the corner of Main across from Peoples Drug. Mr. Jarginan Decided it was a good opportunity to move up on Main with his liquor store. That location was just across the city park from the Baptist Church. You guest it! The Baptist got their tape measure out and discovered that it was against the rules for a liquor store to be that close to a church. A campaign was begun and the county went dry! Mr. Waldo had two sons, Bo and Pete. Bo was the first hometown boy to be killed during WWII. Dale _ Tom Sims replies: The population of Stamps was around 2500 in 1950 and there were 38 in my graduating class in 1951. There was, Dr. Keith, Dr. Baker, Dr. Strange, Dr. Jack, and Dr. Ellis. I remember all of those except Dr. Jack. There was also a Dr. Nichols, who was retired. His grandsons lived on Central Ave and were my age. I don't remember the Waldo's or any liquor stores in Stamps after I moved there in 1938 when I was 5 years old. I do remember the Alvah Williams liquor store on the highway in Buckner before Lafayette County went dry. Tom Sims

684|682|2016-07-05 12:46:32|Earl Rogers|Re: STAMPS BACK WHEN|Uncle Mark Jarnagin was my kin. He married my daddy's sister; Willie Mae Rogers . I just visited their grave in June while home. I did not know the details of how/why Lafayette County went dry. I do have a picture of Uncle Mark and Aunt Willie's liquor store. When did the county go dry...what year? Uncle Mark died in July 1950; I was 4 1/2 then. I graduate SHS in 1964, and we had 46 happy souls graduate that year...first year of the post WWII baby boom and a very large class for then. He built the 'Jarnagin Edition" of 5 homes just past our old house on oak grove road. When home , I drove by Uncle Mark's pond where most of stamps went swimming when I was there. It has really grown up and it looks a lot smaller than I remember as a kid.....I use to ride my horse (Champ) into the pond and swim off his back!! As far as I can remember NO ONE EVER DROWNED DOWN THERE ....EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS NEVER ANY LIFEGUARD!!! When I was growing up Dr Strange died in 1952 (??) and later we had Dr. Willie J Lee and Dr. Cross (Mr. Cross of People's Drug store's son)...and Lafayette county hospital was still open. I can't remember when it closed, but that was a loss. I drove around the triangle June 18, and there were only 2 cars on the triangle and no one down town or any stores open. That surprised me , as Saturday was a BIG day for business then. I worked at Mr Cross' People's Drug store on the corner in 1959-61, and Saturday was always a big day. Thanks Take care, Earl Rogers Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jul 5, 2016, at 10:56 AM, Jean Galbraith jeang37@bellsouth.net [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Thanks, Dale for this brief look back at Stamps for the year in which I was born and for the few year surrounding that time.Thanks, also to Tom for the addendum from 1938.I remember the Doctors Strange, Keith, Baker and Jacks, but none of the bars. Dr. Jacks was retired or practicing from his home on Central Avenue as I remember.Lafayette has been a 'Dry County' as long as I can remember.Again, thanks for the short stroll down memory lane.Jean Galbraith On Monday, July 4, 2016 9:49 PM, "TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Dale White wrote: Hello Tom, Trying to remember anything that may be of interest. Not sure this is of interest but, when our family moved to town from McKamie in 1937, I was in the 3rd grade. Our class size that year was 63. So large that the class had to be split, and our half had to meet in the basement as I recall. We were the largest class the school had ever had at that time. We still numbered 41 at time of graduation and the largest graduating class at the time. Probably a dozen of us still living. Back at that time, although Stamps was only a town of about 3,000 people, we probably had more doctors than any other town of that size. There was, Dr. Keith, Dr. Baker, Dr. Strange, Dr. Jack, and Dr. Ellis. Not sure if there was another. Another story regarding Stamps and Lafayette County. Back in those years, the county was Wet ( sold liquor), and we had two liquor stores. Fuller's Liquor located at the west end of the triangle, and Jarginan's (sp), located at the South end of the street across from Cox's Grocery. Don't recall the street name. Well, the old Gulf Service Station that was run by Mr. Waldo became vacant there on the corner of Main across from Peoples Drug. Mr. Jarginan Decided it was a good opportunity to move up on Main with his liquor store. That location was just across the city park from the Baptist Church. You guest it! The Baptist got their tape measure out and discovered that it was against the rules for a liquor store to be that close to a church. A campaign was begun and the county went dry! Mr. Waldo had two sons, Bo and Pete. Bo was the first hometown boy to be killed during WWII. Dale _ Tom Sims replies: The population of Stamps was around 2500 in 1950 and there were 38 in my graduating class in 1951. There was, Dr. Keith, Dr. Baker, Dr. Strange, Dr. Jack, and Dr. Ellis. I remember all of those except Dr. Jack. There was also a Dr. Nichols, who was retired. His grandsons lived on Central Ave and were my age. I don't remember the Waldo's or any liquor stores in Stamps after I moved there in 1938 when I was 5 years old. I do remember the Alvah Williams liquor store on the highway in Buckner before Lafayette County went dry. Tom Sims #yiv0801941812 #yiv0801941812 -- #yiv0801941812ygrp-mkp {border:1px solid #d8d8d8;font-family:

685|682|2016-07-05 12:49:49|Earl Rogers|Re: STAMPS BACK WHEN|Grave stones in lakeside cemetery , stamps AR. Willie Mae Rogers Jarnagin was my aunt (my daddy's , Robert Travis Rogers, sister) Mark Jarnagin was my uncle by marriage. Earl Rogers Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jul 5, 2016, at 10:56 AM, Jean Galbraith jeang37@bellsouth.net [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Thanks, Dale for this brief look back at Stamps for the year in which I was born and for the few year surrounding that time.Thanks, also to Tom for the addendum from 1938.I remember the Doctors Strange, Keith, Baker and Jacks, but none of the bars. Dr. Jacks was retired or practicing from his home on Central Avenue as I remember.Lafayette has been a 'Dry County' as long as I can remember.Again, thanks for the short stroll down memory lane.Jean Galbraith On Monday, July 4, 2016 9:49 PM, "TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Dale White wrote: Hello Tom, Trying to remember anything that may be of interest. Not sure this is of interest but, when our family moved to town from McKamie in 1937, I was in the 3rd grade. Our class size that year was 63. So large that the class had to be split, and our half had to meet in the basement as I recall. We were the largest class the school had ever had at that time. We still numbered 41 at time of graduation and the largest graduating class at the time. Probably a dozen of us still living. Back at that time, although Stamps was only a town of about 3,000 people, we probably had more doctors than any other town of that size. There was, Dr. Keith, Dr. Baker, Dr. Strange, Dr. Jack, and Dr. Ellis. Not sure if there was another. Another story regarding Stamps and Lafayette County. Back in those years, the county was Wet ( sold liquor), and we had two liquor stores. Fuller's Liquor located at the west end of the triangle, and Jarginan's (sp), located at the South end of the street across from Cox's Grocery. Don't recall the street name. Well, the old Gulf Service Station that was run by Mr. Waldo became vacant there on the corner of Main across from Peoples Drug. Mr. Jarginan Decided it was a good opportunity to move up on Main with his liquor store. That location was just across the city park from the Baptist Church. You guest it! The Baptist got their tape measure out and discovered that it was against the rules for a liquor store to be that close to a church. A campaign was begun and the county went dry! Mr. Waldo had two sons, Bo and Pete. Bo was the first hometown boy to be killed during WWII. Dale _ Tom Sims replies: The population of Stamps was around 2500 in 1950 and there were 38 in my graduating class in 1951. There was, Dr. Keith, Dr. Baker, Dr. Strange, Dr. Jack, and Dr. Ellis. I remember all of those except Dr. Jack. There was also a Dr. Nichols, who was retired. His grandsons lived on Central Ave and were my age. I don't remember the Waldo's or any liquor stores in Stamps after I moved there in 1938 when I was 5 years old. I do remember the Alvah Williams liquor store on the highway in Buckner before Lafayette County went dry. Tom Sims

686|682|2016-07-05 13:48:29|Derrell Patterson|Re: STAMPS BACK WHEN|I agree with you about the size of the pond. It seemed smaller to me though I could not see it all. What I Remember about the pond was the great variety of fish. I caught my first fish bass in the Jarnagin pond using a very small Zebco model 202 with an artificial red worm with spinners from the Western Auto store. Catfish, White Perch, Bluegill brim, Gogleye, bass were plentiful. It was spring fed and worms were plentiful on the north or far side of the small pond. It is also where I learned to swim. Some great times we had with our horses and goats that followed us when riding. Sent from my iPad On Jul 5, 2016, at 2:46 PM, Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Uncle Mark Jarnagin was my kin. He married my daddy's sister; Willie Mae Rogers . I just visited their grave in June while home. I did not know the details of how/why Lafayette County went dry. I do have a picture of Uncle Mark and Aunt Willie's liquor store. When did the county go dry...what year? Uncle Mark died in July 1950; I was 4 1/2 then. I graduate SHS in 1964, and we had 46 happy souls graduate that year...first year of the post WWII baby boom and a very large class for then. He built the 'Jarnagin Edition" of 5 homes just past our old house on oak grove road. When home , I drove by Uncle Mark's pond where most of stamps went swimming when I was there. It has really grown up and it looks a lot smaller than I remember as a kid.....I use to ride my horse (Champ) into the pond and swim off his back!! As far as I can remember NO ONE EVER DROWNED DOWN THERE ....EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS NEVER ANY LIFEGUARD!!! When I was growing up Dr Strange died in 1952 (??) and later we had Dr. Willie J Lee and Dr. Cross (Mr. Cross of People's Drug store's son)...and Lafayette county hospital was still open. I can't remember when it closed, but that was a loss. I drove around the triangle June 18, and there were only 2 cars on the triangle and no one down town or any stores open. That surprised me , as Saturday was a BIG day for business then. I worked at Mr Cross' People's Drug store on the corner in 1959-61, and Saturday was always a big day. Thanks Take care, Earl Rogers Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jul 5, 2016, at 10:56 AM, Jean Galbraith jeang37@bellsouth.net [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Thanks, Dale for this brief look back at Stamps for the year in which I was born and for the few year surrounding that time.Thanks, also to Tom for the addendum from 1938.I remember the Doctors Strange, Keith, Baker and Jacks, but none of the bars. Dr. Jacks was retired or practicing from his home on Central Avenue as I remember.Lafayette has been a 'Dry County' as long as I can remember.Again, thanks for the short stroll down memory lane.Jean Galbraith On Monday, July 4, 2016 9:49 PM, "TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Dale White wrote: Hello Tom, Trying to remember anything that may be of interest. Not sure this is of interest but, when our family moved to town from McKamie in 1937, I was in the 3rd grade. Our class size that year was 63. So large that the class had to be split, and our half had to meet in the basement as I recall. We were the largest class the school had ever had at that time. We still numbered 41 at time of graduation and the largest graduating class at the time. Probably a dozen of us still living. Back at that time, although Stamps was only a town of about 3,000 people, we probably had more doctors than any other town of that size. There was, Dr. Keith, Dr. Baker, Dr. Strange, Dr. Jack, and Dr. Ellis. Not sure if there was another. Another story regarding Stamps and Lafayette County. Back in those years, the county was Wet ( sold liquor), and we had two liquor stores. Fuller's Liquor located at the west end of the triangle, and Jarginan's (sp), located at the South end of the street across from Cox's Grocery. Don't recall the street name. Well, the old Gulf Service Station that was run by Mr. Waldo became vacant there on the corner of Main across from Peoples Drug. Mr. Jarginan Decided it was a good opportunity to move up on Main with his liquor store. That location was just across the city park from the Baptist Church. You guest it! The Baptist got their tape measure out and discovered that it was against the rules for a liquor store to be that close to a church. A campaign was begun and the county went dry! Mr. Waldo had two sons, Bo and Pete. Bo was the first hometown boy to be killed during WWII. Dale ___ Tom Sims replies: The population of Stamps was around 2500 in 1950 and there were 38 in my graduating class in 1951. There was, Dr. Keith, Dr. Baker, Dr. Strange, Dr. Jack, and Dr. Ellis. I remember all of those except Dr. Jack. There was also a Dr. Nichols, who was retired. His grandsons lived on Central Ave and were my age. I don't remember the Waldo's or any liquor stores in Stamps after I moved there in 1938 when I was 5 years old. I do remember the Alvah Williams liquor store on the highway in Buckner before Lafayette County went dry. Tom Sims

687|682|2016-07-06 23:31:17|TES|Re: STAMPS BACK WHEN|Tom Gillespie writes: Dr Scurlock was a dentist. I have a marble top table from Dr Ellis's drug store. Fess Ellis was his brother and ran it for him. Some where I have a document about Dr Ellis receiving a high award from the Arkansas medical association for his work. I knew him quite well. Delivered the Arkansas Gazette to them every day. Tommy ( also sat and ate I cream with them.) _ Dr. Scurlock's office was on the northeast corner of Thomas and Church. He was a big fan of the SHS boy's basketball team. At every home game he sat at mid-court in the balcony of the old gym and yelled the whole game. He did free dental work for good basketball players, if they couldn't afford to pay. My father, who was ths Cotton Belt RR station master in Stamps, was a good friend with the Ellis brothers. The Ellis drug store was just west of the train station, fronting on the Cotton Belt RR tracks. The drug store was on the first floor and Dr. Ellis' office was on the second floor. My dad periodically checked the freight cars on side tracks, and when I went with him we always ate some ice cream at the Ellis drug store. Tom Sims|

688|682|2016-07-06 23:42:47|TES|Re: STAMPS BACK WHEN|Earl Rogers asked: When did the county go dry...what year? Probably in the early 1940's, maybe 1941. Tom Sims|

689|682|2016-07-07 10:32:23|Earl Rogers|Re: STAMPS BACK WHEN|I remember the Ellis Drug Store... I often passed it riding my horse. I remember stopping in there to visit and check out his drug store... Earl Rogers Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jul 7, 2016, at 2:11 AM, TES tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Tom Gillespie writes: Dr Scurlock was a dentist. I have a marble top table from Dr Ellis's drug store. Fess Ellis was his brother and ran it for him. Some where I have a document about Dr Ellis receiving a high award from the Arkansas medical association for his work. I knew him quite well. Delivered the Arkansas Gazette to them every day. Tommy ( also sat and ate I cream with them.) _____________________ Dr. Scurlock's office was on the northeast corner of Thomas and Church. He was a big fan of the SHS boy's basketball team. At every home game he sat at mid-court in the balcony of the old gym and yelled the whole game. He did free dental work for good basketball players, if they couldn't afford to pay. My father, who was ths Cotton Belt RR station master in Stamps, was a good friend with the Ellis brothers. The Ellis drug store was just west of the train station, fronting on the Cotton Belt RR tracks. The drug store was on the first floor and Dr. Ellis' office was on the second floor. My dad periodically checked the freight cars on side tracks, and when I went with
him we always ate some ice cream at the Ellis drug store. Tom Sims

690|690|2016-07-07 10:33:35|TES|Lake June to be drained for extensive renovation|Lake June to be drained for extensive renovation STAMPS "� A substantial renovation of Lake June will begin the week of July 11. The 80-acre lake in Lafayette County will be drained in effort to restore the spillway structures, shoreline and fishing habitat. The lake originally was constructed by the Bodcaw Lumber Company in the late 1800s as a mill pond. The lake was donated to the city of Stamps once the lumber mill closed. Surface rights were then leased to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission for conservation purposes. Lake June has been a popular fishing destination for local residents for decades. However, time has taken its toll on the water-level controls. The spillway has been undermined and the lake can no longer stay full during dry periods. The need to replace the spillway and drain pipe offers an excellent chance to rehabilitate the lake and reestablish excellent fishing for the local community. During renovation, biologists will be able to eliminate much of the aquatic vegetation that has choked out the shallows for years and hindered bank angling opportunities. Biologists have been battling this growing nuisance for years, but it has been a losing battle due to the extensive shallow water. Once the lake bed is dry, biologists will be able to clear and deepen the shoreline to remove much of the unwanted aquatic plants. Gravel spawning beds also will be placed at several locations around the shore to promote bream and other sunfish, which can be targeted by anglers as well as provide forage for larger predators such as bass and catfish. Brush piles also will be constructed near shore and in deeper locations away from the bank for anglers to find increased angling success. AGFC Fisheries Biologist Supervisor, Andy Yung says, "This lake has provided great fishing opportunities for the citizens of Lafayette County for 100 years and we intend to make it even better for the next 100 years."� The lake renovation will be a cooperative project between AGFC, the city of Stamps and Lafayette County. The entire project is anticipated to take up to three years to complete. For any questions about the project, call Andy Yung at AGFC's Camden Regional Office 888-836-4612 or Stamps City Hall at 870-533-4771. Lafayette County Facebook Page 7 July 2016 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

691|682|2016-07-09 10:40:04|TES|Re: STAMPS BACK WHEN|Earl Rogers asked: When did the county go dry...what year? Probably in the early 1940's, maybe 1941. Tom Sims Tom, I don't recall when the county went dry. However, it was later than '41. More toward the end of WWII. Dale White Maybe so. Tom Sims|

692|692|2016-07-21 11:12:15|Tom E. Sims|Floyd D McDonald R.I.P.|Floyd D McDonald (December 23, 1948 - July 20, 2016) Floyd D. McDonald, age 67 of Magnolia, Arkansas, passed away Wednesday, July 20, 2016. Mr. McDonald was born December 23, 1948 in Stamps, Arkansas to Narvel and Gertrude McDonald. He was a teacher and a true Christina who read his Bible daily. He was a member of Central Baptist Church in Magnolia. Mr. McDonald was preceded in death by his parents; twin brother, Lloyd "Lulu"� McDonald and brothers, Will McDonald and James "Shack"� McDonald. He is survived by two sisters, Mary Nell Beckham of Stamps, AR and Barbara Morton and husband, Keith of Lewisville, AR; three sisters-in-law, Bernice McDonald of Buckner, AR, Verda McDonald of Oklahoma, and Sandie McDonald of Stamps, AR; three special friends, Martha Dunn, Danny Cummings, and Jim Dunn; and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral Services will be held at 2pm Friday, July 22, 2016 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Bro. Steve Ford officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps. Visitation will be held from 6-8pm Thursday, July 21, 2016 at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact
List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

693|693|2016-07-27 17:15:10|Tom E. Sims|Ace Hardware store coming to Stamps|27 JUL 2016 Today Lafayette County Judge Mike Rowe, Stamps Mayor David Ray Bright, Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce President Scott Hultberg, and Wes Stockwell, owner of S & S Hardware of Magnolia AR announced Mr. Stockwell's intention to open an Ace Hardware store in Stamps, AR. The new business will be located at the intersection of Highway 82 and Central Avenue in the building formally occupied by Piggly Wiggly. The new business is expected to serve the hardware needs for Lafayette County and the surrounding areas. Additional details will be communicated as they become available. Judge Rowe said he is proud to see this growth in our community.|

694|694|2016-08-04 10:33:31|Larry H. Gentry|I don't want to scare you, but...|Worth reading, I think.Larry�"The Constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."�� Samuel Adams (1722-1893) REMEMBER�If you forward this, please remove email �addresses before you send�it on,�and use the BCC area when sending to several people at once.� I don't want to scare you, but... | | | Do you know who Juval Aviv is? He was Golda Meir's bodyguard and the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie 'Munich' was based. Golda Meir appointed him to track down and bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games. In a lecture in New York City a few weeks ago, Aviv shared information that EVERY American needs to know, but that our government has not yet shared with us. A little background: "� Aviv predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O'Reilly show on 'Fox News', stating publicly that it would happen within a week. At the time, O'Reilly laughed and mocked him, saying that in a week he wanted Aviv back on the show. Unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had occurred. "� Juval Aviv also gave intelligence to the Bush Administration about 9/11 a month before it occurred. His report specifically said that they would use planes as bombs and target high profile buildings and monuments... I think we all know what happened, right? "� Congress has since hired Aviv as a security consultant. Aviv predicts that the next terrorist attack on the U.S. will occur within the next few months . Forget hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will NEVER try hijacking a plane again as they know the people on board will never go down quietly again. Aviv says that our airport security is a joke 'that we have been reactionary' rather than proactive in developing strategies that are truly effective. Example 1: Because an idiot tried to light his shoe on fire, now everyone has to take off their shoes.Example 2: A group of idiots tried to bring aboard liquid explosives, and now we can't bring liquids on board. He says he's waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his underwear; government security will then have us all traveling naked! Last but not least, our airport security looks for metal, but the new explosives are made of plastic! Currently, our government only focuses on security when people are heading to the gates. Aviv says that if a terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they will target busy times on the front end of the airport when/where people are checking in. For example, it would be easy for someone to take two suitcases of explosives, walk up to a busy check-in line, ask a person next to them to watch their bags for a minute while they run to the restroom, and then detonate the bags BEFORE security even gets involved. In Israel, security checks bags BEFORE people can even ENTER the airport. Aviv says the next terrorist attack here in America is imminent and will involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers in places where large groups of people congregate, such as Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, shopping malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, etc., as well as in rural America this time (Wyoming, Montana, etc.). The attack will be characterized by simultaneous detonations around the country involving at least 5-8 cities, including rural areas. Aviv says terrorists won't need to use suicide bombers in many of the larger cities, because at places like the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, they can simply valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk away. Aviv says all of the above is well known in intelligence circles, but that our U.S. Government does not want to 'alarm American citizens' with the facts. The world, however, is soon going to become 'a different place', Aviv says, where issues like 'global warming' and political correctness will have become totally irrelevant. On an encouraging note, Aviv says that Americans don't have to be concerned about being nuked. He says the terrorists who want to destroy America will not use sophisticated weapons. Instead, they like to use suicide, as it's cheap, it's easy, and it's effective and they have an infinite abundance of young, ignorant, fanatic militants more than willing to 'go see Allah'. Aviv also says the next level of terrorists over which America should be most concerned will not be coming from abroad. They will instead be 'home grown' meaning they will have attended and been educated in our own schools and universities right here in the U.S. These young terrorists will be most dangerous because they will know our language and will fully understand the habits of Americans; but that we Americans won't know/understand a thing about them. So, what can America do to protect itself? From an intelligence perspective, Aviv says the U.S. needs to stop relying on satellites and technology for its intelligence. Instead, we need to follow Israel's, Ireland's and England's hands-on examples of human intelligence, both from an infiltration perspective as well as to trust 'aware' citizens to help. We need to engage and educate ourselves as citizens; however, our U.S. Government continues to treat us, its citizens, 'like babies'. Our government thinks we can't handle the truth' and are concerned that we'll panic if we understand the realities of terrorism. Aviv says this is a deadly mistake. Aviv recently created/executed a security test for Congress by placing an empty briefcase in five well-traveled spots in five major cities. The results? Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In fact, in Chicago, someone tried to steal the briefcase! In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of Israel are so well 'trained' that an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizen(s) who know to publicly shout, 'Unattended Bag!' The area would be quickly & calmly cleared by the citizens themselves. But, unfortunately, America hasn't been 'hurt enough' yet by terrorism for their government to fully understand the need to educate its citizens or for the government to understand that it's the citizens who are, inevitably, the best first-line of defense against terrorism. Aviv also was concerned about the high number of children who were in preschool and kindergarten after 9/11, children who were basically 'lost' without parents being able to pick them up, and schools that had no plan in place to best care for the students until their parents could get there. (In New York City, in some cases this was days!) He stresses the importance of having a plan that's agreed upon within your family, to respond to in the event of a terrorist emergency . He urges parents to contact their children's schools and demand that the schools, too, develop plans of actions, as they do in Israel. He says we should all have a plan that is easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and follow. Does your family know what to do if you can't contact one another by phone? Where would you gather in an emergency? Aviv says that the U.S. Government has in force a plan that, in the event of another terrorist attack, will immediately cut-off EVERYONE's ability to use cell phones, as this is the preferred communication source used by terrorists and is often the way that their bombs are detonated. How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot use phones, internet? Bottom line, you need to have a plan ! If you believe what you have just read, then you must feel compelled to send it to every concerned parent or guardian, grandparents, uncles, aunts, whatever and whomever. Nothing will happen if you choose not to do so, but in the event it does happen, I promise this particular email will haunt you. | | |

695|695|2016-08-06 17:26:15|Tom E. Sims|Draining Lake June|Draining Lake June Arkansas Game and Fish: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F1/0362 6.jpg County Judge: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F1/0362 7.jpg Lake June: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F1/0362 8.jpg Lake June: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F1/0362 9.jpg Lake June: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F1/0363 0.jpg * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

696|695|2016-08-07 10:55:17|Earl Rogers|Re: Draining Lake June|Does anyone know if any alligators were found upon draining Lake June??. Earl rogers Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Aug 6, 2016, at 8:24 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Draining Lake June Arkansas Game and Fish: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F1/0362 6.jpg County Judge: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F1/0362 7.jpg Lake June: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F1/0362 8.jpg Lake June: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F1/0362 9.jpg Lake June: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F1/0363 0.jpg * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from
the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info

697|697|2016-08-09 08:48:08|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County Cougar 2016 Football Schedule|Lafayette County Cougar 2016 Football Schedule https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13872726_98596 2438191039_4938108217138789710_n.jpg?oh=6a28a261f7ea3fc9072a ecd6a1f1e5df&oe=581B20C5 or https://goo.gl/If1trM or a href="https://goo.gl/If1trM" https://goo.gl/If1trM/a * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

698|697|2016-08-09 10:16:13|Tom E. Sims|Re: Lafayette County Cougar 2016 Football Schedule|Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com wrote: No Bearden?? Are we in a different classification than Bearden?? Yes. See below. I don't think they have been in the same conference for some time. LCHS was 3A a few years ago. BTW, Bearden had a really bad season last year. They went 2-7 (Thet beat LCHS 20-14 in opening game of season). LCHS would have beaten them if they had played again. Bearden had been a real dynasty for many years. Usually undefeated or losing to Junction City in State finals. They and Junction City had ruled 2A football. Junction City still did in 2015, fiinishing second in the state. TES ____________ 2A Region 7 Football Standings State Arkansas Season Varsity 16-17 Teams in Conference 8 School Name W-L Pct. PF PA Strk Dierks 0-0 0.000 0 0 0 Foreman 0-0 0.000 0 0 0 Lafayette County 0-0 0.000 0 0 0 Mineral Springs 0-0 0.000 0 0 0 Mount Ida 0-0 0.000 0 0 0 Mountain Pine 0-0 0.000 0 0 0 Murfreesboro 0-0 0.000 0 0 0 Spring Hill 0-0 0.000 0 0 0 2A Region 8 Football Standings State Arkansas Season Varsity 16-17 Teams in Conference 8 School Name W-L Pct. PF PA Strk Bearden 0-0 0.000 0 0 0 Hampton 0-0 0.000 0 0 0 Harmony Grove 0-0 0.000 0 0 0 Hermitage 0-0 0.000 0 0 0 Parkers Chapel 0-0 0.000 0 0 0 Rison 0-0 0.000 0 0 0 Strong 0-0 0.000 0 0 0 Woodlawn 0-0 0.000 0 0 0|

699|697|2016-08-09 16:57:26|Tom E. Sims|Re: Lafayette County Cougar 2016 Football Schedule|I wrote: Bearden had been a real dynasty for many years. Usually undefeated or losing to Junction City in State finals. They and Junction City had ruled 2A football. Junction City still did in 2015, fiinishing second in the state. I just checked, and Junction City had an off year too, for them. They lost in the state quarter finals rather than in the championshio game. TES|

700|700|2016-08-16 08:15:40|Tom E. Sims|Video: Lafayette County School District first day of school 2016|Video: Lafayette County School District first day of school 2016 Monday 15 OCT 2016 https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/videos/99311 3664142583/ or a href="https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/videos /993113664142583/" https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/videos/99311 3664142583//a|

701|701|2016-08-24 21:54:52|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County Cougars Football Preview|Lafayette County Cougars Football Preview http://www.arklatexhomepage.com/sports/lafayette-county-coug ars-23-teams-in-23-days or http://goo.gl/WMOKI9|

702|702|2016-09-01 00:33:16|Tom E. Sims|Pictures of Lafayette County HS Pep Rally|Pictures of Lafayette County HS Pep Rally on Wednesday 20 AUG in front of Bodcaw Bank. Click on right side of picture to go to the next picture. https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/photos/pcb.1 010973625689920/1010972059023410/?type=3&theater or https://goo.gl/QUIIsj or a href="https://goo.gl/QUIIsj" https://goo.gl/QUIIsj/a|

703|703|2016-09-02 21:46:41|Tom E. Sims|FRIDAY NIGHT DARKNESS|FRIDAY NIGHT DARKNESS An article on the Lafayette County High School 2012 and 2013 football seasons. http://narrative.ly/friday-night-darkness/ or a href="http://narrative.ly/friday-night-darkness/" http://narrative.ly/friday-night-darkness//a|

704|704|2016-09-02 22:00:24|Tom E. Sims|Gurdon 26 - LCHS 13|First game Gurdon @ LCHS Gurdon 26 - LCHS 13|

705|705|2016-09-10 00:47:44|Tom E. Sims|Genoa Central 26 - LCHS 14|Genoa Central 26 - LCHS 14|

706|706|2016-09-14 07:41:07|Tom E. Sims|Bobbye Lynn Briehn Hildre SHS '52, R.I.P.|Bobbye Lynn Briehn Hildre (August 2, 1934 - August 31, 2016) Bobbye "Lynn"� Hildre passed away on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 after a brief battle with cancer. Her children were by her side. She was 82 years old. Lynn was born August 2, 1934 to Earl and Doris Briehn. Lynn grew up in the South. She was born in Louisiana, and lived in Bossier City and Shreveport. Lynn graduated from high school in Stamps, Arkansas and attended North Texas State University. She was an adventurer and longed to see the world Lynn came to Alaska driving cross country from Arkansas with her grandparents. She came to visit her Aunt and Uncle Nance and fell in love with Alaska. Lynn was a true Alaskan before Alaska became a state. Lynn raised a family in Southeast Alaska and together with her family she traveled to logging camps all over Southeast Alaska building roads. After Lynn's children left home she pursued a career in Computer Programming and worked an amazing career. She was published in Paperless Publishing for her efforts and many of the computer programs that we use today she beta tested. She was a brilliant programmer and was ahead of her time. In retirement she crewed on fishing charters to be near the ocean she loved. Lynn spent her last few years in Washington and Nevada with her children. Lynn is preceded in death by her parents Earl and Doris Briehn, daughter, Rhonda Hildre Pasquan, Son in-law Robert Pasquan, and grandson Jeffry Neal II. Lynn is survived by her two children Kris Hildre (Jorja) of Port Angeles, Washington, Dori Chelini (Todd) of
Sparks, Nevada, Lynn "aka Gremlynn"� was an only child and was so thrilled to have had 26 grandchildren that she was extremely proud of: Willow Von-Heyer (Karl and Jasper) , South Africa, Kyle Boudreau, Juneau, Alaska, Micah Hildre, Port Angeles, Washington, Krista Swanson(Arianna, Kaylin, Cameron), Missoula, Montana, Zac Chelini, Sparks, Nevada, Tori Chelini of Sparks Nevada. Celeste Dyakanoff Armstrong (Tristian, Corbin, Calista, Brittney, Amaya, Amira, Audriana, Aaliyah) of Juneau, Alaska, Marc and Monica Dyakanoff (Keenan, Kalis, Kyrie) of Murrieta, California, Dylan Lee of Murrieta, California, and her extended family and friends. In honor of Lynn's memory, there will be a private family gathering at a later date. Lynn will rest at the Shrine of St. Terese in Juneau, Alaska. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Lynn's honor to the American Lung Association, 10615 Double R Blvd., Reno, Nevada 89521-8920. **** Bobbye Lynn's parents owned the RC Bottling plant in Stamps and she was a good friend of mine in High School. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

707|706|2016-09-14 08:01:48|Earl Rogers|Re: Bobbye Lynn Briehn Hildre SHS '52, R.I.P.|I remember touring the RC cola bottling plant as a Cub Scout. Take care, Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Sep 14, 2016, at 10:39 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Bobbye Lynn Briehn Hildre (August 2, 1934 - August 31, 2016) Bobbye "Lynn"� Hildre passed away on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 after a brief battle with cancer. Her children were by her side. She was 82 years old. Lynn was born August 2, 1934 to Earl and Doris Briehn. Lynn grew up in the South. She was born in Louisiana, and lived in Bossier City and Shreveport. Lynn graduated from high school in Stamps, Arkansas and attended North Texas State University. She was an adventurer and longed to see the world Lynn came to Alaska driving cross country from Arkansas with her grandparents. She came to visit her Aunt and Uncle Nance and fell in love with Alaska. Lynn was a true Alaskan before Alaska became a state. Lynn raised a family in Southeast Alaska and together with her family she traveled to logging camps all over Southeast Alaska building roads. After Lynn's children left home she pursued a career in Computer Programming and worked an amazing career. She was published in Paperless Publishing for her efforts and many of the computer programs that we use today she beta tested. She was a brilliant programmer and was ahead of her time. In retirement she crewed on fishing charters to be near the ocean she loved. Lynn spent her last few years in Washington and Nevada with her children. Lynn is preceded in death by her parents Earl and Doris Briehn, daughter, Rhonda Hildre Pasquan, Son in-law Robert Pasquan, and grandson Jeffry Neal II. Lynn is survived by her two children Kris Hildre (Jorja) of Port Angeles, Washington, Dori Chelini (Todd) of Sparks, Nevada, Lynn "aka Gremlynn"� was an only child and was so thrilled to have had 26 grandchildren that she was extremely proud of: Willow Von-Heyer (Karl and Jasper) , South Africa, Kyle Boudreau, Juneau, Alaska, Micah Hildre, Port Angeles, Washington, Krista Swanson(Arianna, Kaylin, Cameron), Missoula, Montana, Zac Chelini, Sparks, Nevada, Tori Chelini of Sparks Nevada. Celeste Dyakanoff Armstrong (Tristian, Corbin, Calista, Brittney, Amaya, Amira, Audriana, Aaliyah) of Juneau, Alaska, Marc and Monica Dyakanoff (Keenan, Kalis, Kyrie) of Murrieta, California, Dylan Lee of Murrieta, California, and her extended family and friends. In honor of Lynn's memory, there will be a private family gathering at a later date. Lynn will rest at the Shrine of St. Terese in Juneau, Alaska. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Lynn's honor to the American Lung Association, 10615 Double R Blvd., Reno, Nevada 89521-8920. **** Bobbye Lynn's parents owned the RC Bottling plant in Stamps and she was a good friend of mine in High School. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info

708|708|2016-09-16 10:40:55|Tom E. Sims|Parkers Chapel seeks 3-0 start|Parkers Chapel seeks 3-0 start http://www.eldoradonews.com/news/2016/sep/16/parkers-chapel- seeks-3-0-start/|

709|709|2016-09-16 22:49:35|Tom E. Sims|Parkers Chapel 33 - LCHS 21|Final score: Parkers Chapel 33 - LCHS 21 LCHS is 0 - 3|

710|304|2016-09-17 08:30:47|Tom E. Sims|Re: Lake June| We won't ever again see the turtle log With the turtles on it. You probably already know the lake has been Drained and will be made several feet deeper most likely never See it in my life time. First time back to Stamps this year and that Was for a friend that passed away. Glendon Nicholas I saw where they were draining Lake June, but didn't know they were making it deeper also. Tom Sims|

711|304|2016-09-17 09:35:46|Earl Rogers|Re: Lake June|I'll be home in October for SHS class of 1964's 52nd reunion,and can't wait to see what Lake June looks like, and hope the spillway bridge has been repaired. Take care, Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Sep 17, 2016, at 11:27 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: We won't ever again see the turtle log With the turtles on it. You probably already know the lake has been Drained and will be made several feet deeper most likely never See it in my life time. First time back to Stamps this year and that Was for a friend that passed away. Glendon Nicholas I saw where they were draining Lake June, but didn't know they were making it deeper also. Tom Sims

712|304|2016-09-17 12:29:55|JERRY BALLOU|Re: Lake June|I can't be leave that they darned Lake June I caught� my first large mouth bass there! It was in the summer of 1948 I be leave. I was so proud of that fish that I went around townon my motor scooter showing it off. It was about 6 lbs. I had more fun on that lake that you could think of! Jerry Ballou

713|706|2016-09-19 21:17:04|Tom E. Sims|Re: Bobbye Lynn Briehn Hildre SHS '52, R.I.P.|Thomas Gillespie wrote The RC bottling works was a place. Once in a while the Briehn's would give me a "soda pop". I delivered the Arkansas Gazette to them when I had the business. If I remember right, Earl had a sister who married Max L'herrison (spl) I believe you are correct and I believe another sister married Briner Thomas who ran the Lafayette County Democrat, and was the son of the founder of the paper. Briner and Hermoine Thomas were good friends of my parents. Tom Sims Lakeside Cemetery Burials Thomas, W. Briner, b. May 16, 1908, d. Nov 3Jan 1968 Hermoine Briehn Thomas, b May 27, 1908, d Jan 4, 1990, L'Herisson, Louise B., b. Mar 30, 1906, d. Oct 19, 1991 L'Herisson, Max, b. Dec 10, 1905, d. Apr 16, 1973|

714|706|2016-09-19 22:59:23|Smith|Re: Bobbye Lynn Briehn Hildre SHS '52, R.I.P.|Earl was fire chief for many years. On 9/19/2016 11:13 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] wrote: Thomas Gillespie wrote The RC bottling works was a place. Once in a while the Briehn's would give me a "soda pop". I delivered the Arkansas Gazette to them when I had the business. If I remember right, Earl had a sister who married Max L'herrison (spl) I believe you are correct and I believe another sister married Briner Thomas who ran the Lafayette County Democrat, and was the son of the founder of the paper. Briner and Hermoine Thomas were good friends of my parents. Tom Sims Lakeside Cemetery Burials Thomas, W. Briner, b. May 16, 1908, d. Nov 3Jan 1968 Hermoine Briehn Thomas, b May 27, 1908, d Jan 4, 1990, L'Herisson, Louise B., b. Mar 30, 1906, d. Oct 19, 1991 L'Herisson, Max, b. Dec 10, 1905, d. Apr 16, 1973 |

715|715|2016-09-23 18:09:08|Tom E. Sims|Gloria Kyle Fuller, R.I.P.|Gloria Kyle Fuller (September 22, 1929 - September 22, 2016) Gloria Kyle Fuller, of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Thursday, September 22, 2016. Mrs. Fuller was born September 22, 1929 to Nancy Belle Guin and Alfred Daniel Kyle. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Stamps. Mrs. Fuller was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Richard Fuller; four brothers, George W. Kyle, Alfred Ray Kyle, Donald Lewis Kyle, and Patrick Lee Kyle; and one sister, Margarette Nadine Keith. She is survived by one brother, Daniel Kyle and wife, Connie Musick of Baton Rouge, LA; and many other family and friends. Pallbearers will be George Kyle, Danny Kyle, Ronnie Kyle, Randy Nolen, Michael Morris, and Sonny Higdon. Funeral Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, September 25, 2016 at the First Baptist Church in Stamps, AR with Bro. Mike Turner officiating. Interment will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery in Magnolia, AR under the direction of Smith Funeral Homes of Stamps. Visitation will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Saturday, September 24, 2016 at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

716|716|2016-09-24 07:07:51|Tom E. Sims|Murfreesboro 28 - LCHS 26|Murfreesboro 28 - LCHS 26 LCHS is now 0 - 4|

717|717|2016-09-30 16:54:05|Tom E. Sims|LCHS 2016 Homecoming Parade|40 Pictures (click on arrow on side of picture). LCHS (0-3) homecoming game against Spring Hill (1-3 ) is tonight. 2016 Homecoming Parade (click on arrow on side of picture). https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/photos/pcb.1 049481988505750/1049480658505883/?type=3 or https://goo.gl/Azlas9 or a href="https://goo.gl/Azlas9" https://goo.gl/Azlas9/a|

718|717|2016-09-30 17:04:36|Tom E. Sims|Re: LCHS 2016 Homecoming Parade|40 more Parade pictures: https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/photos/pcb.1 049487625171853/1049485918505357/?type=3 or https://goo.gl/QS797F or a href="https://goo.gl/QS797F" https://goo.gl/QS797F/a|

719|719|2016-09-30 23:35:47|Tom E. Sims|LCHS 47 - Springhill 18|LCHS 47 - Springhill 18 LCHS is now 1-4|

720|657|2016-10-14 16:36:39|Tom E. Sims|LCHS Football|I flew to NJ to get my youngest son married and missed reporting on the Friday 7 OCT game. LCHS lost to Foreman (6-1) 36-0 at Foreman on 7 OCT and is now 1-5 on the season. LCHS hosts Dierks (3-3) tonight. TES|

721|721|2016-10-14 19:55:44|Tom E. Sims|Dierks 41 - LCHS 12|Dierks 41 - LCHS 12 LCHS is now 1-6 this season.|

722|722|2016-10-21 22:44:32|Tom E. Sims|LCHS 2 - Mountain Pine 0 (LCHS wins by forfeit)|LCHS 2 - Mountain Pine 0 (LCHS wins by forfeit) Mountain Pine is 0-9 and has forfeited 4 games this season. LCHS is now 2-6|

723|722|2016-10-22 09:50:29|Earl Rogers|Re: LCHS 2 - Mountain Pine 0 (LCHS wins by forfeit)|Hard way to get a win....but a win is a win. Take care, Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Oct 22, 2016, at 1:14 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: LCHS 2 - Mountain Pine 0 (LCHS wins by forfeit) Mountain Pine is 0-9 and has forfeited 4 games this season. LCHS is now 2-6

724|724|2016-10-27 07:38:15|Tom E. Sims|Pictures: SHS '64 52nd reunion - October 15, 2016|Pictures: SHS '64 52nd reunion - October 15, 2016 https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMuAeh_lpbb2IDucOo3W2TM Brrn_y3RZZH-xfFxcXfoGQm3-1-a6HZgnITTAiG-_A?key=aW9DcC1JOUNpO EsyeXUyeDdNYmVReVhPZ3pPR293 or https://goo.gl/Fevlny or a href="https://goo.gl/Fevlny" https://goo.gl/Fevlny/a * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

725|725|2016-10-29 00:09:21|Tom E. Sims|LCHS 42 - Mineral Springs 22|LCHS 42 - Mineral Springs 22 LCHS is now 3-6.|

726|726|2016-11-04 22:37:50|Tom E. Sims|Mount Ida 37 - LCHS 20|Mount Ida (9-1) 37 - LCHS (3-7) 20 Regular season is over. LCHS may be in the play-offs.|

727|727|2016-11-06 22:37:18|Tom E. Sims|SHS '64 2016 Reunion Picture|Earl Rogers has identified his classmates in the 2016 reunion group picture (which is the top picture on the "Stamps Pictures" page: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_P_F.htm Earl reports that '64 had 46 in their graduation class and seven have passed away.|

728|728|2016-11-07 09:54:47|Tom E. Sims|Lenora Wise Clark SHS '52, R.I.P.|Lenora Wise Clark (November 12, 1934 - November 5, 2016) Lenora Clark, 81, of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away on Saturday, November 5, 2016 at Magnolia Health & Rehabilitation Center. She was born November 12, 1934 in Stamps, AR to Myrtle and Jessie Wise. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Stamps, AR. She worked at Alan White Company for 48 years before her retirement at age 70. She was preceded in death by husband Loyd Clark, her parents, two brother-in-laws; H.B. Pennington and Clyde Wilson; and one nephew, Stephen Loyd Wilson. She is survived by three daughters, Brenda Hamilton and husband, Pat of Stamps; Debbie Blakley of Stamps; Jan Pierce and husband, Ricky of Falcon; two sisters, Pat Wilson of Shreveport, LA; Kay Pennington of Stephens; and one brother, Buddy Wise and wife Jean of Keithville, LA. Five grandkids, Holly Collier of Stamps; Mona Gilingham and husband, Richard of Sheridan; Wes Pierce and wife, Cheri of Stamps; Angie Blakley of Benton; Neil Blakley and wife, Laura of Stamps. Six great-grandkids, Katie Collier, Kara and Alex Gilingham, Eli and Ali Pierce, and Joey Brown. A number of nieces and nephews and one very special friend Pearl Bailey of Magnolia. Graveside service will be 11:00 AM, Tuesday, November 8, 2016, at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps, AR with Bro. John Force officiating. Visitation will be from 6:00-8:00 PM, Monday, November 07, 2016, at Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

729|729|2016-11-12 08:13:59|Tom E. Sims|State Play-offs: Cross County 30 - LCHS 26|State Play-offs: Cross County (11-2) 30 - LCHS (3-9) 26 Game was @ Cross County HS near Memphis. 2016 LCHS season is finished.|

730|730|2016-12-16 14:55:49|Tom E. Sims|Charles Vines SHS '55, R.I.P.|Charles Vines (November 22, 1937 - December 14, 2016) Charles Vines, age 79 of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Wednesday, December 14, 2016 in the local nursing home. Mr. Vines was born November 22, 1937 in Buckner, Arkansas to Charles and Thelma Vines. He was a Stamps High School graduate where he graduated with honors and a distinguished military graduate of the University of Arkansas, where he earned his undergraduate degree. He took ROTC while he was at the University of Arkansas and went into the Army, serving on active duty as a Commissioned Officer of the Adjutant General's Corps. After serving two years in the Army, he went back to the University of Arkansas and received his master's degree in education. He taught only in military schools and each summer he would travel to different colleges to work on another degree such as Harvard, Ohio State, and Trinity College in Connecticut. Any form of military was his life. After teaching for several years, he decided to go to work for the Army as a civil service worker in Indianapolis, Indiana and later was sent to South Carolina where he finally had to retire in 2008. He then moved back to Stamps because he had developed Parkinson's and later Dementia. He entered Homestead Manor Nursing Home in 2011 and called that his home until he passed away and entered a better home. Mr. Vines was a member of First Baptist Church in Stamps and when he did get to attend, he really enjoyed his Sunday School class and hearing Bro. Mike Turner preach. Mr. Vines was preceded in death by his parents; and his brother-in-law, James Goodwin. He is survived by his sister, Doris Goodwin; and nephew, Charlie Goodwin both of Stamps, AR; and several cousins. Funeral Services will be held at 2pm Saturday, December 17, 2016 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Bro. Mike Turner officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6-8pm Friday, December 16, 2016 at Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

731|730|2016-12-16 16:45:39|Larry Gentry|Re: Charles Vines SHS '55, R.I.P.|THANKS Sent from my iPhone On Dec 16, 2016, at 12:50 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Charles Vines (November 22, 1937 - December 14, 2016) Charles Vines, age 79 of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Wednesday, December 14, 2016 in the local nursing home. Mr. Vines was born November 22, 1937 in Buckner, Arkansas to Charles and Thelma Vines. He was a Stamps High School graduate where he graduated with honors and a distinguished military graduate of the University of Arkansas, where he earned his undergraduate degree. He took ROTC while he was at the University of Arkansas and went into the Army, serving on active duty as a Commissioned Officer of the Adjutant General's Corps. After serving two years in the Army, he went back to the University of Arkansas and received his master's degree in education. He taught only in military schools and each summer he would travel to different colleges to work on another degree such as Harvard, Ohio State, and Trinity College in Connecticut. Any form of military was his life. After teaching for several years, he decided to go to work for the Army as a civil service worker in Indianapolis, Indiana and later was sent to South Carolina where he finally had to retire in 2008. He then moved back to Stamps because he had developed Parkinson's and later Dementia. He entered Homestead Manor Nursing Home in 2011 and called that his home until he passed away and entered a better home. Mr. Vines was a member of First Baptist Church in Stamps and when he did get to attend, he really enjoyed his Sunday School class and hearing Bro. Mike Turner preach. Mr. Vines was preceded in death by his parents; and his brother-in-law, James Goodwin. He is survived by his sister, Doris Goodwin; and nephew, Charlie Goodwin both of Stamps, AR; and several cousins. Funeral Services will be held at 2pm Saturday, December 17, 2016 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Bro. Mike Turner officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6-8pm Friday, December 16, 2016 at Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info

2017 Yahoo Messages
732|732|2017-01-16 15:29:25|Tom E. Sims|Pansy Ophelia Marlar Murphy R.I.P.|Pansy Ophelia Marlar Murphy (January 30, 1933 - January 14, 2014) Pansy Ophelia (Marlar) Murphy, 83 of Magnolia, Arkansas passed away Saturday, January 14, 2017 at the Lifetouch Hospice House in El Dorado, Arkansas with her family by her side. She was born January 30, 1933 in Lake Village, Arkansas to Thurman O. and Jenny Jay (Cox) Marlar She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister. She is survived by her husband, D.B. (Bo) Murphy of Magnolia, Arkansas. They were married for over 65 years at the time of her passing. Her parents established Marlar's Cafeteria over 50 years ago and at one time the Murphy's owned it. Others that are left to mourn her passing are three daughters, Susan Watson, Cathy Young, and Wendy Cox and husband, Tracy all of Magnolia. Ten grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren will cherish her memory. Graveside Services will be held in the Columbia Cemetery near Waldo, Arkansas. It will be a private family only service at the cemetery on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 and a gathering will be held at the Marlar Cafeteria in Magnolia Tuesday, January 17, 2017 from 4 to 6 p.m. that is at 2116 North Vine Street in Magnolia, Arkansas. Donations may be sent to a charity of choice in Mrs. Murphy's memory. Service is under the direction of A.O. Smith Funeral Homes of Stamps, AR. _____________________________________ Pansy was an SHS '51 classmate of mine who moved to Magnolia when we were in high school. Her parents had a grocery store in the old bank building, where the newer bank is now. Pansy's SHS '51 Personal Web Page: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/xPMM.htm Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

733|733|2017-01-24 10:19:04|JERRY BALLOU|to one and all!|

734|734|2017-02-12 06:38:23|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County Leadership Council|Lafayette County Leadership Council https://www.facebook.com/Lafayette-County-Leadership-Council -1597576607131187/?fref=nf or https://goo.gl/9id79p or a href="https://goo.gl/9id79p" https://goo.gl/9id79p/a|

735|735|2017-02-19 01:42:07|Tom E. Sims|Video: Lafayette County Leadership Council|Video: Lafayette County Leadership Council 3rd Annual Buffalo Soldier Recognition Banquet Date: 2/18/17, Price: $35, Attire: Formal, Social Hour: 6:30pm, Banquet: 7pm. Keynote speaker: Arkansas State Senator Joyce Elliott https://www.facebook.com/1597576607131187/videos/19199123615 64275/ or a href="https://www.facebook.com/1597576607131187/videos/19199 12361564275/" https://www.facebook.com/1597576607131187/videos/19199123615 64275//a|

736|736|2017-03-10 10:31:58|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County High School Band Concert March 9, 2017|Lafayette County High School Band Concert March 9, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKd51SQrgYA&feature=youtu.be or a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKd51SQrgYA&feature=yo utu.be" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKd51SQrgYA&feature=youtu.be /a|

737|737|2017-03-10 10:32:41|Tom E. Sims|Jimmy Richard Camp, R.I.P.|Jimmy Richard Camp (September 11, 1949 - March 7, 2017) Jimmy Richard Camp, age 67 of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Mr. Camp was born September 11, 1949 in Stamps to Johnny and Velta Camp. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Stamps and a Southern State College graduate from Magnolia with a degree in business. He was a retired Criminal Investigator for Lafayette County and was known as "Jimbo"� the Wheeler Dealer and as "Shag"� to many. Mr. Camp was known for and enjoyed raising tomatoes. Mr. Camp was preceded in death by his parents; and brother, Harlis Camp. He is survived by his wife, Joyce Camp of Stamps, AR; brother, David Camp of Stamps; two sisters, Joanne Hicks of Texarkana, TX and Jean McKelroy of Buckner, AR; and many other family and friends. Funeral Services will be held at 2pm Sunday, March 12, 2017 at First Baptist Church in Stamps with Bro. Mike Turner officiating. Interment will follow at Sardis Cemetery under the direction of Smith Funeral Homes. Visitation will be held from 6-8pm Saturday, March 11, 2017 at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. In lieu of flowers, family requests that donations be made in memory of Jimmy R. Camp to First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 244, Stamps, AR 71860. Online registration is available|

738|738|2017-03-24 10:53:57|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County Wild Hog Bounty|Lafayette County Wild Hog Bounty https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/s960x960/1750 4306_1314800745265363_487747996020613120_o.jpg?oh=ef37a18b7f fa3d381b18a5427fcbbcf9&oe=595EF0B4 or https://goo.gl/m3wuup or a href="https://goo.gl/m3wuup" https://goo.gl/m3wuup/a|

739|739|2017-03-24 10:54:30|Tom E. Sims|Workforce Program|Workforce Program https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/s960x960/1731 1238_1314801168598654_5562930580407928059_o.jpg?oh=c5b786f1b 91638af2ebc4ddf528cd303&oe=596488A8 or https://goo.gl/7KaVwB or a href="https://goo.gl/7KaVwB" https://goo.gl/7KaVwB/a|

740|740|2017-04-03 01:42:47|Tom E. Sims|Norma Powell Lang R.I.P.|Norma Powell Lang http://www.ejfieldingfh.com/obituaries/Norma-Lang/#!/Obituary Norma Powell Lang passed away on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 in Kiln, MS. She was born September 3, 1930 in Stamps, AR to Ola Orr and Shelley Maurice Powell and was a resident of New Orleans for many years before moving to Mandeville in 1995. Her inspiration and boundless sense of humor will be missed by many. A loving and devoted mother, grandmother, and friend, she is survived by three children "� Michael LeGardeur Sr. married to Phyllis Powell LeGardeur, Shelley LeGardeur Kellum married to Tom Kellum, and Deborah LeGardeur Tunstall married to Todd Bard Tunstall; seven grandchildren - Scott LeGardeur, Michael LeGardeur Jr., Douglas Keith Holaday, Mimi Holaday, Tinsley Kellum Giese married to John David Giese, Patton Todd Tunstall married to Elise Hatheway Tunstall, and Claire Renee Tunstall ; one great-grandchild Kayla Renee Holaday; and is also survived by numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and dear friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, her brother Shelley Rodney Powell, her sister Barbara Powell Nation, one daughter - Susan LeGardeur Holaday, and one grandson - Michael John Holaday. A very special thanks to Darlene Storey of Kiln, MS for her ever gentle and unwavering quality of care she and her staff provided for Norma during the last 8 months of her life. Relatives and friends are invited to attend memorial services at 7:00 PM on Friday, April 7, 2017 at E.J. Fielding Funeral Home, 2260 W. 21st Ave. Covington, LA 70433. Visiting hours on Friday will begin at 6:00 PM. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, www.alz.org or by calling (800)272-3900. Please offer condolences or visit the Tribute Wall at www.ejfieldingfh.com ____________________________________ Norma Jean's sister, Barbara who died in 1990, was in my SHS '51 class. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

741|741|2017-05-05 11:32:33|Tom E. Sims|Lieutenant General Piggee|Lieutenant General Piggee, a Native of Stamps, Arkansas will be the commencement speaker at Lafayette County High School on 18 May 2017. General Piggee's Bio: https://www.army.mil/article/176130/lieutenant_general_aundr e_f_piggee_deputy_chief_of_staff_g_4_official_bio or https://goo.gl/w28uga or a href="https://goo.gl/w28uga" https://goo.gl/w28uga/a * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

742|742|2017-05-17 11:59:07|Tom E. Sims|Celebrate Maya Project|Celebrate Maya Project https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18582025_19638 51207170390_210876809026172904_n.jpg?oh=4a7be14066e754992802 cf0491931e97&oe=59B018B3 or https://goo.gl/hGLO2j or a href="https://goo.gl/hGLO2j" https://goo.gl/hGLO2j/a|

743|743|2017-05-26 21:59:14|Tom E. Sims|Stamps Memorial Day Community Picnic|Stamps Memorial Day Community Picnic https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18670986_19679 05760098268_5972430716020407878_n.jpg?oh=32ee4d81636bb53ccf1 c87971e01302b&oe=59A654FE or https://goo.gl/nPCr4B or a href="https://goo.gl/nPCr4B" https://goo.gl/nPCr4B/a|

744|744|2017-05-29 17:18:56|Tom E. Sims|Maya Angelou Park|Today on FaceBook from Lafayette County Leadership Council: Dont forget to come get you a plate TODAY!! at Maya Angelou Park aka Lake June! Bouncy House for the kids Spades/Dominoes Tourneys GREAT LIVE MUSIC DONT MISS OUT!!! __________________________________ I wasn't aware until now of "Maya Angelou Park" Tom Sims|

745|745|2017-05-29 21:56:03|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County Leadership Council added 30 new photos on FaceBook|Lafayette County Leadership Council added 30 new photos on FaceBook (You don't have to log in or join - just click "not now" and keep clicking for all 30 pictures). https://www.facebook.com/1597576607131187/photos/pcb.1969401 719948672/1969400869948757/?type=3&theater or https://goo.gl/ERl8Lk or a href="0https://goo.gl/ERl8Lk" https://goo.gl/ERl8Lk/a|

746|746|2017-07-10 17:20:32|Tom E. Sims|Gospelfest Fundraiser|Gospelfest Fundraiser https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19990446_14346 46129947490_8543666125356923873_n.jpg?oh=4da8f4bc561c2f580dc 188c123f8879a&oe=5A0C6C84 or https://goo.gl/vjZpb7 or a href="https://goo.gl/vjZpb7" https://goo.gl/vjZpb7/a|

747|747|2017-07-28 08:11:34|Tom E. Sims|Arkansas Game and Fish installing fish habitat at Lake June.|Arkansas Game and Fish installing fish habitat at Lake June. https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20292819_14534 44628067640_8173312021313266124_n.jpg?oh=711c4cfe1646a133edd 9386e57d13e5f&oe=5A0278E4 or https://goo.gl/CYhf5B or a href="https://goo.gl/CYhf5B" https://goo.gl/CYhf5B/a|

748|747|2017-07-29 09:39:43|Lou Howard|Re: Arkansas Game and Fish installing fish habitat at Lake June.|I think this is great!Lou Dean On Friday, July 28, 2017, 11:11:38 AM EDT, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Arkansas Game and Fish installing fish habitat at Lake June. https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20292819_14534 44628067640_8173312021313266124_n.jpg?oh=711c4cfe1646a133edd 9386e57d13e5f&oe=5A0278E4 or https://goo.gl/CYhf5B or a href="https://goo.gl/CYhf5B" https://goo.gl/CYhf5B/a |

749|749|2017-08-03 08:01:27|Tom E. Sims|LCHS 2017 Football Schedule|LCHS 2017 Football Schedule https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20476235_13649 06156963330_2619478564193272310_n.jpg?oh=0284d4865bcb03e4971 f350c6a386c86&oe=59FEAB2C or a href="https://goo.gl/d6rE1P" https://goo.gl/d6rE1P/a * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

750|750|2017-08-15 11:16:55|Tom E. Sims|Juanita Williams Sunderman Smith, SHS 1948, R.I.P.|Juanita Williams Sunderman Smith Juanita Sunderman Smith, 87, passed away on July 29, 2017. Juanita was born in Stamps, AR. She went to Southern State College and married her college sweetheart, Harold C. Sunderman. They taught school in Arkansas for one year and then moved to Amarillo, TX, where they taught for several years. Subsequently, Harold obtained his Education Doctorate from the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, and Juanita taught school there for two years. She often laughed and said she got a PHT (Pushing Hubby Through)! They moved back to Texas, where they lived and taught in several towns, until settling in Denton, TX, in 1964. While Harold taught at the University of North Texas and Juanita taught second grade, they raised their two children. Following Harold's death in 1980, Juanita continued teaching and later met Don Smith from Gladewater, TX. Juanita married Don, retired from teaching, and moved to Gladewater in 1983. Juanita would reside in Gladewater until Don's passing in 2011. In 2014, Juanita moved to Albuquerque to be near her son, Harold. She resided at La Vida Llena, where Juanita made numerous friends. Juanita is survived by her son, Harold Sunderman (Andrea); daughter, Cindy Sunderman (Dan Neese); grandchildren, Laurel and Bryant Sunderman, and Phillip and Collin Meyer; step-granddaughter, Shelby Neese; as well as her brother, Jerome Williams (Shirley); and her sister, Ann McKenzie. Juanita also leaves behind many nieces, nephews, and friends. A Memorial Service will be held in Albuquerque on Wednesday, August 9, 2017, 2:00 p.m. in Carter Hall at La Vida Llena, 10501 Lagrima De Oro Rd. NE. A Graveside Memorial will be held in Denton, TX on Saturday, October 28, 2017. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the First United Methodist Church in Gladewater, TX, St. Stephen's United Methodist Church in Albuquerque, or to the charity of your choice. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

751|751|2017-08-15 19:44:37|Tom E. Sims|Thomas F. Gillespie Jr., SHS 1939, R.I.P. (August 31, 1921 - March 5|Thomas F. Gillespie Jr. (August 31, 1921 - March 5, 2017) http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.a spx?n=Thomas-Gillespie&lc=4188&pid=184398857&mid=7320549 or a href="https://goo.gl/HhxnKc" https://goo.gl/HhxnKc/a Thomas F. Gillespie, Jr. began his final journey on March 5, 2017. He entered the U.S. Naval Radio Training School in 1942 and proudly served during World War II. He was preceded in death by his parents and his first wife Edith, the mother of his children. He is survived by his wife, Eleanor, his daughter Andrea Perron (Preston), son Tom Gillespie (Lisa), and son Dexter Gillespie (Nancy). Extended family survivors are Eleanor's son Gene Allen (Kate), daughter Mary Remy (Chris), and sister-in-law Cecelia League. He also shared many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. He was a lifelong member of the Masonic Lodge and also shared many years of service and participation with Boy Scout Troop 456. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, March 11, 2017. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List:
http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

752|751|2017-08-15 20:40:58|Tom E. Sims|Re: Thomas F. Gillespie Jr., SHS 1939, R.I.P. (August 31, 1921 - Mar|Nadine Moody wrote: He was a Stamps High Drum Major. Twirled a silver ball baton. There was a bare spot on his lawn where he practiced daily. I remember Tom when he was Drum Majoring and have been talking with him via email about Stamps remembrances for several years. I was bugging him to write down some of them, and he kept saying he would, but AFAIK he never GATI. Tom Sims|

753|753|2017-08-19 08:27:41|Tom E. Sims|LCHS ALL SPORT SEASON PASSES|LCHS ALL SPORT SEASON PASSES Facebook Post: We now have ALL SPORT SEASON PASSES available for the 2017-2018 school year for sale for $65. This pass is good for the card holder only and all school sanctioned home game sporting events are included-football, basketball, baseball, and softball! Playoff games and tournaments are EXCLUDED. Please contact Tony Hartsfield at the high school to get yours TODAY! https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20842304_13801 58798771399_9217673920538908668_n.jpg?oh=8eb607bf6a199587e6a d4fe09479fe37&oe=5A226A9A or https://goo.gl/K7pm7P or a href="https://goo.gl/K7pm7P" https://goo.gl/K7pm7P/a ;|

754|754|2017-08-29 22:20:41|Tom E. Sims|LCHS Pre Season Football Pep Rally|LCHS Pre Season Football Pep Rally First game is Friday night 1 September @ Gurdon Click picture for more pictures https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/photos/pcb.1 390030147784264/1390029907784288/?type=3 or https://goo.gl/jHm7gN or a href="https://goo.gl/jHm7gN" https://goo.gl/jHm7gN/a|

755|755|2017-09-02 07:48:05|Tom E. Sims|Gurdon 21 - LCHS 20|First 2017 football game Gurdon 21 - LCHS 20|

756|756|2017-09-08 20:45:32|Tom E. Sims|Genoa Central 41 - LCHS 27|@ Genoa Central Final Score Genoa Central 41 - LCHS 27|

757|757|2017-09-08 20:45:46|Tom E. Sims|Current Stamps Demographics|Email I sent to a friend who lives in Stamps: XXXXXXXXX: I'm curious about conditions in Stamps today and hope you will bring me up to date a little. Questions: Is housing integrated in Stamps now? Are there African-American business operators on the triangle? Do African-American's and Whites date in high school? Are churches integrated now? The answers to all of these were "no" when I lived in Stamps, but I believe the schools are very integrated now (students, teachers and staff) and I see that the Stamps Rotary Club is integrated and the Lafayette County Leadership Council seems to be pretty active also. Thanks, Tom Sims ___________________ Reply Well I will answer the best that I can. The housing situation is intergrated, I don't know of but one african-American business and it is a place where they are sewing something (What I do not know) , Dating between black and white takes place, but it is usually on the sly, have never see it openly but once and that was about 10 years ago, and I don't know if any of the churches are intergrated. That is about the best I can answer your questions. I don't go to the Rotary Club,The Stamps city council is intergrated. Lafayette Co. had a black sheriff, wife worked in the tax collectin office, dipped in the till and he had to resign. Basically all get a long pretty good, had a black run for county judge in the last election, he lost. That is about all I can tell you. I will find out about the churches and let you know. The church population has declined, Baptist seem to be the biggest, Methodist second and Presbyterian next. Follow Up Reply Found out that none of the churches are intergrated. That business I thought was owned by a black on the triangle, is actualled owned by a white man but he is never there, only blacks are ever there. The mixed dating I told you about was two seniors in high school. The football team is predominately black I think I counted 7 whites on it, about 23 blacks. have 8 cheerleaders, only one white girl on it. All white football coaches. A black is the athletic director and he is the head basketball coach.|

758|757|2017-09-09 08:24:17|Jean Galbraith|Re: Current Stamps Demographics|The letter, above, to which I am sending this reply, really has me puzzled.It appears as though you, Tom Sims, do not live in Stamps. �Do you? If not, where do you live?I appreciate all the work you do on this site.�It sounds terrible to think, but I mostly appreciate the obits that you send. It gives me a clue as to which of my friends may still be alive.Jean Galbraith, nee Pipkin On Friday, September 8, 2017 10:45 PM, "'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Email I sent to a friend who lives in Stamps: XXXXXXXXX: I'm curious about conditions in Stamps today and hope you will bring me up to date a little. Questions: Is housing integrated in Stamps now? Are there African-American business operators on the triangle? Do African-American's and Whites date in high school? Are churches integrated now? The answers to all of these were "no" when I lived in Stamps, but I believe the schools are very integrated now (students, teachers and staff) and I see that the Stamps Rotary Club is integrated and the Lafayette County Leadership Council seems to be pretty active also. Thanks, Tom Sims _ Reply Well I will answer the best that I can. The housing situation is intergrated, I don't know of but one african-American business and it is a place where they are sewing something (What I do not know) , Dating between black and white takes place, but it is usually on the sly, have never see it openly but once and that was about 10 years ago, and I don't know if any of the churches are intergrated. That is about the best I can answer your questions. I don't go to the Rotary Club,The Stamps city council is intergrated. Lafayette Co. had a black sheriff, wife worked in the tax collectin office, dipped in the till and he had to resign. Basically all get a long pretty good, had a black run for county judge in the last election, he lost. That is about all I can tell you. I will find out about the churches and let you know. The church population has declined, Baptist seem to be the biggest, Methodist second and Presbyterian next. Follow Up Reply Found out that none of the churches are intergrated. That business I thought was owned by a black on the triangle, is actualled owned by a white man but he is never there, only blacks are ever there. The mixed dating I told you about was two seniors in high school. The football team is predominately black I think I counted 7 whites on it, about 23 blacks. have 8 cheerleaders, only one white girl on it. All white football coaches. A black is the athletic director and he is the head basketball coach.

759|757|2017-09-09 08:40:10|Tom E. Sims|Re: Current Stamps Demographics|From Jean Galbraith The letter, above, to which I am sending this reply, really has me puzzled. It appears as though you, Tom Sims, do not live in Stamps. Do you? If not, where do you live? I appreciate all the work you do on this site. It sounds terrible to think, but I mostly appreciate the obits that you send. It gives me a clue as to which of my friends may still be alive. Jean Galbraith, nee Pipkin I left Stamps permanently in July 1951, have returned periodically over the years to visit family, and was last in Stamps for my brother's funeral in 2002. I've lived in Las Vegas NV since 1994. As a general rule, I only report obituaries of Stamps people that I knew. Tom Sims|

760|757|2017-09-09 11:04:10|Jean|Re: Current Stamps Demographics|Thanks for the reply. I graduated from SHS in 1955. My brother, Richard Pipkin, was in your class for a few years and so I recognize some of the folks your age. However, if you see some obits from around the years 1955 and you may not know that person, it would be taken kindly if you include those obits, too. Again, thanks for all the work you do on behalf of the Stamps residents and former residents. I'm sorry to hear that you lost your brother in 2002. That was Bill.. Our family lost Richard in 2007 and his wife Geraldine (Hairston) Pipkin in 2010. We are at the age where we have lots of losses, right? Jean Galbraith Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] Sent: Saturday, September 9, 2017 10:40 AM To: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [StampsArk] Current Stamps Demographics � From Jean Galbraith The letter, above, to which I am sending this reply, really has me puzzled. It appears as though you, Tom Sims, do not live in Stamps. Do you? If not, where do you live? I appreciate all the work you do on this site. It sounds terrible to think, but I mostly appreciate the obits that you send. It gives me a clue as to which of my friends may still be alive. Jean Galbraith, nee Pipkin I left Stamps permanently in July 1951, have returned periodically over the years to visit family, and was last in Stamps for my brother's funeral in 2002. I've lived in Las Vegas NV since 1994. As a general rule, I only report obituaries of Stamps people that I knew. Tom Sims [Non-text portions
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761|757|2017-09-12 02:28:31|Tom E. Sims|Re: Current Stamps Demographics|From Dale White SHS '47: I left Stamps in 1950 when when the Korea W AR started and had to go off to service. Of course, this doesn't address your current request. However, it does describe Stamps as it was back in its better days. Both sides of the triangle were completely occupied with businesses. From Peoples Drug to Fuller's Liquor Store on one side to Beasley's Hardware to the Ford place and then Ben Strange's Sporting Goods and Petry's Grocery on the other. Plus a Beasley's Cleaning and Pressing shop . There were grocery stores at both ends of Central Ave. Plus Perkins on Church St. and Cox's grocery across from Jarginan's (sp) Liquor. Of course, Stamps had a Movie Theater as well as a three story European Hotel on Main Street. With a population of over 3,000 people, there were 5 doctors. Dr. Keith, Baker, Strange, Jack and Dr. Ellis. Although that part of the country was still segregated at the time, there was no strife between communities. The Ford Place moved out to the 82 Hi Way, across from John Rogers Grocery and Service , and Chevrolet moved in. Those were good days to be from Stamps!|

762|757|2017-09-12 06:37:18|Jean Galbraith|Re: Current Stamps Demographics|Dale,You have a very good memory and it was good reading about better days.However, I believe that Lafayette was a dry county in 1950.�It was interesting to read of the configuration only a few years before my memory startsI left Stamps in 1955 and have no memory of any liquor stores there.I went to 12 years school with your sister, Jean. Check my memory against her's.Also, I know you remember the European Hotel, which burned in the early '50s.The grocery store on the north end of Central Ave. was McKamie's and south end was Chastain's.It is pleasant to take a walk down Memory Lane, isn't it?Jean (Pipkin) Galbraith On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 4:28 AM, "'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � From Dale White SHS '47: I left Stamps in 1950 when when the Korea W AR started and had to go off to service. Of course, this doesn't address your current request. However, it does describe Stamps as it was back in its better days. Both sides of the triangle were completely occupied with businesses. From Peoples Drug to Fuller's Liquor Store on one side to Beasley's Hardware to the Ford place and then Ben Strange's Sporting Goods and Petry's Grocery on the other. Plus a Beasley's Cleaning and Pressing shop . There were grocery stores at both ends of Central Ave. Plus Perkins on Church St. and Cox's grocery across from Jarginan's (sp) Liquor. Of course, Stamps had a Movie Theater as well as a three story European Hotel on Main Street. With a population of over 3,000 people, there were 5 doctors. Dr. Keith, Baker, Strange, Jack and Dr. Ellis. Although that part of the country was still segregated at the time, there was no strife between communities. The Ford Place moved out to the 82 Hi Way, across from John Rogers Grocery and Service , and Chevrolet moved in. Those were good days to be from Stamps!

763|757|2017-09-12 15:21:05|Tom E. Sims|Re: Current Stamps Demographics|From Dale White SHS '47: I left Stamps in 1950 when when the Korea W AR started and had to go off to service. Of course, this doesn't address your current request. However, it does describe Stamps as it was back in its better days. Both sides of the triangle were completely occupied with businesses. From Peoples Drug to Fuller's Liquor Store on one side to Beasley's Hardware to the Ford place and then Ben Strange's Sporting Goods and Petry's Grocery on the other. Plus a Beasley's Cleaning and Pressing shop . There were grocery stores at both ends of Central Ave. Plus Perkins on Church St. and Cox's grocery across from Jarginan's (sp) Liquor. Of course, Stamps had a Movie Theater as well as a three story European Hotel on Main Street. With a population of over 3,000 people, there were 5 doctors. Dr. Keith, Baker, Strange, Jack and Dr. Ellis. Although that part of the country was still segregated at the time, there was no strife between communities. The Ford Place moved out to the 82 Hi Way, across from John Rogers Grocery and Service , and Chevrolet moved in. Those were good days to be from Stamps! _ From Jean Galbraith jeang37@bellsouth.net Dale, You have a very good memory and it was good reading about better days. However, I believe that Lafayette was a dry county in 1950. It was interesting to read of the configuration only a few years before my memory starts I left Stamps in 1955 and have no memory of any liquor stores there. I went to 12 years school with your sister, Jean. Check my memory against her's. Also, I know you remember the European Hotel, which burned in the early '50s. The grocery store on the north end of Central Ave. was McKamie's and south end was Chastain's. It is pleasant to take a walk down Memory Lane, isn't it? Jean (Pipkin) Galbraith The liquor stores went away when Lafayette county went dry, sometime in the mid 40's. I remember a couple of older football teammates going to Garland City for beer when I was in 10th grade in 1948. The grocery store on the north end of Central Ave. was McKamie's and south end was Chastain's. I think it was McKamie's between being Thomas' and Piggly Wiggly. When I moved to Stamps in 1938 (or shortly thereafter) that grocery store was run by Mrs. Arthur Thomas, and the Thomas family lived in the rear of the store. Their daughter, Kalene, was an SHS classmate of mine. They sold beer and gasoline and kerosene at the store as well as groceries. I used to save up money and buy ice cream dixie cups there that had movie stars pictures on the inside of the lid. Sometime in the late 40's she built and moved to the Jitney Jungle grocery store on South Thomas Street. Later she closed Jitney Jungle and built and moved to the Piggly Wiggly grocery store back at Central Avenue and Highway 82. I was her delivery boy for a short time at Jitney Jungle (until I quit to play football) and drove her new Chevrolet truck for deliveries. Tom Sims SHS '51 PS - Stamps has definitely changed, for better and for worse. One thing that is better is the school and athletic facilities. Classrooms were crowded and grades 1 - 12 were all in one buildihg. Our science lab was a joke and they have a lot of active extra curricular groups now. The football stadium and gym are much better than we had in 1951. We didn't have a weight room and not enough uniforms for all the players on the football and basketball squads. There was no girl's softball and only a makeshift baseball team without uniforms that only played a couple of games. We started a track team while I was in high school, but we only had a few participants and didn't have any hurdlers, relay teams and several other events. We didn't have uniforms either. Our football cheerleaders made ther own outfits. There weren't any youth baseball leagues.|

764|757|2017-09-12 21:59:58|Tom E. Sims|Re: Current Stamps Demographics|From Dale White SHS '47: Lafayette County going dry is another story altogether. If you noticed in my initial article, the Jarginan Liquor Store was on the street toward the swimming pool and close to Cox grocery. Not on Main Street where he wanted to be. The Waldo Gulf Station was across the street from People's Drug and and just before Cabe's Hardware. I'm sure most who read this will not know the Waldo family. They had two sons. The name of the oldest slips my 89 year old mind at the moment, and the younger was Pete Waldo. He married Jarvie Williams, the sister of Juanita and Ann. At any rate, the older brother was the first man killed from Stamps during WWII. Bo Waldo!! Sorry, I got side tracked. At any rate, When Waldo closed his business, Jarginan decided he would like to be up on Main Street and moved his Liquor Store into that vacant building. Now, that turned out to be a mistake. Across the street was the Bodcaw Bank and the City Park next to it. The First Baptist Church was next to the Park. They were upset that a Liquor Store had moved so close to the Church Building. So, they got out their tape measure and found that the now liquor store was too close to the church building and against City Ordiance and the battle began. That battle resulted in the county going dry. And, that is a true story! Dale PS - You mentioned that the football statium was better later on. Stamps was big in football until WWII began in Dec. 41. Many of the players would deliberatly fail just to play for another year. When the war started, most of the players were drafted and football was discontinued until after the war. In fact, I finished in '47 and it was a couple of years after that before Stamps began to play the sport again. Heh, I was one of those First Baptist Churchers and I wasn't aware of our crusade against Jarnagin's, although our sermons were pretty anti-sin of all types and I recall liquor stores being mentioned. That was probably when Waif Hamilton was the First Baptist Church pastor. Waif was into fire and brimstone and hour and a half sermons. He and his wife were good friends with my mother and father. A dirt tennis court with lights was built by the church in the city park next to the First Baptist Church while Waif was pastor. Waif rubbed several prominent church people the wrong way and he was let go as pastor. Maybe payback from the liquor lobby? I heard that the First Baptist Church had a successful crusade against a Video store in Stamps (where you could rent R rated movies) in later years. I remember Jarvie Williams well. She was very active in the First Baptist Church. Her sister Ann was my classmate. Also, in those days the Baptist parsonage was on the corner of Spruce and Church Street (where the new brick church is now) and the main church building was next to the park. There was a small Sunday School building between the Parsonage and the main church building. All of the church buildings were woodframe. Tom Sims SHS '51|

765|757|2017-09-13 19:00:41|Jean Galbraith|Re: Current Stamps Demographics|from: Jean (Pipkin) GalbraithI can't tell you folks how much I am enjoying reading about the "Stamps That Was," just a few years back from the beginning of my memory.I was born in 1937, but have no memory of the downtown area before I started to school.I do remember the name Jarvie Williams, and the name of her brother B.L., Jr.� I knew�her sister Ann. who was in the same class with you, Tom,�and�I had a class with her brother, Jerome.� That's a fine family. I already mentioned that I was in the same graduating class as Jean (White) Coe. Again, thanks for sharing some of your memories of Stamps. On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:00 AM, "'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � From Dale White SHS '47: Lafayette County going dry is another story altogether. If you noticed in my initial article, the Jarginan Liquor Store was on the street toward the swimming pool and close to Cox grocery. Not on Main Street where he wanted to be. The Waldo Gulf Station was across the street from People's Drug and and just before Cabe's Hardware. I'm sure most who read this will not know the Waldo family. They had two sons. The name of the oldest slips my 89 year old mind at the moment, and the younger was Pete Waldo. He married Jarvie Williams, the sister of Juanita and Ann. At any rate, the older brother was the first man killed from Stamps during WWII. Bo Waldo!! Sorry, I got side tracked. At any rate, When Waldo closed his business, Jarginan decided he would like to be up on Main Street and moved his Liquor Store into that vacant building. Now, that turned out to be a mistake. Across the street was the Bodcaw Bank and the City Park next to it. The First Baptist Church was next to the Park. They were upset that a Liquor Store had moved so close to the Church Building. So, they got out their tape measure and found that the now liquor store was too close to the church building and against City Ordiance and the battle began. That battle resulted in the county going dry. And, that is a true story! Dale PS - You mentioned that the football statium was better later on. Stamps was big in football until WWII began in Dec. 41. Many of the players would deliberatly fail just to play for another year. When the war started, most of the players were drafted and football was discontinued until after the war. In fact, I finished in '47 and it was a couple of years after that before Stamps began to play the sport again. Heh, I was one of those First Baptist Churchers and I wasn't aware of our crusade against Jarnagin's, although our sermons were pretty anti-sin of all types and I recall liquor stores being mentioned. That was probably when Waif Hamilton was the First Baptist Church pastor. Waif was into fire and brimstone and hour and a half sermons. He and his wife were good friends with my mother and father. A dirt tennis court with lights was built by the church in the city park next to the First Baptist Church while Waif was pastor. Waif rubbed several prominent church people the wrong way and he was let go as pastor. Maybe payback from the liquor lobby? I heard that the First Baptist Church had a successful crusade against a Video store in Stamps (where you could rent R rated movies) in later years. I remember Jarvie Williams well. She was very active in the First Baptist Church. Her sister Ann was my classmate. Also, in those days the Baptist parsonage was on the corner of Spruce and Church Street (where the new brick church is now) and the main church building was next to the park. There was a small Sunday School building between the Parsonage and the main church building. All of the church buildings were woodframe. Tom Sims SHS '51

766|766|2017-09-15 18:25:16|Tom E. Sims|Francille Riggins Seymour, SHS Graduate and Teacher, R.I.P.|Francille Riggins Seymour (March 24, 1916 - September 9, 2017) March 24, 1916 "�September 9, 2017 Francille Seymour, age 101, died on September 9 in Hot Springs, AR, where she had lived for the last six years at West Shores Retirement Center. She was raised in Buckner, AR and spent many of her adult years there in the family home during the summer break from teaching. She graduated from Stamps High School and Henderson State Teachers College, where she met Fletcher Fay Seymour. They married in August 1941 and spent 38 years in the teaching profession in Stamps, Pine Bluff, and Camden, AR, before retiring to Hope, where she lived for 38 years. Francille was a strong Christian woman and a lifelong member of the Methodist Church. She was a Regent in the Hope Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, and active in the Daughters of the American Revolution. The DAR honored her by donating a tree to West Shores in honor of her 100th birthday. She was also a member of the Colonial Dames. Francille was a very social person, who loved to talk, and write letters. She loved being a teacher and enjoyed travelling after she retired. She particularly enjoyed going to Europe, the Holy Land, Africa, and Hawaii, Alaska and Guatemala and flying to see her family in Washington DC for Christmas. Her hobbies included China painting, knitting, crocheting, petit point, and other crafts and playing bridge with friends in Hope and other card games at her retirement place in Hot Springs. She had many friends. She was an important role model, not only for her family, but for the many children she taught. She was cheerful, outgoing and kind, with a good sense of humor. She always believed the best about people and encouraged them to do their best. Many happy times were spent at the Farm, Seymour Acres that she and Seymour owned outside of Fulton, AR. She lived a good, long life, and loved all. Most of all, she was thankful for all God gave her. Francille is preceded in death by her parents, John and Laura Riggins, Her husband, F.F. Seymour, brothers, Col. Jack Riggins and Cmdr. Bill Riggins, sisters, Claudine Morgan and Dorothy Anne Landes, Sister-in law, Lea Etta Sweatt, and son-in-law, Dr. Gary T. Elder. She is survived by her daughter, Sandy Seymour Elder, Chevy Chase, MD and grandchildren, Ashley Cooper ( Dr.Mark) Kalamazoo MI, and Blake Elder ( Fiancée, Sterling Neilson) of Washington DC; sister-in-law, Gloria Riggins of Hot Springs AR, Brother-in-law, Roy Seymour of Longview, TX, and many nieces and nephews. There will be a Memorial service in Hot Springs, AR at West Shores 2607 Albert Pike, at 3:30 on Friday, September 22, 2017 and interment of ashes on Saturday, September 23, 2017 at Lakeside Cemetery, Stamps Arkansas 10:00 a.m. The Memorial service will be at the First Methodist Church, Hwy 29 South in Hope, AR at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of Flowers, donations may be made to the First united Methodist Church, PO Box 400, Hope, AR, 71802 or to Arkansas Hospice, www.Arkansas Hospice.org. (501-748-3300) Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome .com ________________ I knew Francille and everyone in the Riggins family, and Mr. Seymour was my basketball coach in my 10th and 11th grade and SHS Principal my 11th and 12th grade. Mr. and Mrs. Seymour were two of my favorite people. She came to SHS 51's 50th reunion. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

767|767|2017-09-15 20:21:07|Tom E. Sims|Football: Parkers Chapel 49 - LCHS 30|Football: Parkers Chapel 49 - LCHS 30 LCHS is 0-3 this year Addendum from Stamps Friend LCHS started 1 white on defense and 3 on offense.|

768|766|2017-09-16 17:19:14|Tom E. Sims|Re: Francille Riggins Seymour, SHS Graduate and Teacher, R.I.P.|Earl Rogers wrote: How long did she teach at Stamps??? What grade(s) did she teach and when?? I cant remember her. _________________ I have the 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950 and 1951 Hilltoppers and she was the third grade teacher and Mr. Seymour taught high school from 1945/1946 until 1949/1950. I suspect that 1945 was their first year teaching in Stamps, because Mr. Seymour was a WWII veteran. She wasn't my third grade teacher in the 1943/1944 year and I don't remember her teaching in 1944/1945. I was wrong about Mr. Seymour being principal my senior year, as it was Harold Hudson, and it looks like the Seymour's left after the 1949/1950 year. Tom Sims|

769|766|2017-09-16 19:16:10|Jean|Re: Francille Riggins Seymour, SHS Graduate and Teacher, R.I.P.|The Fall of 1943 and 1944 Mrs. Seymour taught third grade at Stamps. I have no idea when she started teaching there, but the 1944-45 year was her last year there. The 1945-46 year, Mrs. Nuckles taught the 'upstairs' third grade class. Jean Galbraith Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2017 7:19 PM To: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Cc: Earl Rogers '64 Subject: [StampsArk] Re: Francille Riggins Seymour, SHS Graduate and Teacher, R.I.P. � Earl Rogers wrote: How long did she teach at Stamps??? What grade(s) did she teach and when?? I cant remember her. _ I have the 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950 and 1951 Hilltoppers and she was the third grade teacher and Mr. Seymour taught high school from 1945/1946 until 1949/1950. I suspect that 1945 was their first year teaching in Stamps, because Mr. Seymour was a WWII veteran. She wasn't my third grade teacher in the 1943/1944 year and I don't remember her teaching in 1944/1945. I was wrong about Mr. Seymour being principal my senior year, as it was Harold Hudson, and it looks like the Seymour's left after the 1949/1950 year. Tom Sims

770|766|2017-09-16 20:35:05|JERRY BALLOU|Re: Francille Riggins Seymour, SHS Graduate and Teacher, R.I.P.|I remember Mr Seymour I think he was the coach in 1942 and longer. I can't remember Mrs Seymour at all.� Jerry Ballou On Saturday, September 16, 2017, 9:16:14 PM CDT, Jean jeang37@bellsouth.net [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � The Fall of 1943 and 1944 Mrs. Seymour taught third grade at Stamps. I have no idea when she started teaching there, but the 1944-45 year was her last year there. The 1945-46 year, Mrs. Nuckles taught the 'upstairs' third grade class. Jean Galbraith Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2017 7:19 PM To: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Cc: Earl Rogers '64 Subject: [StampsArk] Re: Francille Riggins Seymour, SHS Graduate and Teacher, R.I.P. � Earl Rogers wrote: How long did she teach at Stamps??? What grade(s) did she teach and when?? I cant remember her. _ I have the 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950 and 1951 Hilltoppers and she was the third grade teacher and Mr. Seymour taught high school from 1945/1946 until 1949/1950. I suspect that 1945 was their first year teaching in Stamps, because Mr. Seymour was a WWII veteran. She wasn't my third grade teacher in the 1943/1944 year and I don't remember her teaching in 1944/1945. I was wrong about Mr. Seymour being principal my senior year, as it was Harold Hudson, and it looks like the Seymour's left after the 1949/1950 year. Tom Sims

771|766|2017-09-16 21:55:12|Tom E. Sims|Re: Francille Riggins Seymour, SHS Graduate and Teacher, R.I.P.|From Jean Galbraith The Fall of 1943 and 1944 Mrs. Seymour taught third grade at Stamps. I have no idea when she started teaching there, but the 1944-45 year was her last year there. The 1945-46 year, Mrs. Nuckles taught the 'upstairs' third grade class. _ Well, I know that there was only one third grade teacher at Stamps my third grade year of 1941/1942 and that was Miss Brazil. I believe Miss Mouser was the only fourth grade teacher. I don't have the 1942/1943, 1943/1944 or 1944/1945 Hilltopper, but Miss Mouser was the only fourth grade teacher in all of these years. I don't remember who was the third grade teacher. Mrs. Seymour's picture is in the 1945/1946 Hilltopper where she is the third grade teacher. Mr. Seymour is the social science teacher and girl's basketball coach. Mr. Tope is the principal, math and science teacher and boy's basketball coach. In the 1946/1947 Hilltopper Mrs. Seymour is third and fourth grade and Mrs. Harkins is listed for third grade. Mr. Seymour is now the principal, social science teacher and boy's and girl's basketball coach. I don't have the 1947/1948 Hilltopper. In the 1948/1949 Hilltopper Mrs. Seymour is third grade and Faye Rene Oglesby Linum is listed for third and fourth grade. In the 1949/1950 Hilltopper Mrs. Seymour is third grade and Mrs, Hamm is third and fourth grade. Mr. Bolton is the boy's and girl's basketball coach. In the 1950/1951 Hilltopper Mrs. May is the third grade teacher and the Seymour's are not listed. Mr. Bolton is the
boy's and girl's basketball coach. I don't see Mrs. Nuckles in any of these Hilltopper's. Tom Sims SHS '51|

772|766|2017-09-17 08:07:29|Jean Galbraith|Re: Francille Riggins Seymour, SHS Graduate and Teacher, R.I.P.|My apologies for having my years wrong. I did not start school until the 1942-43 year. �However, that year there was more than one class for each grade, or perhaps I should say a class and 1/2 for each elementary grade. This practice continued throughout the years until the new Elementary building was opened.In 1942-43 year, Mrs. Vida Burke was the First Grade teach, who passed away during that school year. Mrs. Emma McGoogan the 1-2 downstairs class teacher, took over the whole upstairs class and the second graders from her class joined Miss Oxford's upstairs class.I do not remember who taught the 3-4, but certainly would believe the Hiltopper.Mrs. Nuckles only taught the one year that I spent in 3rd grade, which must have been 1944-45 school year.�Sorry you don't have a Hilltopper for those years. �Given the war savings, do you suppose none was published those years?It has been good 'talking' to you folks and taking all the memories out of mothballs, but I shall just listen hereafter, perhaps.Jean Galbraith On Saturday, September 16, 2017 11:55 PM, "'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � From Jean Galbraith The Fall of 1943 and 1944 Mrs. Seymour taught third grade at Stamps. I have no idea when she started teaching there, but the 1944-45 year was her last year there. The 1945-46 year, Mrs. Nuckles taught the 'upstairs' third grade class. _ Well, I know that there was only one third grade teacher at Stamps my third grade year of 1941/1942 and that was Miss Brazil. I believe Miss Mouser was the only fourth grade teacher. I don't have the 1942/1943, 1943/1944 or 1944/1945 Hilltopper, but Miss Mouser was the only fourth grade teacher in all of these years. I don't remember who was the third grade teacher. Mrs. Seymour's picture is in the 1945/1946 Hilltopper where she is the third grade teacher. Mr. Seymour is the social science teacher and girl's basketball coach. Mr. Tope is the principal, math and science teacher and boy's basketball coach. In the 1946/1947 Hilltopper Mrs. Seymour is third and fourth grade and Mrs. Harkins is listed for third grade. Mr. Seymour is now the principal, social science teacher and boy's and girl's basketball coach. I don't have the 1947/1948 Hilltopper. In the 1948/1949 Hilltopper Mrs. Seymour is third grade and Faye Rene Oglesby Linum is listed for third and fourth grade. In the 1949/1950 Hilltopper Mrs. Seymour is third grade and Mrs, Hamm is third and fourth grade. Mr. Bolton is the boy's and girl's basketball coach. In the 1950/1951 Hilltopper Mrs. May is the third grade teacher and the Seymour's are not listed. Mr. Bolton is the boy's and girl's basketball coach. I don't see Mrs. Nuckles in any of these Hilltopper's. Tom Sims SHS '51

773|766|2017-09-17 08:52:13|Earl Rogers|Re: Francille Riggins Seymour, SHS Graduate and Teacher, R.I.P.|Seems I remember the name but cant place either ones face.Mr Harold Hudson was our �assistant superintendent of schools until i was a junior. He was 'let go' but we never knew why...he was a very good man and we all (students) hated to see him go...his son , Ronnie, was in my class and later wounded in VN.Take careEarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Sep 16, 2017, at 10:16 PM, Jean jeang37@bellsouth.net [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � The Fall of 1943 and 1944 Mrs. Seymour taught third grade at Stamps. I have no idea when she started teaching there, but the 1944-45 year was her last year there. The 1945-46 year, Mrs. Nuckles taught the 'upstairs' third grade class. Jean Galbraith Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2017 7:19 PM To: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Cc: Earl Rogers '64 Subject: [StampsArk] Re: Francille Riggins Seymour, SHS Graduate and Teacher, R.I.P. � Earl Rogers wrote: How long did she teach at Stamps??? What grade(s) did she teach and when?? I cant remember her. _ I have the 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950 and 1951 Hilltoppers and she was the third grade teacher and Mr. Seymour taught high school from 1945/1946 until 1949/1950. I suspect that 1945 was their first year teaching in Stamps, because Mr. Seymour was a WWII veteran. She wasn't my third grade teacher in the 1943/1944 year and I don't remember her teaching in 1944/1945. I was wrong about Mr. Seymour being principal my senior year, as it was Harold Hudson, and it looks like the Seymour's left after the 1949/1950 year. Tom Sims |

774|774|2017-09-19 01:17:03|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County American Legion Post|From The Lafayette County School District Facebook Page Military veterans and their families in and around Lewisville, Stamps, Bradley and Buckner are invited to a special meeting at Lafayette County High School on Saturday, September 23rd from 10 am to 12 noon for the purpose of starting a new County American Legion Post. A service officer will also be present to assist veterans with their claims and benefits. The scope and nature of the new post will be on community service and youth programs for the school, which includes various scholarships available to high school kids. Since 1919 The American Legion has been a key advocate for veterans and their families.|

775|775|2017-09-22 22:26:55|Tom E. Sims|Football: Murfreesboro @ Lafayette County|LCHS won ! One report says: LCHS 52 - Murfreesboro 40 another report says: LCHS 62 - Murfreesboro 40 Either one sounds good and LCHS is now 1-3 this year.|

776|775|2017-09-23 08:00:57|Tom E. Sims|Re: Football: Murfreesboro @ Lafayette County| LCHS won ! One report says: LCHS 52 - Murfreesboro 40 another report says: LCHS 62 - Murfreesboro 40 Either one sounds good and LCHS is now 1-3 this year. A third source says 62-40.|

777|777|2017-09-25 18:47:48|Tom E. Sims|Myrtle Sue Peck Barr SHS '51, R.I.P.|[image: Inline image 1] Myrtle Sue Peck Barr November 6, 1932 - September 23, 2017 Myrtle Sue Peck Barr, 84, went home to meet her creator September 23, 2017. She was born November 6, 1932 in Weslaco, Texas, to the late William Harold and Lucille McAdams Peck. She is preceded in death by her parents; brother, Bill; sister, Peggy; and her daughter Valerie Barr. She is survived by her husband, James Barr; sons, James Barr Jr, and Terry Barr; daughter, Paula Barr; one granddaughter, Crystal Barr; and one great- granddaughter, Valerie Balentine. In lieu of a memorial service, we are asking those who knew her best to post their memories on her timeline and on her memorial page at Pinecrest Funeral Home, so that we can all remember her together. In addition, over the last year or so, Myrtle was ill and was unable to donate to a charity that she believed in, The St. Labre Indian School in Ashland, Montana. If you truly wish to remember her, we are requesting that people make donations to this charity in her name. St. Labre Indian School, PO Box 216 Ashland, MT 59003-9989. (stlabre.org). ___________________ Myrtle Sue was my SHS classmate who I knew since grade school. She was a cheerleader and the 1949 Football Homecoming Queen. I played football, basketball and baseball with her brother Billy, who was one of SHS's all-time best athletes. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info

778|778|2017-09-25 21:32:09|Tom E. Sims|Louise Mackey Roper, R.I.P.|Louise Mackey Roper (December 9, 1915 - September 21, 2017) Louise Mackey Roper, age 101 of Hamilton, Texas, formerly of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Thursday, September 21, 2017. Mrs. Roper was born December 9, 1915 in Stamps to Earnest and Lucy Ormand Mackey. She lived a healthy life which she enjoyed to the fullest. She touched so many lives and treated everyone the same; always with a smile on her face and love in her heart. Mrs. Roper was known as momma, grandmother, grannie, little grannie, artificial grannie, adopted grandmother, and friend to many. The wonderful memories and stories will hold dear for many and will be told and shared for years to come. She accepted Christ as her Savior when she was a girl and was a charter member of First Baptist Church in Stamps. Mrs. Roper was preceded in death by her parents; husband, O.D. Roper; son, Oscar Paul Roper; daughter and son-in-law, Jean and Harvey Foster; daughter-in-law, Carilon Roper; five brothers; and one baby sister. She is survived by her daughter, Barbara Jahns and husband, Ted of Hamilton, TX; her son, Wayne "Pug"� Roper of Waskom, TX; grandson whom she raised as her son, Tony Foster and wife, Rhonda of Waskom, TX; daughter-in-law, Carolyn Roper of Fort Worth, TX; two other grandsons, Brian Roper and wife, Kim and Preston Roper and wife, Carol; four granddaughters, Carol Richardson and husband, Daniel; Debi Jahns and husband, Byron Stephens; Wendy Russell and husband, Mike; and Misty Manshack and husband, Jerry; seven great grandsons, Daniel Foster and wife, Crystal; Jacob Foster; Rusty Richardson; Dustin Richardson; Robert Stephens and wife, Kristina; Christopher Russell; and Dylan Manshack; one great granddaughter, Kristin Esskew and husband, Terry; nine great-great grandchildren; Caylee Richardson, Morgan Richardson, Nathan Esskew, Tim Esskew, Karenna Esskew, Brynn Stephens, Jack Stephens, Kaia Stephens, and Brian Stephens; and numerous other family and friends. A special thanks to the staff of Dove Hill Nursing Home in Hamilton, where she spent the last two years of her life. They will remember her as the "cookie monster"� and the little lady who loved to dance. A Memorial Service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, September 30, 2017 at First Baptist Church in Stamps, AR with Bro. Mike Turner officiating under the direction of Smith Funeral Homes of Stamps. Interment will follow at Lakeside Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 1:00 p.m. until service time at the church. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com.|

779|779|2017-09-28 08:17:51|Tom E. Sims|C & C Packing|https://www.facebook.com/222676461096380/photos/a.67 8331985530823.1073741826.222676461096380/1694383007259044/?t ype=3&theater or https://goo.gl/1VLMNw or a href="https://goo.gl/1VLMNw" https://goo.gl/1VLMNw/a Come enjoy some of our farm raised porterhouse T-bones! They go for $9.90 a lb. and are cut fresh to order! Ask about our signature steak marinated at no extra charge!|

780|780|2017-09-28 08:19:35|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County Rotary Club|https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/photos/ a.406553222798633.1073741828.276170109170279/141607711517956 7/?type=3&theater or https://goo.gl/ZnVuTA or a href="https://goo.gl/ZnVuTA" https://goo.gl/ZnVuTA/a The Lafayette County Rotary Club, represented by Bro. Mike Turner, donated 50 student dictionaries to our 3rd grade classes. Thank you!!!!|

781|781|2017-09-29 22:45:20|Tom E. Sims|Football: Spring Hill 36 - Lafayette County 35|At Spring Hill Football: Spring Hill 36 - Lafayette County 35 LCHS is now 1 - 4 this year|

782|782|2017-10-04 16:21:06|Tom E. Sims|Ellen (Wallace) Vines SHS '53, R.I.P.|Ellen (Wallace) Vines SHS '53, R.I.P. (July 14, 1935 - October 2, 2017) http://www.aosmithfuneralhome.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm ?o_id=4394814&fh_id=14732 or a href="http://www.aosmithfuneralhome.com/fh/obituaries/obitua ry.cfm?o_id=4394814&fh_id=14732" http://www.aosmithfuneralhome.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm ?o_id=4394814&fh_id=14732/a Fairy Ellen (Wallace) Vines, age 82, of Buckner, AR, passed away Monday, October 2, 2017, at her home, in Buckner, AR,. Mrs. Vines was born July 14, 1935, in Buckner, Arkansas to Marion Yancey and Jewell (Baker) Wallace. She was a member of First Baptist church of Stamps, where she worked in the nursery for over forty years. Mrs. Vines was preceded in death by her parents; a son, Ricky Lynn Vines; and a sister, Mable Alden. She is survived by her Husband, Wilson Vines, of Buckner, AR; daughters, Sharon Kay Holly and husband, James, of Kilgore, TX, Sandra Blain, and husband, Al, of Buckner, AR, Lisa Ann Pasley, and husband, Elvin, of CA, and Debbie Wallace, and husband, Joey , of Dubberly, LA; sons, Tony Vines, of GA, Kevin Wayne Vines, of TN, and Kenneth Wayne Creech, and wife Patricia, of New Boston, TX; sister, Lucille Andrews, and husband, Jess, of Kansas City, KS; brother, William Wallace, and wife De Ette, of Waldo, AR; 16 Grandchildren; and 16 Great-Grandchildren. Funeral Services will be held at the Smith Chapel, in Stamps, AR, Thursday, October 5, 2017 at 2:00PM. Interment will follow at the Liberty Cemetery in Buckner, AR, under the direction of A.O. Smith Funeral Home. Visitation will be held, Wednesday, October 4, 2017, 6:00PM "� 8:00PM, at the Funeral Home. Honoring Mrs. Vines as her pall bearers will be Aaron Creech, Tyler Wallace, Chris Holly, Ronald Brown, Chris Brown, and Corey Wichelns. Serving as an honorary pall bearer will be Bryce Ridge.|

783|783|2017-10-07 01:12:10|Tom E. Sims|LCHS Football Homecoming: Foreman 63 - LCHS 8|LCHS Football Homecoming: Foreman 63 - LCHS 8 LCHS is now 1-5 Foreman is now 5-0|

784|784|2017-10-07 10:17:21|Tom E. Sims|2017 LCHS Football Homecoming Court|2017 LCHS Football Homecoming Court https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/22279766_14250 28384284440_2267823999209066705_n.jpg?oh=a2a24ca5b25a5c8f2de 874e1964c9d6c&oe=5A756546 or a href="https://goo.gl/jfgw1w" https://goo.gl/jfgw1w/a https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/photos/pcb.1 425029057617706/1425028397617772/?type=3&theater or a href="https://goo.gl/gwyGJG" https://goo.gl/gwyGJG/a|

785|785|2017-10-14 23:57:40|Tom E. Sims|Football: LCHS 49 - Dierks 20|LCHS @ Dierks LCHS 49 - Dierks 20 LCHS is now 2-5 this year|

786|786|2017-10-18 10:05:50|Tom E. Sims|Re: Graham Galloway|I remember Graham. He and my brother Bill were both in SHS '56 and were best friends. Graham played end on one of the better SHS football teams, and Bill was the quarterback. Bill made all-state their senior year and I believe that Graham was all-district. My parents were close friends with his parents. Graham's death hit my brother very hard, and I believe Bill stayed in close contact with Graham's widow. Sidney Melear is SHS '50 and was a friend of mine. Tom Sims SHS'51 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: marilou0841@aol.com Date: Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 6:35 AM Subject: Fwd: Graham Galloway To: davidorr@cableone.net, lindanixbaker@sbcglobal.net, runnelson@cableone.net, rtrasr@cox.net, tony0863@cox.net, marymouse2@hotmail.com, mth2md@cox.net, tes3355@gmail.com, siddickson@sbcglobal.net, w5xh1976@gmail.com SO INTERESTING... -----Original Message----- From: sidney melear sidney_melear@yahoo.com To: Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com; Marilou Rogers Nelson '59 marilou0841@aol.com Sent: Tue, Oct 17, 2017 9:23 pm Subject: Graham Galloway GRAHAM: 'JINX, DON'T GET ANY MUD IN MY DADDY'S CAR!' In 1963, Dr. Graham Galloway, one of my boyhood heroes who lived next door in Stamps, Ark., came over to our house & said: "Jinx, Bradley High School now has a football team. Let's go down & watch them practice tonight!" Graham was a professor of engineering at the University of Texas in Austin & also a jet pilot with the Texas Air National Guard. And his father was one of the owners of the local Ford dealership. . . And his daddy, L. D., had a beautiful new golden 1964 Ford 2 door hardtop with a 390 hp engine on the carport. It had rained earlier that day. I was about 16 & Graham gave me a stern lecture about not getting any mud in the demonstrator when we got in & out of it on the muddy parking lot by the football field . . So, we drove over to Lewisville at a moderate speed, then turned south & crossed the railroad tracks & headed south on Hwy 29. The highway was as straight as an arrow for about 25 miles to Bradley. We drove out of the city limits of Lewisville. But time was getting short. And so the jet pilot kicked in & he let her rip! it was full throttle ahead & we were flying low. About as fast as the 390 horses would run! I am sure we were doing at least 120 mph. . . When we came over a little hill & about 100 yards down the highway the road was absolutely full of cattle! Cows were everywhere! So, Graham put on the power brakes! But oops. It had been raining & there was no way to stop that golden rocket. And then the car started to spin in the road like a top. I was absolutely terrified as we tore our way through the entire herd of cows, calves, steers & probably a big old bull! . . But God was with us that day. And we didn't touch a bovine hair, spill a drop of blood or "get any MUD in daddy's car." This was my last memory of my friend & boyhood hero Graham Galloway. And on March 24, 1970, he flew his jet out over the Gulf of Mexico and never came back. My brother Mike told me Graham was a dedicated Christian. And I know he was commendable in many, many ways. But he enjoyed speed too much. So, he wasn't perfect. However, our Savior is perfect & loves us even when we are foolish. And do some real stupid things! ____________________________ From Sidney Melear Graham was about 6 years younger than me, so i barely remember him. I knew he was killed in a F-102 flying out of Ellington ( the F-102 was a dangerous plane to fly, particularly while taking off and landing ) while serving with the ANG, but didn't know he was an engr. professor at UT with a Doctorate degree. He must have been a brain. It's tough enough getting an engr. degree, but a Dr. degree and a professorship at UT demands some serious grey matter. I know the Galloway's were very proud of him and this must have been a terrible blow to them.|

787|787|2017-10-18 18:17:55|Tom E. Sims|Ed Cooper: New StampsARK Yahoo Group Member|Ed Cooper: New StampsARK Yahoo Group Member Ed Cooper is a Cotton Belt Railroad historian trying to find out about Stamps, AR and the Cotton Belt railroad. He has multiple Cotton Belt time tables that show details on trains through Stamps. He has Interviewed former Stamps resident Jess Yarbro, and I have shared some Stamps and Cotton Belt remembrances with him. I'm sure Ed would like to hear any Cotton Belt railroad memories anyone would be willing to share. Tom Sims|

788|787|2017-10-19 05:13:47|Earl Rogers|Re: Ed Cooper: New StampsARK Yahoo Group Member|Tom:He should read SOUTHERN TIMBER MAN: the story of william Buchanan......it has a lot of railroad info/history.....it may be of help.Hope it helps.Take care, EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Oct 18, 2017, at 7:55 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Ed Cooper: New StampsARK Yahoo Group Member Ed Cooper is a Cotton Belt Railroad historian trying to find out about Stamps, AR and the Cotton Belt railroad. He has multiple Cotton Belt time tables that show details on trains through Stamps. He has Interviewed former Stamps resident Jess Yarbro, and I have shared some Stamps and Cotton Belt remembrances with him. I'm sure Ed would like to hear any Cotton Belt railroad memories anyone would be willing to share. Tom Sims |

789|787|2017-10-19 07:54:30|edwin_c_cooper|Re: Ed Cooper: New StampsARK Yahoo Group Member|Yes I collect and work with Cotton Belt history. Let me tell you how I got here. Wednesday October 4th I was working in the Special Collections at the Commerce Public Library, Commerce, Texas. They have an exceptionally good collection of Cotton Belt material donated by Jacob Anderson, the grandfather of all Cotton Belt history. While looking through the June 1951 edition of the Cotton Belt News I saw an article about a Thomas Sims receiving an appointment to West Point. I made note of the paragraph because I knew of another person who was in school at Stamps in 1951 and wanted to ask him about Tom Sims.Sunday October 8th I met with Jesse Yarbro at his home in Jefferson, AR. He is a retired Cotton Belt/Southern Pacific/Union Pacific railroader with 51 years service (1951-2002). He comes from a railroad family where his father, four uncles and a cousin worked for the Cotton Belt. Jesse has told me incredible stories about his time on the Cotton Belt and that Sunday's meeting was our fourth one. I asked Jesse about Tom Sims and he said, "Yes I remember him. We were on the football team together, I was right half back and Tom was left half back. His father was operator at Stamps." I did a search for Tom Sims and found his West Point page and started corresponding with him. I would love to hear anything railroad related about Stamps, AR. Ed CooperShelbyville, KY�|

790|787|2017-10-19 08:34:22|Tom E. Sims|Re: Ed Cooper: New StampsARK Yahoo Group Member|Earll Rogers wrote: Tom: He should read SOUTHERN TIMBER MAN: the story of william Buchanan...... it has a lot of railroad info/history.....it may be of help. Hope it helps. Take care, Earl _ Earl: I've mentioned the book to Ed previously, as well as Glen Ward's "History of Stamps, Arkansas" which we have online. Tom Sims|

791|787|2017-10-19 08:35:58|Tom E. Sims|Re: Ed Cooper: New StampsARK Yahoo Group Member|Ed Cooper wrote: I asked Jesse about Tom Sims and he said, "Yes I remember him. We were on the football team together, I was right half back and Tom was left half back." ___ Ed told me this previously and I didn't correct Jesse's recollection. Actually Billy Kuykendall and I were the quaterback and I also was a halfback on defense my senior year in 1950. Jesse (who was only a sophmore) and Frank Willis were the halfbacks on offense. Charles Dickson was the fullback. Our team was undefeated during the regular season and we lost in the State semi-finals. Our coach was George Doherty. The total points scored against us during the regular season wasn't much more than LCHS has given up in single games in recent years. Jesse Sanders, who became County judge was an end and Leonard Benefield, who the SHS football stadium was once named after, was the center. I've just looked our record up and we went 10-0-0 during the regular season, scoring 286 points while giving up 76. Tom Sims|

792|792|2017-10-20 08:17:49|Tom E. Sims|Ed Cooper/Tom Sims email exchanges - Long|Listed below, in chronological order, are the email exchanges between Ed Cooper and myself between 10 October 2017 and 20 October 2017. I'm posting them here on the StampsARK Yahoo Forum in my continuing effort to archive Stamps remembrances from previous days. Hopefully also, some of you will find some of them interesting. Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Edwin Cooper edwin_c_cooper@yahoo.com Date: Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:52 AM Subject: Jesse Yarbro To: "TES3355@gmail.com" TES3355@gmail.com Thomas: Greetings from Kentucky. You don't know me from Adam, but we both know Jesse Yarbro. I was going through the June 1951 Cotton Belt News in a library in Texas and saw you were appointed to West Point. And that you were from Stamps, AR. So I noted it and when I saw Jesse this Sunday asked him if he knew a Thomas Sims. "Yes we used to play football at Stamps High. We were both halfbacks in the backfield. Tom was left halfback and I was right half back." Sunday was my fourth interview with Jesse. I write Cotton Belt railroad history and Jesse sure has the experiences from his railroad life and that of his father and uncles. He is on Facebook and lives in Jefferson, AR with his wife Donna. Jesse worked for the railroads from 1951-2002. Ed Cooper Shelbyville, KY (From Tom Sims): Ed: Please tell Jesse that I said hello. Jesse and I were good friends, especially when we were younger. We used to visit each other's home - his family lived in the Cotton Belt Section house, pretty close to the L&A and Cotton Belt depot in Stamps. Although I believe we were about the same age, my high school yearbooks indicate that somehow he was two grades behind me at Stamps High School. He was a very good football player and he married a classmate of mine. I believe they left Stamps in or about 1951, and I haven't seen him since. If Jesse has email access, I hope he will contact me. I maintain a Stamps email mailing list that Ihe might be interested in - It's mostly obituaries these days. Best wishes, Tom Sims http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/TES.htm (From Ed Cooper): Tom: The message has been sent. Jesse started working for Cotton Belt in the St. Louis area as a messenger in 1951. He was born in Hickory Ridge, AR in 1934. I believe he likely fell behind in school because his family moved so often because of his father's work with the railroad. He just told me Sunday about his brief experience in the Army. He was drafted in 1952 and started basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. He was discharged before he completed training because of a preexisting knee injury. He returned to his railroad job in St. Louis. Ed in Kentucky (From Ed Cooper): Tom: Do you mind if I ask about your father's work on the Cotton Belt? Or anything you may remember about the railroad or Stamps, AR? I'm working on a second Cotton Belt book. Jesse has helped considerably, Sunday the 8th was my fourth interview with him. I've stopped by Stamps to look it over. It is surely nothing like it used to be. Bodcaw Lumber and all its building is long gone. The place where the crossing of the Cotton Belt and the L&A is just the single track Union Pacific now. Thanks for any reply, Ed in Kentucky (From Tom Sims): Ed: I'll be glad to help. Tom Sims (From Ed Cooper): Tom: I have a lot of technical information on Stamps. For example Stamps was at milepost 385.20 on the Cotton Belt mainline. It had a 91 car passing siding and a train yard (1940). The Cotton Belt crossed the Louisiana and Arkansas at Stamps. There was a mail crane to pass a sack of mail to a train and a water plug. Prior to World War 2 there was a day operator. The telegraph call was "BU". During WW2 the station was open 24 hours. Passenger trains #1 and 2 the Lone Star and #5 and 6 the Cotton Belt served Stamps during the Great Depression and WW2. Multiple northbound and southbound freight trains and a daily except Sunday local called at Stamps. Several years ago I had the University of Arkansas Special Collections Library send me the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Arkansas. The base map for Stamps is dated April 1930 with added updates. With these Sanborn Maps I was able to identify industries at Stamps and where the Cotton Belt tracks are, as well as some of the adjacent town. What I don't know is what was it like to grow up and live in Stamps? What was it like inside the "L" shaped Union Depot in Stamps? What I want to get at is the anecdotal history of the railroaders in Stamps. History is made up of its bits and pieces. Thanks for any reply. Ed in Kentucky (From Tom Sims): Ed: To the best of my memory: My father, Thomas Roland Sims, was born on a farm in Brookland, ARK in 1906. My mother, born in 1909, and I were also born in Brookland. Dad completed 8th grade in Brookland and later took a business course in Missouri. My Mom had a junior college degree and was a substitute high school teacher off and on, once for a full year Brookland is in NE Arkansas, between Jonesboro and Paragould, and their main street is the highway which is immediately adjacent to the Cotton Belt railroad. Brookland had a population of about 300 that was all white, and no blacks were allowed in Brookland after dark. The blacks that worked on the section gangs and were quartered on a work train car always moved their car beyond the town limits at night. My parents were married in OCT 1929 when my father was running a service station in Brookland and was on the Cotton Belt extra board as a clerk/telegrapher. At the service station he collected milk in metal containers from farmers and put them on the train for shipping to creamery butter processors. He said the milk was often rancid before it was put on the train, and he wouldn't eat creamery butter for the rest of his life. He stayed on the extra board during the depression and worked periodically at depots in Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri. He was often bumped and did some bumping himself. I was born in 1933 and his home base remained in Brookland until we moved to Stamps in 1938, when my only sibling, Bill, was born. The only time I'm aware of them leaving Brookland before 1938 was shortly after they were married in 1929 when they lived for awhile in Alden Bridge LA on the Cotton Belt spur line to Shreveport. He was the only Cotton Belt man in Alden Bridge, where they lived in a Cotton Belt house, and all of their furniture had come free from Brookland on the train. My mom got very homesick while they were living in Alden Bridge, crying and throwing a fit and lying on the floor. Dad ignored her and she got over it. After I was born, he usually went alone when he had a job with the Cotton Belt. I only remember one time when we visited him for a week or so in Caruthersville, MO. In Stamps, he had the graveyard shift at first, and I had to be quiet when near his bedroom during the day. He worked with/under several agents until he became the agent himself. The Stamps depot was at the NE corner of the Cotton Belt - L&A intersection, had a ticket window to the office in a white waiting and restroom, a locked, covered freight room and then a long, open freight platform and parking lot along the Cotton Belt. Along the L&A there was a ticket window in a colored waiting and restroom, a locked, covered freight room and then a very long, open freight platform and parking lot along the L&A. The office was locked and there was an L&A Desk in the corner of the room nearest the rails intersection. The Cotton Belt desk was adjacent to and just to the east of the L&A desk. Inside the office there were some heavy, steel mechanical switches next to the Cotton Belt desk. My dad almost got electrocuted on a hot day when he was sweaty and he was operating the switches, which had a radio aerial on them, while he was

talking on the phone. Over the years we got a lot of damaged, returned furniture from the Cotton Belt that my dad fixed up. I think he paid a nominal price for it. Dad routinely checked the freight cars along the siding and I sometimes accompanied him. He often delivered a message to a train when it was passing through, using the cane and string device they had. When I got older, he let me do it a couple of times. We could travel free on the Cotton Belt and my mom, Bill and I usually visited our relatives in Brookland at least once a year. We took several train vacations as a family and visited relatives and friends in California and Colorado. I think we got at least one foreign RR pass for the family, free or reduced rate, every year. We lived a comfortable, middle class life in Stamps where my mom and dad were respected members of the community. Stamps' population was about 2500, half black and half white and the schools, churches and homes were segregated. The blacks mostly lived south of the Cotton Belt and west of the L&A. We had a part time colored maid, Pearly, when I was younger and her husband sometimes did yard work for us. When I came back to Stamps for a visit after finishing high school, I was in trouble with Pearly if I didn't visit her while I was home. Dad got the wanderlust twice and we left Stamps, returning to Stamps each time. We were in Fordyce, ARK and Pine Bluff, ARK for my sixth grade and in Bearden, ARK for my ninth grade. We kept, and rented, our home in Stamps each time. I'll be glad to try and answer any questions you may have. Tom Sims (From Ed Cooper): I drove through Brookland on Monday the 2nd. I'll be following up with some questions about industries in Stamps. Your write up of Stamps is great, I used similar first hand anecdotal information to write up Benton, Louisiana. Benton is about five miles south of Alden Bridge. The man who became the agent operator at Alden Bridge in 1938 may have bumped your father out of that job, or your father may have been covering a leave. Anyway Benton agency was closed until WW2 started up, then it became a 24 hour operation, and the Alden Bridge agency was closed. There was an operator named Paul Wooldridge who worked Lewisville during WW2 and at the end of his long career 1937-1981. Wooldridge was the agent operator in Lewisville and covered Stamps from there. Ed (From Tom Sims): Ed: I will comment on all of the industries you itemized, but in the meantime you might want to look at some of the links on my "Stamps High School Class of 1951" website: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ In particular, look at the "History of Stamps" link: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PGW.htm which was written by Glen Ward, a longtime employee of the Stamps Post Office, and my Stamps scoutmaster and friend. He was one of the main contributors to the "Southern Timberman" book which I wrote about on my Stamps Yahoo group in 2012 and is appended below. Tom Sims Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:02:19 -0700 Cc: "[Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com From: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action I read the "Southern Timberman" book in the late eighties. It is a must read for anyone interested in the history of Stamps. There used to be a copy in the Stamps Public Library and also there was one in the First Baptist Church "Roma Sims" Library. Most of the Stamps history in the book came from a "HISTORY OF STAMPS, ARKANSAS" that was put together by Glen C. Ward. I have a photocopy of this work that Glen gave me in 1989. Glen's compilation consists of 8 legal size pages full of typed information and two pages of old photos. Stewart Hicks, the Stamps postmaster, published an abridged version of Mr. Ward's compilation in 1994, and I bought a copy at one of the drug stores in Stamps. The Hicks version is about 5 1/2" by 8 1/2" and has 34 pages of content, including 19 old photos. I suspect that Stewart Hicks is the son of John Hicks who owned the Hicks barbershop. Glen C. Ward worked for the post office for many years, and I believe he also sold insurance on the side. He was the longtime, long suffering scoutmaster, a deacon in the First Baptist church, and a really fine man. He never owned a car as far as I know and rode around Stamps on a bicycle. He had false teeth and when he talked you could hear a whistling sound occasionally. Mrs. Ward was a Blakely and they had three children: Steven and Joanna, who were a little older than me and Leon who was about 5 years younger. When I get around to it, I plan to scan Mr. Ward's compilation and archive it on the StampsARK Forum and the SHS '51 website. Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers@comcast.net Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:59 PM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Stamps Mailing List

fyi: if anyone is interested there is a wonderful book: SOUTHERN TIMBERMAN; THE LEGACY OF WILLIAM BUCHANAN by Archer H. Mayor; univ of Georgia Press after hearing about it , I found my copy of Amazon. interesting history of Bodcaw Lumber and Stamps area. Earl M. Rogers, M.S., P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret Rx Consulting, L.L.C. 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 P: 804.794.9541 F: 804.794.9541 earl.rogers@comcast.net ________________ (From Tom Sims): Ed: I don't recall the Paul Wooldridge name. From a very sketchy remembrance of my mom's account of their Alden Bridge stay, and knowing they were back in Brookland when I was born in 1933, I believe they were in Alden Bridge at least a year beginning in late 1929 or 1930. They were there long enough to make a lot of friends and were active in the local church (probably baptist). FWIW, I don't know exactly when my dad got the agent's job in Stamps, rather than being one of the clerk/telegraphers, but I suspect it wasn't until 1949 or 1950. I know that after we returned from Bearden to Stamps in 1949, he worked in Plain Dealing for a few months while we were living in Stamps, before working in Stamps again. FWIW, Dad's nephew John Shelby and John's sister both worked for the Cotton Belt, and I believe Dad taught both of them the art of operating a telegraph key. John became the agent in Bearden sometime after Dad left there and his sister (I can't recall her name right now) was in Marmaduke. After looking at some of Dad's old papers, I see that Dad first worked for the Missouri Pacific starting in 1924 and started with the Cotton Belt in 1928. He retired 2 July 1971 as agent in Altheimer, ARK after the Cotton Belt had closed their agency in Stamps on 26 June 1970 where he was their last agent. Dad bought a small camper that he lived in while he was the agent in Altheimer and marking time until his retirement. Mom stayed at our home in Stamps while he was working in Altheimer. He worked at 63 different locations during his railroad career, most of them during his early days when he was on the extraboard. I've been meaning to scan a lot of old papers that I got when my Mom died, and you've motivated me to do the ones that relate to Dad's railroad service. Here are links to some that you may find interesting. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 13.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 14.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 15.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 16.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 17.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 18.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 19.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 20.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 21.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 22.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 23.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 24.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 25.jpg Tom Sims
(From Ed Cooper): Tom: I'm going to write the names of several industries as they appear on the Sanborn Map. I'm looking for anything you can remember about these places. The names may have changed, I can provide the street the industry shows on from the map. (Ed Cooper itemization with responses by Tom Sims): 1. Bodcaw Lumber, Mill, Stores, Office, lumber piles, log piles The only things that remained of Bodcaw Lumber that I remember are the company store (Cabe's on Main Street), the office vault at the southern end of Market Street, building foundations, and the mill pond which is now called Lake June. Lake June froze hard enough to drive cars on when I was 8 years old or so. I have a picture of me standing on the ice on the lake then. I understand It doesn't freeze over at all now. See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information. 2. APALCO-Arkansas Power and Light Company The Couch Steam Electric plant was built during my time in Stamps. It's parking lot was a favorite sparking place for Stamps couples. See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information. 3. Standard Oil of Louisiana There were a lot of Standard Oil people in Stamps, drilling companies, and oil service company. A close friend of my father worked for Standard Oil and was paid a lot in Standard Oil stock that eventually made him a multi-millionaire. 4. Columbia Cotton Oil Doesn't ring a bell. 5. Walker Grocery (Wholesale) Doesn't ring a bell. 6. Gulf Refining Company warehouse Their operation was at Main and Conlin and the earliest owner I remember was either Carl or Dick Davis, who were brothers. One ran Gulf Oil and the other had a sizable construction company. Hubert Sinquefield had the Esso distributorship and I believe he later bought the Gulf operation. William Minter then took it over. He married a classmate of mine. 7. Nehi Bottling Works That was somewhere near the Cotton Belt and was owned by Earl Briehn. They bottled R.C. Cola and other soft drinks. 8. L&A/SSW interchange track behind the depot I remember this. I went to Shreveport once on this line. 9. People's Gin Company I only remember one Gin Co in Stamps and it was south of the railroad tracks on Main Street next to Lake June. It was owned by the McMurrough family. Son Jack and his family lived right across the street from us and his parents lived behind them on Antigo (Highway 82). Jack built and ran a small store next to the Gin after it closed. 10. Pierce Petroleum Corporation Doesn't ring a bell, although I remember a Pierce boy who was a little younger than me. 11. Stamps Gin Company See #9 above. 12. Sweet Potato Growers Association Doesn't ring a bell. 13. Stamps Ware House Company Doesn't ring a bell. 14. Southern Ice & Utilities Company This was run by a Mr. Webb who was a good friend of my Dad. It was located at the south end of Conlin Street, just before you got to the Cotton Belt RR. I would go inside and see their saws cutting large blocks of ice when we went there to buy a cold watermelon in the summer. We had an Ice Box when we first moved to Stamps, but we got a Sears Cold Spot refrigerator after a year or so. 15. Lafayette Packing Corporation Doesn't ring a bell. Harlis Camp (classmate
of my brother and a Lafayette County Sherrif and cattleman) opened a packing company (C&C Packing) after I left Stamps. It's still going strong. Thanks for any reply, Ed in Kentucky (From Tom Sims): Other Items: 1. One of the largest, most successful industries in Stamps was the Alan White Furniture Company and I think they shipped a lot on the Cotton Belt. I believe it started just about the time I left Stamps, and it was originally along the North side of the Cotton Belt, somewhere around the end of Thomas Street. Later they moved to a new building on Highway 82 on the eastern outskirts of Town. See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information. 2 Pulp Yards - The Ward Yard was at the northeast intersection of 82 and the L&A railroad, It was after my time, as was the Jerry Owens operation. Jerry Owens was also after my time and my parents didn't care too much for him (He tried to buy their extra lot). He was a land speculator as well as a pulpwood operator and his offices were at the SW corner of 82 and the L&A. See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information. 3. Before my time, there was a large YMCA building and there was an Opera house on Opera Street. See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information. 4. A.O. Smith Funeral Home - A.O. came to Stamps a few years before we did and it's probably the largest funeral home operation around now. When I was in Stamps they were located on East Main for the whites and they had a building for colored just south of them on First Street. He became one of the wealthiest men in Stamps. See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information. 5. Stamps Sawmill - I think this started when I was in high school, and was located next to Conlin Street extended, just south of the Cotton Belt. 6. Ford Motor Dealership - Owned by L.D. Galloway, Jr. and the only car dealer in Lafayette County until Hudson Chevrolet opened. Ford was originally on the NW side of the Triangle until they moved to the NW corner of Thomas and 82. Hudson Chevrolet opened in the old Ford place on the triangle and then moved to the western outskirts of town. Both had extensive service and repair operations. 7. Wilson (I believe) Construction Co - A large, successful operation just outside of Stamps on 82 west. He might have bought out one of the Davis brothers. I don't think he got involved until after I left Stamps. 8. Wooten House Moving - They were south of Lake June on the McKamie Road. I went to school with several of the Wooten boys. 9. McKamie Gas Works and Sulphur Plant. - A few miles south of Stamps. Our next door neighbor, Cortez Langley, (their daughter, Georgia, was my classmate and future wife) worked at the sulphur plant as well as his brother, Coy Langley, and my classmate Myrtle Sue Peck's father was the plant chemist. Coy fell into a sulphur vat and eventually died from the exposure. We rented our house to the plant superintendent while we were living in Pine Bluff and a later plant chemist (my cousin's husband, Max Watkins) once stayed with us for several months. (From Ed Cooper): This is incredible stuff. When I was in my first year of college at East Texas State in Commerce I witnessed operator Terry Kirkland working
with TOPS in 1972-1973. TOPS is the Total Operating Processing System. It was linked to the railroad teletype. Terry would input train consist information via the teletype into a mainframe computer. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS The computer that SP/Cotton Belt was using displaced many railroad men like your father. The man I mentioned, Mr. Paul B. Wooldridge was working Gillette as an agent operator until that job was abolished in about 1974. He then came to Lewisville and worked there as an agent operator. In his booklet Cotton Belt Memories he mentions having to go to Stamps to count and record cars. So Wooldridge was doing the work your father used to do. This trend of job and agency abolishment happened all across the Cotton Belt and other lines. The documents you posted help better define that story. I'll explain what research I'm doing on your Stamps Yahoo Group. But suffice to say it is in detail and specifically about the Cotton Belt. I'll get back to you on the industries, some of them were likely abandoned by the time you got to Stamps. Ed in Kentucky (From Tom Sims): Ed: I've only found one additional item among my old papers that is related in any way to the Cotton Belt. This 1938 letter from Dad to his mother speaks of an Irish Potato rush on the Cotton Belt that was keeping him very busy: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19380 00.jpg BTW, subject to your approval, I'm going to post all of our email exchanges to date on the StampsARK Yahoo Forum. In the post I'm correcting/clarifying a couple of my Stamps industry comments.
(From Ed Cooper): Tom: I have multiple Cotton Belt Employee Time Table (ETT) extracts that show Stamps. I'd like to post some of them to the Files area of the Stamps group. Or I can send them to you and you can post them. And I don't mind if our correspondence gets posted to the group. Ed (From Tom Sims): Ed: We haven't used the File directory very much and it's been restricted to my use only. I've just changed the access code so that members can upload files, so you go ahead and upload the timetables. Let me know if you have any problems. I'll post our email exchanges this morning. Tom Sims|

793|792|2017-10-20 10:59:58|Derrell Patterson|Re: Ed Cooper/Tom Sims email exchanges ...Linda Burke Sims posted th|Attachments :On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:17 AM 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: u/u � Listed below, in chronological order, are the email exchanges between Ed Cooper and myself between 10 October 2017 and 20 October 2017. I'm posting them here on the StampsARK Yahoo Forum in my continuing effort to archive Stamps remembrances from previous days. Hopefully also, some of you will find some of them interesting. Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Edwin Cooper edwin_c_cooper@yahoo.com Date: Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:52 AM Subject: Jesse Yarbro To: "TES3355@gmail.com" TES3355@gmail.com Thomas: Greetings from Kentucky. You don't know me from Adam, but we both know Jesse Yarbro. I was going through the June 1951 Cotton Belt News in a library in Texas and saw you were appointed to West Point. And that you were from Stamps, AR. So I noted it and when I saw Jesse this Sunday asked him if he knew a Thomas Sims. "Yes we used to play football at Stamps High. We were both halfbacks in the backfield. Tom was left halfback and I was right half back." Sunday was my fourth interview with Jesse. I write Cotton Belt railroad history and Jesse sure has the experiences from his railroad life and that of his father and uncles. He is on Facebook and lives in Jefferson, AR with his wife Donna. Jesse worked for the railroads from 1951-2002. Ed Cooper Shelbyville, KY (From Tom Sims): Ed: Please tell Jesse that I said hello. Jesse and I were good friends, especially when we were younger. We used to visit each other's home - his family lived in the Cotton Belt Section house, pretty close to the L&A and Cotton Belt depot in Stamps. Although I believe we were about the same age, my high school yearbooks indicate that somehow he was two grades behind me at Stamps High School. He was a very good football player and he married a classmate of mine. I believe they left Stamps in or about 1951, and I haven't seen him since. If Jesse has email access, I hope he will contact me. I maintain a Stamps email mailing list that Ihe might be interested in - It's mostly obituaries these days. Best wishes, Tom Sims http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/TES.htm (From Ed Cooper): Tom: The message has been sent. Jesse started working for Cotton Belt in the St. Louis area as a messenger in 1951. He was born in Hickory Ridge, AR in 1934. I believe he likely fell behind in school because his family moved so often because of his father's work with the railroad. He just told me Sunday about his brief experience in the Army. He was drafted in 1952 and started basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. He was discharged before he completed training because of a preexisting knee injury. He returned to his railroad job in St. Louis. Ed in Kentucky (From Ed Cooper): Tom: Do you mind if I ask about your father's work on the Cotton Belt? Or anything you may remember about the railroad or Stamps, AR? I'm working on a second Cotton Belt book. Jesse has helped considerably, Sunday the 8th was my fourth interview with him. I've stopped by Stamps to look it over. It is surely nothing like it used to be. Bodcaw Lumber and all its building is long gone. The place where the crossing of the Cotton Belt and the L&A is just the single track Union Pacific now. Thanks for any reply, Ed in Kentucky (From Tom Sims): Ed: I'll be glad to help. Tom Sims (From Ed Cooper): Tom: I have a lot of technical information on Stamps. For example Stamps was at milepost 385.20 on the Cotton Belt mainline. It had a 91 car passing siding and a train yard (1940). The Cotton Belt crossed the Louisiana and Arkansas at Stamps. There was a mail crane to pass a sack of mail to a train and a water plug. Prior to World War 2 there was a day operator. The telegraph call was "BU". During WW2 the station was open 24 hours. Passenger trains #1 and 2 the Lone Star and #5 and 6 the Cotton Belt served Stamps during the Great Depression and WW2. Multiple northbound and southbound freight trains and a daily except Sunday local called at Stamps. Several years ago I had the University of Arkansas Special Collections Library send me the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Arkansas. The base map for Stamps is dated April 1930 with added updates. With these Sanborn Maps I was able to identify industries at Stamps and where the Cotton Belt tracks are, as well as some of the adjacent town. What I don't know is what was it like to grow up and live in Stamps? What was it like inside the "L" shaped Union Depot in Stamps? What I want to get at is the anecdotal history of the railroaders in Stamps. History is made up of its bits and pieces. Thanks for any reply. Ed in Kentucky (From Tom Sims): Ed: To the best of my memory: My father, Thomas Roland Sims, was born on a farm in Brookland, ARK in 1906. My mother, born in 1909, and I were also born in Brookland. Dad completed 8th grade in Brookland and later took a business course in Missouri. My Mom had a junior college degree and was a substitute high school teacher off and on, once for a full year Brookland is in NE Arkansas, between Jonesboro and Paragould, and their main street is the highway which is immediately adjacent to the Cotton Belt railroad. Brookland had a population of about 300 that was all white, and no blacks were allowed in Brookland after dark. The blacks that worked on the section gangs and were quartered on a work train car always moved their car beyond the town limits at night. My parents were married in OCT 1929 when my father was running a service station in Brookland and was on the Cotton Belt extra board as a clerk/telegrapher. At the service station he collected milk in metal containers from farmers and put them on the train for shipping to creamery butter processors. He said the milk was often rancid before it was put on the train, and he wouldn't eat creamery butter for the rest of his life. He stayed on the extra board during the depression and worked periodically at depots in Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri. He was often bumped and did some bumping himself. I was born in 1933 and his home base remained in Brookland until we moved to Stamps in 1938, when my only sibling, Bill, was born. The only time I'm aware of them leaving Brookland before 1938 was shortly after they were married in 1929 when they lived for awhile in Alden Bridge LA on the Cotton Belt spur line to Shreveport. He was the only Cotton Belt man in Alden Bridge, where they lived in a Cotton Belt house, and all of their furniture had come free from Brookland on the train. My mom got very homesick while they were living in Alden Bridge, crying and throwing a fit and lying on the floor. Dad ignored her and she got over it. After I was born, he usually went alone when he had a job with the Cotton Belt. I only remember one time when we visited him for a week or so in Caruthersville, MO. In Stamps, he had the graveyard shift at first, and I had to be quiet when near his bedroom during the day. He worked with/under several agents until he became the agent himself. The Stamps depot was at the NE corner of the Cotton Belt - L&A intersection, had a ticket window to the office in a white waiting and restroom, a locked, covered freight room and then a long, open freight platform and parking lot along the Cotton Belt. Along the L&A there was a ticket window in a colored waiting and restroom, a locked, covered freight room and then a very long, open freight platform and parking lot along the L&A. The office was locked and there was an L&A Desk in the corner of the room nearest the rails intersection. The Cotton Belt desk was adjacent to and just to the east of the L&A desk. Inside the office there were some heavy, steel mechanical switches next to the Cotton Belt desk. My dad almost got electrocuted on a hot day when he was sweaty and he was operating the switches, which had a radio aerial on them, while he was talking on the phone. Over the years we got a lot of damaged, returned furniture from the Cotton Belt that my dad fixed up. I think he paid a nominal price for it. Dad routinely checked the freight cars along the siding and I sometimes accompanied him. He often delivered a message to a train when it was passing through, using the cane and string device they had. When I got older, he let me do it a couple of times. We could travel free on the Cotton Belt and my mom, Bill and I usually visited our relatives in Brookland at least once a year. We took several train vacations as a family and visited relatives and friends in California and Colorado. I think we got at least one foreign RR pass for the family, free or reduced rate, every year. We lived a comfortable, middle class life in Stamps where my mom and dad were respected members of the community. Stamps' population was about 2500, half black and half white and the schools, churches and homes were segregated. The blacks mostly lived south of the Cotton Belt and west of the L&A. We had a part time colored maid, Pearly, when I was younger and her husband sometimes did yard work for us. When I came back to Stamps for a visit after finishing high school, I was in trouble with Pearly if I didn't visit her while I was home. Dad got the wanderlust twice and we left Stamps, returning to Stamps each time. We were in Fordyce, ARK and Pine Bluff, ARK for my sixth grade and in Bearden, ARK for my ninth grade. We kept, and rented, our home in Stamps each time. I'll be glad to try and answer any questions you may have. Tom Sims (From Ed Cooper): I drove through Brookland on Monday the 2nd. I'll be following up with some questions about industries in Stamps. Your write up of Stamps is great, I used similar first hand anecdotal information to write up Benton, Louisiana. Benton is about five miles south of Alden Bridge. The man who became the agent operator at Alden Bridge in 1938 may have bumped your father out of that job, or your father may have been covering a leave. Anyway Benton agency was closed until WW2 started up, then it became a 24 hour operation, and the Alden Bridge agency was closed. There was an operator named Paul Wooldridge who worked Lewisville during WW2 and at the end of his long career 1937-1981. Wooldridge was the agent operator in Lewisville and covered Stamps from there. Ed (From Tom Sims): Ed: I will comment on all of the industries you itemized, but in the meantime you might want to look at some of the links on my "Stamps High School Class of 1951" website: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ In particular, look at the "History of Stamps" link: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PGW.htm which was written by Glen Ward, a longtime employee of the Stamps Post Office, and my Stamps scoutmaster and friend. He was one of the main contributors to the "Southern Timberman" book which I wrote about on my Stamps Yahoo group in 2012 and is appended below. Tom Sims Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:02:19 -0700 Cc: "[Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com From: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.com Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action I read the "Southern Timberman" book in the late eighties. It is a must read for anyone interested in the history of Stamps. There used to be a copy in the Stamps Public Library and also there was one in the First Baptist Church "Roma Sims" Library. Most of the Stamps history in the book came from a "HISTORY OF STAMPS, ARKANSAS" that was put together by Glen C. Ward. I have a photocopy of this work that Glen gave me in 1989. Glen's compilation consists of 8 legal size pages full of typed information and two pages of old photos. Stewart Hicks, the Stamps postmaster, published an abridged version of Mr. Ward's compilation in 1994, and I bought a copy at one of the drug stores in Stamps. The Hicks version is about 5 1/2" by 8 1/2" and has 34 pages of content, including 19 old photos. I suspect that Stewart Hicks is the son of John Hicks who owned the Hicks barbershop. Glen C. Ward worked for the post office for many years, and I believe he also sold insurance on the side. He was the longtime, long suffering scoutmaster, a deacon in the First Baptist church, and a really fine man. He never owned a car as far as I know and rode around Stamps on a bicycle. He had false teeth and when he talked you could hear a whistling sound occasionally. Mrs. Ward was a Blakely and they had three children: Steven and Joanna, who were a little older than me and Leon who was about 5 years younger. When I get around to it, I plan to scan Mr. Ward's compilation and archive it on the StampsARK Forum and the SHS '51 website. Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers@comcast.net Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:59 PM Subject: Re: Stamps: Missing In Action To: Stamps Mailing List

s '51 TomESims3355@gmail.com, Tom Stevens tom-stevens@sbcglobal.net, Wayne Roper '65 WRoper@ulcoleman.com, William Ballou '48 2ballous@sbcglobal.net fyi: if anyone is interested there is a wonderful book: SOUTHERN TIMBERMAN; THE LEGACY OF WILLIAM BUCHANAN by Archer H. Mayor; univ of Georgia Press after hearing about it , I found my copy of Amazon. interesting history of Bodcaw Lumber and Stamps area. Earl M. Rogers, M.S., P.D. LTC MSC USAR ret Rx Consulting, L.L.C. 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 P: 804.794.9541 F: 804.794.9541 earl.rogers@comcast.net ________________ (From Tom Sims): Ed: I don't recall the Paul Wooldridge name. From a very sketchy remembrance of my mom's account of their Alden Bridge stay, and knowing they were back in Brookland when I was born in 1933, I believe they were in Alden Bridge at least a year beginning in late 1929 or 1930. They were there long enough to make a lot of friends and were active in the local church (probably baptist). FWIW, I don't know exactly when my dad got the agent's job in Stamps, rather than being one of the clerk/telegraphers, but I suspect it wasn't until 1949 or 1950. I know that after we returned from Bearden to Stamps in 1949, he worked in Plain Dealing for a few months while we were living in Stamps, before working in Stamps again. FWIW, Dad's nephew John Shelby and John's sister both worked for the Cotton Belt, and I believe Dad taught both of them the art of operating a telegraph key. John became the agent in Bearden sometime after Dad left there and his sister (I can't recall her name right now) was in Marmaduke. After looking at some of Dad's old papers, I see that Dad first worked for the Missouri Pacific starting in 1924 and started with the Cotton Belt in 1928. He retired 2 July 1971 as agent in Altheimer, ARK after the Cotton Belt had closed their agency in Stamps on 26 June 1970 where he was their last agent. Dad bought a small camper that he lived in while he was the agent in Altheimer and marking time until his retirement. Mom stayed at our home in Stamps while he was working in Altheimer. He worked at 63 different locations during his railroad career, most of them during his early days when he was on the extraboard. I've been meaning to scan a lot of old papers that I got when my Mom died, and you've motivated me to do the ones that relate to Dad's railroad service. Here are links to some that you may find interesting. http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 13.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 14.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 15.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 16.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 17.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 18.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 19.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 20.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 21.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 22.jpg
http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 23.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 24.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 25.jpg Tom Sims (From Ed Cooper): Tom: I'm going to write the names of several industries as they appear on the Sanborn Map. I'm looking for anything you can remember about these places. The names may have changed, I can provide the street the industry shows on from the map. (Ed Cooper itemization with responses by Tom Sims): 1. Bodcaw Lumber, Mill, Stores, Office, lumber piles, log piles The only things that remained of Bodcaw Lumber that I remember are the company store (Cabe's on Main Street), the office vault at the southern end of Market Street, building foundations, and the mill pond which is now called Lake June. Lake June froze hard enough to drive cars on when I was 8 years old or so. I have a picture of me standing on the ice on the lake then. I understand It doesn't freeze over at all now. See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information. 2. APALCO-Arkansas Power and Light Company The Couch Steam Electric plant was built during my time in Stamps. It's parking lot was a favorite sparking place for Stamps couples. See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information. 3. Standard Oil of Louisiana There were a lot of Standard Oil people in Stamps, drilling companies, and oil service company. A close friend of my father worked for Standard Oil and was paid a lot in Standard Oil stock that eventually made him a multi-millionaire. 4. Columbia Cotton Oil Doesn't ring a bell. 5. Walker Grocery (Wholesale) Doesn't ring a bell. 6. Gulf Refining Company warehouse Their operation was at Main and Conlin and the earliest owner I remember was either Carl or Dick Davis, who were brothers. One ran Gulf Oil and the other had a sizable construction company. Hubert Sinquefield had the Esso distributorship and I believe he later bought the Gulf operation. William Minter then took it over. He married a classmate of mine. 7. Nehi Bottling Works That was somewhere near the Cotton Belt and was owned by Earl Briehn. They bottled R.C. Cola and other soft drinks. 8. L&A/SSW interchange track behind the depot I remember this. I went to Shreveport once on this line. 9. People's Gin Company I only remember one Gin Co in Stamps and it was south of the railroad tracks on Main Street next to Lake June. It was owned by the McMurrough family. Son Jack and his family lived right across the street from us and his parents lived behind them on Antigo (Highway 82). Jack built and ran a small store next to the Gin after it closed. 10. Pierce Petroleum Corporation Doesn't ring a bell, although I remember a Pierce boy who was a little younger than me. 11. Stamps Gin Company See #9 above. 12. Sweet Potato Growers Association Doesn't ring a bell. 13. Stamps Ware House Company Doesn't ring a bell. 14. Southern Ice & Utilities Company This was run by a Mr. Webb who was a good friend of my Dad. It was located at the south end of Conlin Street, just before you got to the Cotton Belt RR. I would go inside and see their saws cutting large blocks of ice when we went there to buy a cold watermelon in the summer. We had an Ice Box when we first moved to Stamps, but we got a Sears Cold Spot refrigerator after a year or so. 15. Lafayette Packing Corporation Doesn't ring a bell. Harlis Camp (classmate of my brother and a Lafayette County Sherrif and cattleman) opened a packing company (C&C Packing) after I left Stamps. It's still going strong. Thanks for any reply, Ed in Kentucky ****** (From Tom Sims): Other Items: 1. One of the largest, most successful industries in Stamps was the Alan White Furniture Company and I think they shipped a lot on the Cotton Belt. I believe it started just about the time I left Stamps, and it was originally along the North side of the Cotton Belt, somewhere around the end of Thomas Street. Later they moved to a new building on Highway 82 on the eastern outskirts of Town. See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information. 2 Pulp Yards - The Ward Yard was at the northeast intersection of 82 and the L&A railroad, It was after my time, as was the Jerry Owens operation. Jerry Owens was also after my time and my parents didn't care too much for him (He tried to buy their extra lot). He was a land speculator as well as a pulpwood operator and his offices were at the SW corner of 82 and the L&A. See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information. 3. Before my time, there was a large YMCA building and there was an Opera house on Opera Street. See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information. 4. A.O. Smith Funeral Home - A.O. came to Stamps a few years before we did and it's probably the largest funeral home operation around now. When I was in Stamps they were located on East Main for the whites and they had a building for colored just south of them on First Street. He became one of the wealthiest men in Stamps. See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information. 5. Stamps Sawmill - I think this started when I was in high school, and was located next to Conlin Street extended, just south of the Cotton Belt. 6. Ford Motor Dealership - Owned by L.D. Galloway, Jr. and the only car dealer in Lafayette County until Hudson Chevrolet opened. Ford was originally on the NW side of the Triangle until they moved to the NW corner of Thomas and 82. Hudson Chevrolet opened in the old Ford place on the triangle and then moved to the western outskirts of town. Both had extensive service and repair operations. 7. Wilson (I believe) Construction Co - A large, successful operation just outside of Stamps on 82 west. He might have bought out one of the Davis brothers. I don't think he got involved until after I left Stamps. 8. Wooten House Moving - They were south of Lake June on the McKamie Road. I went to school with several of the Wooten boys. 9. McKamie Gas Works and Sulphur Plant. - A few miles south of Stamps. Our next door neighbor, Cortez Langley, (their daughter, Georgia, was my classmate and future wife) worked at the sulphur plant as well as his brother, Coy Langley, and my classmate Myrtle Sue Peck's father was the plant chemist. Coy fell into a sulphur vat and eventually died from the exposure. We rented our house to the plant superintendent while we were living in Pine Bluff and a later plant chemist (my cousin's husband, Max Watkins) once stayed with us for several months. (From Ed Cooper): This is incredible stuff. When I was in my first year of college at East Texas State in Commerce I witnessed operator Terry Kirkland working with TOPS in 1972-1973. TOPS is the Total Operating Processing System. It was linked to the railroad teletype. Terry would input train consist information via the teletype into a mainframe computer. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS The computer that SP/Cotton Belt was using displaced many railroad men like your father. The man I mentioned, Mr. Paul B. Wooldridge was working Gillette as an agent operator until that job was abolished in about 1974. He then came to Lewisville and worked there as an agent operator. In his booklet Cotton Belt Memories he mentions having to go to Stamps to count and record cars. So Wooldridge was doing the work your father used to do. This trend of job and agency abolishment happened all across the Cotton Belt and other lines. The documents you posted help better define that story. I'll explain what research I'm doing on your Stamps Yahoo Group. But suffice to say it is in detail and specifically about the Cotton Belt. I'll get back to you on the industries, some of them were likely abandoned by the time you got to Stamps. Ed in Kentucky (From Tom Sims): Ed: I've only found one additional item among my old papers that is related in any way to the Cotton Belt. This 1938 letter from Dad to his mother speaks of an Irish Potato rush on the Cotton Belt that was keeping him very busy: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19380 00.jpg BTW, subject to your approval, I'm going to post all of our email exchanges to date on the StampsARK Yahoo Forum. In the post I'm correcting/clarifying a couple of my Stamps industry comments. (From Ed Cooper): Tom: I have multiple Cotton Belt Employee Time Table (ETT) extracts that show Stamps. I'd like to post some of them to the Files area of the Stamps group. Or I can send them to you and you can post them. And I don't mind if our correspondence gets posted to the group. Ed (From Tom Sims): Ed: We haven't used the File directory very much and it's been restricted to my use only. I've just changed the access code so that members can upload files, so you go ahead and upload the timetables. Let me know if you have any problems. I'll post our email exchanges this morning. Tom Sims -- Derrell Elon Patterson |

794|792|2017-10-20 12:15:27|Jean|Re: Ed Cooper/Tom Sims email exchanges - Long|Attachments :!-- --Fascinating reading.My brother worked in the post office while Stewart was postmaster. I never heard any connection mentioned between Stewart and barber Hicks. I was told by the older folks, that the Bodcaw Lumber Company offices were, indeed, in that white wood frame building that housed Cabe's Hardware and Clark's Men's Clothing in the 40's and 50's.Dale White might be a good source of memory a little older than yours, Tom, and certainly than mine.Again thanks to all of you for this interesting history. Where can one obtain a copy of Glen Ward's " History of Stamps?"� �I remember Mr. Ward and shared Algebra II class with his son Leon.� Also, my first bicycle was purchased from Mr. Ward, after his daughter Joann no longer wanted it. Hilda Jean Galbraith �Sent from Mail for Windows 10 �bFrom: /b'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]bSent: /bFriday, October 20, 2017 10:18 AMbTo: /bStampsArk@yahoogroups.combCc: /bEdwin Cooper; Betsy Sims; Tom C. Sims; Richard SimsbSubject: /b[StampsArk] Ed Cooper/Tom Sims email exchanges - Long �� Listed below, in chronological order, are the email exchangesbetween Ed Cooper and myself between 10 October 2017and 20 October 2017.I'm posting them here on the StampsARK Yahoo Forum in mycontinuing effort to archive Stamps remembrances fromprevious days.Hopefully also, some of you will find some of them interesting.Tom Sims---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Edwin Cooper edwin_c_cooper@yahoo.comDate: Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:52 AMSubject: Jesse Yarbro To:
"TES3355@gmail.com" TES3355@gmail.comThomas: Greetings from Kentucky. You don't know me from Adam, but we both know Jesse Yarbro. I was going through the June 1951 Cotton BeltNews in a library in Texas and saw you were appointed to West Point.And that you were from Stamps, AR. So I noted it and when I saw Jessethis Sunday asked him if he knew a Thomas Sims. "Yes we used to playfootball at Stamps High. We were both halfbacks in the backfield. Tomwas left halfback and I was right half back."Sunday was my fourth interview with Jesse. I write Cotton Beltrailroad history and Jesse sure has the experiences from his railroadlife and that of his father and uncles. He is on Facebook and lives inJefferson, AR with his wife Donna. Jesse worked for the railroads from1951-2002.Ed CooperShelbyville, KY(From Tom Sims):Ed:Please tell Jesse that I said hello.Jesse and I were good friends, especially when we wereyounger. We used to visit each other's home - his familylived in the Cotton Belt Section house, pretty close to theL&A and Cotton Belt depot in Stamps.Although I believe we were about the same age, my highschool yearbooks indicate that somehow he was two gradesbehind me at Stamps High School. He was a very good footballplayer and he married a classmate of mine. I believe theyleft Stamps in or about 1951, and I haven't seen him since.If Jesse has email access, I hope he will contact me. Imaintain a Stamps email mailing list that Ihe might beinterested in - It's mostly obituaries these days.Best wishes,Tom Simshttp://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/TES .htm(From Ed Cooper):Tom: The message has been sent. Jesse started working for Cotton Beltin the St. Louis area as a messenger in 1951. He was born in HickoryRidge, AR in 1934. I believe he likely fell behind in school becausehis family moved so often because of his father's work with therailroad. He just told me Sunday about his brief experience in theArmy. He was drafted in 1952 and started basic training at Ft. LeonardWood, MO. He was discharged before he completed training because of apreexisting knee injury. He returned to his railroad job in St. Louis.Ed in Kentucky(From Ed Cooper):Tom: Do you mind if I ask about your father's work on the Cotton Belt?Or anything you may remember about the railroad or Stamps, AR? I'mworking on a second Cotton Belt book. Jesse has helped considerably,Sunday the 8th was my fourth interview with him.I've stopped by Stamps to look it over. It is surely nothing like itused to be. Bodcaw Lumber and all its building is long gone. The placewhere the crossing of the Cotton Belt and the L&A is just the singletrack Union Pacific now.Thanks for any reply,Ed in Kentucky(From Tom Sims):Ed:I'll be glad to help.Tom Sims(From Ed Cooper):Tom: I have a lot of technical information on Stamps. For exampleStamps was at milepost 385.20 on the Cotton Belt mainline. It had a 91car passing siding and a train yard (1940). The Cotton Belt crossedthe Louisiana and Arkansas at Stamps. There was a mail crane to pass asack of mail to a train and a water plug. Prior to World War 2 therewas a day operator. The telegraph call was "BU". During WW2 thestation was open 24 hours. Passenger trains #1 and 2 the Lone Star and#5 and 6 the Cotton Belt served Stamps during the Great Depression andWW2. Multiple northbound and southbound freight trains and a dailyexcept Sunday local called at Stamps.Several years ago I had the University of Arkansas Special CollectionsLibrary send me the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Arkansas. The basemap for Stamps is dated April 1930 with added updates. With theseSanborn Maps I was able to identify industries at Stamps and where theCotton Belt tracks are, as well as some of the adjacent town.What I don't know is what was it like to grow up and live in Stamps?What was it like inside the "L" shaped Union Depot in Stamps? What Iwant to get at is the anecdotal history of the railroaders in Stamps.History is made up of its bits and pieces. Thanks for any reply.Ed in Kentucky(From Tom Sims):Ed:To the best of my memory:My father, Thomas Roland Sims, was born on a farm inBrookland, ARK in 1906. My mother, born in 1909, and Iwere also born in Brookland.Dad completed 8th grade in Brookland and later took abusiness course in Missouri. My Mom had a junior collegedegree and was a substitute high school teacher off and on,once for a full yearBrookland is in NE Arkansas, between Jonesboro andParagould, and their main street is the highway which isimmediately adjacent to the Cotton Belt railroad. Brooklandhad a population of about 300 that was all white, and noblacks were allowed in Brookland after dark. The blacks thatworked on the section gangs and were quartered on a worktrain car always moved their car beyond the town limits atnight.My parents were married in OCT 1929 when my father wasrunning a service station in Brookland and was on the CottonBelt extra board as a clerk/telegrapher. At the servicestation he collected milk in metal containers from farmersand put them on the train for shipping to creamery butterprocessors. He said the milk was often rancid before it wasput on the train, and he wouldn't eat creamery butter forthe rest of his life.He stayed on the extra board during the depression andworked periodically at depots in Arkansas, Louisiana andMissouri. He was often bumped and did some bumping himself.I was born in 1933 and his home base remained in Brooklanduntil we moved to Stamps in 1938, when my only sibling,Bill, was born.The only time I'm aware of them leaving Brookland before1938 was shortly after they were married in 1929 when theylived for awhile in Alden Bridge LA on the Cotton Belt spurline to Shreveport. He was the only Cotton Belt man in AldenBridge, where they lived in a Cotton Belt house, and all oftheir furniture had come free from Brookland on the train.My mom got very homesick while they were living in AldenBridge, crying and throwing a fit and lying on the floor.Dad ignored her and she got over it.After I was born, he usually went alone when he had a jobwith the Cotton Belt. I only remember one time when wevisited him for a week or so in Caruthersville, MO.In Stamps, he had the graveyard shift at first, and I had tobe quiet when near his bedroom during the day. He workedwith/under several agents until he became the agent himself.The Stamps depot was at the NE corner of the Cotton Belt -L&A intersection, had a ticket window to the office in awhite waiting and restroom, a locked, covered freight roomand then a long, open freight platform and parking lot alongthe Cotton Belt.Along the L&A there was a ticket window in a colored waitingand restroom, a locked, covered freight room and then a verylong, open freight platform and parking lot along the L&A.The office was locked and there was an L&A Desk in thecorner of the room nearest the rails intersection. TheCotton Belt desk was adjacent to and just
to the east of theL&A desk.Inside the office there were some heavy, steel mechanicalswitches next to the Cotton Belt desk. My dad almost gotelectrocuted on a hot day when he was sweaty and he wasoperating the switches, which had a radio aerial on them,while he was talking on the phone.Over the years we got a lot of damaged, returned furniturefrom the Cotton Belt that my dad fixed up. I think he paid anominal price for it.Dad routinely checked the freight cars along the siding andI sometimes accompanied him. He often delivered a message toa train when it was passing through, using the cane andstring device they had. When I got older, he let me do it acouple of times.We could travel free on the Cotton Belt and my mom, Bill andI usually visited our relatives in Brookland at least once ayear.We took several train vacations as a family and visitedrelatives and friends in California and Colorado. I think wegot at least one foreign RR pass for the family, free orreduced rate, every year.We lived a comfortable, middle class life in Stamps where mymom and dad were respected members of the community.Stamps' population was about 2500, half black and half whiteand the schools, churches and homes were segregated. Theblacks mostly lived south of the Cotton Belt and west of the L&A.We had a part time colored maid, Pearly, when I was youngerand her husband sometimes did yard work for us. When I cameback to Stamps for a visit after finishing high school, I was introuble with Pearly if I didn't visit her while I was home.Dad got the wanderlust twice and we left Stamps, returningto Stamps each time. We were in Fordyce, ARK and Pine Bluff,ARK for my sixth grade and in Bearden, ARK for my ninthgrade. We kept, and rented, our home in Stamps each time.I'll be glad to try and answer any questions you may have.Tom Sims(From Ed Cooper):I drove through Brookland on Monday the 2nd. I'll befollowing up with some questions about industries in Stamps.Your write up of Stamps is great, I used similar first handanecdotal information to write up Benton, Louisiana. Bentonis about five miles south of Alden Bridge. The man whobecame the agent operator at Alden Bridge in 1938 may havebumped your father out of that job, or your father may havebeen covering a leave. Anyway Benton agency was closed untilWW2 started up, then it became a 24 hour operation, and theAlden Bridge agency was closed.There was an operator named Paul Wooldridge who workedLewisville during WW2 and at the end of his long career1937-1981. Wooldridge was the agent operator in Lewisvilleand covered Stamps from there. Ed (From Tom Sims):Ed:I will comment on all of the industries you itemized, but in the meantimeyou might want to look at some of the links on my "Stamps High SchoolClass of 1951" website:http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/I n particular, look at the "History of Stamps" link:http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PG W.htmwhich was written by Glen Ward, a longtime employee of the StampsPost Office, and my Stamps scoutmaster and friend.He was one of the main contributors to the "Southern Timberman" bookwhich I wrote about on my Stamps Yahoo group in 2012 and isappended below.Tom SimsStamps Ark Yahoo Grouphttps://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info* *********---------- Forwarded message ----------Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:02:19 -0700Cc: "[Stamps Ark Yahoo Group]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.comFrom: Tom Sims tes3355@gmail.comSubject: Re: Stamps: Missing In ActionI read the "Southern Timberman" book in the late eighties.It is a must read for anyone interested in the history ofStamps. There used to be a copy in the Stamps Public Libraryand also there was one in the First Baptist Church "RomaSims" Library.Most of the Stamps history in the book came from a "HISTORYOF STAMPS, ARKANSAS" that was put together by Glen C. Ward.I have a photocopy of this work that Glen gave me in 1989.Glen's compilation consists of 8 legal size pages full oftyped information and two pages of old photos.Stewart Hicks, the Stamps postmaster, published an abridgedversion of Mr. Ward's compilation in 1994, and I bought acopy at one of the drug stores in Stamps. The Hicks versionis about 5 1/2" by 8 1/2" and has 34 pages of content,including 19 old photos. I suspect that Stewart Hicks is theson of John Hicks who owned the Hicks barbershop.Glen C. Ward worked for the post office for many years, andI believe he also sold insurance on the side. He was thelongtime, long suffering scoutmaster, a deacon in the FirstBaptist church, and a really fine man. He never owned a caras far as I know and rode around Stamps on a bicycle. He hadfalse teeth and when he talked you could hear a whistlingsound occasionally. Mrs. Ward was a Blakely and they hadthree children: Steven and Joanna, who were a little older thanme and Leon who was about 5 years younger.When I get around to it, I plan to scan Mr. Ward'scompilation and archive it on the StampsARK Forumand the SHS '51 website.Tom Sims---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Earl M. Rogers earl.rogers@comcast.netDate: Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:59 PMSubject: Re: Stamps: Missing In ActionTo: Stamps Mailing List

fyi:if anyone is interested there is a wonderful book: SOUTHERNTIMBERMAN; THE LEGACY OF WILLIAM BUCHANAN by Archer H.Mayor; univ of Georgia Press after hearing about it , Ifound my copy of Amazon. interesting history of BodcawLumber and Stamps area.Earl M. Rogers, M.S., P.D.LTC MSC USAR retRx Consulting, L.L.C.11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA 23236-2408P: 804.794.9541F: 804.794.9541earl.rogers@comcast.net_____________ _(From Tom Sims):Ed:I don't recall the Paul Wooldridge name.From a very sketchy remembrance of my mom's account of theirAlden Bridge stay, and knowing they were back in Brooklandwhen I was born in 1933, I believe they were in Alden Bridgeat least a year beginning in late 1929 or 1930. They werethere long enough to make a lot of friends and were activein the local church (probably baptist).FWIW, I don't know exactly when my dad got the agent's jobin Stamps, rather than being one of the clerk/telegraphers,but I suspect it wasn't until 1949 or 1950. I know thatafter we returned from Bearden to Stamps in 1949, he workedin Plain Dealing for a few months while we were living inStamps, before working in Stamps again.FWIW, Dad's nephew John Shelby and John's sister both workedfor the Cotton Belt, and I believe Dad taught both of themthe art of operating a telegraph key. John became the agentin Bearden sometime after Dad left there and his sister (I can'trecall her name right now) was in Marmaduke.After looking at some of Dad's old papers, I see that Dadfirst worked for the Missouri Pacific starting in 1924 andstarted with the Cotton Belt in 1928. He retired 2 July 1971as agent in Altheimer, ARK after the Cotton Belt had closedtheir agency in Stamps on 26 June 1970 where he was theirlast agent.Dad bought a small camper that he lived in while he was theagent in Altheimer and marking time until his retirement. Momstayed at our home in Stamps while he was working in Altheimer.He worked at 63 different locations during his railroadcareer, most of them during his early days when he was onthe extraboard.I've been meaning to scan a lot of old papers that I got when myMom died, and you've motivated me to do the ones that relate toDad's railroad service. Here are links to some that you mayf ind interesting.http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V /TES/F/1970013.jpghttp://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/2 0228/V/TES/F/1970014.jpghttp://www.west-point.org/users/usma 1955/20228/V/TES/F/1970015.jpghttp://www.west-point.org/user s/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/1970016.jpghttp://www.west-point.or g/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/1970017.jpghttp://www.west-po int.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/1970018.jpghttp://www.w est-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/1970019.jpghttp:/ /www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/1970020.jpg http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/19700 21.jpghttp://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F /1970022.jpghttp://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V /TES/F/1970023.jpghttp://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/2 0228/V/TES/F/1970024.jpghttp://www.west-point.org/users/usma 1955/20228/V/TES/F/1970025.jpgTom Sims(From Ed Cooper):Tom: I'm going to write the names of several industries as they appearon the Sanborn Map. I'm looking for anything you can remember aboutthese places. The names may have changed, I can provide the street theindustry shows on from the map.(Ed Cooper itemization with responses by Tom Sims):1. Bodcaw Lumber, Mill, Stores, Office, lumber piles, log pilesThe only things that remained of Bodcaw Lumber that I remember arethe company store (Cabe's on Main Street), the office vault at thesouthern end of Market Street, building foundations, and the mill pondwhich is now called Lake June. Lake June froze hard enough to drivecars on when I was 8 years old or so. I have a picture of me standingon the ice on the lake then. I understand It doesn't freeze over at all now.See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information.2. APALCO-Arkansas Power and Light CompanyThe Couch Steam Electric plant was built during my time in Stamps. It'sparking lot was a favorite sparking place for Stamps couples.See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information.3. Standard Oil of LouisianaThere were a lot of Standard Oil people in Stamps, drilling companies,and oil service company. A close friend of my father worked for StandardOil and was paid a lot in Standard Oil stock that eventually made him amulti-millionaire.4. Columbia Cotton OilDoesn't ring a bell.5. Walker Grocery (Wholesale)Doesn't ring a bell.6. Gulf Refining Company warehouseTheir operation was at Main and Conlin and the earliest owner Iremember was either Carl or Dick Davis, who were brothers. Oneran Gulf Oil and the other had a sizable construction company.Hubert Sinquefield had the Esso distributorship and I believe he laterbought the Gulf operation.William Minter then took it over. He married a classmate of mine.7. Nehi Bottling WorksThat was somewhere near the Cotton Belt and was owned byEarl Briehn. They bottled R.C. Cola and other soft drinks.8. L&A/SSW interchange track behind the depotI remember this. I went to Shreveport once on this line.9. People's Gin CompanyI only remember one Gin Co in Stamps and it was south of the railroadtracks on Main Street next to Lake June. It was owned by the McMurroughfamily. Son Jack and his family lived right across the street from us andhis parents lived behind them on Antigo (Highway 82). Jack built and rana small store next to the Gin after it closed.10. Pierce Petroleum CorporationDoesn't ring a bell, although I remember a Pierce boy who was a littleyounger than me.11. Stamps Gin CompanySee #9 above.12. Sweet Potato Growers AssociationDoesn't ring a bell.13. Stamps Ware House CompanyDoesn't ring a bell.14. Southern Ice & Utilities CompanyThis was run by a Mr. Webb who was a good friend of my Dad.It was located at the south end of Conlin Street, just beforeyou got to the Cotton Belt RR. I would go inside and see their sawscutting large blocks of ice when we went there to buy a coldwatermelon in the summer.We had an Ice Box when we first moved to Stamps, but we gota Sears Cold Spot refrigerator after a year or so.15. Lafayette Packing CorporationDoesn't ring a bell.Harlis Camp (classmate of my brother and a Lafayette CountySherrif and cattleman) opened a packing company (C&C Packing)after I left Stamps. It's still going strong.Thanks for any reply,Ed in Kentucky(From Tom Sims):Other Items:1. One of the largest, most successful industries in Stamps was theAlan White Furniture Company and I think they shipped a lot onthe Cotton Belt. I believe it started just about the time I left Stamps,and it was originally along the North side of the Cotton Belt,somewhere around the end of Thomas Street. Later they moved toa new building on Highway 82 on the eastern outskirts of Town.See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information.2 Pulp Yards - The Ward Yard was at the northeast intersectionof 82 and the L&A railroad, It was after my time, as was the JerryOwens operation.Jerry Owens was also after my time and my parents didn'tcare too much for him (He tried to buy their extra lot). Hewas a land speculator as well as a pulpwood operator and hisoffices were at the SW corner of 82 and the L&A.See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information.3. Before my time, there was a large YMCA building and there wasan Opera house on Opera Street.See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information.4. A.O. Smith Funeral Home - A.O. came to Stamps a few years beforewe did and it's probably the largest funeral home operation aroundnow. When I was in Stamps they were located on East Main for thewhites and they had a building for colored just south of them onFirst Street. He became one of the wealthiest men in Stamps.See Glen Ward's History of Stamps for more information.5. Stamps Sawmill - I think this started when I was in high school, andwas located next to Conlin Street extended, just south of the Cotton Belt.6. Ford Motor Dealership - Owned by L.D. Galloway, Jr. and the only cardealer in Lafayette County until Hudson Chevrolet opened. Ford wasoriginally on the NW side of the Triangle until they moved to the NW cornerof Thomas and 82. Hudson Chevrolet opened in the old Ford place on thetriangle and then moved to the western outskirts of town. Both had extensiveservice and repair operations.7. Wilson (I believe) Construction Co - A large, successful operation justoutside of Stamps on 82 west. He might have bought out one of the Davisbrothers. I don't think he got involved until after I left Stamps.8. Wooten House Moving - They were south of Lake June on the McKamieRoad. I went to school with several of the Wooten boys.9. McKamie Gas Works and Sulphur Plant. - A few miles southof Stamps. Our next door neighbor, Cortez Langley, (theirdaughter, Georgia, was my classmate and future wife) workedat the sulphur plant as well as his brother, Coy Langley,and my classmate Myrtle Sue Peck's father was the plantchemist. Coy fell into a sulphur vat and eventually diedfrom the exposure.We rented our house to the plant superintendent while wewere living in Pine Bluff and a later plant chemist (mycousin's husband, Max Watkins) once stayed with us for several months. (From Ed Cooper):This is incredible stuff. When I was in my first year ofcollege at East Texas State in Commerce I witnessed operatorTerry Kirkland working with TOPS in 1972-1973. TOPS is theTotal Operating Processing System. It was linked to therailroad teletype. Terry would input train consistinformation via the teletype into a mainframe computer. Seehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS The computer thatSP/Cotton Belt was using displaced many railroad men likeyour father. The man I mentioned, Mr. Paul B. Wooldridge wasworking Gillette as an agent operator until that job wasabolished in about 1974. He then came to Lewisville andworked there as an agent operator. In his booklet CottonBelt Memories he mentions having to go to Stamps to countand record cars. So Wooldridge was doing the work yourfather used to do. This trend of job and agency abolishmenthappened all across the Cotton Belt and other lines. Thedocuments you posted help better define that story. I'llexplain what research I'm doing on your Stamps Yahoo Group.But suffice to say it is in detail and specifically aboutthe Cotton Belt.I'll get back to you on the industries, some of them werelikely abandoned by the time you got to Stamps.Ed in Kentucky(From Tom Sims):Ed:I've only found one additional item among my old papers that is related inany way to the Cotton Belt. This 1938 letter from Dad to his mother speaksof an Irish Potato rush on the Cotton Belt that was keeping him very busy: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/F/ 1938000.jpgBTW, subject to your approval, I'm going to post all of our email exchangesto date on the StampsARK Yahoo Forum. In the post I'm correcting/clarifyinga couple of my Stamps industry comments.(From Ed Cooper):Tom: I have multiple Cotton Belt Employee Time Table (ETT) extracts that showStamps. I'd like to post some of them to the Files area of the Stamps group. OrI can send them to you and you can post them.And I don't mind if our correspondence gets posted to the group.Ed(From Tom Sims):Ed:We haven't used the File directory very much and it's been restrictedto my use only.I've just changed the access code so that members can upload files,so you go ahead and upload the timetables.Let me know if you have any problems.I'll post our email exchanges this morning.Tom Sims �|

795|792|2017-10-20 16:15:05|Larry H. Gentry|Re: Ed Cooper/Tom Sims email exchanges ...Linda Burke Sims posted th|Attachments : Don't know if it's true or not but my mom said we were related to Mr. Stamps.Larry 😳Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Friday, October 20, 2017, 1:00 PM, Derrell Patterson delonpatterson@gmail.com [StampsArk] wrote: �

796|796|2017-10-20 16:44:16|Tom E. Sims|Re: Glen Ward's "HISTORY OF STAMPS, ARKANSAS"|From: Hilda Jean Galbraith Where can one obtain a copy of Glen Ward's " History of Stamps?"� ___ Jean: Glen Ward's "HISTORY OF STAMPS, ARKANSAS" consists of 8 legal size pages full of typed information and two pages of old photos. Mr. Ward gave me a copy of the original in 1989, and I've scanned it and put it online on the SHS '51 website. Here's a direct link to it: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PGW.htm Tom Sims|

797|796|2017-10-20 17:09:25|Larry H. Gentry|Re: Glen Ward's "HISTORY OF STAMPS, ARKANSAS"| Mr. Sims,I really enjoy your emails Thanks a bunch.LarrySent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Friday, October 20, 2017, 6:44 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � From: Hilda Jean Galbraith Where can one obtain a copy of Glen Ward's " History of Stamps?"� _________________________________________ Jean: Glen Ward's "HISTORY OF STAMPS, ARKANSAS" consists of 8 legal size pages full of typed information and two pages of old photos. Mr. Ward gave me a copy of the original in 1989, and I've scanned it and put it online on the SHS '51 website. Here's a direct link to it: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PGW.htm Tom Sims

798|798|2017-10-20 20:43:40|Tom E. Sims|Gladys Martin Stamps Article|Attachments :Here's the Gladys Martin article (I hope) that Derrell Patterson postedearlier, that didn't get through to the StampsARK Yahoo�website. Gladys Martin was Glen Ward's sister (as I recall), was married toHarry Ward who worked at the post office, and their only child,Billy, was one grade ahead of me at SHS.Gladys was the longtime Stamps reporter for the Magnolia radiostation where she did a weekly show of Stamps news.Tom Sims|

800|798|2017-10-20 21:43:14|Tom E. Sims|Gladys Martin Stamps Article|Well, that didn't work. Yahoo didn't allow the pictures of the article to go through. Let's try this. I've put the pictures of the article in the Photo Directory and here's the direct link to them (I hope): https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/photos/albums/ 1801064169 Tom Sims|

801|801|2017-10-21 08:39:19|Tom E. Sims|Football: Mountain Pine 50 - LCHS 44 (Overtime)|Mountain Pine @ LCHS Mountain Pine 50 - LCHS 44 (Overtime) LCHS is now 2-6 this season|

802|802|2017-10-24 08:06:52|Tom E. Sims|Fwd: Galloways|From Marilou Rogers Nelson David Orr (Orr Auto, Texarkana) who lives over here -- He and Brother Maurice Orr use to come to Stamps to visit their Aunt Ola Powell. He Ask me at church if L.D. Galloway was kin to the Galloway who was Bishop of the Arkansas Methodist Conference -- We all go to the First Methodist Church, Arkansas (over here).. I told him did not know -- but would try to find out.. The Bishop thing was early in my time and I think I remember where they lived in Stamps by the church.. Just checking.. Thanks for all your help with information concerning Stamps.. Marilou Rogers Nelson, Texarkana, AR 71854 I don't know/remember anything about a Galloway Methodist Bishop.. There was a Galloway that lived on Opera Street and I believe they were the L.D. Galloway Srs. They were Baptists and one daughter married Alva Williams Jr during WW11 in the First Baptist church and he wore his marine uniform. Their other daughter was Lucille Galloway Smith who married J.C. Smith and they were Baptists. J.C. was the long term volunteer sexton equivalent in the First Baptist church. Another Galloway was Hollis Galloway, who ran an insurance agency on main street and came to all of our SHS football practices. He might have been L.D. Sr's. son and I don't know his religious affiliation. I believe the L.D. Galloway Jr's were Baptists. Tom Sims|

803|802|2017-10-24 09:09:38|FIRE COLBERT will not watch ch 12 or CBS|Re: Fwd: Galloways|Attachments :!-- Bishop Galloway was born in Mountain Home, AR and as far as I know was not related to the Galloways of Stamps.� Bishop Galloway was married to Elizabeth Boney of Stamps. � � �Sent from Mail for Windows 10 �bFrom: /b'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]bSent: /bTuesday, October 24, 2017 10:06 AMbTo: /bStampsArk@yahoogroups.combCc: /bMarilou Rogers Nelson '59bSubject: /b[StampsArk] Fwd: Galloways �� From Marilou Rogers NelsonDavid Orr (Orr Auto, Texarkana) who lives over here -- He and BrotherMaurice Orr use to come to Stamps to visit their Aunt Ola Powell. HeAsk me at church if L.D. Gallowaywas kin to the Galloway who was Bishop of the Arkansas MethodistConference -- We all go to the First Methodist Church, Arkansas (overhere).. I told him did not know --but would try to find out.. The Bishop thing was early in my timeand I think I remember where they lived in Stamps by the church..Just checking..Thanks for all your help with information concerning Stamps. Marilou Rogers Nelson,Texarkana, AR 71854I don't know/remember anything about a Galloway Methodist Bishop.. There was a Galloway that lived on Opera Street and I believethey were the L.D. Galloway Srs. They were Baptists and onedaughter married Alva Williams Jr during WW11 in the FirstBaptist church and he wore his marine uniform.Their other daughter was Lucille Galloway Smith who marriedJ.C. Smith and they were Baptists. J.C. was the long termvolunteer sexton equivalent in the First Baptist church.Another Galloway was Hollis Galloway, who ran an insuranceagency on main street and came to all of our SHS footballpractices. He might have been L.D. Sr's. son and I don't knowhis religious affiliation.I believe the L.D. Galloway Jr's were Baptists.Tom Sims �|

804|802|2017-10-24 19:59:33|J C Smith|Re: Fwd: Galloways| Hollis dad was Elbert Galloway.� They lived on Opera Street about a block off Church Street.� Elbert and L D Galloway Sr were brothers.� Their father was George Galloway.� He was the first village mail carrier in Stamps. � Hollis brother Aubry owned two shoe stores in Magnolia.� They had a brother, Royce who was killed (and MIA) on D-Day in the landing operation. I remember hearing about Bishop Galloway but mother never indicated they were related. J C Smith Jr On 10/24/2017 3:54 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] wrote: � From Marilou Rogers Nelson David Orr (Orr Auto, Texarkana) who lives over here -- He and Brother Maurice Orr use to come to Stamps to visit their Aunt Ola Powell. He Ask me at church if L.D. Galloway was kin to the Galloway who was Bishop of the Arkansas Methodist Conference -- We all go to the First Methodist Church, Arkansas (over here).. I told him did not know -- but would try to find out.. The Bishop thing was early in my time and I think I remember where they lived in Stamps by the church.. Just checking.. Thanks for all your help with information concerning Stamps.. Marilou Rogers Nelson, Texarkana, AR 71854 __ I don't know/remember anything about a Galloway Methodist Bishop.. There was a Galloway that lived on Opera Street and I believe they were the L.D. Galloway Srs. They were Baptists and one daughter married Alva Williams Jr during WW11 in the First Baptist church and he wore his marine uniform. Their other daughter was Lucille Galloway Smith who married J.C. Smith and they were Baptists. J.C. was the long term volunteer sexton equivalent in the First Baptist church. Another Galloway was Hollis Galloway, who ran an insurance agency on main street and came to all of our SHS football practices. He might have been L.D. Sr's. son and I don't know his religious affiliation. I believe the L.D. Galloway Jr's were Baptists. Tom Sims |

805|805|2017-10-25 17:43:11|Tom E. Sims|A B Hanson, R.I.P.|A B Hanson (December 18, 1926 - October 22, 2017) A B Hanson, age 90 of Magnolia, Arkansas, passed away Sunday, October 22, 2017 at Wentworth Place in Magnolia. A B was born December 18, 1926 to Fred and Louella (Wharton) Hanson. He served as a sergeant in the United States Army during and after World War 2, in the Philippines. When he returned to the states, he went to work for Arkansas Power and Light at the Harvey Couch Plant in Stamps and worked there for the next 40 years. He was preceded in death by his parents; wife of 55 years, Dorothy Marie (Baker) Hanson and brother, Bill Hanson of Stamps. He is survived by his son, Mike Hanson and wife, Susan Hanson of Magnolia; brother, Jerry Hanson and wife, Margaret of Sealy, Texas; grandson, Mitchell Wayne Hanson and wife, Allyson of Springhill, AR; granddaughters, Jennifer Jackson and husband, Phillip and Jessie Watson and husband, Tyler, all of Magnolia; and two very wonderful great grandchildren, Mackenzie Marie Jackson and Jack Ryan Watson. He attended the First United Methodist Church in Stamps and later in life moved to Magnolia and attended the First United Methodist Church. He was a 32nd degree Mason in the Stamps Masonic Lodge and enjoyed repairing things, braiding leather and bream fishing. He was a good son, brother, husband and daddy. It's often said any male can be a father, but it takes a man to be a Daddy. He was a great Daddy. A private family service will be held. Visitation will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, AR. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

806|806|2017-10-26 00:36:04|Russell higginbotham|Stamps, Arkansas L&A Depot|Attachments :This is a photograph of the Stamps L&A depot taken sometime around 1910. That's my great-grandfather Edwin Marvin Higginbotham Sr. center, bareheaded in the white shirt. He married Joy Ada Smith. I don't know who the other men are, or anything else about the photo. Maybe someone can identify the others and provide some information. This photo is from the family archives.Thanks!Russell HigginbothamTyler, TX|

807|806|2017-10-26 01:13:22|Tom E. Sims|Re: Stamps, Arkansas L&A Depot|This is a photograph of the Stamps L&A depot taken sometime around 1910. That's my great-grandfather Edwin Marvin Higginbotham Sr. center, bareheaded in the white shirt. He married Joy Ada Smith. I don't know who the other men are, or anything else about the photo. Maybe someone can identify the others and provide some information. This photo is from the family archives. Thanks! Russell Higginbotham Tyler, TX ___________ I see that the 1910 picture of the Stamps Depot didn't go through. I've uploaded it to the Stamps Yahoo Photo directory. Direct Link: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/photos/albums/ 69784975/lightbox/1631441961?orderBy=ordinal&sortOrder=asc&p hotoFilter=ALL#zax/1631441961 or https://goo.gl/mRX5Qy or a href="https://goo.gl/mRX5Qy" https://goo.gl/mRX5Qy/a Tom Sims|

808|808|2017-10-27 22:31:41|Tom E. Sims|Mineral Springs 38 - LCHS 0|@ Mineral Springs Mineral Springs 38 - LCHS 0 Both were 2-6 this year before the game. LCHS had one of their better defensive games for this year, holding Mineral Springs to only 38 points. :) G In four of their previous games they had given up 63, 41, 49, and 50 points.|

809|808|2017-10-28 08:37:37|Earl Rogers|Re: Mineral Springs 38 - LCHS 0|Not a good. Year!!!Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Oct 28, 2017, at 1:19 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � @ Mineral Springs Mineral Springs 38 - LCHS 0 Both were 2-6 this year before the game. LCHS had one of their better defensive games for this year, holding Mineral Springs to only 38 points. :) G In four of their previous games they had given up 63, 41, 49, and 50 points. |

810|810|2017-11-02 21:08:20|Tom E. Sims|Football: Mt. Ida 54 - LCHS 0|Last game of regular season Mt. Ida 54 - LCHS 0 48 - 0 at end of first half. LCHS is 2 - 8 this season. Mt. Ida is 10 - 0 this season.|

811|810|2017-11-03 08:47:47|Earl Rogers|Re: Football: Mt. Ida 54 - LCHS 0|What a disappointment for all.Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Nov 3, 2017, at 12:05 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Last game of regular season Mt. Ida 54 - LCHS 0 48 - 0 at end of first half. LCHS is 2 - 8 this season. Mt. Ida is 10 - 0 this season. |

812|812|2017-11-18 20:50:03|Tom E. Sims|Lake June update|Lake June update The pictures referred to in Aaron Kern's 15 NOV email are now in the Photo directory: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/photos/albums/ 1295128750 Tom Sims From Earl Rogers (14 NOV 2017): Mr Kern: Your name was give to me by Ms Brenda Davis, Mayor of Stamps. I had inquired about the renovation of Lake June at Stamps, AR. Can you provide me any update information on the plans/progress of the renovation of Lake June in Stamps.?? I was born and raised about a mile up the road from the lake and enjoyed it on many a day. And, i have good family friend living in Lafayette LA that graduated Stamps High school in 1950 who has asked me for an update. I get back home usually every summer to visit and look forward to checking on the progress. Any information on the plans and an update on progress is appreciated. Thanks so much. Take care, Earl Earl M Rogers _ From Aaron Kern (15 NOV 2017): Begin forwarded message: From: "Kern, Aaron" Aaron.Kern@agfc.ar.gov Date: November 15, 2017 at 11:47:47 PM EST To: Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@gmail.com Subject: RE: Lake June in Stamps Arkansas Hello Mr. Rogers, I'm happy to provide an update on the Lake June renovation to you and anybody else you would like to share this with. First, I'd like to provide a little background information on what has happened during the past 18 months. After a partial spillway failure that drained the lake a couple feet, we notched the levee in July 2016 to fully drain the lake in preparation for needed repairs to the spillway/levee infrastructure. The lake was fully drained by August 2016. Making major improvements to drained lakes requires a substantial amount time to allow the lakebed to dry out to make it safe and possible for work to be done. After being inundated for ~130 years, the lakebed of Lake June was very, very wet after draining. We let the lakebed dry for a year after draining before beginning any work. We were fortunate to have a relatively dry period this past year, which helped us a lot. That said, two unusual rain events during that period filled the lake back up, temporarily, despite the notch in the levee. These rain events kept pushing back our planned work schedule. The first work on the Lake June renovation began in late July/early August 2017. The lakebed had finally dried out to the point where we could get our UTV into the lakebed to being placing pallet structures for fish habitat. These pallets are arranged in a manner to create a reef that provides habitat which was severely lacking in Lake June prior to this renovation. So far we have placed 65 pallet structures spread across four different artificial reefs into Lake June. Most of these are located right along the old creek channel. All of our artificial reefs to date, along with additional habitat improvements, will be available for download as GPS waypoints via our agfc.com website. We have had a trackhoe/dump truck working in Lake June the past three weeks doing shoreline re-shaping/deepening. The age of Lake June has resulted in excessive siltation problems, which has caused the whole lake to become shallower with
time. This issue has been particularly problematic along the shorelines. Many areas along the City of Stamps property were so filled with sediment that bank-fishing opportunities for the public were quite poor. We decided that the best use of our funding was to increase the depth of areas along the shoreline to match the lake basin, and then couple that with intensive habitat improvements. We encountered numerous downed trees and large cypress stumps during our shoreline excavation, which provided an opportunity to create quality habitat clusters as an unexpected bonus to our shoreline deepening activities. This is an on-going project, but I am quite pleased with the progress we have made so far. As I mentioned above, we will be creating additional fish habitat in these newly deepened shoreline areas as well in other areas of Lake June. We will be building spawning beds for bass/bream and catfish, as well as other habitat types. I've attached several pictures of our shoreline deepening/reshaping to date. Some of the pictures include the woody habitat we were able to make with materials found during the excavation process, and one picture shows a portion of one of our pallet reefs. I hope this gives you a good idea of what we've accomplished so far on this project. The spillway/levee reconstruction is slated to begin on 01 July 2018. Right now we are concentrating on shoreline deepening and placing habitat in an effort to improve fishing opportunities. We hope to have those activities completed by the time spillway and levee construction begins next July. I can't provide a date for when Lake June will begin to fill since all of this work is completely dependent on weather. We're always one rainy week away from a big setback. But, weather has been good so far and that has allowed us to make some major improvements to Lake June already. If you have any questions about this project please feel free to contact me via this email or the other contact information given below. Regards, Aaron Kern District 6 Fisheries Management Biologist aaron.kern@agfc.ar.gov | P: 870-836-4612 ext 1458| M: 870-675-1827 Arkansas Game and Fish Commission South Central Regional Office P.O Box 110| Camden, AR 71711 P: 870-836-4612|F:870-836-6508 www.agfc.com _ From Earl Rogers (16 NOV 2017): Mr. Kern: Thank you so much for your very detailed report on the status of Lake June renovation project. I am very Impressed with the current work and future plans. Are there any plans to prevent or abate the growth of Lilly pads and other surface growing vegetation ?? It seems they have 'taken over' the lake in spots (especially the small portion of the lake north of the hwy 53 bridge). Thanks for the great job. I do look forward to seeing it completed, as Lake June is a wonderful, in town resource for everyone. I was raised just up the hill on Oak Grove Road and spent many a day in and on and around Lake June, and crossed the bridge on Hwy 53 every day ! My brother taught me to fly fish for bream on Lake June!! From my experience swimming and water skiing in the 50's and 60's, I can attest the lake is very shallow. I have been in the middle of the lake in spots and could touch the muddy bottom, and I was not that tall!! And , as a kid , I can remember seeing as many as 15 ski boats parked on the shore of the lake on some summer Sundays. They had to take turns making the loop as the lake got a lot smaller with 3-4-5 ski boats on it!! I remember seeing old photos and post cards from the 1930's of the Bodcaw Lumber company's operations on Lake June. It is said that, at times a person could walk over the lake on logs!! Lake June has an interesting past and has been a treasure for Stamps and the surrounding area. Lake June is even mentioned in Maya Angelo's book : "I know why the cage bird sings."� I look forward to following the progress of the Lake June renovation project on my yearly return to visit family and friends. My high school class is anticipating our 55th graduation anniversary in 2019, and I hope I can ,once again, drive over the spillway and around the lake. Thanks so much for your response and all you hard work to improve Lake June. If I can be of any assistance in your endeavors , please let me know. Respectfully your; Earl Rogers From Aaron Kern (16 NOV 2017): Hi Mr. Rogers, I'm glad my response was helpful. I do apologize for the length of it, but it's a lot of material to cover! Unfortunately, we are not planning any work upstream of Hwy 53. That area is so shallow that we would have to remove a tremendous amount of material to have any positive effect, and the large number of cypress stumps in there would make operating heavy equipment very difficult. We are focusing are resources and effort in the main part of the lake downstream of the Hwy 53 bridge. I've gotten many stories similar to yours about Lake June. That lake is indeed an important part of the community, and I do understand people's concerns with it being dry for 2-3 years. However, I am hopeful that Lake June will be back better than ever after this "overhaul"� and will once again be an important resource for the City of Stamps. As always, if you have any questions feel free to get ahold of me. Take Care, Aaron Kern ___________________ From Earl Rogers (17 NOV 2017): Mr Kern: Please don't apologize for your length...it is appreciated!!!and it will be desiminated to all us ex-pats from Stamps. My classmates and I are looking forward to seeing the progress for our 55th Stamps High School reunion in 2019. Thanks so much again. Take care, Earl|

813|813|2017-11-25 07:59:51|Tom E. Sims|Mary Alice Hairston, SHS '57, R.I.P.|Mary Alice Hairston (October 28, 1939 - November 22, 2017) Mary Alice Hairston, age 78, of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Wednesday, November 22, 2017. Ms. Hairston was born October 28, 1939 in Stamps, Arkansas to Verne and Ona Myrtle (Hamilton) Hairston. She enjoyed singing in the choir and singing at the nursing home. Ms. Hairston was preceded in death by her parents, and a sister, Geraldine Pipkin. She is survived by two nephews, Mark Pipkin and wife Rebecca, of Texarkana, AR; and Nathan Pipkin and wife Linda, of Stamps, AR; great-nephews, Brady Pipkin and wife LeeAnne, and Austin Shipp; great- nieces, Kacey Lamb and husband Jason, Megan Bean, Kaitlyn Pipkin, and Ally Korte; great, great- nephews and nieces, Phillip Lamb, Jessie Lamb, and Sadie Pipkin; and special cousins, Wayne Hairston and Dorothy Whaley. Funeral Services will be held 2:00 p.m., Sunday, November 26, 2017, at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel, on Thomas Street, with Bro. Charlie Warren, officiating. Burial will follow at the Sardis Cemetery in Stamps, AR. Visitation will be held from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., on Saturday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Trinity Baptist Church. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

814|304|2017-11-27 10:46:00|Tom E. Sims|Lake June|Lake June in Stamps will be among four properties considered next month for listing on the Arkansas Register of Historic Places. The State Review Board of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program will take up the matter at its Wednesday, December 6 meeting. The meeting will be at 10 a.m. at the Department of Arkansas Heritage Building at 1100 North Street in Little Rock. Lake June was created in the late 1880s to serve the Bodcaw Lumber Company's timber facility in Stamps. The loss of associated buildings and sites preclude its listing on the National Register. "Lake June has made significant contributions to our region's settlement, development, growth, economy, recreation, religion, and regional identity," according to the Arkansas Register nomination. "Lake June was originally created to service the adjacent Bodcaw Lumber facility. At its heyday, Bodcaw Lumber was the largest southern yellow pine lumber mill in the world." Lake June is currently in the middle of a three-year improvement project that began in the summer of 2016. The 80-acre lake was drained in an effort to restore the spillway structures, shoreline and fishing habitat. The lake was donated to the City of Stamps once the lumber mill closed. Surface rights were then leased to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission for conservation purposes. The need to replace the spillway and drain pipe offers a chance to rehabilitate the lake and reestablish excellent fishing for the community. Aquatic vegetation has choked out the shallows for years and hindered bank angling opportunities. The vegetation is being cleared and the shoreline deepened to remove much of the unwanted aquatic plants. Gravel spawning beds will be placed at several locations around the shore to promote bream and other sunfish, which can be targeted by anglers as well as provide forage for larger predators such as bass and catfish. Brush piles also will be constructed near shore and in deeper locations away from the bank for anglers to find increased angling success. Also to be considered for the State Register are the Edwards Chapel at Russellville in Pope County, Lafayette School Gymnasium at Camden in Ouachita County and Captain Daniel Matthews House at Osceola in Mississippi County for listing on the Arkansas Register of Historic Places. The Arkansas Register recognizes historically significant properties that do not meet National Register requirements.|

815|815|2017-12-07 21:38:11|Tom E. Sims|Bryce Cheatham, Sr., R.I.P.|Bryce Cheatham, Sr. (November 5, 1919 - December 5, 2017) Bryce Cheatham, Sr., age 98, of Stamps, Arkansas passed away Tuesday, December 5, 2017. He was a proud Veteran of WWII where he served aboard the battleship USS South Dakota and was able to watch the signing of the treaty ending the war with Japan. He retired as a truck driver from Wheeling Pipe Line and Miller Transport. The most important thing in his life was his family, his friends, and especially his church family at First United Methodist Church in Stamps. Mr. Cheatham was a former member of the Lafayette County Quorum Court. Mr. Cheatham was preceded in death by his parents, Edd and Mary Jamerson Cheatham of the Ebenezer Community in Columbia County Arkansas; his wife of 69 years, Marjorie Rogers Cheatham; grandson, Stacy McMurrough; two brothers, Carlton (Red) Cheatham and Ottis Cheatham; one sister, Corrine Swanson; and son-in-law, Pat McMurrough. He is survived by five children, Mary Gordan of Whitehouse, TX; Janice McMurrough of Stamps, AR; Bryce Cheatham, Jr. and wife, Jeanine of Centerton, AR; Senator Eddie Cheatham and wife, Ginger of Crossett, AR; and Roger Cheatham and wife, Theresa of Whitehouse, AR; eleven grandchildren; twenty-three great grandchildren; twenty great-great grandchildren; and several special nieces and nephews. Funeral Services will be held at 10am Saturday, December 9, 2017 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Bro. John Noggle officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps. Visitation will be held from 9am until service time at the chapel. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to First United Methodist Church in Stamps. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

816|816|2017-12-08 16:32:35|Tom E. Sims|Gail Sandra Cook, SHS '58, R.I.P.|Gail Sandra Cook (December 7, 1940 - December 3, 2017) Gail Sandra Cook, age 76 of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Sunday, December 3, 2017. Mrs. Cook was born December 7, 1940 in Stamps to Louis and Mable Marlar Cook. She enjoyed her nursing career and sports. Mrs. Cook was preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by two sons, Steven James and wife, Lesley of Spanish Fort, AL and Christopher James and wife, Holly of Bay Minette, AL; daughter, Kim Hare and husband, Glen of Spanish Fort, AL; one brother, Toby Cook and wife, Judy of Brandon, MS; one sister, Glenora McCoy and husband, Frank of Kennesaw, GA; and six grandchildren. A Memorial Service will be held at 10am Friday, December 8, 2017 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com
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817|817|2017-12-15 08:09:43|Tom E. Sims|Video: Lafayette County High School 2017 Christmas Concert|Video: Lafayette County High School 2017 Christmas Concert "Joy To The World" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCAqSt117I&sns=fb or a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCAqSt117I&sns=fb" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCAqSt117I&sns=fb/a * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

818|818|2017-12-17 11:25:07|Tom E. Sims|Larry O Clark SHS '59, R.I.P.|Larry O Clark Larry O. Clark, 76, of Magnolia, AR, passed away Friday, September 8, 2017 at the John R. Williamson Hospice House in El Dorado, AR. Larry was born on June 12, 1941 in Hope, AR. He was a member of the Rugged Cross Cowboy Church and was a maintenance mechanic at Entergy Corporation. Larry is survived by his wife Rebecca Hinson Clark of Magnolia, AR; son Bryan Clark of Magnolia, AR; daughter Leah Clark Boswell and husband Heath of Paris, TX; granddaughters, Fallin Boswell Kemmer and husband Leko of Grandview, TN and Bhrett Boswell Hughes and husband Tanner of Paris, TX; grandson Jackson Clark of Magnolia, AR; and great granddaughters, Hazel Reece Hughes of Paris, TX and Scarlett Kemmer of Grandview, TN. Visitation will be held on Monday, September 11 at the Rugged Cross Cowboy Church from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. with funeral services to follow at 2:00 p.m. with Bro. Mike Launius officiating. Burial will be at the Greers Chapel Methodist Cemetery under the direction of Lewis Funeral Home, Inc. in Magnolia, AR. Pallbearers will be Eric Sixbey, Mike Lancaster, Ricky Wilson, Wesley Wilson, Mike Eggleston, and Chad Bailey. The family requests memorials are made to the Rugged Cross Cowboy Church, P. O. Box 1220, Magnolia, AR 71754 or Life Touch Hospice, 2301 Champagnolle, El Dorado, AR 71730. To sign the online guestbook or leave special memories please visit www.lewisfunealhome.biz * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

819|819|2017-12-18 10:51:57|Tom E. Sims|Mary Frances Davis Hudson, SHS '59 R.I.P.|Mary Frances Hudson (July 4, 1941 - December 16, 2017) Mary Frances (Francie) Hudson of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away in a Texarkana hospital on Saturday, December 16, 2017. Francie was born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on July 4, 1941 to Harold K. Davis and Mary N. Davis. Francie is survived by her husband of 56 years, Walter Y. Hudson II of Stamps, AR; one daughter, Valerie L. Hudson of Little Rock, AR; one son, Walter Y. Hudson III and family of San Antonio, TX; one sister, Kathy Thomas and family of Little Rock, AR; and a host of friends. Francie attended Hendrix College and was a life-long Methodist. She was very active in church work all of her life. She also sang in the choir for many years. Francie was employed in the office of the family business, Hudson Chevrolet Company for many years. A Memorial Service will be held at Stamps First United Methodist Church on December 21, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. John Noggle officiating. Arrangements were made by Smith Funeral Homes of Stamps, AR. In lieu of flowers, the family asks you make any memorials to Stamps First United Methodist Church Benevolent fund or the charity of your choice. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

820|820|2017-12-19 10:26:42|Tom E. Sims|Pictures: LCHS Library - DEC 2017|Pictures: LCHS Library - DEC 2017 Now in the StampsArk Yahoo Photo directory. Direct link: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/photos/albums/ 460425514 or a href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/photos/a lbums/460425514" https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/photos/albums/ 460425514/a When I was at SHS, the library and Study Hall were in the same room (it was mostly Study Hall with classroom type desks). Periodicals were around the walls in the Study Hall area and the books were in a small section at the rear of the room. The librarian was Miss Sybil Tatum. Tom Sims SHS '51|

821|821|2017-12-21 08:34:00|Tom E. Sims|James William McDonald, R.I.P.|James William McDonald (November 10, 1927 - December 19, 2017) James William McDonald, age 90 of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Tuesday, December 19, 2017. Mr. McDonald was born November 10, 1927 in McKamie, Arkansas to James Carroll and Pauline Knott McDonald. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Stamps and a member of the Masonic Lodge. Mr. McDonald was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Dorothy Bernice Rook McDonald; and one brother, John Raymond McDonald. He is survived by one son, Jimmy McDonald of Texarkana, AR; one daughter, Ann Musial and husband, Rick of Centerton, AR; four grandchildren, Robert McDonald, Scott McDonald, Christi Musial, and Nicholas Musial; and four great grandchildren, Reece McDonald, Maggie McDonald, Justin McDonald, and Libby McDonald. A Graveside Service will be held at 2pm Saturday, December 23, 2017 at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps, AR with Mr. Robert McDonald officiating under the direction of Smith Funeral Homes of Stamps. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * I knew James' younger brother John Raymond, who was a couple of years older than me, very well. The McDonald's lived on Highway 82 at Thomas or the next street. They ran a service station on the west side of the overpass over the L&A. My brother in law, Don Langley, did some oil well drilling ventures with James which didn't turn out very well. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is
invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

822|821|2017-12-21 09:39:16|Earl Rogers|Re: James William McDonald, R.I.P.|John Raymond useto spend some time with my Dad In his Lion Oil station. It was just across hwy 82 from John Raymond's house, and his 56 ford on blocks out back of his house!!Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Dec 21, 2017, at 11:31 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � James William McDonald (November 10, 1927 - December 19, 2017) James William McDonald, age 90 of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Tuesday, December 19, 2017. Mr. McDonald was born November 10, 1927 in McKamie, Arkansas to James Carroll and Pauline Knott McDonald. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Stamps and a member of the Masonic Lodge. Mr. McDonald was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Dorothy Bernice Rook McDonald; and one brother, John Raymond McDonald. He is survived by one son, Jimmy McDonald of Texarkana, AR; one daughter, Ann Musial and husband, Rick of Centerton, AR; four grandchildren, Robert McDonald, Scott McDonald, Christi Musial, and Nicholas Musial; and four great grandchildren, Reece McDonald, Maggie McDonald, Justin McDonald, and Libby McDonald. A Graveside Service will be held at 2pm Saturday, December 23, 2017 at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps, AR with Mr. Robert McDonald officiating under the direction of Smith Funeral Homes of Stamps. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. * I knew James' younger brother John Raymond, who was a couple of years older than me, very well. The McDonald's lived on Highway 82 at Thomas or the next street. They ran a service station on the west side of the overpass over the L&A. My brother in law, Don Langley, did some oil well drilling ventures with James which didn't turn out very well. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info |

823|820|2017-12-21 16:49:06|Jean Galbraith|Re: Pictures: LCHS Library - DEC 2017|Thanks for the library photos.Also, my nephew, Nathan Pipkin would like to be added to the Stamps Group.His e-mail address is nathan_pipkin@yahoo.com.Jean Galbraith On Tuesday, December 19, 2017 12:26 PM, "'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Pictures: LCHS Library - DEC 2017 Now in the StampsArk Yahoo Photo directory. Direct link: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/photos/albums/ 460425514 or a href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/photos/a lbums/460425514" https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/photos/albums/ 460425514/a When I was at SHS, the library and Study Hall were in the same room (it was mostly Study Hall with classroom type desks). Periodicals were around the walls in the Study Hall area and the books were in a small section at the rear of the room. The librarian was Miss Sybil Tatum. Tom Sims SHS '51

824|824|2017-12-26 08:09:19|Tom E. Sims|Re: Yellow jacket mascot|From: Earl M. Rogers Tom: Does anyone know the origin of the yellow jacket being the SHS mascot?? Thanks Take care, Earl and merry christmas _ Don't know. It was yellowjackets as far back as I can remember. Tom Sims|

825|825|2017-12-26 08:35:36|Tom E. Sims|Re: James McDonald|I will share a bit of history regarding James McDonald. I was born in the house where James and John Raymond later grew up, there on Hwy 82. James was 9 months older than I. We were friends through our teen years. I'll share a story that I never told James. One winter day, he came by and invited me to go duck hunting with him over on the pond. We walked East, up the Cotton Belt railroad track to the small end of the pond and waited for the ducks to come in. I had never done any duck hunting and had no idea the speed they traveled in flight. Finally, two ducks came flying by. One following the other by several feet. James told me to take the first shot. I raised my gun and shot for the lead duck. The second duck fell. I never told James that I was shooting for the lead duck. He thought I was a good shot and I left him with that impression. Dale|

826|824|2017-12-26 17:37:41|Tom E. Sims|Re: Yellow jacket mascot|From Dale White I'm older than Tom and I don't know. We were just the just the Yellow Jackets. No one questioned it nor agreed to be in charge of a mascot! Dale|

2018 Yahoo Messages
827|827|2018-01-25 18:26:03|Tom E. Sims|Lonnie Teague, Sr., SHS c1963, R.I.P.|Lonnie Teague, Sr. (May 12, 1945 - January 22, 2018) Lonnie Thurman Teague, Sr, age 72, of Buckner, AR, passed away Monday, January 22, 2018. Mr. Teague was born May 12, 1945, in Waldo, AR to Thurman and Dorothy (Shurtleff) Teague. He was retired from Cotton Belt/Southern Pacific Railroad. Mr. Teague was preceded in death by his parents, wife, Sandy, and a Brother Donnie. He is survived by his three sons: Lonnie Jr and his wife Marcia and Jason Teague of Buckner, AR, and Steven Teague and his wife, Dava, of Walker, LA, and by a sister Nancy Nix and her husband Thomas of Stamps, AR; six grandsons: Michael, Hayden, Drue, and Connor Teague, Jason Clark, David Soileau, and one granddaughter, Nicole Brigham, and a great-grandson, Ezra. He is also survived by a former wife Rebbecca Rowe. Graveside services will be held at 2:00 pm on Thursday, January 25, 2018, at Lakeside Cemetery with Brother Ernie Sorrels officiating. Services will be under the direction of A.O. Smith Funeral Home of Stamps, AR. Visitation will be Wednesday, January 24, 2018, at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, AR. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com|

828|828|2018-01-31 00:27:43|Tom E. Sims|Cloie Margaret Wilson, R.I.P.|Cloie Margaret Wilson (June 11, 1923 - January 29, 2018) Cloie Margaret Wilson, age 94 of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Monday, January 29, 2018. Mrs. Wilson was born June 11, 1923 in Magnolia, Arkansas to Jesse and Susie Morse. Mrs. Wilson was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Huebert Clark Wilson; and three brothers. She is survived by two sons, Forrest Wilson and wife, Beatriz of Miami, FL and Dan Wilson of Stamps, AR; one daughter, Holly Pierce of Beaumont, TX; two granddaughters, Janna Jackson and Suzie Wilson; and two great granddaughters, Anne and Sarah. Funeral Services will be held at 2pm Thursday, February 1, 2018 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Bro. Mike Turner officiating. Interment will follow at Sardis Cemetery in Stamps. Visitation will be held from 6-8pm Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at the Smith Funeral Home in Stamps. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. ______ Cloie and my Mother were very close friends. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

829|829|2018-02-11 10:19:45|Tom E. Sims|MARJORIE HELEN KUYKENDALL SPARROW SHS '45, R.I.P.|MARJORIE HELEN KUYKENDALL SPARROW Born March 4, 1927 in Stamps, Arkansas to parents Dallas and Nena Minter Kuykendall, passed into eternal rest on February 7, 2018 in Mesquite, Texas at age 90. Services will be held at Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, Arkansas on February 19, 2018 at 11:00 AM with burial following at Liberty Cemetery. Helen, as she was always known, is preceded in death by her parents, Dallas and Nena Kuykendall, husband, William W. (Bill) Sparrow, 3 brothers, Ray, Jerry and Edward Kuykendall and 1 sister, Jean Wilson. Helen attended Stamps High School, graduating in the 1944/45 class at mid-term due to the war. She was a member of the Baptist Church in Stamps, having joined as a teenager. Helen has since been a member of Eastfield Baptist Church in Mesquite, Texas for more than 20 years. Helen was a daughter, sister, wife, caring mother and beloved grandmother. She loved her church family and friends and the Lord. Her courage and spirit were an inspiration to all she met. She had a gift and shared it with everyone she met. She will be forever missed by her family and friends. Helen is survived by: 2 sons and 2 daughter in laws - Don and Char Sparrow and Michael and Vicki Sparrow, 2 grandsons - Michael and Brian Sparrow, 1 step grandson, James Ledenham, 2 granddaughters and 2 grandson in laws - Christie and Sean Partee and Betsy and Steve Miller, 3 Great grandsons - Devin, J.J. and Dillon. She is also survived by 2 brothers and 2 sister in laws - Billy and Carolyn Kuykendall and Darrell and Francis Kuykendall as well and many nieces and nephews _______________________________ Helen's brother, Bill, was in my SHS class and was my best friend. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

830|829|2018-02-11 16:17:26|sidney melear|Re: MARJORIE HELEN KUYKENDALL SPARROW SHS '45, R.I.P.|I didn't know Helen or her brothers Ray and Jerry, but knew Edward and Billy. I used to go to their house and play when i lived on Central Ave (across the street from the Payne brothers - that would have been in 44 and 45). They lived down a dirt lane about about 1/4 mile east of Central ave. (probably Theale street now). Billy was a good athlete. He played quarterback (they called him radar Kuykendall) and i believe they won district and went to the state playoffs his senior year.All of the Kuykendall kids were well mannered and all around good kids.. I think Dallas was a house painter and was gone a lot. I don't remember ever seeing him more than once or twice. Darrel was just a lttle feller then and i don't remember much about him. They seemed to be really poor (a not uncommon condition in Stamps in those days), but they were always neatly dressed and scrubbed and every Sunday you would see them all walking to church services.Mardi Gras is in full swing now. I'm not going to any of the parades but getting into the spirit of things with boudin, cracklins, gumbo and beer. Amy is headed to a parade with some friends and will probably bring me some beads.Sid bFrom: "'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bTo: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bSent: Sunday, February 11, 2018 12:19 PM bSubject: [StampsArk] MARJORIE HELEN KUYKENDALL SPARROW SHS '45, R.I.P. � MARJORIE HELEN KUYKENDALL SPARROW Born March 4, 1927 in Stamps, Arkansas to parents Dallas and Nena Minter Kuykendall, passed into eternal rest on February 7, 2018 in Mesquite, Texas at age 90. Services will be held at Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, Arkansas on February 19, 2018 at 11:00 AM with burial following at Liberty Cemetery. Helen, as she was always known, is preceded in death by her parents, Dallas and Nena Kuykendall, husband, William W. (Bill) Sparrow, 3 brothers, Ray, Jerry and Edward Kuykendall and 1 sister, Jean Wilson. Helen attended Stamps High School, graduating in the 1944/45 class at mid-term due to the war. She was a member of the Baptist Church in Stamps, having joined as a teenager. Helen has since been a member of Eastfield Baptist Church in Mesquite, Texas for more than 20 years. Helen was a daughter, sister, wife, caring mother and beloved grandmother. She loved her church family and friends and the Lord. Her courage and spirit were an inspiration to all she met. She had a gift and shared it with everyone she met. She will be forever missed by her family and friends. Helen is survived by: 2 sons and 2 daughter in laws - Don and Char Sparrow and Michael and Vicki Sparrow, 2 grandsons - Michael and Brian Sparrow, 1 step grandson, James Ledenham, 2 granddaughters and 2 grandson in laws - Christie and Sean Partee and Betsy and Steve Miller, 3 Great grandsons - Devin, J.J. and Dillon. She is also survived by 2 brothers and 2 sister in laws - Billy and Carolyn Kuykendall and Darrell and Francis Kuykendall as well and many nieces and nephews _______________________________Helen's brother, Bill, was in my SHS class and was my best friend. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info

831|829|2018-02-12 13:45:50|Earl Rogers|Re: MARJORIE HELEN KUYKENDALL SPARROW SHS '45, R.I.P.|Good idea to stay in...we dont Handel crowds like we use to. So take careEarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Feb 11, 2018, at 3:47 PM, sidney melear sidney_melear@yahoo.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � I didn't know Helen or her brothers Ray and Jerry, but knew Edward and Billy. I used to go to their house and play when i lived on Central Ave (across the street from the Payne brothers - that would have been in 44 and 45). They lived down a dirt lane about about 1/4 mile east of Central ave. (probably Theale street now). Billy was a good athlete. He played quarterback (they called him radar Kuykendall) and i believe they won district and went to the state playoffs his senior year.All of the Kuykendall kids were well mannered and all around good kids.. I think Dallas was a house painter and was gone a lot. I don't remember ever seeing him more than once or twice. Darrel was just a lttle feller then and i don't remember much about him. They seemed to be really poor (a not uncommon condition in Stamps in those days), but they were always neatly dressed and scrubbed and every Sunday you would see them all walking to church services.Mardi Gras is in full swing now. I'm not going to any of the parades but getting into the spirit of things with boudin, cracklins, gumbo and beer. Amy is headed to a parade with some friends and will probably bring me some beads.Sid "From: "'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bTo: StampsArk@yahoogroups.com bSent: Sunday, February 11, 2018 12:19 PM bSubject: [StampsArk] MARJORIE HELEN KUYKENDALL SPARROW SHS '45, R.I.P. � MARJORIE HELEN KUYKENDALL SPARROW Born March 4, 1927 in Stamps, Arkansas to parents Dallas and Nena Minter Kuykendall, passed into eternal rest on February 7, 2018 in Mesquite, Texas at age 90. Services will be held at Smith Funeral Home in Stamps, Arkansas on February 19, 2018 at 11:00 AM with burial following at Liberty Cemetery. Helen, as she was always known, is preceded in death by her parents, Dallas and Nena Kuykendall, husband, William W. (Bill) Sparrow, 3 brothers, Ray, Jerry and Edward Kuykendall and 1 sister, Jean Wilson. Helen attended Stamps High School, graduating in the 1944/45 class at mid-term due to the war. She was a member of the Baptist Church in Stamps, having joined as a teenager. Helen has since been a member of Eastfield Baptist Church in Mesquite, Texas for more than 20 years. Helen was a daughter, sister, wife, caring mother and beloved grandmother. She loved her church family and friends and the Lord. Her courage and spirit were an inspiration to all she met. She had a gift and shared it with everyone she met. She will be forever missed by her family and friends. Helen is survived by: 2 sons and 2 daughter in laws - Don and Char Sparrow and Michael and Vicki Sparrow, 2 grandsons - Michael and
Brian Sparrow, 1 step grandson, James Ledenham, 2 granddaughters and 2 grandson in laws - Christie and Sean Partee and Betsy and Steve Miller, 3 Great grandsons - Devin, J.J. and Dillon. She is also survived by 2 brothers and 2 sister in laws - Billy and Carolyn Kuykendall and Darrell and Francis Kuykendall as well and many nieces and nephews _______________________________ Helen's brother, Bill, was in my SHS class and was my best friend. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info |

832|832|2018-02-14 20:44:04|Tom E. Sims|Mary Nell Nix R.I.P.|Mary Nell Nix (April 5, 1938 - February 13, 2018) Mary Nell Nix, age 79 of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at her home. Mrs.. Nix was born April 5, 1938 in Stephens, Arkansas to O.E. "Buddy"� and Carnell Plumley Cox. Mrs. Nix was preceded in death by her husband, Jimmy Nix; daughter, Carala Castor; one brother and two sisters. She is survived by two grandsons, Rodney Castor and wife, Kayla of Mena, AR and Chad Castor and wife, Dezzarai of Siloam Springs, AR; two great grandsons, Hayden and Harlin; one great granddaughter, Tatum; one sister, Lila Mae Saxon of Magnolia, AR; and several other family members. Graveside Services will be held at 2:30pm Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps, AR with Bro. William Willis officiating under the direction of Smith Funeral Homes of Stamps, AR. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. __________________________ Mary Nell was the widow of my SHS '51 classmate, Jimmy Nix. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

833|833|2018-02-20 08:37:34|Tom E. Sims|J.D. Ormand SHS '53, R.I.P.|J.D. Ormand (May 3, 1935 - February 19, 2018) J.D. Ormand of Stamps, Arkansas, passed from this world of pain into Heaven's glory on Monday, February 19, 2018. Mr. Ormand was born May 3, 1935 in Stephenville, Texas. His love for football in high school was a memory he cherished. A star running back for the Stamps Yellow Jackets and being elected as the Homecoming Captain stirred the interest of the Homecoming Queen whom he later married.. He proudly served in the United States Army for two years and was stationed in Germany. Later, he served one year in New Orleans after reactivation. He returned home at the rank of Sergeant. J.D. worked as a body repairman for Stamps Auto Company and later for David Morehead Auto Repair. He was a proud letter carrier for the United States Postal Service in Stamps retiring after seventeen years of service. He also served as an Alderman for the Stamps City Council. Mr. Ormand is preceded in death by his parents, Ocie and Pearl Ormand; two brothers, Bobby Ormand and Bill Ormand; and one sister, Alma Carr. He is survived by his wife of sixty-three years, Lanie Sue Ormand of Stamps, AR; one son, Danny Ormand and wife, Patricia; two grandsons, Josh Ormand and Braxton Harris all of Stamps, AR; two nieces, Carol Jean Moring and husband, Ronnie; niece, Frankie Carr; one nephew, Jimmy Carr all of Stephenville, TX; and many other family and friends. J.D. leaves behind a legacy of honesty, dignity, and hard work. Expecting a lot from his son and grandsons by teaching them what a man should be in life and as a Christian. A Celebration of His Life will be held at 10am Thursday, February 22, 2018 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Rev. John Noggle officiating. Interment will follow at Oak Grove Cemetery in Stamps. Visitation will be held from 6-8pm Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel on Thomas Street. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com. _________________________________ J.D. was two classes behind me at SHS and played football and basketball with me. He was an all-time great SHS running back. I double dated with J.D. and Lanie Sue my senior year, and his brother, Bobby (who died as a teen ager) was one of my best friends. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE.. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www..west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

834|834|2018-03-01 00:58:18|Tom E. Sims|Entergy Corporation outlines plans to demolish Harvey Couch Power Pl|From Earl Rogers: Fyi http://www.magnoliareporter.com/news_and_business/lafayette_ county/article_49348a32-1c65-11e8-9bd6-5f9c4e3e8757.html or https://goo.gl/dLv8yQ I did not know the plant was shut down....and now will be demolished. Take care, Earl _ I didn't either. Tom Sims|

835|835|2018-03-03 17:45:32|Tom E. Sims|Buster Brazell, R.I.P.|Buster Brazell September 25, 1929 - March 02, 2018 Buster Brazell, age 88, of, Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Friday, March 2, 2018 at his home. Mr. Brazell was born September 25, 1929 in Midway, Arkansas to Hosie Preston and Etta (Clark) Brazell. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Stamps.. He loved going to church, his Sunday School Class, and his family. He owned and operated Buster's Barbershop in Downtown Stamps for over 50 years, where he made friends with every one of his customers. Mr. Brazell was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers; and two sisters. He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Vrginia (Cockerham) Brazell of Stamps; a daughter Gail Newton of Stamps; a son, Ricky Brazell of Stamps; a brother, Marvin Brazell, and wife Bobbie of Genoa, Arkansas; a sister, Lois Parks of Texarkana, Arkansas; and a sister-in-law, Laura Cockerham of Emery, TX. He is also survived by his adopted family, Jerry and Peggy Daughtery and Neal and Pam Clark; and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00pm, Tuesday, March 6, 2018, at Smith Funeral Home Chapel, in Stamps, AR with Bro. Mike Turner officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps, AR. Visitation will be held Monday, March 5, 2018, from 6:00pm until 8:00pm at Smith Funeral Home, on Thomas Street, in Stamps, AR. Memorials may be made to First Baptist church in Stamps or to Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps. _________ After I left Stamps, Buster started barbering and Virginia ran a beauty salon out of her home and was my mother's hair dresser. Buster and Virginia kept a garden for them and my mother at my mother's. Tom Sims * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

836|835|2018-03-05 02:49:05|Tom E. Sims|Re: Buster Brazell, R.I.P.|From Earl Rogers: Tom When did buster come to stamps??? Seems like it was 64 or 65?? Do you know?? Take care, Earl ______________ Earl: I don't know. I don't remember him being there in 1951 when I left Stamps, and sometime later he was in the Baptist church and good friends with my mother. Tom Sims|

837|835|2018-03-05 19:39:36|J C Smith|Re: Buster Brazell, R.I.P.| He worked at Edwards station in Lewsville before going to barber school. J C Smith On 3/5/2018 3:49 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] wrote: � From Earl Rogers: Tom When did buster come to stamps??? Seems like it was 64 or 65?? Do you know?? Take care, Earl Earl: I don't know. I don't remember him being there in 1951 when I left Stamps, and sometime later he was in the Baptist church and good friends with my mother. Tom Sims |

838|838|2018-03-06 17:07:02|Tom E. Sims|6 MAR 2018 "Lafayette County Now" Facebook Post|6 MAR 2018 "Lafayette County Now" Facebook Post _ Are you looking for rich soil for your garden or yard? The City of Stamps is your answer!! Yards of soil removed from the lake bed is drying and ready to be hauled away. Contact Stamps City Hall at 870 533 4771|

839|839|2018-03-13 00:00:17|Tom E. Sims|Re: Old photos|From Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net Have you ever seen the Photo collection of Robert Walz (professor of history at Southern State)? http://peace.saumag.edu/swark/sara/saraindex/saralist6.html# anchor605450 ________________________ I've had a link to his photo collection on the SHS 1951 website for many years: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_P_Hist. htm Interesting pictures. Tom Sims|

840|839|2018-03-13 20:25:38|J C Smith|Re: Old photos| Thanks for sharing these pictures. J C Smith On 3/13/2018 1:55 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] wrote: � From Stuart Tribble sgtribble@centurytel.net Have you ever seen the Photo collection of Robert Walz (professor of history at Southern State)? http://peace.saumag.edu/swark/sara/saraindex/saralist6.html# anchor605450 ______________________________________ I've had a link to his photo collection on the SHS 1951 website for many years: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_P_Hist. htm Interesting pictures. Tom Sims |

841|841|2018-04-20 17:38:17|Tom E. Sims|William Doyle Millican, SHS '62 R.I.P.|Attachments : William Doyle Millican https://anaturalstatefuneralservice.com/2018/04/william-doyl e-millican-age-73/William Doyle Millican, age 73, of Jacksonville, Arkansas passed away on Friday, April 13th, 2018, surrounded by family. He was born on October 6, 1944 in Stamps, Arkansas to Doris Marie Owen Millican & Doyle Rolan Millican. Bill was a proud member of the Stamps High School Class of '62 and graduate of Southern Arkansas University, with BS degree in Education and MS degree in Counseling.��Bill was retired from the United States Armed Services, having served a combined 38 years in the Army, Navy, and Air Force, with a retired rank of Sergeant First Class. His military awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Army Service Ribbon, and the Overseas Service Ribbon. He was last stationed at Camp Robinson in the 87th Troop Command.�Bill was also known to many as Coach Millican, having coached football at Brinkley High School, Earle High School, and Center High School in Texas. He was also, an avid golfer, card shark, and longtime Dallas Cowboy and Arkansas Razorback fan, as well as being a John Wayne connoisseur and loyal supporter of Ducks Unlimited's Greenwings program. Patriarch of the Millican Clan, he was a husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, son, brother, coach, mentor, and friend. He was known for his selflessness and kind heart and will be missed by many. He was preceded in death by his father, Doyle Millican, and son, Michael Don Millican.Survivors include his loving wife of 48 years, Donna Cary Millican; his mother Doris Marie Owen Millican; Children: Wayne Millican and wife Angie of Cabot, Lin Schuster and husband Marshall "Dee"� of Little Rock, Shannon Bloesch and husband Mike of Houston, Texas, and Tonya Millican (wife of the late Michael Millican) of Cabot. Grandchildren: Kristin Fitzgibbon (Brian); Jessalyn Otwell (Luke), Katie and; Olivia Schuster; Sydney, Simon, & Sawyer Bloesch; Christian, Addison, & Aviana Millican; Great grandchildren: Hailey, Emily, & Kaelin Fitzgibbon; Annie & Ruby Otwell; Siblings: Linda & Mokey Sparrow, Polly & Jerry Don Millican, and Linda & Mike Couch; Nieces & nephews: McRae Sparrow & Lindsay Nutt; Cary Mitchell, Lance Couch, and Lindsey Zigler; plus, a huge host of special friends.Military funeral services will be at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, April 18th at A Natural State Funeral Service in Jacksonville, Arkansas with visitation to begin at 11:30 am. Eulogies delivered by Lonnie Medford, Bob Cofford, and Marshall Schuster, with special bagpipe salute by grandson, Simon Doyle Bloesch. A Celebration of Life will immediately follow at Southern Oaks Country Club in Jacksonville, Arkansas.In lieu of flowers, the Millican family requests any donations be made to the Arkansas Ducks Unlimited Greenwings Program 16 Dillon Drive Cabot Arkansas, 72023 in memory of William D Millican. Link to Bill's Memorial Video:https://www.tributeslides.com/tributes/show/7BTG6DCZ39 9RSDJC� � � � � �Responses to this email
should be posted on theStampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'llpost them there.Everyone is invited/encouraged to join theStampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archiveanything about Stamps. It's FREE.You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or�post messagesIf you would like to share your email address or�phone # with the group, send to me and you will be�included on the Stamps Contact List:http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_Li st.htmIf you have email addresses for anyone who mightlike to be on this SHS mailing list, send them tome and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if�you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list.Tom Sims, SHS '51TES3355@gmail.comSHS 1951http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/Stamp s Ark Yahoo Grouphttps://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

842|842|2018-04-22 07:55:16|Tom E. Sims|LCHS Prom 2018|LCHS Prom 2018 https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/photos/pcb.1 634631949990748/1634631419990801/?type=3 or a href="https://goo.gl/wEzLqZ" https://goo.gl/wEzLqZ/a and https://www.facebook.com/lafayettecountyschools/photos/pcb.1 634609119993031/1634608756659734/?type=3 or a href="https://goo.gl/wX7WYy" https://goo.gl/wX7WYy/a You don't have to be a Facebook user to view the pictures. If there is a box that says "Log in" or "Create New Account", just click on "Not Now" and you can view the pictures. |

843|843|2018-04-30 22:50:12|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County High School Maya Angelou Memorial Speaker Ms. Rita |Lafayette County High School Maya Angelou Memorial Speaker Ms. Rita Coburn April 20, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Ya-scqJMY&t=2s or a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Ya-scqJMY&t=2s" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Ya-scqJMY&t=2s/a|

844|844|2018-05-04 10:33:46|Tom E. Sims|Lake June in Stamps: update|From: "Kern, Aaron" Aaron.Kern@agfc.ar.gov Date: May 1, 2018 at 1:39:46 PM EDT To: "Earl M. Rogers" earl.rogers@comcast.net Subject: RE: Lake June in Stamps: update Hi Earl, I actually do have a couple updates on Lake June for you. The contract for the spillway/levee construction was recently signed, and begins on 01 June. That doesn't necessarily mean work will begin then, but it does mean the paperwork is getting in place. We had a meeting with the engineer, contractor that will be doing the construction, and a representative from Potlach Timber (they own the land immediately behind the levee) the other day. The meeting generally went well, and we identified a few details that are currently being sorted out. Also, I'm putting together a list of materials to order for fish habitat. We've already improved the fish habitat quite a bit, but do have additional work planned for this summer and fall. And that's some great advice you give. It's pretty much how I try get through my day-to-day. It's harder some days than others. I think that's all I have. If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask. Take Care, Aaron Kern AFS Associate Fisheries Professional District 6 Fisheries Management Biologist aaron.kern@agfc.ar.gov | P: 870-836-4612 ext 1458| M: 870-675-1827 Arkansas Game and Fish Commission South Central Regional Office P.O Box 110| Camden, AR 71711 P: 870-836-4612|F:870-836-6508 www.agfc.com -----Original Message----- From: Earl M. Rogers [mailto:earl.rogers@comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2018 2:13 PM To: Kern, Aaron Aaron.Kern@agfc.ar.gov Subject: Lake June in Stamps: update Aaron: I thought I would check in with you to see if you have anything new to update on the status of Lake June in Stamps/? I plan to get home in June for a family reunion and visit some old friends, so I will be driving out past the Lake to my old home place. I hope you are well and Arkansas Politics is treating you well...just remember: MAKE LIKE A DUCK...keep calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath!!!...at least that worked for me of 35 years with the federal government!!! Take care, Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net|

845|845|2018-05-05 18:22:32|Tom E. Sims|Mildred Elizabeth Burke Leslie, SHS '44, R.I.P.|Mildred Elizabeth Burke Leslie January 20, 1926 - May 01, 2018 Mildred Elizabeth Burke Leslie, 92, went to be with her Lord on May 1, 2018. Elizabeth was born on January 20, 1926 in Stamps, AR, the first of six children to Grady and Lillian Burke. She accepted the Lord as her Savior at age 13. She graduated from Stamps High School in 1944. She received an AA degree in Home Economics from A & M College, Magnolia, AR in 1946, and married Clyde Leslie, of Nashville, AR, the same year. She was a school teacher near Willisville, AR. Elizabeth and husband, Rev. Clyde Leslie, a Baptist minister, partnered in ministry, serving 18 churches over more than 60 years. She loved to teach beginner Sunday School and VBS, and was often the church pianist. She taught music schools with her husband. She was a pianist who accompanied singers for 2 radio programs in Rogers and Springdale, AR. She leaves behind a legacy of faithfulness to her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Elizabeth was a wonderful Mama and Grandma who loved spending time with her family. She loved to read books, play board games, and put together jigsaw puzzles. She was a great cook for anyone who visited her home. She was an accomplished seamstress, employed at Stroud's Dept. Store, Rogers, AR. Elizabeth was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, her parents, and a grandson, Christopher Leslie. Elizabeth is survived by a daughter, Dorothy (Greg) Parsons, Jacksonville, TX; 3 sons, James (Anita) Leslie, Damascus, AR; Paul (Kay) Leslie, Bigelow, AR; and Daniel (Jackie) Leslie, Enterprise, AL; 16 grandchildren, John Mark Parsons (Tammy), Tim Parsons, Alan Leslie (Stella), Brian Leslie (Mandy), Phil Parsons, Joy Emery (Trey), Michael Leslie (Melissa), Stephen Leslie (Rachel), Sarah Fruge' (John), Diana Henley (Matt), Luke Parsons (Rebecca), Susanna Mahoney (Josh), Caleb Leslie, Mary Tew (Jordan), Rachel Priest (Stuart), and Bekah Choppy (Tanner); and 25 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by 5 siblings, Leonard (Georgia) Burke, Oklahoma City, OK; Millard (Sue) Burke, Stamps, AR; Patria Owens, Gilmer, TX; Gloria (Wayne) Bagley, Wichita Falls, TX; and Alfred Burke, Allen, TX; and many nephews, nieces, and cousins. Funeral services will be held at Shiloh Union Baptist Church, Stamps (Buckner), AR at 1 pm, Monday, May 7 with Bro. Tim Reddin and Dr. Greg Parsons officiating. Interment will be at Bingen-Ozan Cemetery near Nashville, AR. Visitation will be at A. O. Smith Funeral Home, Stamps, AR, 5-8 pm, Sunday, May 6. SERVICES Funeral Service Monday, May 07, 2018 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Shiloh Baptist Church County Road 31 Buckner, Arkansas 71827 Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

846|845|2018-05-06 11:56:02|Jean Galbraith|Re: Mildred Elizabeth Burke Leslie, SHS '44, R.I.P.|I knew both Millard and Patria.Please forward my feelings of sympathy in the loss of their oldest sibling.Hilda "Jean" Galbraith, nee Pipkin On Saturday, May 5, 2018 8:22 PM, "'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]" StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Mildred Elizabeth Burke Leslie January 20, 1926 - May 01, 2018 Mildred Elizabeth Burke Leslie, 92, went to be with her Lord on May 1, 2018. Elizabeth was born on January 20, 1926 in Stamps, AR, the first of six children to Grady and Lillian Burke. She accepted the Lord as her Savior at age 13. She graduated from Stamps High School in 1944. She received an AA degree in Home Economics from A & M College, Magnolia, AR in 1946, and married Clyde Leslie, of Nashville, AR, the same year. She was a school teacher near Willisville, AR. Elizabeth and husband, Rev. Clyde Leslie, a Baptist minister, partnered in ministry, serving 18 churches over more than 60 years. She loved to teach beginner Sunday School and VBS, and was often the church pianist. She taught music schools with her husband. She was a pianist who accompanied singers for 2 radio programs in Rogers and Springdale, AR. She leaves behind a legacy of faithfulness to her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Elizabeth was a wonderful Mama and Grandma who loved spending time with her family. She loved to read books, play board games, and put together jigsaw puzzles. She was a great cook for anyone who visited her home. She was an accomplished seamstress, employed at Stroud's Dept. Store, Rogers, AR. Elizabeth was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, her parents, and a grandson, Christopher Leslie. Elizabeth is survived by a daughter, Dorothy (Greg) Parsons, Jacksonville, TX; 3 sons, James (Anita) Leslie, Damascus, AR; Paul (Kay) Leslie, Bigelow, AR; and Daniel (Jackie) Leslie, Enterprise, AL; 16 grandchildren, John Mark Parsons (Tammy), Tim Parsons, Alan Leslie (Stella), Brian Leslie (Mandy), Phil Parsons, Joy Emery (Trey), Michael Leslie (Melissa), Stephen Leslie (Rachel), Sarah Fruge' (John), Diana Henley (Matt), Luke Parsons (Rebecca), Susanna Mahoney (Josh), Caleb Leslie, Mary Tew (Jordan), Rachel Priest (Stuart), and Bekah Choppy (Tanner); and 25 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by 5 siblings, Leonard (Georgia) Burke, Oklahoma City, OK; Millard (Sue) Burke, Stamps, AR; Patria Owens, Gilmer, TX; Gloria (Wayne) Bagley, Wichita Falls, TX; and Alfred Burke, Allen, TX; and many nephews, nieces, and cousins. Funeral services will be held at Shiloh Union Baptist Church, Stamps (Buckner), AR at 1 pm, Monday, May 7 with Bro. Tim Reddin and Dr. Greg Parsons officiating. Interment will be at Bingen-Ozan Cemetery near Nashville, AR. Visitation will be at A. O. Smith Funeral Home, Stamps, AR, 5-8 pm, Sunday, May 6. SERVICES Funeral Service Monday, May 07, 2018 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Shiloh Baptist Church County Road 31 Buckner, Arkansas 71827 * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info

847|847|2018-05-19 08:18:53|Tom E. Sims|Video: Lafayette County High School Class of 20181|Video: Lafayette County High School Class of 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIwzGXXgr6Q&feature=youtu.be or a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIwzGXXgr6Q&feature=yo utu.be" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIwzGXXgr6Q&feature=youtu.be /a * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

848|848|2018-05-19 11:08:24|Tom E. Sims|More LCHS 2018 Graduation Videos|More LCHS 2018 Graduation Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=digAWlq5v04&feature=youtu.be or a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=digAWlq5v04&feature=yo utu.be" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=digAWlq5v04&feature=youtu.be /a and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMN2bnPNK4s or a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMN2bnPNK4s" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMN2bnPNK4s/a and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzE2Z4LEOXs&feature=youtu.be or a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzE2Z4LEOXs&feature=yo utu.be" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzE2Z4LEOXs&feature=youtu.be /a|

849|849|2018-05-19 11:49:32|Tom E. Sims|Even More LCHS 2018 Graduation Videos|Even More LCHS 2018 Graduation Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=NVbNHy4_X54 or a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=NVbNH y4_X54" https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=NVbNHy4_X54 /a and https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=OMrb3CEy2ME or a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=OMrb3 CEy2ME" https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=OMrb3CEy2ME /a|

850|850|2018-05-23 08:30:39|Tom E. Sims|Video: Lafayette County School District Kindergarten Graduation 2018|Video: Lafayette County School District Kindergarten Graduation 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwTJHSAWAMc or a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwTJHSAWAMc" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwTJHSAWAMc/a * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

851|851|2018-06-08 07:35:02|Tom E. Sims|Stamps girl on TV|Friday's KTBS 3 News ArkLaTex Sounds features a 17 year old from Stamps, Arkansas - Kristina Fisher. https://www.facebook.com/KTBS3/videos/10157744663767575/ or a href="https://www.facebook.com/KTBS3/videos/1015774466376757 5/" https://www.facebook.com/KTBS3/videos/10157744663767575//a You don't have to be a Facebook user to view the video. If there is a box that says "Log in" or "Create New Account", just click on "Not Now" and you can view the video. |

852|852|2018-07-04 02:13:56|Tom E. Sims|June 2018 Lake June Pictures|Earl's pictures are now in the "June 2018 Lake June Pictures" album in the Photo Directory: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/photos/albums/ 1082098001 _ From: "Kern, Aaron" Aaron.Kern@agfc.ar.gov Date: June 22, 2018 at 11:29:54 AM EDT To: "Earl M. Rogers" earl.rogers@comcast.net Subject: RE: Some pics of the renovation of Lake June in Stamps AR. Hi Earl, Hope you have been well. Thanks for the pictures and checking in. We just completed another round of shoreline deepening (see attached pics), which is what the backhoe in your pictures was doing. The levee and spillway reconstruction is moving along nicely. I know it probably didn't look like much, but the contract became active on 01 June and right now they are grubbing all the trees and roots out of the old levee before starting the reconstruction. The only vegetation cutting we are going to be cutting are some of the willow trees to make brushpiles and things like that. Cutting the vegetation would serve no useful purpose. We have a large stockpile of materials for fish habitat stored at the city yard in Stamps, and we are getting ready to place a variety of structures into Lake June. We're basically at the mercy of rain at the moment as the lake bottom is extremely soggy after all the rain we've gotten the past 6 months. I think that's about all I have for updates on Lake June. If you have any other questions just let me know. Take Care, Aaron Kern AFS Associate Fisheries Professional District 6 Fisheries Management Biologist aaron.kern@agfc.ar.gov | P: 870-836-4612 ext 1458| M: 870-675-1827 Arkansas Game and Fish Commission South Central Regional Office P.O Box 110| Camden, AR 71711 P: 870-836-4612|F:870-836-6508 www.agfc.com _ From: "Earl M. Rogers" earl.rogers@comcast.net Date: June 17, 2018 at 2:59:41 PM EDT To: Earl earl.rogers@comcast.net, Aaron.Kern@agfc.ar.gov, George Perkison perkison9098@icloud.com, Angie Reppond hawgw1ld@icloud.com Subject: Some pics of the renovation of Lake June in Stamps AR. Aaron: fyi Let me know if you have questions about location of any of these pics. Take care, Earl Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net|

853|853|2018-07-05 19:56:48|Tom E. Sims|Re: Stamps, Arkansas|Amanda: I'm copying the StampsArk Yahoo Group on my reply and you might get some feedback from some of them. I'm not sure which collection of photos you are referring to, but there are some linked to The "Stamps High School Class of 1951" website: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ and to the StampsArk Yahoo Group (you have to join the group to see them): https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info I don't know of any older pictures or the history of the Kelly house, but you might want to look at the "Southern Timberman" book, which the Stamps library and the First Baptist Church library once had copies of. I recall that this book mentioned two or three of the homes just east of the Kelly house on Church street. 1951 SHS classmates of mine lived in these three houses in 1951. The Kelly's lived in the Kelly house then. City Grocery store was directly across the street from the Kelly house in 1951, and the Kelly house was one of the few brick homes in Stamps in the late 40's. I remember that the Kelly's had a large, barking dog that was often chained in their backyard. If I remember correctly, your father's parents lived on School Street and were good friends of my parents. Best wishes, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amanda Keeney amanda.keeney@cox.net Date: Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 4:55 PM Subject: Stamps, Arkansas To: TES3355@gmail.com Hello, My name is Amanda Black Keeney. I am the youngest daughter of Henry Black and Betty Lou Oglesby Black. My family home was located at 500 Church Street - diagonal from the
Presbyterian Church in Stamps. While my family and I live in Fayetteville, I've returned home this summer to help my mom repair the home and am working in earnest to discover more about the family who built and lived in the house before usm I was intrigued by the wonderful collection of photos from early Stamps and wondered if there might exist any photos of 500 Church Street during the time when the A.C. Kelly family lived at the home. Many thanks and I look forward to your reply. Kind regards, Amanda Amanda Black Keeney Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandablackkeeney/ Twitter: @abkeeney Cell: 479.439.2112|

854|853|2018-07-07 11:59:32|Earl Rogers|Re: Stamps, Arkansas|I remember that house, but dont know anything about it.�I always thought it was a lovely old house and beautiful brick work.�I want to know more too.Take care, EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jul 5, 2018, at 10:56 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Amanda: I'm copying the StampsArk Yahoo Group on my reply and you might get some feedback from some of them. I'm not sure which collection of photos you are referring to, but there are some linked to The "Stamps High School Class of 1951" website: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ and to the StampsArk Yahoo Group (you have to join the group to see them): https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info I don't know of any older pictures or the history of the Kelly house, but you might want to look at the "Southern Timberman" book, which the Stamps library and the First Baptist Church library once had copies of. I recall that this book mentioned two or three of the homes just east of the Kelly house on Church street. 1951 SHS classmates of mine lived in these three houses in 1951. The Kelly's lived in the Kelly house then. City Grocery store was directly across the street from the Kelly house in 1951, and the Kelly house was one of the few brick homes in Stamps in the late 40's. I remember that the Kelly's had a large, barking dog that was often chained in their backyard. If I remember correctly, your father's parents lived on School Street and were good friends of my parents. Best wishes, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amanda Keeney amanda.keeney@cox.net Date: Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 4:55 PM Subject: Stamps, Arkansas To: TES3355@gmail.com Hello, My name is Amanda Black Keeney. I am the youngest daughter of Henry Black and Betty Lou Oglesby Black. My family home was located at 500 Church Street - diagonal from the Presbyterian Church in Stamps. While my family and I live in Fayetteville, I've returned home this summer to help my mom repair the home and am working in earnest to discover more about the family who built and lived in the house before usm I was intrigued by the wonderful collection of photos from early Stamps and wondered if there might exist any photos of 500 Church Street during the time when the A.C. Kelly family lived at the home. Many thanks and I look forward to your reply. Kind regards, Amanda Amanda Black Keeney Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandablackkeeney/ Twitter: @abkeeney Cell: 479.439.2112 |

855|855|2018-07-20 10:49:54|StampsArk@yahoogroups.com|New file uploaded to StampsArk|Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the StampsArk group. File : /Stamps 1908 Map/Stamps-June_1908.pdf Uploaded by : vpfree_3 vpfree3355@gmail.com Description : You can access this file at the URL: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/files/Stamps%2 01908%20Map/Stamps-June_1908.pdf To learn more about file sharing for your group, please visit: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&y=PROD_GRPS&loc ale=en_US&id=SLN15398 Regards, vpfree_3 vpfree3355@gmail.com|

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857|857|2018-07-20 17:11:33|Tom E. Sims|Re: Stamps, Arkansas - 500 Church Street|Amanda: Thanks for the maps. They can now be downloaded from the Stamps Yahoo File directory or seen on the 1951 web site. I see that both maps show the Bodcaw Lumber Co. in better times and the 1908 map shows the L & A RR shops. Direct links: 1908 Map http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/Stamps-Ju ne_1908.pdf 1930 Map http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/Stamps_Ap ril_1930.pdf I don't recall ever hearing about Waldo Drug Store, but I saw a lot of movies at the Cil Theatre on Thomas street which was opened in the 40's and before that at the Gay Theater that was on the south side of the triangle. Both were operated by Mr. and Mrs. Allums. I recall that your grandmother was a Stamps teacher, but she was never one of my teachers and wasn't listed as a faculty member in my 1951 Hilltopper annual. She probably was a Stamps teacher after my time. If I recall correctly, my mother told me that Mrs. A. C. Kelly later built and lived in a home on the SW corner of School and Antigo (Highway 82) which was an empty field earlier and part of the McMurrough property. Good Luck with your research. Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amanda Keeney amanda.keeney@cox.net Date: Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 8:41 AM Subject: RE: Stamps, Arkansas - 500 Church Street To: "Tom E. Sims" tes3355@gmail.com Cc: Stamps Ark Yahoo Group StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Dear Mr. Sims (and fellow Yellow Jackets!), Thank you so very much for your kind reply. I'm continuing to research my childhood home at the corner of Church & Opera and
I do have a copy of the "Southern Timberman" book. What a great collection of Stamps history! In addition to that, I've requested the Sandborn Fire Maps from the Library of Congress collections and have received some copies that show early Stamps. In case your group is interested, I've attached the earliest (1908) and latest (1930) black/white PDF version. Per the librarians I interacted with, efforts continue to digitize all the maps, which, when complete, might make color copies available. I believe that will be most helpful as you can clearly understand what materials were first used on most of the structures. Further, as part of my house detective work, I spent a recent Saturday under the house and in the attic to determine if there were any changes to the original footprint of our home. I discovered a 1952 copy of the Lafayette County Democrat in the attic. Looks like your classmates might have enjoyed the Cil Theatre! :-) And, wrapping the pipes in the basement, I found some very old parchment ads for the Waldo Drug Store. No telling how old that was! Interesting reference to my father's family on School street. Perhaps they lived there before moving to what is now known as Thorold Black Drive? Did my grandmother, Gladys Black, teach at Stamps during your school days? I recall she first began teaching in Patmos and then transferred to Buckner schools before the bulk of her career was served at Stamps. Sadly, the Ola Powell home nearest to the ball field and beside to my mother's home is no more. It's been torn down and earlier this summer they removed her giant Magnolia and Pine trees. I hear plans are underway to convert
it to a little league/t-ball field. Progress/time marches on! From what I had always heard, Mrs. Powell's home was one of the earliest spots for Stamps schools. In my continued search for information about 500 Church Street, I hope to connect with some of the descendents of Mr. A. C. Kelly. Perhaps a photo or two of the home still exists in a scrapbook of theirs. And, I plan to make a visit to the courthouse to search through tax rolls to determine if/when the home may have had improvements or changes. Wish me luck and know I welcome any other helpful hints! Thank you, again, for your kind response. Amanda (Black) Keeney -----Original Message----- From: Tom E. Sims [mailto:tes3355@gmail.com] Sent: 05 July 2018 21:56 To: Amanda Keeney Cc: Stamps Ark Yahoo Group Subject: Re: Stamps, Arkansas Amanda: I'm copying the StampsArk Yahoo Group on my reply and you might get some feedback from some of them. I'm not sure which collection of photos you are referring to, but there are some linked to The "Stamps High School Class of 1951" website: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ and to the StampsArk Yahoo Group (you have to join the group to see them): https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info I don't know of any older pictures or the history of the Kelly house, but you might want to look at the "Southern Timberman" book, which the Stamps library and the First Baptist Church library once had copies of. I recall that this book mentioned two or three of the homes just east of the Kelly house on Church street. 1951 SHS classmates of mine lived in these three houses in 1951. The Kelly's lived in the Kelly house
then. City Grocery store was directly across the street from the Kelly house in 1951, and the Kelly house was one of the few brick homes in Stamps in the late 40's. I remember that the Kelly's had a large, barking dog that was often chained in their backyard. If I remember correctly, your father's parents lived on School Street and were good friends of my parents. Best wishes, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amanda Keeney amanda.keeney@cox.net Date: Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 4:55 PM Subject: Stamps, Arkansas To: TES3355@gmail.com Hello, My name is Amanda Black Keeney. I am the youngest daughter of Henry Black and Betty Lou Oglesby Black. My family home was located at 500 Church Street - diagonal from the Presbyterian Church in Stamps. While my family and I live in Fayetteville, I've returned home this summer to help my mom repair the home and am working in earnest to discover more about the family who built and lived in the house before usm I was intrigued by the wonderful collection of photos from early Stamps and wondered if there might exist any photos of 500 Church Street during the time when the A.C. Kelly family lived at the home. Many thanks and I look forward to your reply. Kind regards, Amanda Amanda Black Keeney Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandablackkeeney/ Twitter: @abkeeney Cell: 479.439.2112|

858|857|2018-07-21 12:02:23|Earl Rogers|Re: Stamps, Arkansas - 500 Church Street|Thanks so much for the info.I cannot remember when the 'log pond' was names Lake June? Does anyone else know?And, i had a Mrs Black in 8th grade math at SHS...i graduated in 1964. She was in her late 50's or early 60's...was that her?Take care, EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jul 20, 2018, at 8:11 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Amanda: Thanks for the maps. They can now be downloaded from the Stamps Yahoo File directory or seen on the 1951 web site. I see that both maps show the Bodcaw Lumber Co. in better times and the 1908 map shows the L & A RR shops. Direct links: 1908 Map http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/Stamps-Ju ne_1908.pdf 1930 Map http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/Stamps_Ap ril_1930.pdf I don't recall ever hearing about Waldo Drug Store, but I saw a lot of movies at the Cil Theatre on Thomas street which was opened in the 40's and before that at the Gay Theater that was on the south side of the triangle. Both were operated by Mr. and Mrs. Allums. I recall that your grandmother was a Stamps teacher, but she was never one of my teachers and wasn't listed as a faculty member in my 1951 Hilltopper annual. She probably was a Stamps teacher after my time. If I recall correctly, my mother told me that Mrs. A. C. Kelly later built and lived in a home on the SW corner of School and Antigo (Highway 82)
which was an empty field earlier and part of the McMurrough property. Good Luck with your research. Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amanda Keeney amanda.keeney@cox.net Date: Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 8:41 AM Subject: RE: Stamps, Arkansas - 500 Church Street To: "Tom E. Sims" tes3355@gmail.com Cc: Stamps Ark Yahoo Group StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Dear Mr. Sims (and fellow Yellow Jackets!), Thank you so very much for your kind reply. I'm continuing to research my childhood home at the corner of Church & Opera and I do have a copy of the "Southern Timberman" book. What a great collection of Stamps history! In addition to that, I've requested the Sandborn Fire Maps from the Library of Congress collections and have received some copies that show early Stamps. In case your group is interested, I've attached the earliest (1908) and latest (1930) black/white PDF version. Per the librarians I interacted with, efforts continue to digitize all the maps, which, when complete, might make color copies available. I believe that will be most helpful as you can clearly understand what materials were first used on most of the structures. Further, as part of my house detective work, I spent a recent Saturday under the house and in the attic to determine if there were any changes to the original footprint of our home. I discovered a 1952 copy of the Lafayette County Democrat in the attic. Looks like your classmates might have enjoyed the Cil Theatre! :-) And, wrapping the pipes in the basement, I found some very old parchment ads for the Waldo Drug Store. No telling how old that was! Interesting reference to my father's family on School street. Perhaps they lived there before moving to what is now known as Thorold Black Drive? Did my grandmother, Gladys Black, teach at Stamps during your school days? I recall she first began teaching in Patmos and then transferred to Buckner schools before the bulk of her career was served at Stamps. Sadly, the Ola Powell home nearest to the ball field and beside to my mother's home is no more. It's been torn down and earlier this summer they removed her giant Magnolia and Pine trees. I hear plans are underway to convert it to a little league/t-ball field. Progress/time marches on! From what I had always heard, Mrs. Powell's home was one of the earliest spots for Stamps schools. In my continued search for

information about 500 Church Street, I hope to connect with some of the descendents of Mr. A. C. Kelly. Perhaps a photo or two of the home still exists in a scrapbook of theirs. And, I plan to make a visit to the courthouse to search through tax rolls to determine if/when the home may have had improvements or changes. Wish me luck and know I welcome any other helpful hints! Thank you, again, for your kind response. Amanda (Black) Keeney -----Original Message----- From: Tom E. Sims [mailto:tes3355@gmail.com] Sent: 05 July 2018 21:56 To: Amanda Keeney Cc: Stamps Ark Yahoo Group Subject: Re: Stamps, Arkansas Amanda: I'm copying the StampsArk Yahoo Group on my reply and you might get some feedback from some of them. I'm not sure which collection of photos you are referring to, but there are some linked to The "Stamps High School Class of 1951" website: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ and to the StampsArk Yahoo Group (you have to join the group to see them): https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info I don't know of any older pictures or the history of the Kelly house, but you might want to look at the "Southern Timberman" book, which the Stamps library and the First Baptist Church library once had copies of. I recall that this book mentioned two or three of the homes just east of the Kelly house on Church street. 1951 SHS classmates of mine lived in these three houses in 1951. The Kelly's lived in the Kelly house then. City Grocery store was directly across the street from the Kelly house in 1951, and the Kelly house was one of the few brick homes in Stamps in the late 40's. I remember that the Kelly's had a large, barking dog that was often chained in their backyard. If I remember correctly, your father's parents lived on School Street and were good friends of my parents. Best wishes, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amanda Keeney amanda.keeney@cox.net Date: Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 4:55 PM Subject: Stamps, Arkansas To: TES3355@gmail.com Hello, My name is Amanda Black Keeney. I am the youngest daughter of Henry Black and Betty Lou Oglesby Black. My family home was located at 500 Church Street - diagonal from the Presbyterian Church in Stamps. While my family and I live in Fayetteville, I've returned home this summer to help my mom repair the home and am working in earnest to discover more about the family who built and lived in the house before usm I was intrigued by the wonderful collection of photos from early Stamps and wondered if there might exist any photos of 500 Church Street during the time when the A.C. Kelly family lived at the home. Many thanks and I look forward to your reply. Kind regards, Amanda Amanda Black Keeney Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandablackkeeney/ Twitter: @abkeeney Cell: 479.439.2112 |

859|857|2018-07-21 17:21:24|Tom E. Sims|Re: Stamps, Arkansas - 500 Church Street|Thanks so much for the info. I cannot remember when the 'log pond' was named Lake June? Does anyone else know? And, i had a Mrs Black in 8th grade math at SHS...i graduated in 1964. She was in her late 50's or early 60's...was that her? Take care, Earl Earl Rogers ___________________________________ It was officially Lake June for as long as I can remember, but most everyone called it "The Pond". Tom Sims|

860|857|2018-07-21 17:41:05|Tom E. Sims|Re: Stamps, Arkansas - 500 Church Street|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amanda Keeney amanda.keeney@cox.net Date: Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 2:03 PM Subject: RE: [StampsArk] Re: Stamps, Arkansas - 500 Church Street To: Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com Cc: "Tom E. Sims" tes3355@gmail.com Dear Earl, Nice to e-meet you and the Stamps group. Thank you for your reply! Apologies for not replying to the entire group. I think I'm unable to reply to all as I don't have group membership/privileges. J As to the Log Pond, I do remember hearing that the Lake was commemorated as Lake June to honor a member of the Brown family "� who were key players within the Bodcaw Lumber families. In fact, I want to say it was the Brown family that had something to do with the beautiful stained glass windows at the Stamps Presbyterian Church. And, down the street at the Methodist Church, I seem to remember lots of plaques recognizing the Cabe family which had furnished/donated a lot of the things at the Methodist Church "� I think the organ was attributed to the Cabe's. I'm reading the Southern Timberman book that Mr. Sims mentioned and learning lots about these early families. It is certainly a great history lesson! You might also enjoy reading this nomination for Lake June as part of being included as a National Register spot: http://www.arkansaspreservation.com/arkansas-register-listin gs/lake-june I believe you all have seen this article before "� it references Lake June's namesake: https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/31/archives/bodcaw-no-longer -just-a-family-affair-but-who-or-what-is-bodcaw.html If you graduated in 1964, there is a strong chance it was indeed my grandmother, Gladys Black as your math teacher. I'm attaching a photo of her from the time. From what I was told, she taught math, advanced math, French and later served as the counselor. My dad, Henry Titus Black, graduated in 1961, although it sounds as if you were closer in age to my mother, Betty Lou Oglesby. She and my dad were both in the marching band. My mom transferred from Stamps in her last year to Jonesboro, Louisiana and graduated in 1965. Gladys Black in 1963 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/Fx/2018 020.jpg Appreciate the connections and support from fellow Stamps folks! I'm working to uncover as much as I can about my childhood home in Stamps that the A.C. Kelly family and ours called home. Hopefully, I can find a Kelly relative and, perhaps, some photos of the house in its earliest days. All my best, Amanda|

861|857|2018-07-21 19:16:00|jeang37@bellsouth.net|Re: Stamps, Arkansas - 500 Church Street|Mrs. Black is pictured in the faculty of my 1954 and again 1955 Hilltopper. �I graduated in 1955. �I wonder if Amanda's father is Henry Titus Black?Jean pipkin Galbraith�Sent from my iPad On Jul 21, 2018, at 2:02 PM, Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Thanks so much for the info.I cannot remember when the 'log pond' was names Lake June? Does anyone else know?And, i had a Mrs Black in 8th grade math at SHS...i graduated in 1964. She was in her late 50's or early 60's...was that her?Take care, EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.netOn Jul 20, 2018, at 8:11 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Amanda: Thanks for the maps. They can now be downloaded from the Stamps Yahoo File directory or seen on the 1951 web site. I see that both maps show the Bodcaw Lumber Co. in better times and the 1908 map shows the L & A RR shops. Direct links: 1908 Map http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/Stamps-Ju ne_1908.pdf 1930 Map http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/Stamps_Ap ril_1930.pdf I don't recall ever hearing about Waldo Drug Store, but I saw a lot of movies at the Cil Theatre on Thomas street which was opened in the 40's and before that at the Gay Theater that was on the south side of the triangle. Both were operated by Mr. and Mrs. Allums. I recall that your grandmother was a Stamps teacher, but she was never one of my teachers and wasn't listed as a faculty member in my 1951 Hilltopper annual. She probably was a Stamps teacher after my time. If I recall correctly, my mother told me that Mrs. A. C. Kelly later built and lived in a home on the SW corner of School and Antigo (Highway 82) which was an empty field earlier and part of the McMurrough property. Good Luck with your research. Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amanda Keeney amanda.keeney@cox.net Date: Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 8:41 AM Subject: RE: Stamps, Arkansas - 500 Church Street To: "Tom E. Sims" tes3355@gmail.com Cc: Stamps Ark Yahoo Group StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Dear Mr. Sims (and fellow Yellow Jackets!), Thank you so very much for your kind reply. I'm continuing to research my childhood home at the corner of Church & Opera and I do have a copy of the "Southern Timberman" book. What a great collection of Stamps history! In addition to that, I've requested the Sandborn Fire Maps from the Library of Congress collections and have received some copies that show early Stamps. In case your group is interested, I've attached the earliest (1908) and latest (1930) black/white PDF version. Per the librarians I interacted with, efforts continue to digitize all the maps, which, when complete, might make color copies available. I believe that will be most helpful as you can clearly understand what materials were first used on most of the structures. Further, as part of my house detective work, I spent a recent Saturday under the house and in the attic to determine if there were any changes to the original footprint of our home. I discovered a 1952 copy of the Lafayette County Democrat in the attic. Looks like your classmates might have enjoyed the Cil Theatre! :-) And, wrapping the pipes in the basement, I found some very old parchment ads for the Waldo Drug Store. No telling how old that was! Interesting reference to my father's family on School street. Perhaps they lived there before moving to what is now known as Thorold Black Drive? Did my grandmother, Gladys Black, teach at Stamps during your school days? I recall she first began teaching in Patmos and then transferred to Buckner schools before the bulk of her career was served at Stamps. Sadly, the Ola Powell home nearest to the ball field and beside to my mother's home is no more. It's been torn down and earlier this summer they removed her giant Magnolia and Pine trees. I hear plans are underway to convert it to a little league/t-ball field. Progress/time marches on! From what I had always heard, Mrs. Powell's home was one of the earliest spots for Stamps schools. In my continued search for information about 500 Church Street, I hope to connect with some of the descendents of Mr. A. C. Kelly. Perhaps a photo or two of the home still exists in a scrapbook of theirs. And, I plan to make a visit to the courthouse to search through tax rolls to determine if/when the home may have had improvements or changes. Wish me luck and know I welcome any other helpful hints! Thank you, again, for your kind response. Amanda (Black) Keeney -----Original Message----- From: Tom E. Sims [mailto:tes3355@gmail.com] Sent: 05 July 2018 21:56 To: Amanda Keeney Cc: Stamps Ark Yahoo Group
Subject: Re: Stamps, Arkansas Amanda: I'm copying the StampsArk Yahoo Group on my reply and you might get some feedback from some of them. I'm not sure which collection of photos you are referring to, but there are some linked to The "Stamps High School Class of 1951" website: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ and to the StampsArk Yahoo Group (you have to join the group to see them): https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info I don't know of any older pictures or the history of the Kelly house, but you might want to look at the "Southern Timberman" book, which the Stamps library and the First Baptist Church library once had copies of. I recall that this book mentioned two or three of the homes just east of the Kelly house on Church street. 1951 SHS classmates of mine lived in these three houses in 1951. The Kelly's lived in the Kelly house then. City Grocery store was directly across the street from the Kelly house in 1951, and the Kelly house was one of the few brick homes in Stamps in the late 40's. I remember that the Kelly's had a large, barking dog that was often chained in their backyard. If I remember correctly, your father's parents lived on School Street and were good friends of my parents. Best wishes, Tom Sims ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amanda Keeney amanda.keeney@cox.net Date: Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 4:55 PM Subject: Stamps, Arkansas To: TES3355@gmail.com Hello, My name is Amanda Black Keeney. I am the youngest daughter of Henry Black and Betty Lou Oglesby Black. My family home was located at 500 Church Street - diagonal from the Presbyterian Church in Stamps.
While my family and I live in Fayetteville, I've returned home this summer to help my mom repair the home and am working in earnest to discover more about the family who built and lived in the house before usm I was intrigued by the wonderful collection of photos from early Stamps and wondered if there might exist any photos of 500 Church Street during the time when the A.C. Kelly family lived at the home. Many thanks and I look forward to your reply. Kind regards, Amanda Amanda Black Keeney Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandablackkeeney/ Twitter: @abkeeney Cell: 479.439.2112 |

862|857|2018-07-22 10:32:37|Tom E. Sims|Re: Stamps, Arkansas - 500 Church Street|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com Date: Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 10:20 AM Subject: Re: [StampsArk] Re: Stamps, Arkansas - 500 Church Street To: Amanda Keeney amanda.keeney@cox.net Cc: "Tom E. Sims" tes3355@gmail.com Amanda: Yep!!! That is my old teacher ; Mrs Black...I guess most of us never knew our teachers first names at students!! Mrs Black was a wonderful teacher, person and friend. I know Betty Lou and Henry Titus very well. In fact, i use to date Marilyn Jones from Minden LA, Betty Lou's cousin. I even rode the L and A train from Stamps to Minden one day to visit Marilyn. I did not realize Betty Lou moved to LA and graduated down there. Betty Lou attended our last SHS class of 64 reunion in stamps. We have our 55th SHS class of 64 reunion in 2019 ( probably the fall) and everyone is certainly invited. I , too , have and read the SOUTHERN TIMBERMAN BOOK. FANTASTIC BOOK. It was recommended to me several years ago by a son of GEORGE PERKISON of Buckner . Thanks so much for your maps and info. If I discover anything about your old home place , I will certainly share it. I do remember the house from my childhood , as a lovely , nice, brick home. Take care, Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Jul 21, 2018, at 5:03 PM, Amanda Keeney amanda.keeney@cox.net wrote: Dear Earl, Nice to e-meet you and the Stamps group. Thank you for your reply! Apologies for not replying to the entire group. I think I'm unable to reply to all as I don't have group membership/privileges. J As to the Log Pond, I do remember hearing that the Lake was commemorated as Lake June to honor a member of the Brown family "� who were key players within the Bodcaw Lumber families. In fact, I want to say it was the Brown family that had something to do with the beautiful stained glass windows at the Stamps Presbyterian Church. And, down the street at the Methodist Church, I seem to remember lots of plaques recognizing the Cabe family which had furnished/donated a lot of the things at the Methodist Church "� I think the organ was attributed to the Cabe's. I'm reading the Southern Timberman book that Mr. Sims mentioned and learning lots about these early families. It is certainly a great history lesson! You might also enjoy reading this nomination for Lake June as part of being included as a National Register spot: http://www.arkansaspreservation.com/arkansas-register-listin gs/lake-june I believe you all have seen this article before "� it references Lake June's namesake: https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/31/archives/bodcaw-no-longer -just-a-family-affair-but-who-or-what-is-bodcaw.html If you graduated in 1964, there is a strong chance it was indeed my grandmother, Gladys Black as your math teacher. I'm attaching a photo of her from the time. From what I was told, she taught math, advanced math, French and later served as the counselor. My dad, Henry Titus Black, graduated in 1961, although it sounds as if you were closer in age to my mother, Betty Lou Oglesby. She and my dad were both in the marching band. My mom transferred from Stamps in her last year to Jonesboro, Louisiana and graduated in 1965. Appreciate the connections and support from fellow Stamps folks! I'm working to uncover as much as I can about my childhood home in Stamps that the A.C. Kelly family and ours called home. Hopefully, I can find a Kelly relative and, perhaps, some photos of the house in its earliest days. All my best, Amanda |

863|863|2018-07-22 15:12:47|Tom E. Sims|SHS '62 Reunion|Darrell Kuykendall advises that the SHS class of 1962 is having a reunion on September 22, 2018 at the Stamps City Hall from around 1:30PM until 4:00PM. Everyone is welcome and invited. Contact Darrell dwk1944@gmail.com with any questions. * Responses to this email should be posted on the StampsArk Yahoo group or sent to me and I'll post them there. Everyone is invited/encouraged to join the StampsArk Yahoo group to discuss and archive anything about Stamps. It's FREE. You must join the StampsArk Yahoo group to read or post messages If you would like to share your email address or phone # with the group, send to me and you will be included on the Stamps Contact List: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_List.ht m If you have email addresses for anyone who might like to be on this SHS mailing list, send them to me and I'll add them to the list. Let me know if you wish to be removed from the SHS mailing list. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

864|857|2018-07-23 10:59:39|Tom E. Sims|Re: Stamps, Arkansas - 500 Church Street|---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amanda Keeney amanda.keeney@cox.net Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 8:10 AM Subject: RE: [StampsArk] Re: Stamps, Arkansas - 500 Church Street To: Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com Cc: "Tom E. Sims" tes3355@gmail.com Thanks, Earl! Glad to know it was indeed my grandmother Gladys Black as your math teacher at Stamps. When she retired in the mid-1970s, I believe she had more than 32 years teaching at various schools primarily in Lower Arkansas and I think the bulk in Stamps. She was a math whiz! I'm only sorry all her trig/algebra knowledge didn't make it to me! Riding the train to Minden - sounds exciting! Stamps had to be a bustling place when rail service was offered! As a small child in the 70s, I remember any time the trains would roll through town, my grandmother Black would pop me in the car and drive me to the closest crossing so I could wave at the man in the caboose! Ha! Simple pleasures in a small town. I was home recently visiting mom and had to make a trip down to Homer, LA to the courthouse. Mom remarked that she traveled those roads a lot back and forth to Ruston, Jonesboro and other stops. When I call her today I'll let her know of your kind note. I'll be sure and let mom know about the reunion. I sure wish the old high school were restored so all your classmates could have the reunion there. While I understand the benefits of school consolidation on paper "� sharing of limited resources, etc., - as a returning visitor to Stamps my heart breaks when I see the elementary school, auditorium and old high school in decline "� demolition by neglect. So, I better buy a lottery ticket so I can win a few million dollars and put the old buildings back together! J My dad passed away in 2008 "� about a month before my son was born. Certainly a difficult loss for my family and me and one more reason I LOVE hearing from former classmates their remembrances of my parents & grandparents and am so glad to hear of your connection, too! Thanks, again, to you, Tom and your entire group. I'm grateful for the responses and appreciate your keeping the Church Street house and me in mind. Sincerely, Amanda From: Earl Rogers [mailto:earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com] Sent: 22 July 2018 12:20 To: Amanda Keeney Cc: Tom E. Sims Subject: Re: [StampsArk] Re: Stamps, Arkansas - 500 Church Street Amanda: Yep!!! That is my old teacher ; Mrs Black...I guess most of us never knew our teachers first names at students!! Mrs Black was a wonderful teacher, person and friend. I know Betty Lou and Henry Titus very well. In fact, i use to date Marilyn Jones from Minden LA, Betty Lou's cousin. I even rode the L and A train from Stamps to Minden one day to visit Marilyn. I did not realize Betty Lou moved to LA and graduated down there. Betty Lou attended our last SHS class of 64 reunion in stamps. We have our 55th SHS class of 64 reunion in 2019 ( probably the fall) and everyone is certainly invited. I , too , have and read the SOUTHERN TIMBERMAN BOOK. FANTASTIC BOOK. It was recommended to me several years ago by a son of GEORGE PERKISON of Buckner . Thanks so much for your maps and info. If I discover anything about your old home place , I will certainly share it. I do remember the house from my childhood , as a lovely , nice, brick home. Take care, Earl Sent from my iPad: Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D. LTC USA ret. Rx Consulting, LLC 11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA 23236-2408 PH: 804.794.9541 C: 804.399-2758 Earl.rogers@comcast.net|

865|865|2018-08-10 00:05:43|Tom E. Sims|Pictures: Lafayette County School District Staff|School starts @ Lafayette County Schools on Monday 13 August. I recall that we always started on or about the first Monday after Labor Day. Tom Sims Monday 7 AUG, the LC staff was recognized for their years of commitment to Lafayette County, past (Stamps Yellow Jackets and Lewisville Red Devils) and current, LC Cougars! They were awarded service pins in increments of 5 years! We have some of the best staff around! You don't have to be a Facebook user to view the pictures. If there is a box that says "Log in" or "Create New Account", just click on "Not Now" and you can view the pictures. Pictures 5 years https://goo.gl/r6mK3U 10 years https://goo.gl/cyJz4f 15 years https://goo.gl/M6BZhb 20 years https://goo.gl/1EDYGR 25 years https://goo.gl/rHv3rW 30 years https://goo.gl/a4bRDF 35 years https://goo.gl/gSW9ax 40 years https://goo.gl/fgJSw1|

866|865|2018-08-10 16:28:24|J C Smith|Re: Pictures: Lafayette County School District Staff| By the time I was in junior high, we would register the Friday morning before Labor Day so they could have a football game that night (mother said it was a State Education Department rule).� We start the normal class schedule on Tuesday.� I graduated in 1965. J C Smith On 8/10/2018 2:05 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] wrote: School starts @ Lafayette County Schools on Monday 13 August. I recall that we always started on or about the first Monday after Labor Day. Tom Sims ____ Monday 7 AUG, the LC staff was recognized for their years of commitment to Lafayette County, past (Stamps Yellow Jackets and Lewisville Red Devils) and current, LC Cougars! They were awarded service pins in increments of 5 years! We have some of the best staff around! You don't have to be a Facebook user to view the pictures. If there is a box that says "Log in" or "Create New Account", just click on "Not Now" and you can view the pictures. Pictures 5 years https://goo.gl/r6mK3U 10 years https://goo.gl/cyJz4f 15 years https://goo.gl/M6BZhb 20 years https://goo.gl/1EDYGR 25 years https://goo.gl/rHv3rW 30 years https://goo.gl/a4bRDF 35 years https://goo.gl/gSW9ax 40 years https://goo.gl/fgJSw1 |

867|867|2018-08-15 08:36:57|Tom E. Sims|LCHS Football Rally|LCHS Football Rally https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/39118590_17927 88094175132_173251202534866944_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=2a81afe4b1 368e90e2462655a7149215&oe=5BF1DC9C or https://goo.gl/KEvAod or a href="https://goo.gl/KEvAod" https://goo.gl/KEvAod/a You don't have to be a Facebook user to view the picture. If there is a box that says "Log in" or "Create New Account", just click on "Not Now" and you can view the picture. |

868|868|2018-08-18 00:10:32|Tom E. Sims|Lake June Pictures - 28 June 2018|Lake June Pictures - 28 June 2018 Earl Rogers forwarded these pictures that were posted in the "You Know You're From Stamps, Arkansas" Facebook group: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/photos/albums/ 361639435 I was unaware of the "You Know You're From Stamps, Arkansas" Facebook group which I see is fairly active and has almost 1700 members. I see that some of the Stamps Yahoo group are members, but most are probably way after my time. I've applied for membership in the group. Tom Sims|

869|869|2018-08-18 22:25:02|Tom E. Sims|Stamps Videos|I am now a member of the "You Know You're From Stamps, Arkansas if" Facebook group, as are some of you, and if you're not a member I recommend joining. https://www.facebook.com/groups/248283648535117/ Here are three videos that were recenyly posted by Ricardo Cooper on the "You Know You're From Stamps, Arkansas if" Facebook group on the run down condition of the old Stamps school properties: https://www.facebook.com/groups/248283648535117/permalink/21 86680291362100/ or https://goo.gl/cQLqWS Watch in this order: lower right, lower left and upper right. You don't have to be a Facebook user to view the videos. If there is a box that says "Log in" or "Create New Account", just click on "Not Now" and you can view the videos. |

870|870|2018-08-20 20:09:52|Tom E. Sims|Stamps Email Mailing List Discontinued|This is the final post on my Stamps email mailing list which has been around for a long time and now has about 100 members. List members can be much better served by becoming members of the Stamps Yahoo email group which now has 45 members. All members of the Stamps Yahoo group can post and reply to messages, as opposed to my mailing list's receive only setup. And, all posts and replies are archived online, as well as pictures and files. I've been archiving all messages that were sent to the email mailing list for a couple of years on the Yahoo group. Anyone who is interested in Stamps is invited, encouraged, welcome to join the Stamps Yahoo email group. Becoming a member doesn't cost anything, and although you have to go through a joining process, I believe it's well worth the effort. To become a Stamps Yahoo email group member, go to: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info and if you already have a Yahoo account and ID, just click on the "+Join Group" box and follow the instructions. I'll approve your membership request as soon as I see it. If you don't already have a Yahoo account and Yahoo ID, you must get one by clicking on "Sign in" at the top of the page, then clicking on "Don't have an account? Sign up" and then following the instructions. You have the option of using a new Yahoo email address or any other email address that you like. After you get your Yahoo account, you can join the Stamps group as outlined above. If you have any difficulty, I'll be glad to help.
* Stamps Yahoo Email Group Description * Anything and everything about Stamps is on topic, but the emphasis is on posting and archiving remembrances of pre 1970 Stamps as contrasted to present day Stamps. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

871|871|2018-08-20 21:32:34|Tom E. Sims|"You Know You're From Stamps, Arkansas if" Post|I sent the appended message for posting on the "You Know You're From Stamps, Arkansas if" Facebook Group yesterday and it wasn't approved by the Moderators. I'm posting it here for archiving purposes and to supply further input about the group that I recommended (and still do) yesterday. Since I had previously made a post, that was moderated and immediately approved, and had replied to a few (no moderation), it appears that all new posts on the group are moderated (or perhaps posts of new members) while replies to posts are not. Today I deleted my pending post and replaced it with this note to the moderators: *** Deleted Post. Don't want to cause a problem or take the group in a direction you don't want to go. Tom E. Sims SHS '51 * FWIW, here's my previous post that was immediately approved: I wasn't aware of the "You Know You're From Stamps, Arkansas if" group until yesterday, and since then it's brought back a lot of memories while I was reading every group post, comment and reply for the last year. I look forward to participating in future group discussions. I've scrolled through all 1832 members and see several familiar names, although most of you are probably well after my time in Stamps (1951). I only saw two members who I know are older than me. I administer the Stamps Ark Yahoo group which has 42 members "https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info". Most members are 65 or older, but anyone who is interested in Stamps is welcome. I
also administer a private Stamps email announcement list with about 100 members. Most on the list are 65 or older and most emails these days are obituaries. Anyone who would like to be added to the list should email "TES3355@gmail.com". Below is a picture of me on the pond (Lake June) c1941 when they were racing cars on the ice. Tom Sims, SHS '51 Stamps High School Class of 1951 Website http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ * 1941 Picture *** My post has received 34 likes (including the group founder) and several favorable comments from a group with 1833 members. I suspect that most of the group members are post 2000 LCHS grads and that the moderators prefer discussions about a more recent Stamps rather than that of my time. I don't have a problem with that. Tom Sims SHS '51 __________ * Not Approved Post * You Know You're From Stamps, Arkansas if you know who Glen C. Ward was. The Ward's lived at the SW corner of Opera and 82 next to the Blakely's and eventually moved to a retirement home in Texarkana. Elmer Harris tore down the Ward house later and built his new home there. Mr. Ward worked for the Stamps post office for many years, and I believe he also sold insurance on the side. He was a deacon in the First Baptist church, the longtime, long suffering scoutmaster of Stamps Troop 70 that met weekly in the American Legion Hut next to the swimming pool on First street, and a really fine man. He was humble, quiet and caring and he positively impacted many people, me included. He never owned a car as far as I know and rode around Stamps on a bicycle. He had false teeth and when he talked you could hear a whistling sound occasionally. The Ward's had three children: Steven and Joanna, who were a little older than me and Leon who was about 5 years younger and an SHS classmate of my brother. Gladys Martin Oglesby, who did a Stamps radio show for years, was Mr. Ward's sister and their first cousin was H. L. "Cotton" Wilkinson, Stamps attorney. Glen C. Ward was also a historian and most of the Stamps history in the "Southern Timberman" book (I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in Stamps history) came from a "History of Stamps, Arkansas" (c1985) that was put together by Mr Ward. Mr. Ward's compilation consists of 8 legal size pages full of typed information and two pages of old photos. Stewart Hicks, a Stamps postmaster, published an abridged version of Mr. Ward's compilation in 1994, and I bought a copy at one of the drug stores in Stamps. The Hicks version is about 5 1/2" by 8 1/2" and has 34 pages of content, including 19 old photos. I suspect that Stewart Hicks is the son of John Hicks who owned the Hicks barbershop, where I was briefly the shoeshine boy during the 40's. Mr. Ward gave me a photocopy of his compilation in 1989, and I've scanned and archived it on the Stamps ARK Yahoo and the SHS '51 websites. Here's a link to a "History of Stamps, Arkansas": http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PGW.htm Well done, Glen C. Ward, R.I.P. Tom Sims, SHS '51 Stamps High School Class of 1951 Website http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps ARK Yahoo Group
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info|

872|871|2018-08-21 12:22:17|Earl Rogers|Re: "You Know You're From Stamps, Arkansas if" Post|Thanks, TomI printed a copy of Mr Wards history of stamps some years ago from your website. He was our scout master and took us to Boy Scout Camp several times. He was truly a great man and a very good influence on everyone he came into contact.We were lucky to have such wonderful people guiding us.Thanks�Take care, EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Aug 21, 2018, at 12:32 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: I sent the appended message for posting on the "You Know You're From Stamps, Arkansas if" Facebook Group yesterday and it wasn't approved by the Moderators. I'm posting it here for archiving purposes and to supply further input about the group that I recommended (and still do) yesterday. Since I had previously made a post, that was moderated and immediately approved, and had replied to a few (no moderation), it appears that all new posts on the group are moderated (or perhaps posts of new members) while replies to posts are not. Today I deleted my pending post and replaced it with this note to the moderators: *** Deleted Post. Don't want to cause a problem or take the group in a direction you don't want to go. Tom E. Sims SHS '51 * FWIW, here's my previous post that was immediately approved: __ I wasn't aware of the "You Know You're From Stamps, Arkansas if" group until yesterday, and since then it's brought back a lot of memories while I was reading every group post, comment and reply for the last year. I look forward to participating in future group discussions. I've scrolled through all 1832 members and see several familiar names, although most of you are probably well after my time in Stamps (1951). I only saw two members who I know are older than me. I administer the Stamps Ark Yahoo group which has 42 members "https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info". Most members are 65 or older, but anyone who is interested in Stamps is welcome. I also administer a private Stamps email announcement list with about 100 members. Most on the list are 65 or older and most emails these days are obituaries. Anyone who would like to be added to the list should email "TES3355@gmail.com". Below is a picture of me on the pond (Lake June) c1941 when they were racing cars on the ice. Tom Sims, SHS '51 Stamps High School Class of 1951 Website http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ * 1941 Picture ***** My post has received 34 likes (including the group founder) and several favorable comments from a group with 1833 members. I suspect that most of the group members are post 2000 LCHS grads and that the moderators prefer discussions about a more recent Stamps rather than that of my time. I don't have a problem with that. Tom Sims SHS '51 * Not Approved Post *** You Know You're From Stamps, Arkansas if you know who Glen C. Ward was. The Ward's lived at the SW corner of Opera and 82 next to the Blakely's and eventually moved to a retirement home in Texarkana. Elmer Harris tore down the Ward house later and built his new home there. Mr. Ward worked for the Stamps post office for many years, and I believe he also sold insurance on the side. He was a deacon in the First Baptist church, the longtime, long suffering scoutmaster of Stamps Troop 70 that met weekly in the American Legion Hut next to the swimming pool on First street, and a really fine man. He was humble, quiet and caring and he positively impacted many people, me included. He never owned a car as far as I know and rode around Stamps on a bicycle. He had false teeth and when he talked you could hear a whistling sound

occasionally. The Ward's had three children: Steven and Joanna, who were a little older than me and Leon who was about 5 years younger and an SHS classmate of my brother. Gladys Martin Oglesby, who did a Stamps radio show for years, was Mr. Ward's sister and their first cousin was H. L. "Cotton" Wilkinson, Stamps attorney. Glen C. Ward was also a historian and most of the Stamps history in the "Southern Timberman" book (I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in Stamps history) came from a "History of Stamps, Arkansas" (c1985) that was put together by Mr Ward. Mr. Ward's compilation consists of 8 legal size pages full of typed information and two pages of old photos. Stewart Hicks, a Stamps postmaster, published an abridged version of Mr. Ward's compilation in 1994, and I bought a copy at one of the drug stores in Stamps. The Hicks version is about 5 1/2" by 8 1/2" and has 34 pages of content, including 19 old photos. I suspect that Stewart Hicks is the son of John Hicks who owned the Hicks barbershop, where I was briefly the shoeshine boy during the 40's. Mr. Ward gave me a photocopy of his compilation in 1989, and I've scanned and archived it on the Stamps ARK Yahoo and the SHS '51 websites. Here's a link to a "History of Stamps, Arkansas": http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/0_PGW.htm Well done, Glen C. Ward, R.I.P. Tom Sims, SHS '51 Stamps High School Class of 1951 Website http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps ARK Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info |

873|863|2018-08-21 20:11:55|misty.jerry|Re: SHS '62 Reunion|Good evening, My name is Misty, I am Wayne (Pug) Roper's youngest daughter. My dad isn't very tech savvy so he hasn't been successful in joining your group yet. I sent him a copy of the email with instructions explaining how to be added. I'm not sure if he's on your SHS mailing list, but if not please add him. His email address is: wroper@eastex.net. Thank you, Misty|

874|870|2018-08-21 20:18:02|J C Smith|Re: Stamps Email Mailing List Discontinued| Tom: Thanks for all the information you have shared. J C Smith On 8/20/2018 10:09 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] wrote: This is the final post on my Stamps email mailing list which has been around for a long time and now has about 100 members. List members can be much better served by becoming members of the Stamps Yahoo email group which now has 45 members. All members of the Stamps Yahoo group can post and reply to messages, as opposed to my mailing list's receive only setup. And, all posts and replies are archived online, as well as pictures and files. I've been archiving all messages that were sent to the email mailing list for a couple of years on the Yahoo group. Anyone who is interested in Stamps is invited, encouraged, welcome to join the Stamps Yahoo email group. Becoming a member doesn't cost anything, and although you have to go through a joining process, I believe it's well worth the effort. ____ To become a Stamps Yahoo email group member, go to: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info and if you already have a Yahoo account and ID, just click on the "+Join Group" box and follow the instructions. I'll approve your membership request as soon as I see it. If you don't already have a Yahoo account and Yahoo ID, you must get one by clicking on "Sign in" at the top of the page, then clicking on "Don't have an account? Sign up" and then following the instructions. You have the option of using
a new Yahoo email address or any other email address that you like. After you get your Yahoo account, you can join the Stamps group as outlined above. If you have any difficulty, I'll be glad to help. * Stamps Yahoo Email Group Description * Anything and everything about Stamps is on topic, but the emphasis is on posting and archiving remembrances of pre 1970 Stamps as contrasted to present day Stamps. Tom Sims, SHS '51 TES3355@gmail.com SHS 1951 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/ Stamps Ark Yahoo Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/StampsArk/info |

875|863|2018-08-21 20:49:53|Tom E. Sims|Re: SHS '62 Reunion|Good evening, My name is Misty, I am Wayne (Pug) Roper's youngest daughter. My dad isn't very tech savvy so he hasn't been successful in joining your group yet. I sent him a copy of the email with instructions explaining how to be added. I'm not sure if he's on your SHS mailing list, but if not please add him. His email address is: wroper@eastex.net. Thank you, Misty _ I've answered Misty privately. Tom Sims|

876|876|2018-08-22 19:19:25|Tom E. Sims|Don McCance, R.I.P.|I'm posting Don's obituary here for archival purposes. Don married Dorothy Endom (I remember Dorothy) from Stamps a long time ago, and was the first West Point graduate that I know of with a Stamps connection. Don retired in Las Vegas and shortly after I moved here in 1994, I talked briefly with Don on the telephone. We never got together. I did some research on Don today and found his obituary from 2007 in the local Las Vegas paper. Tom Sims SHS '51 Donovan McCance Donovan McCance, 86, of Las Vegas, passed away July 15, 2007. He was born in Camden, Ark., Oct. 5, 1920, and had been a Las Vegas resident for 42 years. He was a retired U.S. Air Force colonel. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, in 1945, with pilot's wings. He was educated in civil and petroleum engineering at Texas A&M and other government schools. He served for 25 years in fighter aircraft, transitioning from single engine to jets to F-105's. Donovan received several medal awards and citations for meritorious service. He was also a combat commander in the Vietnam War. Donovan was married to Dorothy Endom McCance for 67 years and co-brokered with her for 13 years in Las Vegas real estate. He was preceded in death by his son, Michael Donovan McCance. Donovan is survived by his wife, Dorothy; children, Kathy McCance Wolfer (John), Tom McCance (Shell), Jeannie McCance Holt (Bill), and Shawn McCance (Ann); daughter-in-law, Sue Betz McCance; and 13 grandchildren. Memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 21, at the Community Lutheran Church, 3720 E. Tropicana Ave. ******************************* Donovan L. McCance Cullum No: 15256 Class of: 1945 Born: AR October 5, 1920 Appointment: Branch: AC Date of Death: July 15, 2008 History: 15256 Donovan Low McCance B-ARAC: Kor & Japan 46-48: WilliamsAFB 48-51: 86FBWg Ger 51-54: 366FBWg 54: CGSC: CO 36TFSq Japan 63-65: TAC 65: Ret 70 COL: Real Est 71: D - Las Vegas, NV 15Jul08 a-87 Burial: Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery Boulder City Clark County Nevada, USA Plot: AC-0260|

877|703|2018-08-22 19:58:24|Tom E. Sims|FRIDAY NIGHT DARKNESS|FRIDAY NIGHT DARKNESS 2012 - The year that LCHS cancelled most of their football season. FRIDAY NIGHT DARKNESS By Paul McDonnold APRIL 2, 2014 The nationwide debate about the safety of football collides with reality in a small Arkansas town. Head football coach Randy Phillips slept in the office his first week at Lafayette County High School. Spring 2012 practice was underway, and Phillips had driven down from Lonoke High near Little Rock, where he was finishing out the year as an assistant coach. A mattress in the field house wasn't exactly four-star accommodations, but you couldn't beat the commute. A fit and athletic thirty-four-year-old, Phillips was able to adapt to the sleeping conditions easily enough. And Lake June, known locally as The Pond, was not much more than a Hail Mary's toss from the stadium. Fishing gave Phillips a diversion in the mornings. Nights he might make a late supper of a burrito from the nearby filling station. After that he would talk to his wife by cell phone until The Pond's mosquitoes chased him inside the cinder-block walls of the field house, where cell service dropped like a wet ball. No one said it was a glamorous gig. Lafayette County was not a Friday Night Lights powerhouse, with ranks of hulking Division-1 prospects to direct like soldiers into opposing teams' formations as thousands screamed from the stands. It was a school in the small town of Stamps, whose Cougars played in Arkansas's smallest classification for high school football. Little towns with shrinking tax bases and declining school enrollments are an old story in the southwest corner of the state, where the Red River swirls quietly through rolling woodlands and spongy bogs. In Stamps, a furniture factory that once employed many sits empty along the highway. The downtown district hasn't bustled in decades; today, many of the storefronts stand vacant. In 2003, Stamps schools consolidated"�a common word in these parts"�with the nearby town of Lewisville to create the new Lafayette County schools. Nearby, the original Stamps High School holds session with ghosts as the facilities go slowly to seed. Lafayette County High displays its athletic DNA behind glass near the main entrance. In a short ten-year span, it has already filled a sizable trophy case. Tiny basketball, baseball and track athletes, cast in silver and gold, pose atop the hardware. But in football, Lafayette County's record has been unremarkable. The last team before Coach Phillips arrived went 3-7. "When I got here we were really [physically] weak,"� Phillips says. His expression is perpetually earnest and intense, like his mind is a screening room in which he forever sizes up talent, plays and strategies. At Lafayette County, he immediately emphasized strength training in order to add size and catch up to other programs. Unfortunately, it is one thing to put muscles on boys' bodies and another to find more bodies willing to endure the rigor of high school football. A healthy program takes significant resources, financial and human. Lafayette County had only twenty-six players in preseason practice. And when academic eligibility struck, Phillips lost seven of
them. The roster was suddenly nineteen, with the season not even begun. When the games did start, the results were predictable. With so many boys having to play both offense and defense, as well as special teams, and so little bench depth to counter injury or just plain exhaustion, the Cougars lost the home opener to Horatio High, 40-2. A 40-8 loss to Genoa Central followed. The first road game, against Fouke, was a 47-0 shellacking. With the start of conference play looming, Lafayette County's record was 0-3. And then things really turned south. * * * In the tense handful of seconds that elapse between the snap of a football and the shriek of a whistle ending the play, the physical well-being of twenty-two healthy, vigorous humans hangs by slender threads.
In Lafayette County, the debate between football's safety and its value, a discussion being had nationwide, took on a sense of urgency. Three games had already resulted in a few injuries. Center Freddie Buster broke his leg against Fouke. Safety Jaylon Darden's bum knee kept flaring up. Each injury further reduced depth and made the next injury even more likely. With six games left, the trend line was frightening. Principal Opal Anderson discussed the situation privately with Coach Phillips. "We were living on a prayer,"� she recalls, "that we could make it through the season."� By then, the subject of the team's shrinking roster had become something of an elephant on the practice field. When players brought it up, Coach Phillips deflected the players back to the task at hand with the statistical truth that it takes only eleven to play the game (if each plays every single play). The Cougars could still cover that, with a few to spare. They would play on. * * * It was overcast and not too hot as the Cougars scrimmaged on Monday, September 17. Senior quarterback Raymond Sims, compact at 5�10? but muscular and athletic, ran the offense. A natural leader who was also president of the senior class, he rolled out on an option play, then kept the ball and ran for about five yards when he felt a tackler on him from behind, then another from the side. He felt his body twist oddly, the upper and lower parts moving in opposing directions. Fibers of Sims's medial collateral ligament, a belt's width of tissue spanning the bones of the thigh and lower leg, stretched and tore. That Friday evening, as the team trotted onto the field to play the Murfreesboro Rattlers, Sims watched on crutches from the sidelines. The Cougars were now one deep at quarterback, the most critical and vulnerable position on the field. Lafayette County's athletic director Tony Hartsfield couldn't help but entertain a bad thought: Sims's injury might be the one that would end the season. Yet the game against the Rattlers started well enough, with backup quarterback Chad Walker taking snaps. The two teams traded touchdowns on their opening drives. Lafayette County trailed 7-6 by virtue of a missed extra point. As Sims watched from the sidelines, helping out however he could, Walker dropped back to throw as two receivers ran go routes straight downfield. Before Walker could get a pass off, he was hit hard, a helmet smashing into the muscles of his quadriceps. He ended up hobbling off the field. With no quarterbacks left, fullback Jacoby Mixon rotated under center. Knowing that meant the end of the passing game, Murfreesboro defenders sold out on stopping the run. With players who had started the season at wide receiver now on Lafayette County's offensive line, defenders were swarming into the backfield almost as quickly as the ball was snapped. Mixon and the runners encountered their first tackler almost as soon as they touched the ball. The one-dimensional offense kept the game clock ticking, at least. It ended a 41-6 Cougar loss. With five games left, the team was now 0-4. The roster had fourteen active players. * * * The Monday following the Murfreesboro game, injured quarterback Raymond Sims was sitting in third-period college algebra when an announcement came over the school's public address system: All football players were to report to the office immediately. Sims was directed into the conference room along with the other players. The superintendent, principal, athletic director and coach were all there waiting. But they weren't saying anything. From the looks on their faces, they didn't really need to. "You could tell right then what they were gonna do,"� Sims says. The season was over. The players would wait an excruciating ten minutes to hear it officially, so that teammates out at the Ag barn could get to the office. Superintendent Mark Keith made the announcement. The decision was his, but everyone was in agreement. It came down to a matter of safety, he said. The team didn't take the news easily. It is one thing to lose a football game but another to lose football itself. Some of the players had been teammates since third grade. Now the seniors wouldn't get to finish their last season. Frustration and anger boiled over. "It was bad,"� Sims recalls. "Kids cried, players cried,"� says Principal Anderson. "It didn't seem real,"� adds Noah Higdon, a junior lineman. Junior safety Jaylon Darden sums it up best: "Devastated."� * * * Lafayette County's home stadium, Keith Field, sits between Highway 82, where the neon sign of Jimmy's drive-in has pulled in hungry motorists for decades, and the old Cotton Belt railroad tracks that were stitched through southwest Arkansas in 1882. The stadium is relatively small and much older than the high school; it was once home to the Stamps High Yellow Jackets. The field is grass, with old-fashioned
goalposts that look like off-kilter H's stuck in the ground. The first forfeited game, against Spring Hill, would have been played here on the evening of Friday, September 28. But instead of a crowded, noisy stadium, it was quiet, and as the game time of seven o'clock approached, the lights didn't come on. Yet the stadium was not empty. A good part of the senior class had come just to hang out. It was a warm night, and as the sun fell to the horizon they walked the track and sat in the bleachers and talked about old times, about what had happened and what might have been. That night, and the rest of the Friday nights in the fall, it was not easy to find things to do without football. Some players sat at home bored. Some worked out. Some went to watch other school's games. Eventually the season turned to basketball and then baseball. Graduation came and then summer and a new group of seniors appeared at Lafayette County High. * * * There was considerable local media coverage of the aborted 2012 season. With enrollment figures in the lower grades and the junior high roster both looking healthy, the administration planned to bring varsity football back in 2013. Media interest resumed as the new season neared. In a front-page story in the sports section of the Texarkana Gazette, Coach Phillips boldly stated that the team was not just trying to make it through the season, but intended to compete for a playoff spot. The temporary loss of football, and its impact on the seniors, had opened the younger players' eyes. They had worked hard in both the weight room and classroom. Academic eligibility was not going to be a problem, and the preseason roster numbered a healthy thirty-one. But reasons for pessimism remained. Many of Lafayette County's players would be sophomores straight from junior high ball. And there remained little depth and size on the line, where games are often won or lost. When the Cougars took the field to play their first game of 2013, against Horatio High on September 6, it was a moral victory for the program. But it was also a 20-0 loss on the scoreboard. The next game, against Genoa Central, went better, with the 35-21 victory being the Cougars's first since 2011. Coach Phillips describes the win as one of the best feelings he's ever had as a coach. "There was a lot of huggin',"� he says of the postgame celebration. Three straight losses brought the team to the homecoming game against Foreman, which they won 35-31. Two more losses followed, but despite a 2-6 record, two huge positives had emerged. A compact, powerfully built sophomore running back named TreDarius Burks was piling up yardage faster than anyone could believe. He was among the leaders in rushing yardage in the entire tristate area. And since both of the Cougars' wins had come against conference foes, a win in the final game of the season against Mineral Springs would put Lafayette County, incredibly, into the state playoffs. * * * The stadium at Mineral Springs High is not much bigger than Lafayette County's, though the artificial field appears new. White yardage markers almost glow, and a vivid thirty-foot-long color illustration of a hornet straddles the fifty-yard line. On the evening of the Lafayette County game, Mineral Springs's players practiced at one end of the field. Rap music blared as the young women of the homecoming court, resplendent in long, bright dresses that called to mind southern belles, looked on from the track. On the other side of the school, across from the main entrance, the Cougars practiced on an empty field surrounded by a quiet neighborhood. Wisps of clouds drifted across a darkening sky and there was a slight chill in the air. Players drilled in separate groups under the direction of the coaches, until Coach Phillips yelled for everyone to huddle up. After speaking to them, everyone walked across the street, through the Mineral Springs gym, and into a locker room. "We have a chance tonight to do something special,"� Phillips told them in the locker room, noting that as far as he could determine, no team in Arkansas had ever gone from a forfeited season to making the playoffs the following year. "All I ask is that you go out there and play every play as well as you possibly can."� The coaches gave the players a few minutes alone as the "Star-Spangled Banner"� drifted through the open doors and into the locker room. Soon, cleats crunched against cement as the team filed out to the stadium, getting amped up. "Yeaaah!"� "Gonna do what I live for!"� Near one end zone, a giant inflatable hornet arose. These tunnels have become virtually required equipment among larger schools. The players run through them and onto the field when the team is introduced. At the other end of the field, Lafayette County had an old-fashioned paper banner and a line of cheerleaders to run through. The game got underway. There was not much of a passing game on either side, and word of TreDarius Burks had gotten around. The Hornet defense focused tightly on him. They were also winning the battle at the line of scrimmage, and when Burks got the ball he would plunge into multiple defenders like a rugby scrum. At some point, forward progress would stop and the referee's whistle would sound. Other times, defenders gained leverage and slammed him viciously to the ground. By the second quarter, Mineral Springs had built a workmanlike 14-0 lead on the strength of its own rushing attack, and a big quarterback who didn't throw much but was hard to pull to the ground. The Cougars' play calling continued to be one-dimensional. Burks right. Burks left. Burks up the middle. People in the visitors' stands began to squawk. As yet another Lafayette County call went Burks's way, the fans let out a collective groan. As Burks swept out to the right, Hornet defenders rolled in front of him like a wall on wheels. Then groans turned to gasps as Burks pulled up, cocked his arm, and fired off a deep spiral. The coaches had been setting this up all night. Downfield, the ball dropped softly into the hands of a streaking receiver who had gotten behind the Hornet defense. The visiting stands erupted as he sprinted for the end zone. But a defender closed on him as he reached the goal line, and somehow the ball came out and bounced through the end zone. Referees ruled it a fumble, making the play a touchback. The Hornets took over at the twenty. Their first play was a pass
that a Lafayette County defender intercepted and then almost returned for a touchdown. Lafayette County fans, so drained from the loss of what looked like a sure touchdown just one play earlier, went wild. But once again, disappointment followed. A personal foul pushed the ball back from the end zone, and the half ended before the Cougars could put any points on the board. After the halftime show from the marching bands, the third quarter started and Lafayette County scored a quick touchdown on a forty-two-yard run by Burks. A two-point conversion cut the lead to 14-8. It felt like the momentum had shifted Lafayette County's way. But Mineral Springs responded with its own touchdown drive, for a 22-8 lead. Before long, they tacked on a long punt return for another touchdown. With the score now 30-8, hope drained from the visitors' stands like water from a sink. There was some confusion when, with six seconds left in the game, both sidelines emptied onto the field, thinking the game was over. The referees scurried around in a futile attempt to clear the field, insisting the game had not ended. Mineral Springs, which was on offense, had to run one more play. With a number of players and coaches from both sides still on the field, the Hornet offense went into a V formation, where the quarterback receives the snap and takes a knee. Since this was only a formality, there was no need for the defense to bother lining up. Whether it signified how far the team had come in its march to the brink of the playoffs, or foreshadowed more problems in the future, it was an ironic ending. On the last snap of the season, there was no Lafayette County team lined up to play. The wind blew dried leaves across the asphalt lanes of the track as the players shook hands and mingled on the field. Outside the stadium, car headlights illuminated people making their way to and fro in the dark. The team filtered into the locker room, disappointed at the season's sudden end. But at least it had come on the field, not in the office. Coach Phillips told the players how proud he was of their efforts, how they had laid a foundation that season for football to continue and thrive at Lafayette County in the future. A bright yellow school bus took the team home, like so many other buses in so many other places around the country that Friday night in autumn. Settling in for the hour-plus ride, smartphones lit up the darkness. Headphones were placed over ears. Some players slept. The bus rolled through quiet pastures and tiny sleeping towns with vacant storefronts and the occasional gleam of television sets visible in house windows. What does football mean to communities like these that have lost so much of the glue that once held them together? Early the following week, each of the players came by the field house to turn in their pads and equipment. As they did, their names were checked off a list. Coaches and managers stacked the equipment away in a storage room. It would sit quietly as the days and nights of the offseason passed, waiting for that eternal symbol of hope to athletes and fans everywhere. Next year. * * * Paul McDonnold is a freelance writer who lives in southwest Arkansas. He has written for The Christian Science Monitor, Texas Monthly and Arkansas Life. Dan
Zettwoch is a cartoonist and diagrammer from St. Louis.|

878|703|2018-08-23 11:11:42|Earl Rogers|Re: FRIDAY NIGHT DARKNESS|Wow...thanks so much for that reprint. It was fantastic and impactful.I remember the SHS football team of the 1961 season (class of 62). I was a sophomore . We had 18 players on the roster . We had to run half line scrimmage since we did not have 22 players to make 2 teams.Rip Powell and Paul Kirkpatrick were our coaches. �The best coaches anyone could ever ask for...and all of us have life lessons we learned from Coach Powell and Coach Kirkpatrick.We went undefeated that year and beat Lewisville (13-0) on Thanksgiving day for the 7B conf championship.�We went the first 8 games unscored upon. We scored a total of 256 points that year and had 26 scored against us.We were a tight knight and tough bunch of happy warriors.We need to keep those dreams alive. High School football was and is important to the kids, the school, the town and everyone !!Thanks again and go Yelllowjackets.Take care, EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Aug 22, 2018, at 10:57 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � FRIDAY NIGHT DARKNESS 2012 - The year that LCHS cancelled most of their football season. FRIDAY NIGHT DARKNESS By Paul McDonnold APRIL 2, 2014 The nationwide debate about the safety of football collides with reality in a small Arkansas town. Head football coach Randy Phillips slept in the office his first week at Lafayette County High School. Spring 2012 practice was underway, and Phillips had driven down from Lonoke High near Little Rock, where he was finishing out the year as an assistant coach. A mattress in the field house wasn't exactly four-star accommodations, but you couldn't beat the commute. A fit and athletic thirty-four-year-old, Phillips was able to adapt to the sleeping conditions easily enough. And Lake June, known locally as The Pond, was not much more than a Hail Mary's toss from the stadium. Fishing gave Phillips a diversion in the mornings. Nights he might make a late supper of a burrito from the nearby filling station. After that he would talk to his wife by cell phone until The Pond's mosquitoes chased him inside the cinder-block walls of the field house, where cell service dropped like a wet ball. No one said it was a glamorous gig. Lafayette County was not a Friday Night Lights powerhouse, with ranks of hulking Division-1 prospects to direct like soldiers into opposing teams' formations as thousands screamed from the stands. It was a school in the small town of Stamps, whose Cougars played in Arkansas's smallest classification for high school football. Little towns with shrinking tax bases and declining school enrollments are an old story in the southwest corner of the state, where the Red River swirls quietly through rolling woodlands and spongy bogs. In Stamps, a furniture factory that once employed many sits empty along the highway. The downtown district hasn't bustled in decades; today, many of the storefronts stand vacant. In 2003, Stamps schools consolidated"�a common word in these parts"�with the nearby town of Lewisville to create the new Lafayette County schools. Nearby, the original Stamps High School holds session with ghosts as the facilities go slowly to seed. Lafayette County High displays its athletic DNA behind glass near the main entrance. In a short ten-year span, it has already filled a sizable trophy case. Tiny basketball, baseball and track athletes, cast in silver and gold, pose atop the hardware. But in football, Lafayette County's record has been unremarkable. The last team before Coach Phillips arrived went 3-7. "When I got here we were really [physically] weak,"� Phillips says. His expression is perpetually earnest and intense, like his mind is a screening room in which he forever sizes up talent, plays and strategies. At

Lafayette County, he immediately emphasized strength training in order to add size and catch up to other programs. Unfortunately, it is one thing to put muscles on boys' bodies and another to find more bodies willing to endure the rigor of high school football. A healthy program takes significant resources, financial and human. Lafayette County had only twenty-six players in preseason practice. And when academic eligibility struck, Phillips lost seven of them. The roster was suddenly nineteen, with the season not even begun. When the games did start, the results were predictable. With so many boys having to play both offense and defense, as well as special teams, and so little bench depth to counter injury or just plain exhaustion, the Cougars lost the home opener to Horatio High, 40-2. A 40-8 loss to Genoa Central followed. The first road game, against Fouke, was a 47-0 shellacking. With the start of conference play looming, Lafayette County's record was 0-3. And then things really turned south. * * * In the tense handful of seconds that elapse between the snap of a football and the shriek of a whistle ending the play, the physical well-being of twenty-two healthy, vigorous humans hangs by slender threads. In Lafayette County, the debate between football's safety and its value, a discussion being had nationwide, took on a sense of urgency. Three games had already resulted in a few injuries. Center Freddie Buster broke his leg against Fouke. Safety Jaylon Darden's bum knee kept flaring up. Each injury further reduced depth and made the next injury even more likely. With six games left, the trend line was frightening. Principal Opal Anderson discussed the situation privately with Coach Phillips. "We were living on a prayer,"� she recalls, "that we could make it through the season."� By then, the subject of the team's shrinking roster had become something of an elephant on the practice field. When players brought it up, Coach Phillips deflected the players back to the task at hand with the statistical truth that it takes only eleven to play the game (if each plays every single play). The Cougars could still cover that, with a few to spare. They would play on. * * * It was overcast and not too hot as the Cougars scrimmaged on Monday, September 17. Senior quarterback Raymond Sims, compact at 5�10? but muscular and athletic, ran the offense. A natural leader who was also president of the senior class, he rolled out on an option play, then kept the ball and ran for about five yards when he felt a tackler on him from behind, then another from the side. He felt his body twist oddly, the upper and lower parts moving in opposing directions. Fibers of Sims's medial collateral ligament, a belt's width of tissue spanning the bones of the thigh and lower leg, stretched and tore. That Friday evening, as the team trotted onto the field to play the Murfreesboro Rattlers, Sims watched on crutches from the sidelines. The Cougars were now one deep at quarterback, the most critical and vulnerable position on the field. Lafayette County's athletic director Tony Hartsfield couldn't help but entertain a bad thought: Sims's injury might be the one that would end the season. Yet the game against the Rattlers started well enough, with backup quarterback Chad Walker taking snaps. The two teams traded touchdowns on their opening drives. Lafayette County trailed 7-6 by virtue of a missed extra point. As Sims watched from the sidelines, helping out however he could, Walker dropped back to throw as two receivers ran go routes straight downfield. Before Walker could get a pass off, he was hit hard, a helmet smashing into the muscles of his quadriceps. He ended up hobbling off the field. With no quarterbacks left, fullback Jacoby Mixon rotated under center. Knowing that meant the end of the passing game, Murfreesboro defenders sold out on stopping the run. With players who had started the season at wide receiver now on Lafayette County's offensive line, defenders were swarming into the backfield almost as quickly as the ball was snapped. Mixon and the runners encountered their first tackler almost as soon as they touched the ball. The one-dimensional offense kept the game clock ticking, at least. It ended a 41-6 Cougar loss. With five games left, the team was now 0-4. The roster had fourteen active players. * * * The Monday following the Murfreesboro game, injured quarterback Raymond Sims was sitting in third-period college algebra when an announcement came over the school's public address system: All football players were to report to the office immediately. Sims was directed into the conference room along with the other players. The superintendent, principal, athletic director and coach were all there waiting. But they weren't saying anything. From the looks on their faces, they didn't really need to. "You could tell right then what they were gonna do,"� Sims says. The season was over. The players would wait an excruciating ten minutes to hear it officially, so that teammates out at the Ag barn could get to the office. Superintendent Mark Keith made the announcement. The decision was his, but everyone was in agreement. It came down to a matter of safety, he said. The team didn't take the news easily. It is one thing to lose a football game but another to lose football itself. Some of the players had been teammates since third grade. Now the seniors wouldn't get to finish their last season. Frustration and anger boiled over. "It was bad,"� Sims recalls. "Kids cried, players cried,"� says Principal Anderson. "It didn't seem real,"� adds Noah Higdon, a junior lineman. Junior safety Jaylon Darden
sums it up best: "Devastated."� * * * Lafayette County's home stadium, Keith Field, sits between Highway 82, where the neon sign of Jimmy's drive-in has pulled in hungry motorists for decades, and the old Cotton Belt railroad tracks that were stitched through southwest Arkansas in 1882. The stadium is relatively small and much older than the high school; it was once home to the Stamps High Yellow Jackets. The field is grass, with old-fashioned goalposts that look like off-kilter H's stuck in the ground. The first forfeited game, against Spring Hill, would have been played here on the evening of Friday, September 28. But instead of a crowded, noisy stadium, it was quiet, and as the game time of seven o'clock approached, the lights didn't come on. Yet the stadium was not empty. A good part of the senior class had come just to hang out. It was a warm night, and as the sun fell to the horizon they walked the track and sat in the bleachers and talked about old times, about what had happened and what might have been. That night, and the rest of the Friday nights in the fall, it was not easy to find things to do without football. Some players sat at home bored. Some worked out. Some went to watch other school's games. Eventually the season turned to basketball and then baseball. Graduation came and then summer and a new group of seniors appeared at Lafayette County High. * * * There was considerable local media coverage of the aborted 2012 season. With enrollment figures in the lower grades and the junior high roster both looking healthy, the administration planned to bring varsity football back in 2013. Media interest resumed as the new season neared. In a front-page story in the sports section of the Texarkana Gazette, Coach Phillips boldly stated that the team was not just trying to make it through the season, but intended to compete for a playoff spot. The temporary loss of football, and its impact on the seniors, had opened the younger players' eyes. They had worked hard in both the weight room and classroom. Academic eligibility was not going to be a problem, and the preseason roster numbered a healthy thirty-one. But reasons for pessimism remained. Many of Lafayette County's players would be sophomores straight from junior high ball. And there remained little depth and size on the line, where games are often won or lost. When the Cougars took the field to play their first game of 2013, against Horatio High on September 6, it was a moral victory for the program. But it was also a 20-0 loss on the scoreboard. The next game, against Genoa Central, went better, with the 35-21 victory being the Cougars's first since 2011. Coach Phillips describes the win as one of the best feelings he's ever had as a coach. "There was a lot of huggin',"� he says of the postgame celebration. Three straight losses brought the team to the homecoming game against Foreman, which they won 35-31. Two more losses followed, but despite a 2-6 record, two huge positives had emerged. A compact, powerfully built sophomore running back named TreDarius Burks was piling up yardage faster than anyone could believe. He was among the leaders in rushing yardage in the entire tristate area. And since both of the Cougars' wins had come against conference foes, a win in the final game of the season against Mineral Springs would put Lafayette County, incredibly, into the state playoffs. * * * The stadium at Mineral Springs High is not much bigger than Lafayette County's, though the artificial field appears new. White yardage markers almost glow, and a vivid thirty-foot-long color illustration of a hornet straddles the fifty-yard line. On the evening of the Lafayette County game, Mineral Springs's players practiced at one end of the field. Rap music blared as the young women of the homecoming court, resplendent in long, bright dresses that called to mind southern belles, looked on from the track. On the other side of the school, across from the main entrance, the Cougars practiced on an empty field surrounded by a quiet neighborhood. Wisps of clouds drifted across a darkening sky and there was a slight chill in the air. Players drilled in separate groups under the direction of the coaches, until Coach Phillips yelled for everyone to huddle up. After speaking to them, everyone walked across the street, through the Mineral Springs gym, and into a locker room. "We have a chance tonight to do something special,"� Phillips told them in the locker room, noting that as far as he could determine, no team in Arkansas had ever gone from a forfeited season to making the playoffs the following year. "All I ask is that you go out there and play every play as well as you possibly can."� The coaches gave the players a few minutes alone as the "Star-Spangled Banner"� drifted through the open doors and into the locker room. Soon, cleats crunched against cement as the team filed out to the stadium, getting amped up. "Yeaaah!"� "Gonna do what I live for!"� Near one end zone, a giant inflatable hornet arose. These tunnels have become virtually required equipment among larger schools. The players run through them and onto the field when the team is introduced. At the other end of the field, Lafayette County had an old-fashioned paper banner and a line of cheerleaders to run through. The game got underway. There was not much of a passing game on either side, and word of TreDarius Burks had gotten around. The Hornet defense focused tightly on him. They were also winning the battle at the line of scrimmage, and when Burks got the ball he would plunge into multiple defenders like a rugby scrum. At some point, forward progress would stop and the referee's whistle would sound. Other times, defenders gained leverage and slammed him viciously to the ground. By the second quarter, Mineral Springs had built a workmanlike 14-0 lead on the strength of its own rushing attack, and a big quarterback who didn't throw much but was hard to pull to the ground. The Cougars' play calling continued to be one-dimensional. Burks right. Burks left. Burks up the middle. People in the visitors' stands began to squawk. As yet another Lafayette County call went Burks's way, the fans let out a collective groan. As Burks swept out to the right, Hornet defenders rolled in front of him like a wall on wheels. Then groans turned to gasps as Burks pulled up, cocked his arm, and fired off a deep spiral. The coaches had been setting this up all night. Downfield, the ball dropped softly into the hands of a streaking receiver who had gotten behind the Hornet defense. The visiting stands erupted as he sprinted for the end zone. But a defender closed on him as he reached the goal line, and somehow the ball came out and bounced through the end zone. Referees ruled it a fumble, making the play a touchback. The Hornets took over at the twenty. Their first play was a pass that a Lafayette County defender intercepted and then almost returned for a touchdown. Lafayette County fans, so drained from the loss of what looked like a sure touchdown just one play earlier, went wild. But once again, disappointment followed. A personal foul pushed the ball back from the end zone, and the half ended before the Cougars could put any points on the board. After the halftime show from the marching bands, the third quarter started and Lafayette County scored a quick touchdown on a forty-two-yard run by Burks. A two-point conversion cut the lead to 14-8. It felt like the momentum had shifted Lafayette County's way. But Mineral Springs responded with its own touchdown drive, for a 22-8 lead. Before long, they tacked on a long punt return for another touchdown. With the score now 30-8, hope drained from the visitors' stands like water from a sink. There was some confusion when, with six seconds left in the game, both sidelines emptied onto the field, thinking the game was over. The referees scurried around in a futile attempt to clear the field, insisting the game had not ended. Mineral Springs, which was on offense, had to run one more play. With a number of players and coaches from both sides still on the field, the Hornet offense went into a V formation, where the quarterback receives the snap and takes a knee. Since this was only a formality, there was no need for the defense to bother lining up. Whether it signified how far the team had come in its march to the brink of the playoffs, or foreshadowed more problems in the future, it was an ironic ending. On the last snap of the season, there was no Lafayette County team lined up to play. The wind blew dried leaves across the asphalt lanes of the track as the players shook hands and mingled on the field. Outside the stadium, car headlights illuminated people making their way to and fro in the dark. The team filtered into the locker room, disappointed at the season's sudden end. But at least it had come on the field, not in the office. Coach Phillips told the players how proud he was of their efforts, how they had laid a foundation that season for football to continue and thrive at Lafayette County in the future. A bright yellow school bus took the team home, like so many other buses in so many other places around the country that Friday night in autumn. Settling in for the hour-plus ride, smartphones lit up the darkness. Headphones were placed over ears. Some players slept. The bus rolled through quiet pastures and tiny sleeping towns with vacant storefronts and the occasional gleam of television sets visible in house windows. What does football mean to communities like these that have lost so much of the glue that once held them together? Early the following week, each of the players came by the field house to turn in their pads and equipment. As they did, their names were checked off a list. Coaches and managers stacked the equipment away in a storage room. It would sit quietly as the days and nights of the offseason passed, waiting for that eternal symbol of hope to athletes and fans everywhere. Next year. * * * Paul McDonnold is a freelance writer who lives in southwest Arkansas. He has written for The Christian Science Monitor, Texas Monthly and Arkansas Life. Dan Zettwoch is a cartoonist and diagrammer from St. Louis. |

879|879|2018-08-24 07:10:39|Tom E. Sims|Video: 2018 Pep Rally Downtown Stamps|Video: Lafayette County High School Cougars 2018 Pep Rally Downtown Stamps Yesterday 23 AUG 2018 https://youtu.be/fMRWUG--IZM or a href="https://youtu.be/fMRWUG--IZM" https://youtu.be/fMRWUG--IZM/a|

880|880|2018-08-24 10:12:00|Tom E. Sims|Re: Replying to the group.|Sallie Del wrote to Tom Sims Hi, I was blown away by the story by Paul (??). I tried to reply, but I'm pretty sure I failed. So how do I do that? Oh, on a personal note, I AM so happy you created this group. Thank you.... Sallie Sallie: Your reply hasn't gone through. When replying to a group post, Just click on "reply" , edit what you're replying to, type your reply and send. This puts stampsark@yahoogroups.com in your replies "To:", which is where all replies and messages to the group should be sent. Tom Sims|

881|880|2018-08-24 10:26:29|Earl Rogers|Re: Replying to the group.|Sallie D!!!You can write an even better story...just write a book about Stamps!!I can find you lots of folks for material!!Take care, EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Aug 24, 2018, at 1:11 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Sallie Del wrote to Tom Sims Hi, I was blown away by the story by Paul (??). I tried to reply, but I'm pretty sure I failed. So how do I do that? Oh, on a personal note, I AM so happy you created this group. Thank you.... Sallie ________________ Sallie: Your reply hasn't gone through. When replying to a group post, Just click on "reply" , edit what you're replying to, type your reply and send. This puts stampsark@yahoogroups.com in your replies "To:", which is where all replies and messages to the group should be sent. Tom Sims |

882|882|2018-08-24 15:43:00|Tom E. Sims|LCHS 2018 Football Schedule|FWIW, LCHS hasn't played Prescott in recent years and Prescott has been a real powerhouse for many years. Their 2017 record was 10-2 down from 15-0 in 2016. 8/24 (tonight) 7:00p Prescott (Prescott, AR) Location: Lafayette County High School 8/31 7:00p @ Parkers Chapel (El Dorado, AR) Location: Parkers Chapel High School 9/7 7:00p Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) Location: Lafayette County High School 9/21 7:00p @ Murfreesboro (Murfreesboro, AR) Location: Murfreesboro High School 9/28 7:00p Spring Hill (Hope, AR) Location: Lafayette County High School 10/5 7:00p @ Foreman (Foreman, AR) Location: Foreman High School 10/12 7:00p Dierks (Dierks, AR) Location: Lafayette County High School 10/19 7:00p @ Gurdon (Gurdon, AR) Location: Gurdon High School 10/26 7:00p Mineral Springs (Mineral Springs, AR) Location: Lafayette County High School 11/1 7:00p @ Mount Ida (Mount Ida, AR) Location: Mount Ida High School|

883|883|2018-08-24 19:27:47|Tom E. Sims|Prescott 41 - LCHS 0|Prescott 41 - LCHS 0 LCHS 2018: 0 - 1|

884|879|2018-08-25 12:52:47|Earl Rogers|Re: Video: 2018 Pep Rally Downtown Stamps|Fantastic....Go Cougars�Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Aug 24, 2018, at 10:10 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Video: Lafayette County High School Cougars 2018 Pep Rally Downtown Stamps Yesterday 23 AUG 2018 https://youtu.be/fMRWUG--IZM or a href="https://youtu.be/fMRWUG--IZM" https://youtu.be/fMRWUG--IZM/a |

885|879|2018-08-25 14:08:33|sidney melear|Re: Video: 2018 Pep Rally Downtown Stamps|It would be great if some (or one) of the company's coming back from overseas would relocate in the Stamps area. They have the people, power, water, education system, a good, crime free (compared to other areas) area to raise a family, but alas jobs and no tax base. If something doesn't happen, the young people will keep leaving and the area will continue its downward spiral.Maybe you and Dickson and George could get a gov. grant and start a pharma/agri operation growing medicinal herbs. (marijuana is off the list for now, i guess - would kratom grow in S. Arkansas?) On Saturday, August 25, 2018, 2:52:51 PM CDT, Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Fantastic....Go Cougars�Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.netOn Aug 24, 2018, at 10:10 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Video: Lafayette County High School Cougars 2018 Pep Rally Downtown Stamps Yesterday 23 AUG 2018 https://youtu.be/fMRWUG--IZM or a href="https://youtu.be/fMRWUG--IZM" https://youtu.be/fMRWUG--IZM/a |

886|879|2018-08-26 10:11:27|Earl Rogers|Re: Video: 2018 Pep Rally Downtown Stamps|I dont know what it would take to get some jobs in stamps?? But they sorely need it. It is very sad to see the place now and remember what is was when we were young??George's sons have talked about raising marijuana, but the license process is expensive and very political!! I like the idea.I sent George and his down the road friend some tobacco seeds and they tried to raise tobacco....but the tobacco bugs ate up the crop!!Take care, EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Aug 25, 2018, at 5:08 PM, sidney melear sidney_melear@yahoo.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � It would be great if some (or one) of the company's coming back from overseas would relocate in the Stamps area. They have the people, power, water, education system, a good, crime free (compared to other areas) area to raise a family, but alas jobs and no tax base. If something doesn't happen, the young people will keep leaving and the area will continue its downward spiral.Maybe you and Dickson and George could get a gov. grant and start a pharma/agri operation growing medicinal herbs. (marijuana is off the list for now, i guess - would kratom grow in S. Arkansas?) On Saturday, August 25, 2018, 2:52:51 PM CDT, Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Fantastic....Go Cougars�Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook Road Richmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.netOn Aug 24, 2018, at 10:10 AM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Video: Lafayette County High School Cougars 2018 Pep Rally Downtown Stamps Yesterday 23 AUG 2018 https://youtu.be/fMRWUG--IZM or a href="https://youtu.be/fMRWUG--IZM" https://youtu.be/fMRWUG--IZM/a |

887|887|2018-09-01 08:02:50|Tom E. Sims|Football: Parkers Chapel 35 - LCHS 26|Football: Parkers Chapel 35 - LCHS 26 2018 LCHS: 0 - 2|

888|888|2018-09-07 10:47:45|Tom E. Sims|Video: Helicopter Flight over Lake June (drained) and Eastern Stamps|Geo Perry Jett Video: Helicopter Flight over Lake June (drained) and Eastern Stamps Beautiful Lake June ...with out the water ...Famous "Jimmy's Drive in", .... and the New Ace Hardware,...Headed Home down Central Avenue ... About a year ago. https://www.facebook.com/geoperry.jett/videos/13525453881158 19/?t=77|

889|888|2018-09-07 15:25:45|Jean|Re: Video: Helicopter Flight over Lake June (drained) and Eastern St|Attachments :!-- Enjoyed the video.� I don't believe I ever thought about the large size of Lake June.Jean Galbraith �Sent from Mail for Windows 10 �bFrom: /b'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]bSent: /bFriday, September 7, 2018 12:48 PMbTo: /bStamps Ark Yahoo GroupbSubject: /b[StampsArk] Video: Helicopter Flight over Lake June (drained) and Eastern Stamps �� Geo Perry Jett Video: Helicopter Flight over Lake June (drained) andEastern StampsBeautiful Lake June ...with out the water ...Famous "Jimmy's Drive in", ....and the New Ace Hardware,...Headed Home down Central Avenue ...About a year ago.https://www.facebook.com/geoperry.jett/videos/1352545388 115819/?t=77

890|890|2018-09-07 20:26:53|Tom E. Sims|Genoa Central 17 - LCHS 0|Football: Genoa Central 17 - LCHS 0 2018 LCHS season: 0 - 3 Parkers Chapel beat LCHS 35 - 26 last week and lost to Foreman tonight 21 - 0. LCHS plays Foreman later this year. Gurdon beat Genoa Central 35 - 0 Last week. LCHS plays Gurdon later this year. LCHS plays Mt. Ida later who has lost only 3 games in the last 3 years. The outlook isn't too good for LCHS this year.|

891|891|2018-09-08 07:53:12|Tom E. Sims|Video: Lafayette County High School Band Sep. 7 2018|Video: Lafayette County High School Band Sep. 7 2018 https://youtu.be/3LivUPZKsbM?t=40|

892|888|2018-09-08 11:27:29|Earl Rogers|Re: Video: Helicopter Flight over Lake June (drained) and Eastern St|The video was fantastic...much better than my pitiful pics of the renovation around Lake June in my 6/18 visit home.Keep up the videos coming...thanks so muchSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Sep 7, 2018, at 6:25 PM, Jean jeang37@bellsouth.net [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Enjoyed the video.� I don't believe I ever thought about the large size of Lake June.Jean Galbraith �Sent from Mail for Windows 10 �bFrom: /b'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk]bSent: /bFriday, September 7, 2018 12:48 PMbTo: /bStamps Ark Yahoo GroupbSubject: /b[StampsArk] Video: Helicopter Flight over Lake June (drained) and Eastern Stamps �� Geo Perry Jett Video: Helicopter Flight over Lake June (drained) andEastern StampsBeautiful Lake June ...with out the water ...Famous "Jimmy's Drive in", ....and the New Ace Hardware,...Headed Home down Central Avenue ...About a year ago.https://www.facebook.com/geoperry.jett/videos/1352545388 115819/?t=77 � 164007F5874943B8B873BC0A773BE4AF.png|

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894|894|2018-09-20 07:55:50|Tom E. Sims|Alligators in Lake Erling|Alligators in Lake Erling https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/42208894_10156 804944642369_5752451305297674240_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=deeb011c 742487e6d0144200cf07fb70&oe=5C279845 or a href="https://goo.gl/gjceFS" https://goo.gl/gjceFS/a and https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/42257227_10156 804944612369_8455912349436477440_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=2db285ae 4d7be686fedf0f9c5aaac1c7&oe=5C2C3FD7 or a href="https://goo.gl/5BKbzP" https://goo.gl/5BKbzP/a You don't have to be a Facebook user to view the pictures. If there is a box that says "Log in" or "Create New Account", just click on "Not Now" and you can view the pictures. |

895|895|2018-09-21 22:21:42|Tom E. Sims|Football: Murfreesboro 20 - LCHS 0|Murfreesboro 20 - LCHS 0 LCHS 2018 Season: 0 -4 Doesn't look promising.|

896|896|2018-09-28 20:35:17|Tom E. Sims|Football: LCHS 20 - Spring Hill 12|Football: LCHS 20 - Spring Hill 12 Homecoming LCHS 2018 Season: 1 -4|

897|896|2018-09-30 14:18:43|Earl Rogers|Re: Football: LCHS 20 - Spring Hill 12|Fantastic!!Finally won one!!Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Sep 28, 2018, at 11:35 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Football: LCHS 20 - Spring Hill 12 Homecoming LCHS 2018 Season: 1 -4 |

898|896|2018-09-30 17:50:59|Derrell Patterson|Re: Football: LCHS 20 - Spring Hill 12|Yea LCHS!Sent from my iPhone On Sep 30, 2018, at 4:18 PM, Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Fantastic!!Finally won one!!Sent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.netOn Sep 28, 2018, at 11:35 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Football: LCHS 20 - Spring Hill 12 Homecoming LCHS 2018 Season: 1 -4 |

899|899|2018-10-05 23:17:12|Tom E. Sims|Foreman 49 - Lafayette County 0|Foreman 49 - Lafayette County 0 LCHS is now 1 -5 for 2018|

900|900|2018-10-12 22:16:57|Tom E. Sims|Football: Dierks 42 - Lafayette County 26|Football: Dierks 42 - Lafayette County 26 LCHS is now 1 - 6 this year Dierks is now also 1 - 6 this year|

901|901|2018-10-18 10:45:25|Tom E. Sims|Barbara Jean McDonald Morton SHS '59, R.I.P.|Barbara Jean McDonald Morton December 07, 1940 - October 16, 2018 Barbara Jean Morton, age 77 of Lewisville, Arkansas, passed away Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at her home. Mrs. Morton was born December 7, 1940 in Lewisville to Narvel and Bernice Allen McDonald. She enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren. An avid gardener who loved her flowers, she also enjoyed bird watching. Spending time at the "Meriwether"� lake and traveling were also things she loved doing. Mrs. Morton was preceded in death by her parents and four brothers. She is survived by her husband, Keith Morton of Lewisville, AR; two sons, Timothy Keith Morton and wife, Regina and Dickie Morton and wife, Mindy all of Lewisville; daughter, Marcy Teague and husband, Chad of Taylor, AR; sister, Mary Nell Beckham of Stamps, AR; five grandchildren, Keith Morton, Megan Cullipher, Madison Morton, Kiley Teague and Laney Teague; and great grandchild, Wesley Morton. She also leaves behind a very special friend, Becky West. A Memorial Service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, October 20, 2018 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, AR with Bro. Allen Morton officiating. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com.|

902|902|2018-10-19 22:33:26|Tom E. Sims|Football: Gurdon 43 - LCHS 0|Gurdon 43 - LCHS 0 LCHS held them scoreless in the 4th quarter 26 10 7 0 43 LCHS is now 1 - 7 for the 2018 season.|

903|903|2018-10-27 07:04:48|Tom E. Sims|Football: Mineral Springs 55 - Lafayette County 6|Football: Mineral Springs 55 - Lafayette County 6 LCHS: 1 - 8 for 2018|

904|904|2018-11-03 10:05:48|Tom E. Sims|Football: Mount Ida 52 - Lafayette County 6|Football: Mount Ida 52 - Lafayette County 6 LCHS is now 1 - 9 for the 2018 season Thankfully the 2018 season is probably over for LCHS. It's very doubtful that they will be in the playoffs.|

905|905|2018-11-18 20:15:05|Larry H. Gentry|Pilot who was

Very interesting interview. LHG

�We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.�

Aesop (~550 BC)

Please take the time to watch this video. I doubt that you have ever seen it before.

It is about a pilot who was supposed to be on American Airlines Flight 11 the morning of 9/11.

Flight 11 was the first Boeing 767 to fly into one of the buildings at the World Trade Center on 9/11.

It is unlike anything I have seen, read or heard about 9/11.

It really is one incredible story that must be shared and watched to the end.

Click here: IN MY SEAT

https://www.youtube.com/embed/cLj4akmncsA

906|905|2018-11-18 21:51:46|Derrell Patterson|Re: Pilot who was supposed to fly on 9/11|Could not open due to an invalid urlDerrell On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 10:16 PM 'Larry H. Gentry' sarge538@yahoo.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: u/u � Very interesting interview.LHG "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." Aesop (~550 BC)/span/iispan REMEMBER�If you forward this, please remove email addresses before you send�it on,�and use the BCC area when sending to several people at once.� Please take the time to watch this video.��/span/ b�I doubt that you have ever seen it before. � -- Derrell Elon Patterson

907|905|2018-11-20 17:12:50|Tom E. Sims|Re: Pilot who was supposed to fly on 9/11| Could not open due to an invalid url Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLj4akmncsA|

2019 Yahoo Messages
908|908|2019-02-22 22:33:47|Tom E. Sims|Clara Adelle Teague Festervand SHS '51 R.I.P.|Clara Adelle Teague Festervand On Saturday morning, January 19, 2019, Clara Adelle Teague Festervand of Wake Village, Texas passed from this temporary home to her eternal home in glory. Clara was born January 4, 1933 to Carl and Mary Teague of Buckner, Arkansas. She was one of fifteen brothers and sisters. Survivors include Betty Allen (Dan) of Texarkana, Arkansas, Shirley Steadman of Shreveport, Louisiana, and Carl Teague (Joan) of Hot Springs; Arkansas. Preceding her in death were her husbands, Charles Trusty of Texarkana and Cliff Festervand of Wake Village, Texas, along with eleven brothers and sisters. Clara was a homemaker and help-meet to her beloved husbands until their death. She was a member of Hillcrest Baptist Church in Wake Village, Texas. She enjoyed going to church and for many years was a faithful supporter to her husband Cliff when he preached and taught the gospel. Clara was a homemaker and help-meet to her beloved husbands until their death. She was a member of Hillcrest Baptist Church in Wake Village, Texas. She enjoyed going to church and for many years was a faithful supporter to her husband cliff when he preached and taught the gospel. Clar's life path carried her all over the world with her first husband Charles during his long military service. She loved her little dogs, her especially her brilliant red birds who visited her every day. Clara was a very intelligent lady, sweet and tender. She was very social, enjoyed her friends and company. Her Christian walk directed her steps and led her thinking. Clara managed to be content and Godly, with great gain to all her knew her. She will truly be missed. Visitation will be Sunday, January 20 from 6-8PM at A.O. Smith Funeral Home, on Tomas street in Stamps, Arkansas. We will bid her farewell on Monday, January 21 at 10 AM, at the Thomas Street Chapel, with Bro. Marty Claiborne, officiating, assisted by Mr. Randy Harbour. Graveside services will follow at Shiloh Cemetery in Buckner, Arkansas, under the direction of A.O. Smith Funeral Homes, Inc., of Stamps, Arkansas. _______ Clara was my classmate in SHS '51. She was a friendly, nice person. Clar's SHS '51 Personal Web Page: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/SHS/CT.htm Tom Sims|

909|909|2019-02-23 18:18:25|Tom E. Sims|Charles Edwin Cleveland, SHS '56 R.I.P.|Charles Edwin Cleveland August 18, 1938 - February 06, 2019 Charles Edwin Cleveland, age 80, went to be with his Heavenly Father on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. He was born in Lewisville, Arkansas on August 18, 1938 to Ollie Mae Nix and Uphard Cleveland. He worked in the meat market at the Piggly Wiggly in his early years then went to work for Centerpoint Energy then retired after 25 years. Mr. Cleveland was preceded in death by his parents and sisters, Sunshine James and Alice Ann Harris. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Delliah Jones Cleveland; children, Tammie Russell and husband Robert of Stamps, AR, Charles Kevin Cleveland and wife Pam of Prescott, AR; four grandchildren, Amelia Russell, Clancey Cleveland and wife Becky and son Brennen, Luke Russell and wife Brittany, and Hannah Antley and husband Shane and son Paul; and a number of nieces and nephews. He was most proud of the family he raised. During his time, he also planted big gardens, raised chickens and cows and loved riding horses on the farm. He worked in his yard until he could no longer ride the lawn mower. Graveside Services will be held at 2:00pm, on Saturday, February 9, 2019, at Shiloh Cemetery in Buckner, Arkansas with Bro. Mike Turner officiating. Visitation will be held prior to the service, from 12:00pm until 1:30pm, on Saturday, February 9, 2019, at the A.O. Smith Funeral Home on Thomas Street, in Stamps, Arkansas. Charles was a classmate of my brother, and his sister Alice Ann was my classmate. Tom Sims|

910|910|2019-03-16 08:35:15|Tom E. Sims|Hilma Jean Camp Foster McKelroy, SHS c57, R.I.P.|Hilma Jean Camp Foster McKelroy, 79, of Stamps, Arkansas passed away Friday, March 15, 2019 at The Waters, in Stamps. She was born November 1, 1939. She was a lifelong resident of Lafayette County, a member of Sardis Methodist Church of Stamps, Arkansas, and a member of First Baptist Church of Buckner, Arkansas. One of her greatest accomplishments was being a mother and raising her three children. A host of loved ones await her in heaven; her parents, Johnny and Velta Camp; two sons, John Roy Foster and Buster Foster; three brothers, Harlis, Jim and David Camp; one grandson, John Thomas Foster; two husbands; Thomas H. Foster, Sr. and Gilbert Ray McKelroy; grandparents; aunts and uncles. She is survived by one daughter, LaRita Jean Allison and husband Ken. Mrs. McKelroy loved life and enjoyed being with her family, at age 21, she learned to make homemade lemonade as she took on the crippling Rheumatoid Arthritis, at 28, she became a licensed Cosmetologist and for many years she was in Tupperware sales. Jean was a former D.J. on KVMA and KZHE and a director for the Beauty Queen pageants in Lafayette County for several years. She loved to help her children in school and was involved in school activities and clubs. She loved to tell others what Jesus meant to her and how to ask him to come into your soul. Funeral Services will be held at 2pm Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Stamps, Arkansas with Bro. Andy Hawkins and Bro. Charlie Warren officiating. Interment will follow at Sardis Cemetery in Stamps, Arkansas. Pallbearers will be Terry Tatom, Steven Tatom, Randy Camp, Kenny Camp, Larry Dan Camp, Joe Sanders, and David Camp, Jr. Visitation will be held from 6-8pm Monday, March 18, 2019 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel.|

911|911|2019-03-23 23:57:23|Tom E. Sims|Cassie Lee Hanson Farrar, SHS '56, R.I.P.|Cassie Lee Hanson Farrar Cassie was born on April 18, 1938 and passed away on Sunday, March 17, 2019. Cassie was a resident of Magnolia, Arkansas at the time of passing. Graveside services will be Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. at Memorial Park Cemetery with Bro. Steve Ford officiating under the direction of Lewis Funeral Home, Inc. in Magnolia. Visitation will be Friday from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the funeral home. The family requests memorial donations are made to SAU Foundation, PO Box 9174, Magnolia, AR 71754.|

912|912|2019-04-06 16:06:10|Tom E. Sims|Billy (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall, SHS '51, R.I.P.|Attachments :Billy (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall(November 16th, 1933 to April 3rd, 2019)Billy (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall, passed away on April 3, 2019 at the age of 85.Born in Stamps, Arkansas on November 16th, 1933 in the Kuykendall home, he was the third child of seven children born to Jessie Dallas and Nena Estelle Kuykendall.Bill met the love of his life Loretta Carolyn Everly at Webster Groves Baptist Church in 1960. They were married on November 21, 1964 at the church where they met. They had two children.Bill was preceded in death by his parents and 5 siblings: sisters - Marjorie "Helen" Sparrow and Wanda "Jean" Wilson; and brothers - Dallas Edward "Ed" Kuykendall, Raymond "Ray" Cloyce Kuykendall, and Jerry Harold Kuykendall.He is survived by his loving and devoted wife, Loretta "Carolyn" (Everly) Kuykendall and their two children: Jill (Will) Blaylock and Alan (Debbie) Kuykendall; grandchildren, Ian, Austin, Jesse, and Malia, his brother, Darrell Wayne (Francis) Kuykendall and numerous nieces and nephews.Bill was very active in his church. He served as a deacon for many years. He also chaired and served on many committees in the church. From leading music on one occasion (don't ask about his singing), to hosting church in his own home when the furnace would not work, to crawling under the church building to find the source of a foul smell that turned out to be a dead opossum, Bill did it all! He had a servant's heart. Bill graduated from Stamps High School in 1951 playing football as quarterback (nicknamed "Radar" by the local newspaper) basketball and tennis; William Jewell College in 1955 playing tennis; and the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1960 with a Master's degree. Bill was the first of his siblings to go to college and was an encouragement to his younger brother, Darrell Kuykendall, to become a college graduate as well.In his early adult years he enjoyed playing golf and tennis. Later he spent time watching these sports on TV along with football and baseball. He was also a voracious reader. Bill served in the Navy from 1956 to 1959. He served in Hawaii at Barbers Point Naval Air Station. He was the radar officer on a Lockheed WV-2 Super Constellation aircraft. Bill also worked in the Webster Groves School District for 35 years as a PE teacher at Hixson Junior High School, retiring in 1995. Bill touched the lives of many young men during their early teen years as a teacher. Several former students have called him as adults thanking him for sharing his love of God and the hope of knowing Jesus with them. At various times during his 35 years in the Webster Groves School District he coached football, golf, tennis, and girls' freshman basketball. Bill worked for the Webster Groves Recreation Department in the summers teaching golf and organizing the umpires for the city youth baseball league.Visitation will be 6-8 p.m., Sunday, April 7th and services will be at 10 a.m., Monday, April 8, both at Webster Groves Baptist Church, 308 Summit Ave., Webster Groves, MO 63119.In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Webster Groves Baptist Church � the place that was central to the family life of Bill, Carolyn, Jill and Alan. Carolyn still calls this her church
home and attends on a regular basis.Billy was my best friend when we were in high school and wespent a lot of time together.We played tennis all day, every day during the summer and wespent all day, when we weren't in school, during basketballseason in the gym, often by ourselves. Billy was a starteras a 10th grader on the basketball team, something I didn'tachieve until the next year. He was all-district quarterbackour senior year when we were undefeated during the regularseason. There wasn't a high school baseball team, but weplayed a lot on a team we organized. We were the SHS tennisteam.Billy and I were the seventh grade boys and high schoolGirls PE teachers, because the coaches delegated those jobsto us.Billy's family was very poor and mostly supported by hismother (who was a saint) who cooked in the school cafeteria.He had never been more than 5 miles (Buckner) from homeuntil we took our first football trip to Ashdown when wewere in the 10th grade.Billy was our class president senior year and well liked byeveryone.I believe that I am now the last surviving SHS '51 malegraduate now.Billy was a good friend and a good person.Tom Sims|

913|912|2019-04-06 19:55:48|Robin White|Re: Billy (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall, SHS '51, R.I.P.|Thanks Tom.�Robin WhiteSent from my iPhone On Apr 6, 2019, at 6:05 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � 2019009.jpgBilly (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall(November 16th, 1933 to April 3rd, 2019)Billy (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall, passed away on April 3, 2019 at the age of 85.Born in Stamps, Arkansas on November 16th, 1933 in the Kuykendall home, he was the third child of seven children born to Jessie Dallas and Nena Estelle Kuykendall.Bill met the love of his life Loretta Carolyn Everly at Webster Groves Baptist Church in 1960. They were married on November 21, 1964 at the church where they met. They had two children.Bill was preceded in death by his parents and 5 siblings: sisters - Marjorie "Helen" Sparrow and Wanda "Jean" Wilson; and brothers - Dallas Edward "Ed" Kuykendall, Raymond "Ray" Cloyce Kuykendall, and Jerry Harold Kuykendall.He is survived by his loving and devoted wife, Loretta "Carolyn" (Everly) Kuykendall and their two children: Jill (Will) Blaylock and Alan (Debbie) Kuykendall; grandchildren, Ian, Austin, Jesse, and Malia, his brother, Darrell Wayne (Francis) Kuykendall and numerous nieces and nephews.Bill was very active in his church. He served as a deacon for many years. He also chaired and served on many committees in the church. From leading music on one occasion (don't ask about his singing), to hosting church in his own home when the furnace would not work, to crawling under the church building to find the source of a foul smell that turned out to be a dead opossum, Bill did it all! He had a servant's heart. Bill graduated from Stamps High School in 1951 playing football as quarterback (nicknamed "Radar" by the local newspaper) basketball and tennis; William Jewell College in 1955 playing tennis; and the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1960 with a Master's degree. Bill was the first of his siblings to go to college and was an encouragement to his younger brother, Darrell Kuykendall, to become a college graduate as well.In his early adult years he enjoyed playing golf and tennis. Later he spent time watching these sports on TV along with football and baseball. He was also a voracious reader. Bill served in the Navy from 1956 to 1959. He served in Hawaii at Barbers Point Naval Air Station. He was the radar officer on a Lockheed WV-2 Super Constellation aircraft. Bill also worked in the Webster Groves School District for 35 years as a PE teacher at Hixson Junior High School, retiring in 1995. Bill touched the lives of many young men during their early teen years as a teacher. Several former students have called him as adults thanking him for sharing his love of God and the hope of knowing Jesus with them. At various times during his 35 years in the Webster Groves School District he coached football, golf, tennis, and girls' freshman basketball. Bill worked for the Webster Groves Recreation Department in the summers teaching golf and organizing the umpires for the city youth baseball league.Visitation will be 6-8 p.m., Sunday, April 7th and services will be at 10 a.m., Monday, April 8, both at Webster Groves Baptist Church, 308 Summit Ave., Webster Groves, MO 63119.In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Webster Groves Baptist Church � the place that was central to the family life of Bill, Carolyn, Jill and Alan. Carolyn still calls this her church home and attends on a regular basis.Billy was my best friend when we were in high school and wespent a lot of time together.We played tennis all day, every day during the summer and wespent all day, when we weren't in school, during basketballseason in the gym, often by ourselves. Billy was a starteras a 10th grader on the basketball team, something I didn'tachieve until the next year. He was all-district quarterbackour senior year when we were undefeated during the regularseason. There wasn't a high school baseball team, but weplayed a lot on a team we organized. We were the SHS tennisteam.Billy and I were the seventh grade boys and high schoolGirls PE teachers, because the coaches delegated those jobsto us.Billy's family was very poor and mostly supported by hismother (who was a saint) who cooked in the school cafeteria.He had never been more than 5 miles (Buckner) from homeuntil we took our first football trip to Ashdown when wewere in the 10th grade.Billy was our class president senior year and well liked byeveryone.I believe that I am now the last surviving SHS '51 malegraduate now.Billy was a good friend and a good person.Tom Sims |

914|912|2019-04-06 20:24:39|Derrell Patterson|Re: Billy (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall, SHS '51, R.I.P.|Thank you Tom. A fine tribute to an outstanding man!Derrell Patterson On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 9:55 PM Robin White jurus2@yahoo.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: u/u � Thanks Tom.�Robin WhiteSent from my iPhoneOn Apr 6, 2019, at 6:05 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � 2019009.jpgBilly (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall(November 16th, 1933 to April 3rd, 2019)Billy (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall, passed away on April 3, 2019 at the age of 85.Born in Stamps, Arkansas on November 16th, 1933 in the Kuykendall home, he was the third child of seven children born to Jessie Dallas and Nena Estelle Kuykendall.Bill met the love of his life Loretta Carolyn Everly at Webster Groves Baptist Church in 1960. They were married on November 21, 1964 at the church where they met. They had two children.Bill was preceded in death by his parents and 5 siblings: sisters - Marjorie "Helen" Sparrow and Wanda "Jean" Wilson; and brothers - Dallas Edward "Ed" Kuykendall, Raymond "Ray" Cloyce Kuykendall, and Jerry Harold Kuykendall.He is survived by his loving and devoted wife, Loretta "Carolyn" (Everly) Kuykendall and their two children: Jill (Will) Blaylock and Alan (Debbie) Kuykendall; grandchildren, Ian, Austin, Jesse, and Malia, his brother, Darrell Wayne (Francis) Kuykendall and numerous nieces and nephews.Bill was very active in his church. He served as a deacon for many years. He also chaired and served on many committees in the church. From leading music on one occasion (don't ask about his singing), to hosting church in his own home when the furnace would not work, to crawling under the church building to find the source of a foul smell that turned out to be a dead opossum, Bill did it all! He had a servant's heart. Bill graduated from Stamps High School in 1951 playing football as quarterback (nicknamed "Radar" by the local newspaper) basketball and tennis; William Jewell College in 1955 playing tennis; and the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1960 with a Master's degree. Bill was the first of his siblings to go to college and was an encouragement to his younger brother, Darrell Kuykendall, to become a college graduate as well.In his early adult years he enjoyed playing golf and tennis. Later he spent time watching these sports on TV along with football and baseball. He was also a voracious reader. Bill served in the Navy from 1956 to 1959. He served in Hawaii at Barbers Point Naval Air Station. He was the radar officer on a Lockheed WV-2 Super Constellation aircraft. Bill also worked in the Webster Groves School District for 35 years as a PE teacher at Hixson Junior High School, retiring in 1995. Bill touched the lives of many young men during their early teen years as a teacher. Several former students have called him as adults thanking him for sharing his love of God and the hope of knowing Jesus with them. At various times during his 35 years in the Webster Groves School District he coached football, golf, tennis, and girls' freshman basketball. Bill worked for the Webster Groves Recreation Department in the summers teaching golf and organizing the umpires for the city youth baseball
league.Visitation will be 6-8 p.m., Sunday, April 7th and services will be at 10 a.m., Monday, April 8, both at Webster Groves Baptist Church, 308 Summit Ave., Webster Groves, MO 63119.In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Webster Groves Baptist Church � the place that was central to the family life of Bill, Carolyn, Jill and Alan. Carolyn still calls this her church home and attends on a regular basis.Billy was my best friend when we were in high school and wespent a lot of time together.We played tennis all day, every day during the summer and wespent all day, when we weren't in school, during basketballseason in the gym, often by ourselves. Billy was a starter as a 10th grader on the basketball team, something I didn'tachieve until the next year. He was all-district quarterbackour senior year when we were undefeated during the regularseason. There wasn't a high school baseball team, but weplayed a lot on a team we organized. We were the SHS tennisteam.Billy and I were the seventh grade boys and high schoolGirls PE teachers, because the coaches delegated those jobsto us.Billy's family was very poor and mostly supported by hismother (who was a saint) who cooked in the school cafeteria.He had never been more than 5 miles (Buckner) from homeuntil we took our first football trip to Ashdown when wewere in the 10th grade.Billy was our class president senior year and well liked byeveryone.I believe that I am now the last surviving SHS '51 malegraduate now.Billy was a good friend and a good person.Tom Sims -- Derrell Elon Patterson |

915|912|2019-04-07 09:25:00|wroper@eastex.net|Re: Billy (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall, SHS '51, R.I.P.|Thank you, Tom. A very good tribute. One of his younger brothers, Jerry, was a class behind me and didn't have a very good experience in South East Asia. Please tell me again, were you and Barbara Roper or Oscar Paul Roper in the same class? I can never remember. Pug Roper ------- Original Message ------- From : 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk][mailto:StampsArk@yahoogroups.com] Sent : 4/6/2019 6:05:59 PM To : StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Cc : GrannyBob@aol.com; bckuykendall@att.net; zobock2007@att.net; mychardog@att.net; lilahr51@gmail.com; Morocco32@aol.com; MaryMin5@aol.com; TES3355@gmail.com; jillblaylock@live.com Subject : RE: [StampsArk] Billy (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall, SHS '51, R.I.P. Billy (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall (November 16th, 1933 to April 3rd, 2019) Billy (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall, passed away on April 3, 2019 at the age of 85. Born in Stamps, Arkansas on November 16th, 1933 in the Kuykendall home, he was the third child of seven children born to Jessie Dallas and Nena Estelle Kuykendall. Bill met the love of his life Loretta Carolyn Everly at Webster Groves Baptist Church in 1960. They were married on November 21, 1964 at the church where they met. They had two children. Bill was preceded in death by his parents and 5 siblings: sisters - Marjorie "Helen" Sparrow and Wanda "Jean" Wilson; and brothers - Dallas Edward "Ed" Kuykendall, Raymond "Ray" Cloyce Kuykendall, and Jerry Harold Kuykendall. He is survived by his loving and devoted wife, Loretta "Carolyn" (Everly) Kuykendall and their two children: Jill (Will) Blaylock and Alan (Debbie) Kuykendall; grandchildren, Ian, Austin, Jesse, and Malia, his brother, Darrell Wayne (Francis) Kuykendall and numerous nieces and nephews. Bill was very active in his church. He served as a deacon for many years. He also chaired and served on many committees in the church. From leading music on one occasion (don't ask about his singing), to hosting church in his own home when the furnace would not work, to crawling under the church building to find the source of a foul smell that turned out to be a dead opossum, Bill did it all! He had a servant's heart. Bill graduated from Stamps High School in 1951 playing football as quarterback (nicknamed "Radar" by the local newspaper) basketball and tennis; William Jewell College in 1955 playing tennis; and the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1960 with a Master's degree. Bill was the first of his siblings to go to college and was an encouragement to his younger brother, Darrell Kuykendall, to become a college graduate as well. In his early adult years he enjoyed playing golf and tennis. Later he spent time watching these sports on TV along with football and baseball. He was also a voracious reader. Bill served in the Navy from 1956 to 1959. He served in Hawaii at Barbers Point Naval Air Station. He was the radar officer on a Lockheed WV-2 Super Constellation aircraft. Bill also worked in the Webster Groves School District for 35 years as a PE teacher at Hixson Junior High School, retiring in 1995. Bill touched the lives of many young men during their early teen years as a teacher. Several former students have called him as adults thanking him for sharing his love of God and the hope of knowing Jesus with them. At various times during his 35 years in the Webster Groves School District he coached football, golf, tennis, and girls' freshman basketball. Bill worked for the Webster Groves Recreation Department in the summers teaching golf and organizing the umpires for the city youth baseball league. Visitation will be 6-8 p.m., Sunday, April 7th and services will be at 10 a.m., Monday, April 8, both at Webster Groves Baptist Church, 308 Summit Ave., Webster Groves, MO 63119. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Webster Groves Baptist Church � the place that was central to the family life of Bill, Carolyn, Jill and Alan. Carolyn still calls this her church home and attends on a regular basis. Billy was my best friend when we were in high school and wespent a lot of time together. We played tennis all day, every day during the summer and wespent all day, when we weren't in school, during basketballseason in the gym, often by ourselves. Billy was a starteras a 10th grader on the basketball team, something I didn'tachieve until the next year. He was all-district quarterbackour senior year when we were undefeated during the regularseason. There wasn't a high school baseball team, but weplayed a lot on a team we organized. We were the SHS tennisteam. Billy and I were the seventh grade boys and high schoolGirls PE teachers, because the coaches delegated those jobsto us. Billy's family was very poor and mostly supported by hismother (who was a saint) who cooked in the school cafeteria.He had never been more than 5 miles (Buckner) from homeuntil we took our first football trip to Ashdown when wewere in the 10th grade. Billy was our class president senior year and well liked byeveryone. I believe that I am now the last surviving SHS '51 malegraduate now. Billy was a good friend and a good person. Tom Sims|

916|912|2019-04-07 10:41:36|Tom E. Sims|Re: Billy (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall, SHS '51, R.I.P.|Thank you, Tom. A very good tribute. One of his younger brothers, Jerry, was a class behind me and didn't have a very good experience in South East Asia. Please tell me again, were you and Barbara Roper or Oscar Paul Roper in the same class? I can never remember. Pug Roper Pug: I knew Barbara and Oscar Paul vert well, and I recall that your mother and mine were very good friends. Barbara was one class behind me and going steady with one of my friends and classmate. I believe that Oscar Paul was one class behind her. I also seem to recall that my former brother-in- law, Mike Langley, and you were track buddies and very good friends. Tom Sims|

917|912|2019-04-07 11:26:53|Earl Rogers|Re: Billy (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall, SHS '51, R.I.P.|Thanks, Bill.He will be missed.Take care, EarlSent from my iPad:Earl M Rogers, M.S.,P.D.LTC �USA ret.Rx Consulting, LLC11524 Stillbrook RoadRichmond, VA �23236-2408PH: 804.794.9541C: 804.399-2758Earl.rogers@comcast.net On Apr 6, 2019, at 7:05 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � 2019009.jpgBilly (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall(November 16th, 1933 to April 3rd, 2019)Billy (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall, passed away on April 3, 2019 at the age of 85.Born in Stamps, Arkansas on November 16th, 1933 in the Kuykendall home, he was the third child of seven children born to Jessie Dallas and Nena Estelle Kuykendall.Bill met the love of his life Loretta Carolyn Everly at Webster Groves Baptist Church in 1960. They were married on November 21, 1964 at the church where they met. They had two children.Bill was preceded in death by his parents and 5 siblings: sisters - Marjorie "Helen" Sparrow and Wanda "Jean" Wilson; and brothers - Dallas Edward "Ed" Kuykendall, Raymond "Ray" Cloyce Kuykendall, and Jerry Harold Kuykendall.He is survived by his loving and devoted wife, Loretta "Carolyn" (Everly) Kuykendall and their two children: Jill (Will) Blaylock and Alan (Debbie) Kuykendall; grandchildren, Ian, Austin, Jesse, and Malia, his brother, Darrell Wayne (Francis) Kuykendall and numerous nieces and nephews.Bill was very active in his church. He served as a deacon for many years. He also chaired and served on many committees in the church. From leading music on one occasion (don't ask about his singing), to hosting church in his own home when the furnace would not work, to crawling under the church building to find the source of a foul smell that turned out to be a dead opossum, Bill did it all! He had a servant's heart. Bill graduated from Stamps High School in 1951 playing football as quarterback (nicknamed "Radar" by the local newspaper) basketball and tennis; William Jewell College in 1955 playing tennis; and the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1960 with a Master's degree. Bill was the first of his siblings to go to college and was an encouragement to his younger brother, Darrell Kuykendall, to become a college graduate as well.In his early adult years he enjoyed playing golf and tennis. Later he spent time watching these sports on TV along with football and baseball. He was also a voracious reader. Bill served in the Navy from 1956 to 1959. He served in Hawaii at Barbers Point Naval Air Station. He was the radar officer on a Lockheed WV-2 Super Constellation aircraft. Bill also worked in the Webster Groves School District for 35 years as a PE teacher at Hixson Junior High School, retiring in 1995. Bill touched the lives of many young men during their early teen years as a teacher. Several former students have called him as adults thanking him for sharing his love of God and the hope of knowing Jesus with them. At various times during his 35 years in the Webster Groves School District he coached football, golf, tennis, and girls' freshman basketball. Bill worked for the Webster Groves Recreation Department in the summers teaching golf and organizing the umpires for the city youth baseball league.Visitation will
be 6-8 p.m., Sunday, April 7th and services will be at 10 a.m., Monday, April 8, both at Webster Groves Baptist Church, 308 Summit Ave., Webster Groves, MO 63119.In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Webster Groves Baptist Church � the place that was central to the family life of Bill, Carolyn, Jill and Alan. Carolyn still calls this her church home and attends on a regular basis.Billy was my best friend when we were in high school and wespent a lot of time together.We played tennis all day, every day during the summer and wespent all day, when we weren't in school, during basketballseason in the gym, often by ourselves. Billy was a starteras a 10th grader on the basketball team, something I didn'tachieve until the next year. He was all-district quarterbackour senior year when we were undefeated during the regularseason. There wasn't a high school baseball team, but weplayed a lot on a team we organized. We were the SHS tennisteam.Billy and I were the seventh grade boys and high schoolGirls PE teachers, because the coaches delegated those jobsto us.Billy's family was very poor and mostly supported by hismother (who was a saint) who cooked in the school cafeteria.He had never been more than 5 miles (Buckner) from homeuntil we took our first football trip to Ashdown when wewere in the 10th grade.Billy was our class president senior year and well liked byeveryone.I believe that I am now the last surviving SHS '51 malegraduate now.Billy was a good friend and a good person.Tom Sims |

918|912|2019-04-08 13:34:51|wroper@eastex.net|Re: Billy (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall, SHS '51, R.I.P.|I remember Bobby and Mama talking about you and your Mom. Just couldn't remember how close in age you were to Bobby and O.P. I had forgotten that you were married to Mike's sister. Mike came over to SSC when I did and ran track for the Muleriders for a year then retired from running. Mike and I usually get to visit whenever I show up in Stamps-usually two or three times or more each year. Take care, Pug ------- Original Message ------- From : 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk][mailto:StampsArk@yahoogroups.com] Sent : 4/7/2019 12:41:26 PM To : StampsArk@yahoogroups.com Cc : Subject : RE: Re: [StampsArk] Billy (Bill) Douglas Kuykendall, SHS '51, R.I.P. Thank you, Tom. A very good tribute. One of his younger brothers, Jerry, was a class behind me and didn't have a very good experience in South East Asia. Please tell me again, were you and Barbara Roper or Oscar Paul Roper in the same class? I can never remember. Pug Roper Pug: I knew Barbara and Oscar Paul vert well, and I recall that your mother and mine were very good friends. Barbara was one class behind me and going steady with one of my friends and classmate. I believe that Oscar Paul was one class behind her. I also seem to recall that my former brother-in- law, Mike Langley, and you were track buddies and very good friends. Tom Sims|

919|919|2019-04-27 20:58:37|Tom E. Sims|Congratulations to the LCHS 2019 DISTRICT TRACK CHAMPS!!!!!!!!!!|Attachments :Congratulations to the LCHS 2019 DISTRICT TRACK CHAMPS!!!!!!!!!! |

920|919|2019-04-27 22:03:42|Tom E. Sims|Re: Congratulations to the LCHS 2019 DISTRICT TRACK CHAMPS!!!!!!!!!!| Congratulations to the LCHS 2019 DISTRICT TRACK CHAMPS!!!!!!!!!! Hmm, I see the picture didn't go through. Here's the link to the picture: http://tinyurl.com/y2rmdrh5 You don't have to be a Facebook user to view the picture. If there is a box that says "Log in" or "Create New Account", just click on "Not Now" and you can view the picture. |

921|921|2019-05-05 08:35:48|Tom E. Sims|Becky Nix Smith, R.I.P.|Becky Nix Smith May 19, 1950 - May 02, 2019 Picture and Video: https://www.aosmithfuneralhome.com/obituary/becky-n-smith?fh _id=14732 Becky Nix Smith, age 68, of Stamps, Arkansas, passed away Thursday May 2, 2019, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Mrs. Smith was born May 19, 1950 in Lewisville, Arkansas to Dayton and Oma (Altom) Nix. She worked for many years at Williamson Pumping Services as a secretary. Mrs. Smith was a member of Shiloh Baptist Church, she loved to serve God, enjoyed playing the piano, and playing rook with many friends. Mrs. Smith was preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her husband, William Smith of Stamps, AR; daughter, Janis Lynn Smith of Hope, AR; and sister, Linda Baker of Stamps, AR, and her children, LaDonna Baker of Rogers, AR, and David Baker of Eldorado, AR. William and Becky had some special people in their lives that they felt were also their children, Staci Emerson, and her children Sydney and Shelby Emerson; Jessica and Michael Carpenter, and their children, DJ and Conner Carpenter; Nicole McClure, and her son, Hudson McGuire; Jimmie and Tim Rutledge, and their children, Hannah Nuckles, and Haley and Hayden Little; and Brittney Loe. Mrs. Smith is also survived by many friends. Visitation will be held from 4:00pm until 8:00pm, Saturday, May 4, 2019, at Smith Funeral Home Chapel, on Thomas Street, in Stamps, AR. Funeral Services will on Sunday, May 5, 2019, 2:00pm, at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel, with Bro. Bo Murphy Officiating. Interment will follow at the Shiloh Cemetery, near Stamps, AR, under the direction of Smith
Funeral Homes of Stamps, AR. Online registration is available at www.aosmithfuneralhome.com _____ I knew Becky, who was a good friend of my mother. Becky worked at Eldees and Kay Williamson's home, which was next door to my mother's, as the secretary for their oil operations. Becky and the Williamson's were very good neighbors to my mother. Tom Sims|

923|923|2019-06-08 16:24:55|Robert Robinson|Re: PRO LIFERS [1 Attachment]|What opens this? On Jun 8, 2019, at 12:50 PM, JERRY BALLOU balloujerry@yahoo.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: (TAKE THE PILL AND DONT.tmd |

924|923|2019-06-08 16:45:17|Tom E. Sims|Re: PRO LIFERS [1 Attachment]|What opens this? (TAKE THE PILL AND DONT.tmd Don't know and didn't try. It's the type of message that isn't from the listed sender and has an attachment that you shouldn't click on because it could be an identity theft attempt and/or contain a virus. Tom Sims|

925|923|2019-06-09 07:12:42|JERRY BALLOU|Re: PRO LIFERS [1 Attachment]|!-- I sent this to all about abortions!!! �Jerry ballou Sent from Mail for Windows 10

926|926|2019-06-28 22:58:30|Tom E. Sims|SHS Alumni Reunion 2019|SHS Alumni Reunion 2019 http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/J/S_201 9080.jpg|

927|927|2019-07-02 23:04:00|Tom E. Sims|SHS 1964 Reunion|SHS 1964 Reunion http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1955/20228/V/TES/J/S_201 9081.jpg|

928|928|2019-07-08 21:16:51|Tom E. Sims|Verda Louise McDonald, R.I.P.|Verda Louise McDonald September 18, 1934 - June 10, 2019 Share this obituary Send Flowers Upload Photo| View/Sign Guest Book| Send Sympathy Card Mrs. Verda McDonald, 84, of Stamps, Arkansas passed away Monday, June 10, 2019 at The Waters of Stamps. She was born September 18, 1934 in Mena, Arkansas to Mac and Violet Davis. Verda was a member of Buckner Baptist Church. Mrs. McDonald was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Will McDonald; and brother, Doug Davis. She is survived by two daughters, Karen Massey of Texarkana, AR and Dolly Morris and husband, George of Conway, AR; brother, Jim Davis and wife, Ardi of Stamps, AR; sister, Stella Terry of Hot Springs, AR; six grandchildren, Kyle Luciano, Konnor David McEntire, Kwynn Nicole McEntire, Kristal Kimberling, Kason Edward Smith and Kevin James Hansen; and seven great grandchildren, Kristopher Bailey, Kayla Chavon McEntire, Kaycee Kimberling, Michael Kimberling, Cristian Kimberling, Korbin Kimberling, Kennedy Kimberling and Kain Everson. Graveside Services will be held Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 10am at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps, AR with Bro. Andy Hawkins officiating. Visitation will be held from 6pm-8pm Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel on Thomas Street. SERVICES Visitation Tuesday, June 11, 2019 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Thomas Street Chapel 703 Thomas Street Stamps, Arkansas 71860 Graveside Wednesday, June 12, 2019 10:00 AM Lakeside Cemetery Stamps, AR _ Will McDonald (Verd's husband) was a classmate and good friend of my brother (Bill
Sims). Will played halfback on a pretty good SHS football team. Tom Sims|

929|928|2019-07-09 04:55:40|Robin White|Re: Verda Louise McDonald, R.I.P.|Thanks Tom.�Robin WhiteSent from my iPhone On Jul 8, 2019, at 11:16 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Verda Louise McDonald September 18, 1934 - June 10, 2019 Share this obituary Send Flowers Upload Photo| View/Sign Guest Book| Send Sympathy Card Mrs. Verda McDonald, 84, of Stamps, Arkansas passed away Monday, June 10, 2019 at The Waters of Stamps. She was born September 18, 1934 in Mena, Arkansas to Mac and Violet Davis. Verda was a member of Buckner Baptist Church. Mrs. McDonald was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Will McDonald; and brother, Doug Davis. She is survived by two daughters, Karen Massey of Texarkana, AR and Dolly Morris and husband, George of Conway, AR; brother, Jim Davis and wife, Ardi of Stamps, AR; sister, Stella Terry of Hot Springs, AR; six grandchildren, Kyle Luciano, Konnor David McEntire, Kwynn Nicole McEntire, Kristal Kimberling, Kason Edward Smith and Kevin James Hansen; and seven great grandchildren, Kristopher Bailey, Kayla Chavon McEntire, Kaycee Kimberling, Michael Kimberling, Cristian Kimberling, Korbin Kimberling, Kennedy Kimberling and Kain Everson. Graveside Services will be held Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 10am at Lakeside Cemetery in Stamps, AR with Bro. Andy Hawkins officiating. Visitation will be held from 6pm-8pm Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at the Smith Funeral Home Chapel on Thomas Street. SERVICES Visitation Tuesday, June 11, 2019 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Thomas Street Chapel 703 Thomas Street Stamps, Arkansas 71860 Graveside Wednesday, June 12, 2019 10:00 AM
Lakeside Cemetery Stamps, AR _ Will McDonald (Verd's husband) was a classmate and good friend of my brother (Bill Sims). Will played halfback on a pretty good SHS football team. Tom Sims |

930|930|2019-07-18 07:04:55|Derrell Patterson|Fwd: Richard Stratton obit|We have lost a much loved classmate.RIPSent from my iPhoneBegin forwarded message: bFrom:/b Derrell Patterson delonpatterson@gmail.combDate:/b July 18, 2019 at 7:43:04 AM CDTbTo:/b Alfred Burke burkeark1964@gmail.combSubject:/b bRichard Stratton obit/bRichard Dennis Stratton, 72, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, passed away July 16, 2019, at home surrounded by his family. He was born on December 24, 1946, in Magnolia, Arkansas, the son of Charles and Peggy Stratton.He graduated from Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia in 1968. He married Martha Elaine Rice on September 2, 1967, in Stamps, Arkansas. After a short stint in the Army, stationed at a NATO base in Naples, Italy, Richard used his degree as a chemist, making resin and consulting for various chemical companies over the years before retiring in 2007. After retirement, Mr. Stratton volunteered his time as an EMT as well as a deacon at his Fairfield Bay Baptist Church in Fairfield Bay, Arkansas. He also loved serving his community as a Community Club Board Member. Richard was a lifelong, avid duck hunter, trumpet player, and golfer, and he loved spending time visiting his children and grandchildren.He is survived by his wife, two brothers, a son, two daughters, 10 grandchildren, and one great-grandson. Mr. Stratton was preceded in death by his parents.Roller-McNutt of Clinton, Arkansas will be hosting services on Friday, July 19, 2019 at Fairfield Bay Baptist Church in Fairfield Bay, Arkansas with visitation beginning at 10 am and funeral services at 11 a.m. Burial to follow at
Woodland Memorial Park. For online guestbook,�www.rollerfuneralhomes.comPublished July 18, 2019Order flowers for the Richard Stratton familyOBITUARY SUBMITTED BY:Roller-McNutt Funeral HomeHighway 65 South, P.O. Box 177, Clinton, ARPhone: 501-745-2151-- Derrell Elon Patterson |

931|930|2019-07-18 08:38:39|Larry H. Gentry|Re: Fwd: Richard Stratton obit|Attachments : Thanks Derrell. He was a really good guy.LarrySent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Thursday, July 18, 2019, 9:06 AM, Derrell Patterson delonpatterson@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � We have lost a much loved classmate.RIPSent from my iPhoneBegin forwarded message:bFrom:/b Derrell Patterson delonpatterson@gmail.combDate:/b July 18, 2019 at 7:43:04 AM CDTbTo:/b Alfred Burke burkeark1964@gmail.combSubject:/b bRichard Stratton obit/bRichard Dennis Stratton, 72, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, passed away July 16, 2019, at home surrounded by his family. He was born on December 24, 1946, in Magnolia, Arkansas, the son of Charles and Peggy Stratton.He graduated from Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia in 1968. He married Martha Elaine Rice on September 2, 1967, in Stamps, Arkansas. After a short stint in the Army, stationed at a NATO base in Naples, Italy, Richard used his degree as a chemist, making resin and consulting for various chemical companies over the years before retiring in 2007. After retirement, Mr. Stratton volunteered his time as an EMT as well as a deacon at his Fairfield Bay Baptist Church in Fairfield Bay, Arkansas. He also loved serving his community as a Community Club Board Member. Richard was a lifelong, avid duck hunter, trumpet player, and golfer, and he loved spending time visiting his children and grandchildren.He is survived by his wife, two brothers, a son, two daughters, 10 grandchildren, and one great-grandson. Mr. Stratton was preceded in death by his parents.Roller-McNutt of Clinton, Arkansas will be hosting services on Friday, July 19, 2019 at Fairfield Bay Baptist Church in Fairfield Bay, Arkansas with visitation beginning at 10 am and funeral services at 11 a.m. Burial to follow at Woodland Memorial Park. For online guestbook,�www.rollerfuneralhomes.comPublished July 18, 2019Order flowers for the Richard Stratton familyOBITUARY SUBMITTED BY:Roller-McNutt Funeral HomeHighway 65 South, P.O. Box 177, Clinton, ARPhone: 501-745-2151-- Derrell Elon Patterson

932|932|2019-09-20 19:47:14|Tom E. Sims|LCHS 2019 Football|LCHS is 0-3 in 2019, with a bye this week. First 3 games: Bearden 22 - LCHS 8 Parkers Chapel (El Dorado, AR) 48 - LCS 6 Genoa Central (Texarkana, AR) 36 - 0|

933|657|2019-09-27 19:42:12|Tom E. Sims|LCHS Football|Tonight: Murfreesboro 43 - LCHS 12 Here's the LCHS Football coaches and results since the 2004 season. 2019 B. Clark 0-4-0 2018 B. Clark 1-9-0 2017 B. Clark 2-8-0 2016 B. Clark 3-9-0 2015 B. Clark 8-4-0 2014 R. Phillips 7-4-0 2013 R. Phillips 2-7-0 2012 R. Phillips 0-9-0 2011 P. Binkley 3-8-0 2010 j. McBride 4-7-0 2009 J. McBride 4-6-0 2008 J. McBride 6-5-0 2007 P. Binkley 5-6-0 2006 P. Binkley 8-5-0 2005 P. Binkley 4-6-0 2004 P. Binkley 4-6-0 Looking at the results for teams they have yet to play in 2019, I won't be surprised if they record a defeated season.|

934|657|2019-09-28 15:35:00|Earl Rogers|Re: LCHS Football|So sad to see such a previous powerhouse do so badly�Sent from my iPhone On Sep 27, 2019, at 4:41 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Tonight: Murfreesboro 43 - LCHS 12 Here's the LCHS Football coaches and results since the 2004 season. 2019 B. Clark 0-4-0 2018 B. Clark 1-9-0 2017 B. Clark 2-8-0 2016 B. Clark 3-9-0 2015 B. Clark 8-4-0 2014 R. Phillips 7-4-0 2013 R. Phillips 2-7-0 2012 R. Phillips 0-9-0 2011 P. Binkley 3-8-0 2010 j. McBride 4-7-0 2009 J. McBride 4-6-0 2008 J. McBride 6-5-0 2007 P. Binkley 5-6-0 2006 P. Binkley 8-5-0 2005 P. Binkley 4-6-0 2004 P. Binkley 4-6-0 Looking at the results for teams they have yet to play in 2019, I won't be surprised if they record a defeated season. |

935|657|2019-09-28 17:11:19|Derrell Patterson|Re: LCHS Football|Doesn't look good FOR LCS.� Watched Razorbacks today and they performed better than I expected against A & M. Getting bored watching Ohio drill Neb.�How was the trip? On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 5:35 PM Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: u/u � So sad to see such a previous powerhouse do so badly�Sent from my iPhoneOn Sep 27, 2019, at 4:41 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Tonight: Murfreesboro 43 - LCHS 12 Here's the LCHS Football coaches and results since the 2004 season. 2019 B. Clark 0-4-0 2018 B. Clark 1-9-0 2017 B. Clark 2-8-0 2016 B. Clark 3-9-0 2015 B. Clark 8-4-0 2014 R. Phillips 7-4-0 2013 R. Phillips 2-7-0 2012 R. Phillips 0-9-0 2011 P. Binkley 3-8-0 2010 j. McBride 4-7-0 2009 J. McBride 4-6-0 2008 J. McBride 6-5-0 2007 P. Binkley 5-6-0 2006 P. Binkley 8-5-0 2005 P. Binkley 4-6-0 2004 P. Binkley 4-6-0 Looking at the results for teams they have yet to play in 2019, I won't be surprised if they record a defeated season. -- Derrell Elon Patterson |

936|657|2019-09-28 17:11:26|Derrell Patterson|Re: LCHS Football|On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 7:08 PM Derrell Patterson delonpatterson@gmail.com wrote:Doesn't look good FOR LCS.� Watched Razorbacks today and they performed better than I expected against A & M. Getting bored watching Ohio drill Neb.�How was the trip?On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 5:35 PM Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: u/u � So sad to see such a previous powerhouse do so badly�Sent from my iPhoneOn Sep 27, 2019, at 4:41 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Tonight: Murfreesboro 43 - LCHS 12 Here's the LCHS Football coaches and results since the 2004 season. 2019 B. Clark 0-4-0 2018 B. Clark 1-9-0 2017 B. Clark 2-8-0 2016 B. Clark 3-9-0 2015 B. Clark 8-4-0 2014 R. Phillips 7-4-0 2013 R. Phillips 2-7-0 2012 R. Phillips 0-9-0 2011 P. Binkley 3-8-0 2010 j. McBride 4-7-0 2009 J. McBride 4-6-0 2008 J. McBride 6-5-0 2007 P. Binkley 5-6-0 2006 P. Binkley 8-5-0 2005 P. Binkley 4-6-0 2004 P. Binkley 4-6-0 Looking at the results for teams they have yet to play in 2019, I won't be surprised if they record a defeated season. -- Derrell Elon Patterson -- Derrell Elon Patterson |

937|657|2019-09-28 17:47:41|Earl Rogers|Re: LCHS Football|Trip was great �. Just tiring�At HI airport�Will be glad to get home�How are y'all do?Take care, Earl�Sent from my iPhone On Sep 28, 2019, at 2:08 PM, Derrell Patterson delonpatterson@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Doesn't look good FOR LCS.� Watched Razorbacks today and they performed better than I expected against A & M. Getting bored watching Ohio drill Neb.�How was the trip?On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 5:35 PM Earl Rogers earl.rogers1661@yahoo.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: u/u � So sad to see such a previous powerhouse do so badly�Sent from my iPhoneOn Sep 27, 2019, at 4:41 PM, 'Tom E. Sims' tes3355@gmail.com [StampsArk] StampsArk@yahoogroups.com wrote: � Tonight: Murfreesboro 43 - LCHS 12 Here's the LCHS Football coaches and results since the 2004 season. 2019 B. Clark 0-4-0 2018 B. Clark 1-9-0 2017 B. Clark 2-8-0 2016 B. Clark 3-9-0 2015 B. Clark 8-4-0 2014 R. Phillips 7-4-0 2013 R. Phillips 2-7-0 2012 R. Phillips 0-9-0 2011 P. Binkley 3-8-0 2010 j. McBride 4-7-0 2009 J. McBride 4-6-0 2008 J. McBride 6-5-0 2007 P. Binkley 5-6-0 2006 P. Binkley 8-5-0 2005 P. Binkley 4-6-0 2004 P. Binkley 4-6-0 Looking at the results for teams they have yet to play in 2019, I won't be surprised if they record a defeated season. -- Derrell Elon Patterson |

938|938|2019-10-05 00:58:34|Tom E. Sims|Lafayette County 42, Spring Hill 14|Lafayette County 42, Spring Hill 14 LCHS is now 1-4 Springhill (Hope) is 0-5|

939|939|2019-10-11 23:02:30|Tom E. Sims|LCHS Football: Foreman 50 - LCHS 0|LCHS Football: Foreman 50 - LCHS 0 2019 Records LCHS 1-5 Foreman 6-0|

940|940|2019-10-15 22:01:35|Tom E. Sims|Yahoo Groups Changes|Yahoo has made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site. Beginning October 21, you won't be able to upload any more content to the site, and as of December 14 all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed. You'll have until that date to save anything you've uploaded. What features will go away? Files Polls Links Photos Folders Calendar Database Attachments Conversations Email Updates Message Digest Message History What will happen to the site? The Yahoo Groups site will continue to exist, however, all public groups will be made private or restricted. Any new group members will need to request an invite or be invited by an admin. Admins will still be able to manage various group settings, though some functionality will be limited. What will happen on October 21st? On October 21st, you will no longer be able to upload any content to the site. To share info with members of your groups, you'll continue to be able to do so via email. How can I keep my Yahoo Groups content? Photos and files can be saved right from the Yahoo Groups site, or you can download your data from the Privacy Dashboard. Will I be able to use Yahoo Groups going forward? You'll still be able to communicate with your groups via email and search for private groups on the site. In addition, admins will continue to have limited access to group settings and administration tools.

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