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Looking Back
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Faces and places from the past are featured each week in Looking Back, sponsored by Standard Supply, and we invite you to share your memories here.
If you can identify anyone or remember the occasion, please scroll down and leave a comment.
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Did this Ben Hill County farmer grow a crop of outstanding quality or yield? We’re not sure, but he’s obviously being presented with a prize. We’re guessing a 1950s date for this one. Do you see anyone you know or remember the location? If you do, call Sherri at 423-9331. Or send an e-mail.
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Heritage Healthcare staff, Sherrysue Davis, Wayne Young, Pearl Bly and Mary Spicer all called about last week’s Looking Back. The photograph was taken at a ribbon cutting for the new wing at the former Fitzgerald Nursing Home. Identified are (from left) Pat Norkus, Tina Gibbs, Phyllis Norkus, Sue Norkus, Mike Norkus, Gerald Thompson, Peter Norkus, Renea McCormick and Lena Graham. James Morris, a member of the Fitzgerald High School class of 1939 now living in Atlanta, called last week to identify some of his former classmates in the June 5 Looking Back photo. Mr. Morris is standing at left in the photo, leaning on the first column. On the other side of the column, he says, is Freeman Bales. Jeanne Pryor is the young woman at the right end of the first row, with her hands clasped in front of her. Evelyn Smith Clark (“a great lady,” Mr. Morris says) stands eighth from left in that same row. The three young men seated or squatting are (from left) Milton Willingham (who was killed in an airplane crash), Buddy Kruger and Jack Morris. Standing beside Milton is Charles Bush. Mr. Morris identifies the man standing fourth from right on the second step as Victor Bernhardt — this young man has also been identified as Mickey Paulk. Leaning back against the right column is Earl Harrison, who Mr. Morris says, was a B-17 pilot during World War II who flew in support of the invasion of the Normandy beaches on D-Day. Next to Audrey Jordan on the other side is Jack Nolan. Second from right on the second step[ is Thomas Melvin, who died in World War II. The young man wearing a white shirt and leaning against the second column from the right is Ernest Lerner. Mr. Morris says that he was in the family that founded the Lerner Shops, sellers of women’s clothing. The first young woman on the left of the first row standing is Mary Isabelle Farmer, who grew up in Miami, Fla., but came to FHS for her senior year in high school. She was the granddaughter of Mrs. Reason Paulk. To the right of her on the row behind her, with dark hair, is Jane Ellen Smith, daughter of Henderson Smith. Mr. Morris is the son of Joseph Morris, who worked for the railroad. His father died in 1921. His uncle, Bill Morris, was a railroad engineer and died in the Terminal Hotel fire in Atlanta in 1938. Mr. Morris speaks of all his former classmates with a great deal of affection and would love to hear from any of them who might read this. Anyone who would like to get in touch with him should call Sherri at the number above.
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