Buckner Orphans Home Homecomings

Photos from past Buckner Orphans Home Homecomings. Photos by George Camppbell

3. Virgie Kirby 74’ Vernon Horsley 50’
Mary
Turner 51’
Eva Nell
Turner 50’JerreSimmons & Mr. Hyden
1950
Barbara
Stephens 61’
Doris Hill 64’

4. Beverly
James 67’
Don Ritchie
1958
Sunday Service 2007
Tom
Garefalos53’

6. Laverne Pingel
4
th
Grade Teacher
Mary Allen
Barham59’
Virginia Day
1946
Ken Norman
1961
James
McMillen41’
Lauren
Holloman 70’
Wanette
Holloman 72’
Dave Peel
1961

7. Gracie Hunter
Distinguished Alumnus Award
2007
Mr. & Mrs. Neal Knighton
Distinguished Employee 2007
Dessie
Hardin 50’

8. Marie Cearley1961
[award for her cooking]
Bob Newsom 56’
Sunday Speaker 2006

9. Linda Kay
Owens 1967
Frances Fulton
1951
Claudine
1954
Jack Ballard
1952
Mary Belle
Seal 60’
Robert
Hancock 61’
Hal Golden ArlaAdams
1961 1975
Nell
Hancock 55’

11. Marie Cearley Inez Cearley
1961 1959
Hal Golden
WintSeal Louise Dancer
1957 1957
Class of 1960
Marie Cearley
H L Bangs

12. Bob Gulley
1956
Charles
Annis 1965
Cindy
Bednarski64
Don Jones
1959
Floyd
Hutson59’
Ed Ray
Miller 1958
John Packrat
Ballew 60’
Robert
Bleakley50’

13. Buell Johnson
1960
“Cotton”
Barfield 57
Dorothy Pitts
1958
Frances
Weber 1958
Ella Harper
1972
Jimmy Sims
1958
Susanne SimsJ D Griffin
1956

14. Fern Mitchell
Teacher
Joe
Powell 1958
Gordon John
Ratcliff 55’
Jimmy Allen
1966
James
Hawkins 55’
Charles Eary
1956
RayfordLewis
1959
Sammy Sims
1955

15. Ralph
Ramsey 57’
Mary Ramsey
Betty Smith
1964
Fern Horsley
46’
Billie Joe
Stanley 48’
Edward
Stanley 52’
Bob Ritchie
1956
Mary Curda
1949

16. Bobbi Richardson 50’
Bobby Baker 50’
Jerri Graves
50’
Michelle Oswald
Thomas Oswald
1972
Mr. and Mrs. Weldon
McElreath “Distinguished
Alumnus of the Century”

17. Doris Ridge
1944
Garland Puitt
1956
George
McLeod 44’
Peggy
Briscoe 64’
Ms. Barham
Houseparent
Emma Pollard
1964
VerdaGiles
1954
LuLuRoman
1964

18. CindiBednarski Bea McKeehen
Cheryl McKeehen Allen Hartless
Jimmy Smith Emma Pollard
Sally Hawkins
Plethora of Inmates
Class of 1961
James Newsom, H L Bangs,
Roy Powell, Linda Wilcox, A D
Hawkins, Cheryl McKeehen,
Bessie Dancer, Ken Norman, &
Barbara Stephens

19. Geary Laird
1970
Leonard
Corcoran 56’
Mildred
Mallette49’
Little Martha
Terry 60’
Joy McLeod
1944
Milnor Oswald
1975
Hattie Gibbs
1959
Billy Ed
Taylor 50’

20. Sitting:Beverly Rose and husband, Ann Watts and husband (Harold)
Dorothy Pitts & husband (Darryl) 2nd Row:Jimmie Burkhalter, Marilyn
Pilkington, Frances Weber, Ed Ray Miller, Bobby Gulley, Jimmy Sims,
James Lundayand wife, Patsy Edmondson and husband. 3rd Row:
Jimmie's husband, PattyJohnson, DonaldRay Ritchie, Ed Ray's wife.

21. Billy Carolyn
Wood 57 & 59
Buddy Mayo
1960
Curtis Troy
1962
Mike Martin
1971 Patsy Adams
1956
Harold
Campbell 50’
Tommy
Vaughan 56’
Mary Lou
Griffin 64’

22. Wayne
Hamrick 49’
Patty
Johnson 58’
Eliz Barfield
1956’
Bessie Dancer
1961
Bill Annis
1967
Bill Fulton
1959
Judy Griffin
1960
Johnnie
Donelson70’

23. Raymond
“Super Baby”
Lewis 65’
Wanda King
1961
Margie King
1959
Pete Campbell
1952
Roger
Herrington 64’
Richard
Bednarski67’
Jimmy Smith
1960
H L Bangs
1961

24. Class of 1959
Jimmy Smith, Carol Sikes, OreneWatts,
Buena Herrington, & Buddy Mayo Suspicious Inmates
Church Service
Gracie Hunter 64’
Ken Norman 61’
Cindy Bednarski64’

25. 1
st
: Jimmie Burkhalter, Beverly
Rose, Patty Johnson.
2
nd
: Dorothy Pitts & Ed Ray
Miller.
Yes, this is our own
Jack Ballard 1952

26. Class of 1959 Mast Sisters
Style Show of 2003
Roy Powell
1961
Cheryl
McKeehen
1961

27. McElroy

28. Football Champs 1937
Inmates of 1938
District Champs 1937 District Champs 1938

29. Letter Jacket Winners 1946 Buckner Choir 48’
Class of 1947 1947-48

30. 1952
1953
Class of 1952 District Champs 1951

31. [8-2] Outscored District Opponents 173-20
1
ST
Row: L. Tate, L. Mangum, Jerry Nash,
Thurman Shurtleff, C. Bland, W.L. Smith. 2
nd
Row:
R. Trantham, J. Lookadoo, I. Henslee, E. Stanley,
C. Cutshall, C. May, F. Hardin. 3
rd
Row: R. Stevens,
B. Houston, Vance Horsley, Willis Grayson, J.
Taylor, F. Day, B. Baker, M. Alexander. 4
th
Row: H.
Campbell, E. Smith, Vernon Horsley, C. Corcoran,
R. Bleakley, C. Day, R. McKinney. 1
st
Team All
District:Vance Horsley, Bobby Baker, Harold
Campbell. 2
nd
Team All District: Vernon Horsley,
Billy Houston
District Champs [8-2 Record]
Backfield:James McMullen, Henry Curl,
Raymond Wood, and Carl Farris.
Line: Sherwood Beauchamp, Prentice
Phemister, Earl Dukworth, Jesse Farris,
Robert Bearden, Marvin Burns & L. Brown.
1941
[6-2-1 Record] District Runners-up
1st Row: Rice McLeod, James Lookadoo,
W. L. Smith, Robert McKinney, Jack
Ballard, Charlie Corcoran, Carroll Day.
2nd Row: Thurman Shurleff, Jerry Joe
Nash, Willis Grayson, & James Graves.
1951
1949
1940

32. 1948
Kneeling: Vernon Horsley, Prentice Ward,
Billy Houston, Vance Horsley, Charles May,
Ira Henslee, Billie Joe Stanley, Coach
Greenwood. Standing: Jessie Hardin, Ed
Stanley, Red Stephens, Bob Baker, Harold
Campbell, ObertLong, Wayne Hamrick,
Tommy McWhorter, & Kenneth Thompson.
Pep Squad: Betty Clark, Jimmie
Sherrell, & Judy Miller 1948
District Champions 48’
1947

35. 1956
Last Girls Team 60’
District Champs 1958 District Runners-up 59’

36. Last Boys Team 1960
District Runners-up
Class of 64’ in 1994
Cheerleaders 1940s
State Mile Relay Record
[3 min., 36 sec. 1956]

37. Cheerleaders 1957
Judy Griffin, Patty Johnson, Frances
Weber, & Beatrice Hamm
6
th
Grade 1956
Hauling Hay Watermelon TimeMr. McKee inspects
James Pritchett, Tommy
Green, & Billy Chipman

38. Virginia Gilbert, Carolyn Wood, Judy Griffin, Ken Norman,
Mary Lou Griffin, Little Martha Terry, and Gracie Hunter.

39. Got to get
away from
Joe Wood!