The Countdown -- Favorite Song #10

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Charles Jackson Jenkins 1941-2009

I apologize for missing this notice. Thanks to Blythe Carroll Hampton for calling it to my attention.

Jack Jenkins played football and ran track during his years in junior high at ARC. He was a member of Young Life. Many of you will remember his sisters, Jane and her husband, Milner Lively, Betty and Tommy Green.

His obituary from the Augusta Chronicle follows:
Retired Edgefield County Building Official NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. - Graveside services for Mr. Charles Jackson "Jack" Jenkins, 69, of West Woodlawn Avenue, North Augusta, SC, who entered into rest April 14, 2009, will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Sunset Hill Cemetery. Father David F. O. Thompson officiating. Jack was a native of Augusta having made North Augusta his home for the past 47 years. He was a member of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church where he was a former member of the Vestry and a US Army Veteran. He attended The Academy of Richmond County, Augusta College, The University of Georgia and Aiken Technical College. Jack was retired from the State of South Carolina as an Edgefield County Building Official, worked as a Superintendent of Construction, a licensed Building Contractor, a licensed Home Inspector and was a former Real Estate Agent. He was a certified Building Official and Fire Marshall, a member of the Board of Directors of Central Inspections and SC Code Compliance and a member of the Building Officials Association of South Carolina. Jack loved boating and fishing at Clark Hill Lake, the University of Georgia football and working in the yard. "He fought the good fight, holding on to his faith and a good conscience." Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Pamela Hayes Jenkins; three daughters and sons-in-law, Debbie and Rob Rothley, Peachtree City, GA, Cindy Owens, North Augusta and Jennifer and Matt Creswell, Huntersville, NC; four grandchildren, Cameron Hayes Rothley, Matthew Thomas Creswell, Jr., Reagan Elizabeth Creswell and Bonnie Pamela Owens; 2 great- grandchildren; two sisters and their husbands, Jane and Milner Lively, Augusta and Betty and Tommy Green, Carrollton, GA. Honorary Pallbearers will be Pat Timmerman, Charles Goodwin, Oliver Owens, Roger Lowe, Milner Lively, Tommy Green, Bill Benjamin, Matt Creswell and Rob Rothley. The family will receive friends at the funeral home this Thursday evening from 6 to 8. Posey Funeral Directors of North Augusta in charge of arrangements (803-278-1181). Visit the registry online at www.poseyfuneralhome.com . Sign the guestbook at AugustaChronicle.com

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Ready to Party!

Military Ball. Golf Ball. Graduation Ball. Sock Hops. Sock Hops. Sock Hops.

We don't party the same way, but we still party! If you are not on the list, why not? (Bold indicates names recently added to the list; let me know if you have paid but are not listed here!)
Updated April 30: The reservations have been closed. These folks along with spouses, friends and significant others are gonna PARTY!

I don't know about you, but I'm haven't changed a bit so I'm going to wear my mother's makeup. See you next week.

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Annette Adams Bush
Jack Adams
Donna Andrews Pittman
Brenda Atkins Fuller
Larry Wendell Beam
Jane Bass Moxley
Jack Bearden
Joe Bill Beazley
Carolyn Bell Jones
Alex "Bubber" Best
Joyce Blanchard Baker
Ronnie Bowers
Betty Brown Kastner
Jackie Brown Neal
Rae Brown Higgenbottom
Carolyn Cadle Folds
Ben Cheek
Lee Cheeseborough
Herbert Clark
Joann Cliett Dukes
Ron Colvin
Blythe Carroll Hampton
Marie Croft Neal
Michael Danish
Sherry Doris Mercer
Nancy Dunn Adams
Jayne Dye Snell
Barbara A. Ellis
Fred Fidler
Frederick Fuller
Mary Gahnz Usher
Alma Gardner Dewitt
Faye Gardner Harris
Gilroy Garner
Eddie Glover Tanner
Helen Gnann Byars
Kittie Graham Taylor
Tim Hegler
Charles Henry
Nancy Huff Berzins
Joy Hughes Mallard
Judy Hunnicutt Johnson
David Hurst
Elizabeth James Roye
Ruthie Jarrett Fitzgerald
Charles Johnson
Janice Johnson Dixon
Shirley Johnson
Maria Kellett Couch
Judy Kent Huff
Janice Keel Helton
Yvonne King Langley
Robert Koontz
Hamilton Kuhlke
Carol Lamb Thurman
Fred Lamback
Dorothy Lanier Cravey
Susan Leard Wright
Speir Lehmann Mary
Caroline LeRoy Ayers
Judy Little Muphy
Betty Love
Wade Mallard
Bill Marsh
Pete May
Minta McDiarmid Nixon
Pete McDonald
Jimmy Melton
Tom Mercer
Carolee Metcalfe Wende
Claude Miller
Grace Mitchell Hayles
LaVerne Montgomery Young
Bob Mulcay
Alvia "Butch" Murdock
Cobbs Nixon
John Overstreet
Drew (Dip) Page
Linda Paschal Cannady
Carol Patterson Wesse
Don Patterson
Becky Paulos Girten
Jimmy Paulos
James R. Perkins
Joan Pilcher King
Dennis Primrose
Donovan Pugh
Mae Pulliam Williams
Harry Pund
Forte Rabb
Betty Reed Keenan
Madeline Register Bandy
Elizabeth Reid Lundquist
Carolyn Remley Burns
Raymond Richards
Donny Ross
Carol Ann Sandiford
Arnold Scharnitsky
Randall Scott
Robert "Bob" Smith
Joyce Sherrod Wilson
Patricia Sox Snyr
Frank Stafford
Emily Stevens Baumann
James Strong
Judy Stubbs Terry
Maxie Terry
David Thomas
Vernon Tice
Mary Todd Pyott
Ruby Turlington Preuss
Harry Vaiden
Lydia Wammock Ramsey
Bill Ward
Elaine Watkins Skeel
Chuck Wende
James Westbury
Sandra Whitaker Woytcke
William Wilkes
Douglas Woo
Marvin Wren
Merle Wright Dansby
Anne Yearty Gojda

Request for names of girls in picture: Top Ten Candidates for Honorary Cadet Colonel, Military Ball. The picture was taken from the annual. Two of the girls are not identified. Do you know who they are? Top Center is Rae Brown*
L to R: Martha Tallman, ??, ??, Lydia Wammock*, Faye Bussey, Nancy McElderry, Sheila Seago, Helen Gnann*, Jayne Dye*. *Will be attending reunion.

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Another Class Member Has Died

An email this morning began to spread the word that Mary Comeria Whittle (Sikes)has died. Carol Lamb Thurman had received word in Kansas from Merle Wright Dansby in South Carolina. Later emails from both Don Starnes and Caroline Leroy Ayers wanted class members to know of her passing. A morning of concern, memories, friendships. It seems we were together just yesterday. It does not feel like fifty years.

Carol wrote: I met Comeria in the eighth grade at Tubman, and we were friends from then on. She and I roomed together at UGA. I last talked with her in October before the decade reunion. I hope Comeria can be remembered along with our other classmates who have passed. . . .

Caroline's note had this message: Comeria and I met when we were in junior high and both volunteered at the downtown branch of the Augusta Library. Since she went to Tubman and I went to Langford and we went to different grammar schools, I may never have known her otherwise. She was a good friend and blessing to all who knew her. I haven't seen her in years, but I will always remember her as a thoughtful and caring person. I'm sure she will be greatly missed by family and friends.

Under her picture in the annual was this quote, "'Tis said, her presence would make an undertakers' conference entertaining," so I particularly loved that she was still "known for the witty and inspirational handwritten notes . . . ." Oh, the smiles she has left.

(Mary) Comeria's obituary is below, but

Mary Comeria Sikes (1941 - 2009)

Mary Comeria Sikes, 67, passed away at her home Sunday, April 19, 2009, as a result of kidney failure.
Funeral: 10 a.m. Thursday in Laurel Land Memorial Chapel. Interment: Laurel Land Memorial Park of Fort Worth. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Mary was born in Augusta, Ga., on Dec. 27, 1941, to Benjamin Howard and Annie Lee Whittle. After graduating from the University of Georgia, she taught school in Augusta and Smyrna, Ga. She married her high school sweetheart, Lee, on Aug. 8, 1964, in Augusta. After living in several locations in the country, they settled in Fort Worth in 1982. She worked at the Fort Worth Public Library from 1984 to 1990. Mary was a member of Hillside Memorial Christian Church and was active in the Christian Women's Fellowship. Mary was known for the witty and inspirational handwritten notes she sent to the shut-ins as well as to the church members serving in the military overseas.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her older brother, Dr. Michael Howard Whittle of Moultrie, Ga.
Survivors: Husband of 44 years, Lee Sikes; children, Leigh Ann Morrison, Benjamin Sikes and wife, Brooke, and Andrea Robia and husband, Michael; grandchildren, Erika Wikoff, Olivia Sikes, William Robia and Matthew Robia; sister, Linda Johnson and husband, Gen. H.T. Johnson; and sisters-in-law, Janet M. Whittle and Beverly S. Fester.

Published in Star-Telegram on 4/21/2009

There is a link to the obituary here where you may leave a message to the family.

Have you missed me? It's Earth Angel

Announcement: "The Blogger has been away from her posts while she has finished the Reunion Memory book." True. But I have been thinking about the 59 Musketeers as I have edited your bios and cropped photos and double checked your information. The Memory Book is different from those we have had in the past. It has been my privilege to create this special edition. More about it later -- a few sneak peeks. Maybe. heh heh.

Meanwhile, enjoy our Song #9. Earth Angel by the Penquins. It's a newer version and they're closer to our ages.




If the video doesn't come in, try this link

Here's an interesting raw recording of Elvis singing Earth Angel in Germany. Not the best recording of Earth Angel (or from Elvis) but the photos are interesting ones of Elvis's Army years.

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