The 50's Memorial & Obits Page


We laughed with you, we cried with you
We spent our days growing up with you
Now and forever, we remember you!

To the classmates who have gone before us, we dedicate these pages to their memory...
They are gone, but not forgotten.

The Empty Chair

    We gather here, a class once more, To reminiscence, like years before, Upon the days and joys we knew, before our school-aged time was through, Yet, as we meet, with memories near, We think of those, always held dear, Our friends and classmates - passed away, To be with God, every school day. They sit at desks, resting on clouds, Surrounded by angelic crowds, where they shall be forevermore. The friends and schoolmates we adore, they will be with us in every prayer. Until the day, we join them there, within the walls of Heavens class, Where friendships formed shall always last. Until that hour, we join again. An empty chair, we will maintain, In honor of the life-long bond we forged with those now passed beyond. The friends with whom we learned lifes truth, Whose bonds lasted far from our youth, And shall remain forever near,
    When we gather - year after year.




          Class of 1950

          David Bourgeois - cancer
          John Flanagan - unknown - 10/10/24
          Milton Harvey - lung cancer
          Frank "Red" Harvey - unknown - 8/2011
          Carol Harris .... unknown - 2/2015
          Martha Jackson Lester - unknown -9/2018
          Stanton Troy Kelley - unknown - 3/2013
          Jane Langford McCauley - cancer - 9/1994
          Martha Jackson Lester -- unknown -9/2018
          Jake Perello - unknown
          June Rose Preshaw Persohn - unknown - 5/2014
          Rex Payne Taylor - unknown - 6/23/25

          '50 - Obituaries



          Class of 1951

          Lottie Carr Christopher - cancer
          Jo Ann Chriswell Cain - unknown - 3/2009
          Wiliam T. "Bill" Dudley - unknown - 3/2009
          Glen A. French - kidney failure - 8/2012
          Phillip Dale Harris - unknown
          Raymond Huff - kidney failure
          Mary Ann Jones - unknown - 10/2009
          Joy Ruth Laird Freeman - unknown - 10/2010
          William (Billy) Mauer - heart attack
          Arthur George McDonald . - unknown - 6/2020
          Bernard L. Mitchell - cancer - 8/2001
          Donald E Morgan - unknown - 11/2012
          Barbara Smith - cancer
          Bill Smith - unknown
          Joe Dan Taylor - unknown - 11/2013

          '51 - Obituaries



          Class of 1952

          Billy Biddle - unknown - 01/2019
          Joan Bryan - unknown
          Shirley Mae Cooper - unknown
          Don Covington .... unknown - 4 /2020
          Linda Rose Dickerson - cancer
          Robert Hearn - unknown
          Jerry Howell - unknown
          Melvin Huff - cancer
          Robert Johnson - unknown
          Thomas (Tommy) Jones - unknown - 4/2009
          Donald Gene Kerr - cancer - 2/2006
          Max Mulenix - unknown
          Marcell Pittman - unknown
          Eleanor Rothrock - unknown
          Calvin J. Sellers - unknown - 3/2011
          Jerry Spivey - unknown
          Richard Stapleton - complication from bypass surgery
          Jack Leon Summers - unknown - 1/2009
          Eugene Wells - unknown
          William Torres - unknown
          George Donald Kelley - unknown 11/2009
          Charles Kelly - unknown
          Robby Williams - unknown - 8/1997
          '52 - Obituaries



          Class of 1953

          Lee Wayne Anderson - unknown
          Barbara Cudd - cancer
          Billie Jo Carter - unknown
          Frankie Louise Compton Schexnayder - unknown - 12/2010
          Billy Dale - heart attack
          Paul Duke - heart attack
          Darwin Durham - heart attack
          Bobby Emmons - heart attack
          Edith Marie Erickson - car accident - 6/2000
          Leon Eubanks - cancer
          Dan Harris - heart attack
          Edward Earl Haston - stroke
          Milton Harvey - unknown - 2/2002
          Joyce LaCour Perricone - cancer - 3/1962
          Carolyn Ruth Legg Mauer - unknown - 2/2015
          Curtis Mangham - heart attack
          Elmer Ray Morgan - unknown
          Billy Muirhead - cancer - 7/1983
          David Nash - heart attack - 3/1990
          Donnis Neal - heart attack - 9/1975
          Patsy Jean Porter - cancer
          Ray Robbins - unknown
          Arlen St. Clair - accident
          Marvin Simmons - unkown
          Rodney Tarver - heart attack - 1977
          Dr. Clarence Bryce Thomas - unknown - 10/2007
          Huey Tribes - unknown - 9/1988
          W.R. Wills - cancer - 11/2007

          '53 - Obituaries



          Class of 1954

          Thomas Ballenger - fire at Mobile
          Jimmy Boyett - heart attack
          Joe Bower - brain tumor
          Earnestine Chaney - unknown
          Tommy Crow - cancer
          Jimmy Ezell - car accident
          Jerry Galloway - cancer
          Bonnie Hand - unknown
          Henry Earl Hebert - unknown
          Wesley E Jones - unknown - 10/2011
          Emmette Edward Jorden Sr. - unknown - 12/2012
          Donald Landry - heart attack
          John Earl Mires - cancer
          Mary Lou Morgan - tractor accident
          N.A. Moser - surgery
          Jo Ann O' Bannion - unknown
          Douglas Olson - diabetes
          Sylvia Roberts - unknown
          Rose Mary Rossi - unknown
          Charles Schmidt - unknown
          Ann LaVerne Sellers Perry - unknown - 6/2014
          Sophie Soffes - unknown
          La Verne Walker - unknown
          Bobby White - heart attack

          '54 - Obituaries



          Class of 1955

          Lee Alexander - unknown
          Donald E. Barnett Sr. - unknown - 3/2012
          James David Buchanan Sr. - unknown - 5/2007
          Vinson Calaway - heart attack
          James Clauder - unknown
          Ernestine Chaney - unknown
          Tommy Cobb - unknown
          John David (Johnny) Coston - unknown - 3/2011
          Shirleen Collins - unknown
          Dixie Doucette Rayburn - unknown
          Ardice Ener - unknown - 11/2017
          Jimmy Fogal - unknown
          Jack Frost - unknown
          Diane Garrett - unknown
          Barbara Heufelder Tomlinson - cancer - 6/2013
          Brenton Hughes - heart failure/cancer - 11/2015
          Harold Raymond (Ray) Johnston, Jr. - unknown - 2/2017
          Harry (Bobo) Kelly - unknown
          James Jackson - unknown - 3/2015
          Dalton Johnson - unknown
          Yvette Jones - unknown
          Leonard Lambright Jr. - unknown - 6/2011
          George (Sonny Boy) Lavergne - unknown
          Earl B. Landrum Jr. - heart attack
          Randell Lawrence - unknown
          Jimmy Mauer - unknown - 3/2008
          Dorothy Morgan - unknown
          Ernest Petit - unknown
          Edward Pope - unknown
          Simon Prince - unknown
          Rita Ramos Alford - cancer
          Trudy Roblow Duhon - cancer - 2008
          Jerome Summers - unknown - 5/2010
          Henry Verdine - unknown - 1995
          Ross Walker - unknown - 2/2016
          Sue Wallace - unknown
          Rachel Whitten Teller - unknown
          Thomas Willard - unknown - 8/2016
          Spanky Williams - unknown

          '55 - Obituaries



          Class of 1956

          Jim Allison - cancer
          James Donald Anderson - unknown - 3/2006
          Mozelle Bankston Roblow - cancer
          Nathan Bibb - unknown - 12/2016
          William Bloodworth - unknown
          Donald Gerald (Jerry) Boggan - cancer - 2/2003
          Bobby Boyette - unknown
          Gary Breaux - unknown
          Margaret Burns - unknown
          Shirley Sue Carter Royer - unknown
          Robert Clark - unknown
          Wayne Coker - unknown
          Donald Crysel - unknown
          Shirley DuBois - unknown
          Don Evans - unknown
          Lance Goins - unknown
          Bobby G. Haas - heart attack
          Rexford Claude Hoffpauir - heart attack
          Travis House - unknown
          Charles Johnson - unknown
          Gloria King - unknown
          Freddie Knight - unknown
          George Sonny Boy Lavergne - unknown
          Don Lee - unknown
          Dan Lucas - unknown
          Billie Faye McCallon Roberts - unknown - 2/1014
          Patricia McDougle - unknown
          Kenneth McMahon - unknown
          James O'Neal Metcalf - cancer - 10/2016
          Barbara Millner - unknown
          Ted Morgan - unknown
          Samuel Stephen Nuchia - unknown
          John O'Brien - unknown
          Martha Ruth Robinson - unknown
          Trudy Roblow Duhon - unknown
          Paur Sorrell - unknown
          Mildred Thurman - unknown

          '56 - Obituaries



          Class of 1957

          Rayburn Ainsworth - myasthenia Gravis - 8/2016
          Sarah Elizabeth Barclay - complications of cancer
          Charles K. Bickley - unknown
          Dr. Elliott Craig - unknown - 6/2012
          Frances Culver Linthicum - unknown - 4/2013
          Merleen Custer Gillespie Cowling - unknown
          Jack Alvin DeSpain, Jr. - unknown - 12/2004
          Alvin East - unknown
          Patsy Eisman - during childbirth
          William Farley - unknown
          Buck Gooch - unknown
          Earl Arthur Gray Jr. - liver failure
          Lorraine Grisham Heywood - Emphysema - 1/2008
          Troy Harrod - heart attack
          Ronnie Henderson - cancer
          Nancy Henderson Groat - unknown - 1/2021
          Barbara Hoffpauir - cancer
          Norma Jacks - unknown
          Lisa Sue Jordan - unknown
          Michael Rhea Jorden - unknown
          Frances Culver Linthicum - unknown - 4/2013
          Donald Madden - unknown - 6/2014
          Joe Mazzola - cancer
          Elizabeth Morgan - cancer
          Barbara Porter - unknown
          Thomas Provost - heart failure
          Marilyn Reynard - cancer
          Joe Sims - heart failure
          Richard Smith - unknown - 3/2013
          James Earl Smith - unknown - 10/2009
          Richard Smith - unknown - 3/2013
          Patricia Ray St. Clair Gordy - unknown - 3/2012
          Brain Sumrall - unknown
          Jerry Tant - Pneumonia/kidney and lung disease
          Helen Thornell Hoppess - Alzheimer's - 8/2012
          Mason Weaver - cancer

          '57 - Obituaries




          Class of 1958

          Michael Baker - unknown
          John Bankston - racing accident - 8/2001
          James Allen Barrum - pneumonia - 9/2011
          Pat Bertrand - cancer
          Billy Biddle -- unknown -- 1/2019
          Joseph Bloodsworth - heart attack
          Jerry Brown - cancer
          John G. Bruce - cancer
          Pat Butler - cancer
          Carl Clark - cancer
          Sidney N. Clubb - unknown - 10/1013
          Gail Dennis Mitchell - unknown - 6/2014
          Vernon Dugar - auto accident
          Walter Prentice Downs - unknown - 11/2012
          Lee Flores - heart attack
          Bill Hall - cancer
          Linda Harder Sabins - complications/surgery - 6/2009
          Henry Allen Jenny - unknown - 11/2014
          Sheila Johnson Warlick - cancer - 6/2004
          Richard Wayne Jones - complications/diabetes - 3/2008
          Howard Kemp - unknown
          Jerry Landrum - unknown
          Donia McLemore - cancer
          Carolyn Lewis Gresham - unknown - 10/2014
          Pat McLemore - heart attack
          Lewis H. McNeely - unknown - 11/17/21
          Thomas Morgan - auto accident
          Harold G. Morehead - heart failure - 9/1997
          Mary Ann Poore - cancer
          Patsy Priest - heart attack
          Robert Ray - unknown
          Harold Eugene Richardson - cancer - 6/2008
          Judy Reeves - unknown
          Michael Allen (Mike) Smith - unknown
          Kendall R. Stockholm PhD. - unknown - 3/30/24
          Pat Temple - cancer - 11/2006
          Joan Webb -- unknown - 8/2018
          Lelan Ray Whitaker - unknown - 2/2012
          Bonnie Wright - auto accident

          '58 - Obituaries



          Class of 1959

          Rosemary Allen Hardesty - cancer - 2006
          Norman Blake .... unknown - 10/2016
          Edward Brown - unknown - 4/19/15
          Rose Marie Bruce Jones - unknown - 02/2015
          Judy Cain - unknown
          Marvin Carr - plane crash
          Amanda Caudle - cancer
          Gearldine Choate - cancer
          Harvey Collier - heart failure
          Troy Coleman Sr. - unknown - 12/2012
          John Craig - unknown
          Rose Marie Bruce Jones - unknown - 2/2015
          Dale Eubanks - unknown
          Herschel Erwin - unknown
          Johnnie Flowers - unknown
          Joan Arline Fullerton Webb - unknown -8/2018
          Thomas Wayne French - unknown - 3/2014
          Jimmy Gilbert - cancer
          Joe Earl Haggard - cancer - 10/1982
          Stamps Hester - heart failure - 7/1970
          Michael Johnson - plane crash - 11/2008
          Gene Johnston - lung complications
          Bobby Jones - unknown
          Larry Lamar Lewis - unknown - 5/31/24
          Ken Luke - complications heart surgery
          Carl Mazzloa - leukemia
          Jack McCanne - cancer
          Walter Forest Nall - cancer - 12/2001
          Julia Ann (Judy) Plake McGraw - unknown
          Richard Gale "The Tube" Park - brain tumor
          Charles Seaman - cancer
          Jim Shortt - heart disease - 10/2008
          Judith Vieno -- natural causes - 11/2019
          JoAnn Spillers Walton - unknown
          Mary Anna White Redmon - thyroid cancer - 1990
          Jerry White - cancer
          Bill Wiggins - motorcycle accident - 3/1978
          Thomas Maxwell Willard - unknown - 8/2016

          '59 - Obituaries


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            NOTE: All the names listed are from other alumni, family and friends.
            Most names were taken from reunion hand books. Cause of death is not listed on some of them, because it was not given to me. Last week some one e-mailed me that I had someone listed that was alive and well. I am SO SORRY for any pain or suffering this may have caused. I have no true way of varifying this information. If you see or know any information on this page to be false.
            PLEASE let me know or if you know cause of death I will add that too.
            I did the Memorial page as a way to remember our lost alumni.
            Not to cause hurt or cause pain to any one.
            My deepest sympathy to all the families of our deceased alumni.
            Thank you, Beth