Congratulations to Lucy Young, her name was drawn on WJLE birthday club last Wednesday for a free dinner at Kilgore’s Restaurant.
Michael Lane Keith of Murfreesboro passed away last Friday. Funeral services were held at Jennings and Ayers Funeral Home on the following Tuesday. His parents are Magalene Keith and the late W.S. Keith of Murfreesboro, former DeKalb County natives.
Dinner guests of Sue Arnold for Easter were Tim and Ronda Young. Visitors earlier were Dora Lawson, Helen Cantrell and Barbara Vanatta.
Mary Jane, Billy Hooper and Sue Cook were guests of Johnnie Ruth Hunt on Sunday. They spent the afternoon with her.
Little Cooper Stanfield was a patient in Cookeville Hospital with pneumonia. He is now back home and feeling better.
Rebecca Ervin had her children, grandchildren and their families with her for Easter dinner.
Congratulations to Donna Mathis and Keith Herbert; they were married in Elizabeth Chapel Church on the evening of March 30 by Bill Robertson in the presence of friends and family.
Visitors of Barbara Self were Carl and Frances McBride and Mary McKenzie.
Visitors of Jorden, Nicole and Christian Cripps were Faye Adkins, Troy,  Brittney and Aryson Linn. They spent Easter Sunday together with a good lunch at noon.
I got a nice call Sunday from my friend Werdna Moss in Dixon.She is a precious friend that is always doing things to cheer people up.
LuAutry Malone had 30 guests for Easter dinner. They all went to sunrise service at Memorial Baptist Church and breakfast earlier. Visiting her earlier in the week were Wanda Tramel and Ellie Vaughn, spending three nights and Joyce Wright and Madeline Weems spent one night.
There were several from this community that attended Alfred Nixon’s funeral Saturday at Hunters Funeral Home in Watertown. He was buried in Mt. Holly Cemetery near Smithville.
Belated birthday wishes to Loretta Brown. She celebrated on March 30. I hope she has many more.
Visitors of Betty Wilson were Douglas Ervin, Rebecca Ervin, Faye Adkins, Kim Violet, Ryder and Cooper Stanfield and JoAnn Pittman.
During one of his recent visits, my son, Ralph, and I talked about some things when he was about 10-years-old. We had just bought this farm from Mrs. Florence Taylor.
Ralph became friends with children in the neighborhood: Eugene, Brenda and Linda Chapman along with Garri, Phil and Bill George who visited their grandparents, Aubrey and Mattie George. At that time Ralph was already friends with Alfred and Nancy Ferrell and also Jimmy and Clovis Arnold.
Then later Ralph became friends with Morris Pittman, Eddie Turner and Junior Hibdon. Since we did not have a television, Ralph would visit with Morris to watch their favorites programs such as Popeye the Sailor and The Three Stooges.
Ralph told me about one day when he, Morris, Clovis and Garri went skinny-dipping in one of Aubrey’s ponds back in one of the hollows. They spotted a swimming partner that was not welcome. It was a snake. I can only imagine what happened next. The boys got out of that pond as quick as lightning.
Then there was a day that they went swimming in a pond that was covered with what I call “green slime.” The boys would dive in head first and swim paying no attention to the slime.
I wonder if young boys today have as much fun as our neighborhood boys did back in the 1950s and 1960s.