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Thursday, February 22, 2007

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Good Old Days 

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Thirty-eight students from the Leemaster School are pictured here. When it was a two-room schoolhouse, Rose Hale and Alta Hagy served as teachers. It was later made into a three-room school, where Alta Lindsay was the third grade teacher. The school is no longer standing. Pictured here, from left to right, are (front row) Rose Hale, teacher, Tom Anderson, Pauline Baldwin, Doug Worley, Margaret Ann Anderson, Oscar Childress, Irene Dales (Mays), Donald Stiltner, Jean Coleman; (row two) Robert Deel, Virginia Rose, Buddy Rose, Powell Coleman, Mary Ruth Callahan, Ron Deel; (row three) Kelsey Arms, Eugene Deel, Phyllis Brown, June Dales, Charles Callahan, Gladys Yates; (row four) Steven Worley, Gayle Childress, Elmer Church, Mina Belle Coffey, David Anderson, Janet Looney, Billy Coleman, Janice Baldwin, Richard Coleman; (row five) Leona Yates, Lee Deel, Hester Ann Hagy, Jerry Looney, Loretta Dales, Starret Dales, Junita Yates and Phyllis Lindsay. Tom Anderson, Ron Deel, Elmer Church, Jr., Powell Coleman and Billy Coleman are all deceased. Submitted by Phyllis Brown Hicks, Green Cove Springs, Fl.

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