Post Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and has recovered from all the over eating. Our family traveled to Tupelo on Wednesday and spent Thanksgiving Day, as has been the case for the past fifteen or twenty years, in Pontotoc at the home of Paul and Laney Sims.

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope that all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving tomorrow, and for those traveling, please be careful

Jo Nell Stanford

My mother mentioned several times that we had a cousin at First Baptist in Plantersville; only today have I discovered that the cousin was Jo Nell who died this week. Sympathy to her family. Jo Nell's mother and my mother were first cousins.

Ruby Morris Webb

My cousin, Ruby Morris Webb, died November 10. Ruby had lived for many years in Saltillo, but was born in Auburn and grew up in the same neighborhood as my mother where she and her sister and my mother were close friends. Years later my mother married their first cousin, my father. Ruby graduated from Plantersville High School in 1934.

Ruby’s father, James Hillard Morris, was the half brother of my grandmother, Sarchie Morris Kelly. My grandmother’s mother died a short time after my grandmother’s birth and my great-grandfather, George Morris, married Lou Blythe and moved his family from near Smithville in Monroe County to Richmond.

James Hillard died young leaving a wife and three children, Ruby, Dorothy who married Gordie Lee Ford, and Truman who also died young leaving a wife and two boys.

Carole and I would like to express sympathy to Dorothy and to the all of Ruby’s family.

Food Drive

For those of you who live in Plantersville please note that the youth council will be going house to house on Saturday, November 13, dropping off bags and fliers for the food drive. They will return on the 20th to collect the bags and/or donations.

This year's Community Thanksgiving service will be at the New Zion Church on November 21.

Halloween Party

My kid's neighbor, Valerie, always hosts a wonderful Halloween party, and the one Saturday night may have been her best yet. These aren't all the children present.

Children present ranged from four weeks to fourteen. The parents had a good time as well.