Thursday, May 27, 2010Correspondents

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By Vicki Williams

Hillville - Eurekaton News

Bethel - Belle Eagle News

By Betty Scott

By Shirley Tucker, Activity Director

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By Sylessie Ross

Union News

By Suzie Tipton

Suzie’s Scene

“Admitting we need help from God is a sign of strength.” This is our Thought for the Week as published in the Up-per Room Devotional by Nancy Schemahorn of Missouri. Have you ever attempted to put some-thing together without following the directions? Why do we do this? Pride?

Sometimes we try to do something on our own without following God’s directions given in the Bible. God will for-give the arrogance which we sometimes have and will help us to seek His guidance and wisdom freely. All we have to do is ask.

As usual the rain came along with The Hay-wood County Relay For Life, which was held Fri-day, May 14. The Relay was cut short due to ap-proaching bad weather. I know there were a lot of disappointed people but keeping people safe was the number one priority.

Please keep Tiffany Goodman and her fam-ily in your thoughts and prayers in the loss of Mr. Herman “Buddy” Mat-lock. Mr. Matlock was called home Saturday, May 15 after a lengthy illness.

Mt. Pleasant’s Home-coming was held Sun-day, May 16. There was a great turnout for this event as well as a great feast. People traveled both near and far to at-tend this annual event. Ronald Bruce was the guest speaker and might I add did a wonderful job. The Mt. Pleasant choir, Mrs. Alice McCla-nahan and Wilson Pow-ell brought the special music. Mrs. Alice played the marimba which is al-ways a very special treat during Homecoming.

On the way home from church, I stopped by and visited in the home of Justin and Kim Hill who have recently purchased a home in the Eurekaton community. I enjoyed visiting with them and also with Keith and Sandy Campbell, Scott Campbell, Roger and Tonya Kirkland and Eugene and Billie Kirk-land who were also visit-ing with the Hill’s.

Congratulations to all of Haywood High Class of 2010 graduates, to the Haywood Jr. High grad-uates and to all of the Kindergarten graduates. I am not going to attempt to list all of the gradu-ates of the community because I know I would

forget someone. Happy Belated Birth-

day wishes to Clint Hol-mes who celebrated his May 17. Other birthday wishes this week are for Donnie Goodman, Chris-tine Glover, Melva Bag-gett, Michelle Morris, Jimmy Leath, Christian Leath, Michael Thoma-son and Adam Phillips.

Prayer requests this week include Enid Pow-ell, Shirley Morgan, Stephanie Whittiemore, Darlene Rossen, Earline Benard, Peggy Lewis, Lillie Goodman, Carol Wilson, Bro. Claudie Hammers, James Glover, Leah Scallions, Jeremiah Bagley, Frances Elrod, Kirk Bouillion, Martha Williams, Howard & Naomi Benard, Mary Martin, Shirley Morgan, Geneva Littlejohn, Linda Leath, Robert Burns, Car-ol and Jordan Bruce, the Nation, the Military and our Community.

Sympathy to the fami-lies of Mrs. Sadie Davis, Mrs. Gayle Doney, Mr. Elvin Robinson, Mrs. Marie Andrews and Mrs. Jo Horner in the loss of their loved ones.

If you have news to share, please call me at 772-1885 after 5PM.

Until next week-God Bless.

What a week - what a week. I got back from Houston just in time to go to Union’s gradua-tion for my granddaugh-ter and then to get ready for her big party at my house. Union is the best University in the country as far as I’m concerned. It better be, I have three granddaughters going there

As usual, while I was gone Sugar Creek just kept going. Beside those three new ladies who moved in while I was gone, Jottye Newman, Mary Ann Halbrook, Lyde Davis Hamilton, we now want to welcome Alystine Hare and Kath-erine Hooper. We are so excited to have all these sweet new ladies – they just fi t right in with the fantastic group we al-ready have.

Diane Hooper and

Nancy Goodwin took Ella Mae Mathis, Grace Mulligan, Mary Ann Hal-brook and Alystine Hare to the McKinnie Pals fi sh dinner at the Methodist Church this past week.

Nancy also took Katie McAdams out for a ride and ice cream one eve-ning. Barbara McGary, Pauline Welch, Martha Jane Williams, Frances Blalock, Jottye Newman, Billie Fletcher, Arline Boisvert, Katie McAd-ams, Marie Aulridge and Floy Patton played bingo with Nancy Good-win. Nan Darnaby and her daughter came to play with Nan’s mother, Arline. Nancy said the sitters really helped and they had lots of great prizes and a good time.

Martha Jane Williams had her daughter, Phyllis, here from Mobile along with two great, great

grandsons. Needless to say she loved that.

Thank you to Mrs. Marvin Reed who brought the residents lots of good magazines this past week. They’ll have some good reading now.

Sue MacPhail had lunch with Mary Ann Halbrook Monday. She picked a good day – we had a little steak, baked potato, salad and coca cola cake for dessert. Ev-erything was delicious as usual and we all enjoyed having Sue join us.

Early voting is about to start so won’t be long now before we have a new city mayor. The can-didates will all do good to remember that old saying “People will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but they’ll never forget HOW YOU MADE THEM FEEL.”

Anticipate your bat-tles; fi ght them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will al-ways have victory. R. A. Torrey

Russell and Kay Talia-ferro welcomed their son, Bill, who came from his US State De-partment duty station at Bratislava, Slovakia, last weekend for a few days visit. His visit also prompted visits from daughter, Pam, from Wisconsin and from son, Matt, of Johnson City, TN.

Elizabeth Kendrick graduated from the Uni-versity of Tennessee at Martin May 15 and she received her BS in engi-neering with a concentra-tion in mechanical engi-neering. Attending were Jay, Libby and Laura Kendrick, Bob, Carolyn and Jo Kendrick, Denise Guthrie, Bettye and Ken-neth Sargent. Laura Ken-drick graduated May 16 from Jackson Christian High School and plans to attend UTM in the fall. Attending her gradua-tion exercises were Jay, Libby and Elizabeth Kendrick, Bob, Carolyn and Jo Kendrick, Denise Guthrie, Bettye and Ken-neth Sargent, Anna Davis and Rebecca Green, Ruth and Katie Lewis, Tracy

and Jason Hale, Ginger Hathcock, Terry and Dana Dillon and family and Molly Cole and Mi-chael and Caroline Willie from Jackson.

The Jackson Christian School softball team is in Murfreesboro this week for the state tournament for the fi rst time in the school’s softball history with Laura Kendrick as their right fi elder. We wish them good luck!

Also graduating from JCS was Blair Simpson, daughter of Chad and Leah Simpson of Browns-ville. Other family and friends who attended the graduation were Sue and Herman Wicker, Sandra and Tommy Lane, Danny and Brenda Simpson, Dare Simpson and Casey Bonowitz, Gary and Lin-da Wicker, Dustin and Amanda and Levin Lane, Mary Ruth Britt and An-drea Smith.

Ann Sanford Hooper Hawks and Mark French were married in Mem-phis Saturday, May 22. Ann is the daughter of Martha and Tommy Hooper. She and Mark live in Memphis.

Margie and Steve Stoots hosted an engage-ment party in honor of Ashley Long and Drew Clagg Saturday night. The party was co-host-ed by Steve and Cindy Smith, PJ and Sandra An-gotti, Toni and Wally Eu-banks, Margo and Brian Juengling, Marshall and Stephanie Stoots and Marty Stoots. Ashley’s parents, Ricky and Vicky Long, and her two sisters were special guests. It was also Marshall Stoots’ 25th birthday.

Rachel Cook Free-man and her baby, Katie, were in town for a visit

with Kathy and David Cook over the weekend.

Allen and Patsy King had a family get-together at their home after Hay-wood Jr. High Gradu-ation Thursday night. Three of their grand-children, Emily Gooch King, Robert Allen King and Patsy Jameson, and also their cousin, Walker Thornton, all graduated.

Rachel and Wade Rob-erts, children of Shannon and Will Roberts from Knoxville, visited this week with their grand-parents, Sharon and Gary Pettigrew of Brownsville and Pat and Frank Keller of Henning.

We were saddened last week to learn that Gail Rice Doney had passed away. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Val Rice of Brownsville.

Gail lived with her son, Harlen Crossen, Jr. in Pall Mall, TN. He and his family all came to Brownsville for the graveside services. Also attending from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Guy Crossen of Florida, parents of Kathy Baggett of Brownsville, Gail’s sister, Paula Backsheider and her husband, Nicho-las, from Auburn, AL and Paula’s children from Houston, TX. Paula and Gail were nieces of the late Miss Pauline Currie, whom many will remem-ber.

Please keep John Gor-man and Maxine English and their families in your prayers.

Our mystery girl’s identity has not been guessed. The second clue is that she has three chil-dren. To guess, call 772-1192. Send your news to suebabyt@aol.com.

Memorial Day will be celebrated on May 31, but how many of us re-ally think about the rea-son for that day? We take our freedom for granted, never realizing the price that was paid for free-dom. I hope everyone en-joys their long weekend. A bridal shower honor-ing Elizabeth Lovell and Kevin Lovelace was given last Saturday in the home of Patsy Climer. Family and friends wished this couple best wishes on their upcoming wedding on June 26. Parents of the bride are Danny and Don-na Lovell.

Jackson Christian School’s Softball team went to State Competi-

tion in Murfreesboro this week. It is the fi rst time in the school history that JCS has progressed this far in the softball compe-tition. Laura Kendrick is a player for this team and is the daughter of Jay and Libby Kendrick. Congrat-ulations, Laura! Rebecca Grace Green celebrated her birthday with family and friends last Sunday af-ternoon. She had a “trop-ical” theme with those at-tending wearing tropical attire. Emily Herron deco-rated her cake with palm trees, sand and fl owers. She is the daughter of Lee Anna Parker Davis. Mike and Peggy Parker drove up from Ripley, MS for the celebration.

I am happy to report that Phillip Sullivan re-turned to work a few weeks ago and is do-ing fi ne. Phillip under-went brain surgery a few months ago and recovery was great.

Hummingbirds are swarming around my feeders and every morn-ing it is amazing to sit and watch them. It is getting harder and harder to keep the feeders full, but we need something to enjoy in our life.

A spider bit James Har-old Haynes on the arm last week and he had to go to the doctor. All this rain will probably make bugs bad this summer. I heard the county has over a hundred roads that were damaged by the rains.

Kenneth Sargent went to the doctor last week because his leg was swol-len, but is doing fi ne now. Betty Scott had eye surgery and is also do-ing great. The left eye will be done on June 10.Thought for the week: Were you to break off with friends who sin, you would be friendless.

I must start by saying we had such a delight-ful time during morning worship this past Sun-day. Our Male Chorus truly blessed us in song as well as pastor Harden with the word! The day didn’t end there.

Willie and I wor-shiped with my daughter Marketta at their annual women’s day prayer pro-gram that evening at De-liverance Cathedral with Bishop Nathaniel Bond. They had a dynamic speaker from Memphis and I found out she is a former member of Bran-don Porter’s ministry. Our choir worshiped with New Hope on their choir day.

Bernadine Hill-Love had a surprise birthday party for her daughter Nikki, over the weekend. Plenty of food, family, and friends were all pres-ent to celebrate this occa-sion.

Janice and Lonell Rog-ers gave their daughter Danyell a graduation dinner over the weekend. Danyell recently gradu-ated from TSU.

My son Lambert re-turned to work this past Monday after several months of recovering from his accident last year while on duty. He can fi nally enjoy being a Lieutenant, which he was promoted to last year with the Memphis Police Dept.

We want to keep the Robinson family in prayer during the pass-ing of Elvis Robinson. He worked at the courthouse for many years and drove a school bus.

Sick and Shut-in: Mol-lie Walker, Emma Lue

“Goldie” Graves, Pen-sacola “Pinky” Barbee, Sammie Hines, Hubert Hines, Martha Bond, Shirley Rogers, Levada Nicholson Bond, Iola “Toot” Love, William C. Wilson, Rev. J.H. Fuller, Steve White, Joyce Pirtle, Willie Herman Robinson, Reverend J.V. Carney, Mack Shaw, Nannie Sue Perry, Pearl Gray,Charles Cole, and Katherine “Madea” Maclin.

Thought for the Week: “ Its yours for the Ask-ing” There are times when it seems that God deals with us on a need to know basis. Perhaps if we got too much too soon, we wouldn’t know what to do with it. If we got it too easily, we wouldn’t appreciate it properly as in too much, too soon. If we knew too much in ad-vance, we might engage in self-sabotaging activi-ties.

John records in his gospel that Jesus did many more things but they were not recorded in his book. Jesus told the disciples that if he told them everything, they would not be able to bear it. All Moses knew was that he was told to tell Pharaoh to let my people go. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives gen-erously to all without fi nding fault, and it will be given to him. (James 1:5) You get this wisdom by fi rst confessing your lack of it. You receive this wisdom by asking God for it. Then believe you’ll receive it. (James 1:6) So when you feel you are at a need to know moment, remember the wisdom of God. It’s yours for the asking. Scripture Of The Day: “If any of you lacks wisdom, ask God…” - James 1:5 (NIV)