Graduates from Miss Worden's room at Hodge Oak in 1954 (enlarge)
Back row: Ann Robinson, Mary Kay Rush, Linda Anable, Kathy Rogers,
Norma Gayle Emfinger, Patsy Graham, Sharon Sledge, Mike Herrington,
Billy Joe Beggs, Thomas Chrestman, Sidney Birdett.
Front row: Glenda Lee, Karen Killingsworth, Voncille Wells,
Marinell Shockey, Sandra Cooper, Marilyn Warden, Robert Earl Wesley,
Walter Blackwell, Robert Simmons.
Fifth & sixth graders in Miss Worden's room at Hodges (enlarge)
Back row: Linda Drennan, Norma Gayle Emfinger, Linda Anable, Patsy
Graham;, Sharon Sledge, Sue Cantwell, Mary Kay Rush, and Miss
Frances Worden.
Second row: Barbara Vandergriff, Voncille Wells, Glenda Lee ,
Sandra Cooper, Karen Killingsworth, Ann Robinson, Marinell
Shockey, Joyce Joyner, Phyllis Hale, Marcia Harris, & Joyce
Ann Spindle.
Front row: Mike Herrington, Audie Beck, Tommy Robinson, Edward
Mendez, Tim Covington, Richard Wilhelm, David Webb, John Perkins,
Billy Joe Johnson, Dean Richey, Robert Simmons, Walter Blackwell,
Sidney Birdett, Thomas Chrestman, Alex Eakin, & Robert Earl Wesley.
Fifth & sixth graders Christmas party at Hodges in 1952 (enlarge)
Third row: Dawn Loper, x, x, x, x, x, Norma Gayle Emfinger,
Patsy Graham, x.
Second row: Billy Jack Pockrus, x, x, x, Tommy Warford, x, x,
x, x, Mary Kay Rush, x, Karen Killingsworth.
First row: Dan Dixon, Robert Earl Wesley, Robert Simmons, Mike
Herrington, Billy Joe Beggs, X, two little girls, Walter Blackwell,
one little girl, Sandra Cooper, Marinell Shockey, Marilyn Warden,
little girl.
Sixth grade at Hodges in Rose Deffebach's room (enlarge)
Third row (L-R): Rozelle Hatton, Sharon Warren, Marylin Warden,
Cleota Huckaby, Don House, Donnie Chesnut, Mickey Craig, Jimmy
Needham, Ray Dillard, ?, Dalton Mann, Freddie Stroud, & Billy
Patton. Rose Deffebach (Teacher)
Second row (L-R, girls): Ricardo Martinez, Betty Koerner,
Mattie Marsh, Sandra Wheat, Frances Veale, Kathy Rogers, Norma
Gayle Emfinger, Barbara Craig, Sally Mendez, Jimmie Stroud, Doris
White, Peggy Collette, Catherine Grissom, & Ruby Edwards.
Front row (L-R, boys): Mike Fisher, Johnny Pirkle, Charles
Shugart, Bill Griffin, Lonnie Pennington, Joe Camacho, ?, Bobby
Fron, Arthur Jiminez, Fidencio "Andretti" Andrade, & George Koeing.
Fourth & fifth grade class at Hodges Oak in 1951 (enlarge)
Third row (L-R,girls): Annabeth Deffebach, Addie Varner,
Dorothy Jacoby, Mollie Mitchell, Sonja Stagner, Florence Stroud,
Louise Jacobs, Norma Gayle Emfinger, Sharon Sledge, & Kathy Rogers.
Second row (L-R,girls): Bobby Sue Estes, Dawn Loper, Karen
Killingsworth, Leah Lenannon, Linda Drennan, Mary Kay Rush, Frances
Cogburn, Norma Mace, Marinell Shockey, Milinda Dean, Loy Dean Butler,
Sandra Cooper, & Patsy Graham.
Front row (L-R,boys): Wayne Anderson, Lee King, James Simmons,
Tommy Warford, John Tom Tibbles, Jack Rawls, Dan Dixon, Robert Earl
Wesley, Walter Lee Blackwell, & John Pirkle.
First Grade in Miss Lemley's room at Hodges in 1947 (enlarge)
Fourth row (L-R): Norma Gayle Emfinger, Ruby Edwards,
Earnest Stephens, Earl Fonville, Ophelia, Mary, & Miss Lemley
(Teacher).
Third row (L-R): Bobby Fron, Johnny Pirkle, George
Koenig, James McGee, Ricardo Matiniez, & Joe Camacho.
Second row (L-R): Walter Lee Blackwell, Robert
Simmons, Douglas Brown, Voncille Wells, Freddy Graves,
Linda Drennan, & ?.
Front row (L-R): Joan Dennis, Marinell Shockey, ?,
Marilyn Warden, ?, ?, & Kay Kemp.
First grade at Hodges in 1947
Picture courtesy of Bobby Fron
Third Grade in Mrs. Daniel's room at Hodges in 1951
The group of boys are (back) Jimmy Needham, Sidney Birdett(?),
Mike Herrington, and Billy Jack Pockrus (?) and (front) Bobby
Fron, Douglas Brown, Mickey Craig, Dalton Mann, Robert Simmons,
and Johnny Ferrell.
Third Grade in Mrs. Daniel's room at Hodges in 1951
Front is Sherra Warren, unknown? Doris White, Marilyn Warden, Billy
Patton. Row 2 is Barbara Craig, Sandra Cooper (?), first name Wheat
(?), barely visible head, Ricardo Martinez, unknown? Betty Koerner.
Row 3 is someone in dark profile, Joe Camacho, Walter Blackwell,
Sidney Birdett (?). Seated on merry-go-round are Robert Simmons
(?), Arthur Jimenez, Dalton Mann, Jimmy Needham, unknown? Johnny
Ferrell, unknown? Robert Earl Wesley. On handle bars of merry-go-
round are unknown? Norma Gayle Emfinger, Kathy Rogers (with Mike
Herrington under her chin), Sally Mendez, unknown? Billy Jack
Pockrus (?), Ruby Edwards, and Donnie Chesnut.
Third Grade in Mrs. Daniel's room at Hodges in 1951
The boys are Arthur Jimenez, Walter Blackwell, and Donnie Chesnut.
The two girls are Barbara Craig and Norma Gayle Emfinger, who had
been given dolls of the Winkle twins, Wendy and Billy.