Clinton High School - Tornado Yearbook (Clinton, OK)

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1951-BIOGRAPHICAL UPDATES--2001 and choir. I volunteer as a tutor at the elementary school and also volunteer at our hospital. In 1995, my beloved husband of 45 years died after years of declining health. Life without him has been a diliicult adjustment but my kids are strong people and very supportive. I have turned the farm over to my yotmgest son and have moved to town so please note my current address. I look forward to seeing you in 2001. If the Lord be willing and the creek don 't rise. Winnie Mae fBrowningj Winnett Deceased 1951 Winnie Mae Browning, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H E. Browning, 444 South Seventeenth has attended Clinton schools for her entire education. While in High school, her favorite subjects have been typing and shorthand and Winnie Mae wants to continue study of this type in a business college after graduation. Her ambition is to become a stenographer. 1985 Winnie Mae Browning Winnett, 52, died in August, 1985 in St. Louis, Missouri. After she had graduated from Clinton High School in 1951. she worked for Charles Oliver in the movie theater. In 1954 she met and married David M. Winnett of Colbert, Oklahoma. David was a supervisor with Westem Electric Company. Following David's two-year stint in the Army that took them to Georgia and Illinois, the couple lived in Southwest Oklahoma City until a promotion in 1969 took them to Ellisville, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Winnie Mae had worked in the Kenny Skaggs Tag Agency while in Oklahoma City and in the Dental Clinic of Dr. Andrew G. Mitchell in Ellisville. Winnie Mae and David had two boys, Michael David, 45, of Wildwood, MO, and Mark Allen, 43, of Marion, OH. Both are graduates of the University of Missouri-Rolla and both have successful careers. There are tive grandchildren, three boys and two girls. Her family has expressed sincere best wishes for all Winnie Mae's classmates at the fiftieth anniversary celebration. A -ES 5 THE RED ORNA boEs DISTRICT CHA MPS 35 TIMES IN THE LAST 50 YEARS!

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1951-BIOGRAPHICAL UPDATES--2001 and Austin Texas. Vwiile in the Army I lived in Germany. I am retired. really retired, in Hugo Oklahoma where I fish and hunt any thing I want and anytime I want which is pretty often. it - Q x X Betta fBowesj Stone 1215 Hayes Clinton. OK 73601 1951 Betta .lane is the daughter ofMr. and Mrs. Dean Bowes, 1215 Hayes. She is a member ofFHA and has participated in glee club-for-four years. Betty fBrehmJ Stephenson 138 Dorsey Place Henderson. NC 27536 1951 lhe daughter ry' Mr. and Mrs. George Brehm, Betty has been a member of the glee club for three years. An active FHA member. she attended the national meeting ofthat organization in Kansas C 'ily Betty has also modeled for John A. Brown in an F114 style show two years ago. 2001 Can't believe it has been 50 years since we graduated and I married the skinny sailor from North Carolina with a deep southem drawl. Steve stayed in the Navy until 1956, during which time we lived in San Diego, Ca. twice and Memphis Tenn. Alter he got his discharge, we moved to Melbourne, Fla. where he was involved in the space program at Cape Canaveral Chow Cape Kemiedyj. I did not pursue a career other than being a wife and mother until my youngest child started kindergarten. I then took a Substitute Teaching course at the local community college and became a substitute teacher until we moved to N.C. in 1971. We have 4 children, Marcia, Michael, Robert, and John. We have tive grandchildren and another due in October 120001. They range in ages from 2 months to 25 years. In 1971. Steve semi retired from the space industry and we moved back to his home land. We bought 26 acres of wooded land Hom his brother and built a home in the country. He was a building contractor and a rural mail carrier. Alter we moved back to N. C.. I took some refresher courses at the college in business. All the typing and bookkeeping that little Mrs. Oster had tried to teach me had kinda escaped my memory. I got a job at one of the Jr. High Schools as a Secretary-bookkccper and remained in the school system as a state employee until 1994 and then retired. I had always enjoyed sewing. reading and walking so have taken up quilting. water aerobics at the YMCA and am active in my church

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1951-BIOGRAPHICAL UPDATES--2001 La Vona fBuffingj Meget 432 south 24th Clinton, OK 73601 Q580J 323-1779 1951 Sometime this month Miss Lavona Buffing will be married to Troy Meget, a member of the air force stationed at Shepherd Field in Wichita Falls . With commerce as her favorite subject, LaVona has attended Clinton schools for jour years coming here j?'om Bessie where she now makes her home. 2001 Alter we graduated I married Roy Meget a few days later on May 26, 1951. We moved to Wichita Falls, Texas where Roy was stationed in the Air Force. While in Wichita Falls, I worked at Sears. Alter 2 years, Roy was shipped to Kedena AF Base, Okinawa. During his tour in Okinawa, I lived with my parents at Bessie. Our lirst son was born on 9-28-53. We lived in Bessie 1 year alter the overseas tour was over and then moved to Clinton. Our second son was born 3-2-60. I still live in Clinton where I retired 8- 4-98 alter 42 years as a secretary at the First Baptist Church I have 5 grandchildren, Nathan 23,Jared 20, Jase 13, Hunter, and Sydney 3. Sydney is named alter me Sydney Ileen. I still live here in Clinton and enjoy doing things with my grandchildren Roberta fBurnsJ Wermy 134 Rawlings Drive Clinton, OK 73601 C5805 323-5723 1951 Commercial work has been selected as Roberta Burns future. As yet, she has is undecided on which college to attend Roberta is a member of the band orchestra, and FHA, and lists typing and shorthand as favorite subjects. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Burns of route two, Clinton. 2001 Alter graduation I attended SWOSU- Weatherford then transferred to OSU- Stillwater, OK. I then went to work for the Federal government for 34 and Z years. I retired in 1990 but returned to work in 2000, and I am still employed in my profession in health records. I married a boy from Cache, Oklahoma and I am still married to the same man so I also work at my second job as a housewife. My husband, Glenn Wermy, who also retired ltom the Federal govemment, and I have four children: a son, Edward who is still employed with the Federal govemment in Oregon, our oldest daughter, Birdie Kay George, with FDIC in Dallas Texas, another daughter, Agnes Germeo, a housewife, and another son, Kristopher, 20 years old and presently a junior at SWOSU. We have six grandchildren, three girls and three boys.