Megargel High School - Mustang Yearbook (Megargel, TX)

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ALVA GERTRUDE HALE WORMINGTON Alva G Hale was born May 7 1910 in Red River County Texas near Clarksville Her parents were Jim H and L1ll1e Maude Tucker Hale They were farmers Alva first attended school in Red River County before her parents and family moved to Archer County about 1916 or 17 When they first came to Archer County Alva and the other children in her parents family attended school in Bitter Creek The rest of her grade and high school years she attended Megargel Schools After graduation from high school Alva went to Greenville Texas Methodist was at McCormack then she taught in Westover Megargel 13 W years in Iowa Park School 2 years m Graham Texas schools at East Ward Alva married Leonard L Wormington in 1941 After the war began Leonard Joined the U S Air Force and later on Alva joined the WAVES and served in Louisana and elsewhere After bemg discharged from the WAVES Alva went back to teaching school and retired in 1964 She then bought the family farm at Westover and tried her hand at farming She left the farm in 1985 and moved to Archer City, where she lives at the present time College, where she received her teacher's certificate. Alva's first teaching job ! ' 9

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EMMA HAMBY MCLEMORE I don t have many recollectlons or memorles of my early chlldhood I was born at Munday Texas I don t know how long we Cmy famllyl hved there We hved at Round Tlmber later for several years I suppose as my two younger ststers were born there I hved most of my l1fe ln and around Megargel I attended school there all my school years except one half term I went to school about a half of a term at the small one teacher school at Klckapoo north of Megargel Even though I enjoyed It there I was glad to get back to school 1n Megargel where we had a lot of good teachers I have a DICIUF6 of our hlgh school faculty I don t know how many of our teachers are stlll l1v1ng or where they l1ve I lost track of the students even after graduatron I saw Olaf Halle several tlmes as he was pastor of a church at Roartng Sprmgs I beheve I also saw Zelma Hayden a tlme or two when she came to Plamvtew Several years after I f1n1shed school I went to Dllby Texas where my sxster Jessle l1ved I hved and worked there unt1l I marrted m 1942 We then moved to Houston then to Raymonvxlle and moved mto town I went to work at F W Woolworth s where I worked unt1l the store closed 1n 1972 I worked there for seventeen years I later went to work for T G 8LY and worked there thlrteen years untll It closed ln 1986 Smce then I have been retlred whlch for me IS harder than workmg any tlme I loved betng busy I probably would st1l1 be workmg lf the store hadn t closed I thmk Walmart caused several stores to go out of buslness I have one daughter who has spent most all her I1fe and school years m Pla1nv1ew She graduated from Pla1nv1ew H1gh School and went to Wayland College Th1s 1sn t a very colorful or lllterestlng hlstory of my hfe, but as I sa1d I dont remember too much of my early hfe I lmagme some of the other members of our 1929 class w1ll have more tnterestlng hlstorles All of my famlly and relat1ves are gone from Megargel now We have had two or three famlly reunlons there at Olney , . . . , . . ' 9 . . , We later came to Plainview and started farming. After we left the farm ' 1 , . . . . . . , , . . .