Celina High School Class of 1977

11/05/2024

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11/05/2024

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11/04/2024

OH my goodness. How many of us are gone now? My heart ❤️ breaks 💔 for my dearly departed classmates and their families. Has anyone heard from Champ today? I do hope he comes through his request for hospice and comes through the other side with no fear, no pain and a new will to live. Let's just All please keep praying for one another. Your prayers mean SO much to me! Thank you and may the good Lord bless and keep you safe always.

03/01/2024

Think about your SENIOR year in High School...if you can remember that long ago!! 😅😂The longer ago it was, the more fun the answers will be! It only takes 5 minutes, do it!!!
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Class of 1977
1. Did you know your current love? No
2. Type of car - 1972 Ford Torino fastback in lime green with a 351 Cleveland engine.
3. What kind of job did you have? Dairy Queen
4. Where did you live? Celina... Same place I live now on the edge of what was our property but is now Donaldson Park
5. Were you popular? Yes
6. Were you in choir or band? Yes
7. Ever get suspended? No
8. If you could, would you go back? Absolutely NOT... I was a wild child & I loved it, but I learned from my mistakes.
9. Still talk to the person that you went to prom with? Didn't have a prom... We had a picnic at Lilly Dale
10. Did you skip school? Only every chance I got!!
11. Go to all the football games? Yes
12. Favorite subject? English (but really BASKETBALL which I lived for!!)
13. Do you still have your yearbook? YES
14. Did you follow your career path? No
15. Do you still have your high school ring? I wish. I lost it and my nephew found it 18 years later in my yard! Then it was stolen the very next year. 😢
16. Who was your favorite teacher? I liked all my teachers, even my MATH teacher! But if I must pick a favorite, I have to say Carolyn Melton
17. What was your favorite style? Jeans and T-shirts and anything my mom hated... Sorry Mama
18. Favorite shoes: My Bebops, of course
19. Favorite food? My Mam-ma Eads' Chocolate gravy n biscuits
20. Favorite band? Singer? The Beatles. Freddy Mercury
21. High school hair style? Very Long
22. Favorite perfume/cologne? It was an Avon perfume marketed towards teens... I think it's called Sweet Honesty. And now I think it truly stinks!!
23. How old when you graduated? 18
24. Who do you think will play along and fill this out? Probably No one
25. What high school did you attend: Celina High School

03/09/2023

It is with great sadness that I inform you that Ron Buford's dear father Edward passed away quietly last night after having a very long, fulfilling life. He will be missed by many.

02/25/2023

Way to go Lady Dawgs!! 64-35 blowout over the Merrol Hyde Lady Hawks in the Region 4A Quarter Finals!!!! I'm a very proud Lady Bulldog alumna!!! Looks like it'll be another rivalry game against the Clarkrange Lady Buffalos in Monday night's Semi final game at Jackson County. Go Lady Dawgs, GO!!!

02/24/2023

Hello everyone. I received a message from Johnny Lynn telling me that his older brother Jimmy has passed away. Please keep our dear Johnny and the Lynn Family in your prayers.

08/29/2022

I miss everyone so much. I hope we all realize how richly blessed we are to still be alive 45 years after graduation. May those of us who've passed be in the arms of the angels.

08/12/2022

When I went to the American Legion meeting at the Chamber of Commerce, Ronnie Buford ask whether I was there for them, or for Lola. So after the Legion's meeting, I went across the street to see our dearest Lola. I saw a young lady who looks so much like Lola, I asked whether she was her daughter and she was. I introduced myself as one of Lola's classmates and she recognized my name as soon as I told her that. It was her daughter Amy. I offered condolences on behalf of the class and told her how very much we all loved her mother and held her in such high regard. We both teared up at that point and we hugged. She told me she'd been blessed to have such a wonderful mother for 40 years and I agreed that Lola was one of the most loving, caring mothers who ever lived. So, as I took my leave, I told Amy how blessed I was to have had precious, selfless Lola as my friend, and that I respected & loved her very much and I miss her already. It's uncanny how much she reminds me of Lola. Brenda wasn't there but I talked to Cobb and asked him to tell her that the Class of '77 is here for her. Oh, and I told Amy that she can find us on Facebook groups if her family needs anything we can provide. I had cried when I patted Lola's sweet hand and all the way through watching the photo tribute on the TV in the chapel twice. There are so many pictures from school such as her Sr picture from the yearbook, the one most all the girls had made standing in front of that wagon wheel prop I think in Jr year and several of her as that sweet little girl from grammar school. I'm very grateful that I was able to go to her visitation tonight. I pray that some of you can also go tomorrow or to her service at 11a.m. on Saturday. May our beloved rest in peace and sing with the angel choir. Below is the Link to her obituary:

DECEASED Mrs. Lola R. Johnson age 64 of Monroe, Overton Co., TN passed from this life on Wednesday evening, August 10, 2022 from the Livingston Regional Hospital. PERSONAL INFORMATION Mrs. Lola R. Johnson was born Friday, November 08, 1957 to the late George Penny and Nancy Ollie Key Johnson in

08/10/2022

I was in the process of creating an announcement but I was delayed because I was chatting with a family member. I see that Linda Raines Scott has already informed you of another great loss to our class. It is with a very heavy, broken heart 💔 that I learned that our dear Lola Johnson has passed away this afternoon. I just had a chat with her a few days ago and she spoke of how much she loved the card we signed at our recent reunion and sent to her by her niece, our classmate Brenda Smith Moore. Lola and I had grown close over the past few years, mostly because this Facebook group brought us back together. When she became ill, we had a nice chat at least once a week, and our chats continued when I, too, became ill. We prayed together for healing. As sick as sweet Lola was, even when her illness progressed so quickly, she always showed a genuine concern for MY health. In speaking to Brenda earlier, I said that Lola was one of the most selfless, honest, caring, and empathetic person that I've ever known. I wish I was half as good a person as Lola was. I'll always picture her as that shy person on stage in our production of the Grand Ole Uproar... Her angelic voice singing "Satin Sheets." At first, she had difficulty keeping time, until Mayfield Brown taught her to keep time by patting herself on the hip with the beat of the music.🎶🎵 After that, she sang it perfectly and her nervousness almost disappeared completely. She had told me that she had planned to back out until we went to Mr Brown for help. In my heart ❤️💜💕💚💛 and eyes, she will always be that Young lady... The one who walked through her fear onto that stage to share her amazing voice with everyone. That, my dear friends and classmates is the way she lived her life.... Walking through fear with faith that God would lead her to the other side. And now, God has led her from this world into eternity. I don't know about you, but I'm absolutely certain she's made it to heaven, because she DEFINITELY earned her wings. So I can now almost hear her sweet voice singing in the Angel Choir. May our dear classmate and friend Lola rest in peace.
Final Arrangements are being made with Hall Funeral Home in Celina, TN.

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