Momma And Daddy With Lucy And Juanita

This picture is of mother, daddy, Juanita and Lucy when we lived in Banks County, we always referred to the place as, "The Country".

Joe Waters And Children

We 5 children and daddy, Joe Waters, Lucy holding Palmer, Susan, Oliver and Juanita

Elizabeth Beard Dobbs

MRS. DOBBS
            Former nurse, teacher

 COMMERCE - Mrs. Elizabeth Beard Dobbs, 87, died Monday, March 6, 
 2000, at St. Mary's Hospital, Athens, following an extended illness.
 Mrs. Dobbs was a daughter of the late Wilburn and Lucy Hamilton Beard.

 She had worked as a private duty nurse, caring for newborn babies 
 and new mothers, and later became a kindergarten and day care 
 teacher. Mrs. Dobbs was the founder of the Literacy Program for 
 Jackson County, receiving much recognition for her achievements.
 She was preceded in death by her husband, Lilburn Dobbs.
 Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday, March 9, in the 
 chapel of Ivie Funeral Home, Commerce, with Robert Eberhert and 
 Richard Gasser officiating. Burial will be in Jackson Memorial Gardens, Commerce.
 Mrs. Dobbs is survived by a sister and brother-in-law, Pauline and 
 Joe Waters, Commerce; sister, Glynn Dalen, Holiday, Tenn.; and several nieces 

 and nephews.
 The family was to have received friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. 

 Ivie Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. The Jackson Herald, March 8, 2000

A Family Picture

Back Row: Grandmother Middle Row: Aunt Janet, Aunt Sis, Uncle Winston, Mom Front Row: Uncle Joe

A Visit To The Corner Store

Whenever we would come to visit our Grandparents in Memphis we would always find a way to need to go to the Corner Store. It was called Mrs. Black's Corner Store.

It was on the corner of National and Faxon and the door was right in the corner of the street. You had to step up three steps to get into the store and she had every kind of candy and soda's that a kid would love.

We lived in a small town and our parents family had a Grocery Store and a Furniture Store but this was nothing to compare with this Corner Store.

The town that we lived in only had sidewalks in the downtown area, but the sidewalks in Memphis were as wide as some of our streets back home. I will never forget when they replaced the utility poles on National Ave. and replaced them with forty foot metal poles.

In our town we hardly ever heard a fire or police siren but at our Grandparents it wasn't unusual to hear them during the night.

One day we went to the Corner Store with our Grand Dad and he played a game with us at the store. We all got ourselves a six inch Coke Cola and held it in our hands and then Grand Dad said, "Turn your bottle over to the bottom and see where your coke was made. The one with the city that is the farthest away from Memphis gets to choose a small bag of candy for themselves. My sister Susan's said Tupelo, my brother's said Birmingham, my Grand Dad's said Little Rock and mine said, Houston, TX.

I was so happy on the way home with my bag of candy and The Corner Store.

Merry Christmas

First Day At Kindergarden

My oldest sister had our first niece and we thought the world of her. It didn't make me feel any older but it did make me feel "Special" to have a niece and to be an Uncle.

We lived in Georgia and they lived in Tennessee and we didn't get to see them as often as we would have liked but we managed.

Soon it was time for her to go to Kindergarten and she needed to get her supplies. We happened to be with her at that time in the Summer and it was fun to see her get so excited getting everything together.

Finally the first day of Kindergarten arrived and when she got to Kindergarten she looked at her mother and said, "I can'[t go in yet because I don't have everything that I need." My sister was surprised at this because she had gotten everything on the list. Then Beverly said, I garden.don't have a shovel or a rake or even a hoe. Then my sister said she grinned and said, "Honey it's Kindergarten not Kinder Garden."