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Class of 1919
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Valedictorian Bethany Masters. Michelle Carney/Howe Enterprise. The 1919 Howe High School girls basketball team.
The Howe High School Class of 2019 on Saturday afternoon. Michelle Carney/Howe Enterprise.
Lucy Wilson, 1918-2019 Lucy Dorothy (Lockett) Wilson, 100, of Howe passed from this life into eternal life on Thursday, May 23, 2019. Wilson was born in Maple (Van Alstyne area) on September 19, 1918 as the youngest daughter of 13 children of Winfield and Slimmer (Dunnham) Lockett. She attended Van Alstyne and Burk schools. Reverend A. W. Yell married her and Willie “Bill” Wilson, son of Jefferson and Ida (Sailing) Wilson, on September 14, 1936 at the First Christian Church of Howe. They had two children – Kenneth Wilson of Howe and the former Barbara (Wilson) Mudrick of Paris, Tennessee. Wilson worked for the Van Alstyne schools before retiring from Burlington Industries in Sherman. After retiring she continued to work at both the Howe SNAP Center and First United Methodist Church of Howe for many years. Her life was dedicated to God and to her family. She was a long time member of the FUMC of Howe. She was preceded in death by her parents, her devoted husband of more than 70 years, siblings and one grandson, Gary Wilson, formally of Weatherford. She is survived by her son and was blessed to be an adored MawMaw of five grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and eight great-great-grandchildren.
Lucy Wilson The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 28 at the Scoggins Funeral Home & Crematory at 637 West Van Alstyne Parkway in Van Alstyne. Memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 29 at the First United Methodist Church of Howe at 810 North Denny Street in Howe. Rev. Zack Landis of the church will officiate. Interment will follow at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Sherman. Family and friends are invited to join the family at the FUMC of Howe for a luncheon following services. Pallbearers will be her grandsons and great-grandsons: Michael Mudrick of Willis; Kenneth Wilson, II, David Wilson, and William Wilson all of Howe; Nathaniel “Nate” Wilson and Cecil Scott both of Bells.
at the age of seven. I left the realm only one year to finish before I of home to traverse the realm of obtained the long wished , the time unknown. when I could be a senior and hold my head with an air of dignity, and School life at first entertained me order the freshies around as I had but soon I grew tired and longed once been ordered. for the time to be when I could sleep until after seven and play September 1918 a senior in the when it suited my fancy. But alas Howe High School. The long goal for me, this could not be, for I had is at least reached only to find entered a land from which I could myself on a dizzy height where I not turn back - the land of life's was at a loss what to do. Also to responsibilities. find that my aim is not yet completed for there are nine At the age of twelve there came months yet. Nine months of hard into my life the one girl (so I work and tiresome waiting thought then), and I longed for the between it and me. Sometimes I time to come when I could throw wonder if it is worth the struggle, away school books and become a the energy spent in obtaining it. "cowboy" or a "soldier of fortune" Why not voice the old sentiment., and perform such deeds of chivalry "Eat, drink and be merry for that the ancient knights of Queen tomorrow you may die." Elizabeth would blush for shame or perform such fetes of "Bronco Shelley's remaining life was busting" that Bill Cody would have written until his death in August knelt before me. 1980 in East Aurora, New York. He never made a surgeon, but our But none of these fanciful dreams research found that he was a came true, so I had to make the bookeeper for Baynard Bros Realty best of school life studying the & Ins Co. on 7th Avenue in St. hard geography and the Petersburg, FL in 1934. He multiplication table; and what married Lucia Joan Bass of New could have done more to dampen Hampshire on May 23, 1923. Life the spirits of a would be hero. after Howe High School took him to El Paso, Texas where Paul But the great ambition, aim of my Patterson Shelley Jr. was born Feb. life, was to be a surgeon; and of 17,1928. We also discovered that course with much money and at age 40, he was found on the many friends. But my father says World War II draft card list in at the present rate of my progress I Florida. In 1956 he was a title am more destined for the section searcher for Abstract & Title gang and no money than for a Insurance in East Aurora NY. medical career. What about the girls? What When I was thirteen and a freshie happened to them? Well, of the my ambition was to graduate with Thompson twins, Lottie Ann highest possible honors. But after Thompson was the daughter of an encounter with my Latin Howe's longest ever tenured mayor grammar and partaking of a little (29 years) W.P. Thompson. She Algebra all of the starch was taken later married James Ernest Ramer out of me and left my ambition - to and had daughter Jimmie Ann merely graduate. At last, however, Ramer in 1931. She lived in I passed my cerebus; freshman Dallas and was buried there July finals and awoke to find myself a 10, 1983. Her sister and classmate sophomore. Three years yet to Oline Thomposon married help in the hazing of all freshman; Harrison Asbury Forbes in 1922 in also to help edit the school Johnson County. Together, they magazine; which was a real honor had three boys, James Walter for a sophomore. I soon found that Forbes, Harrison Alfred Forbes, thing that a sophomore was and Joseph Edgar Forbes. All are intended for was to play servants to deceased and Joseph died ten years the seniors. On account of my red ago. Oline died in 1990 in hair I had to perform many tasks. Midlothian, Texas. But even sophomore year finally page 6 crept into the past and at last I had
