Mardi Gonyea (Nicklin)

Big Congrat's Great Grandfather!! Sending Luv N Hugs

Yikes that time in labor!!

Deborah Pike

Congras... We all want detains.... How much did he way?????

I was hoping they would name the baby Roswell or William or Billy the Kid!!!!! Shucks!

Debbie

Linda Lee Henry (Crowder)

Congrats, Bill!!! Happy for you! He is beautiful!!!

Karen McCarty (Messina)

Give that woman a medal!  73 hours must be a record!!  That is THREE DAYS!  I didn’t think they would even let a woman labor that long before they would the do a C-section!   Anyway, he is a beautiful boy!  I think he will hear that story several times in his lifetime and rightly so!  Congratulations to Mom and Dad and the rest of the family. 🍾💥🥂

Deborah Pike

Bill,

That little boy is adorable! And so much hair! My kids and my granddaughter were all bald.  Be sure you give the Mommy an Atta Girl. The things we girls go through to have such wonderful toys to play with.

Have fun!

 Debbie

R. E. Herky Veatch

Congratulations Bill!

It seems a little weird to loose the one you love to have her replaced by a beautiful baby. It happen to me in that my mom passed away August of 1993 and my first grand child was born in December of 1993. She is my pride and joy. She is getting married in November and I told the husband to be that I killed people I never knew in Viet Nam and if he hurts my baby, he is dead.

Again, congratulations, she is beautiful.

Herky

James A "Jim" White

Congratulations, BILL LEGGETT, on the new great grandchild. You do realize, don't you, that my oldest grandchild is only 9 years old.

HERKY VEATCH said what most of us want to say as someone marries our daughter. Good for you, Herky.

Kathy and I are still traveling and currently in our 39th state since this journey began. We will have 41 covered by the middle of next week. We are in Nashville and loving it, but leaving tomorrow. As we have traveled all over the nation, I have been fortunate to see many, many classmates. Who knows when and if we will ever see each other again? Have you taken the time to track down your 2 or 3 closest childhood friends.

As some know, our IN MEMORY section of this class website is one of my favorites. I don't believe I live in the past ... but I do respect it. Just yesterday I had a reminder of a classmate many of us enjoyed - JOHNNY RUSSELL. Kathy and I were on our 40th anniversary cruise in the Caribbean when two classmates, PAM BERRY DAVIS and LINDA MAXWELL VANDEWART tracked us down and got messages to us about Johnny passing away. We were friends, not as close as he and PETE GARTON and perhaps others, but close just the same and we would visit about people we knew everytime I came to Roswell. While at the Nashville Palace yesterday, I open the menu and see a JOHNNY RUSSELL sandwich. I am glad for a reminder as I had not thought of him in awhile. Oh, this Johnny Russell was a Nashville personality and even ran for president. Have you looked in the IN MEMORY section and see and think about a friend of yours lately? Have you written one of your cute memories about that friend? Please do .... and also look at the MISSING CLASSMATE list and see if you know of any that are Deceased, or Alive and you know how to get in contact with them. Let us know.

James A "Jim" White

So MIKE TURNER has a birthday coming up on the 10th, aye? Well, Mike, here is my contribution to your 71st birthday. Kathy and I hope it is a good one.

https://youtu.be/r6K9A3H5r_g

Enjoy.

-JIM (and Chip, Jim B, Terry B and others)

Mike Turner

Thank you Jim.  You posted video of my daughter dancing with me.  I was so proud to have her.  She was at a conference in Phoenix so she jumped over for the reunion.   How did I get such a lovely creature for an offspring?  Connie and I took her on a whirlwind cruise around Roswell--the old house on south Missouri, Roswell High, Bottomless Lakes, Ruidoso, and even the Alien Museum.  A  memory around every corner, good and painful.  We stopped by to chat with Jack and Susie Chew at their store on West Second, who were our next door neighbors then,  now going strong at 98.   I never knew he was a gunner on shot down B-17, and a POW of the Nazis.  As always, I wish we had more time.   We visited the Hurd Studio in the Hondo Valley.  Charmed by my daughter, Peter's son Michael gave us a personal tour of his dad's studio and historic house.  See photo below. Fun!

The finale dinner-dance was great, such fun to see everyone, even though sadly most of my buddies were on the memorial video, which left me with that all dressed up but nowhere to go feeling.  Thanks again to Jim and Pam and all who put all the work in to make it happen.   

Connie my wife and I have the exact same birthday--August 10 1948.  Meant to be, right?   Sarah and her husband, and our one and only 9 month grandson Callen took us out on a pantoon boat on Mission Bay.    Great times, I am a blessed man.   Thank you Lord Jesus for your priceless gifts. 

Patricia "Patsi" Hughes

Great pictures Mike. 

Mardi Gonyea (Nicklin)

Hi Everyone from triple digits here in my camelot here in Texas. I am staying inside!!\

Great pictures Mike, you have a super good looking family. Thank you for posting. We love to see the family pictures and stories.

Super cute Great Grandson Bill. So very special and I hope by now all those hours in labor help the Mommy to be enjoying her baby. I mean, four hours in labor 53 years ago, for me, have NEVER been forgotten!! If I could have figured out how to have those cute little packages without the labor, I would have had a dozen...ha

Jim, I 'think" but am not sure where in Nashville, but my nephew and his wife do stand up comedy at one of the clubs. Glad you are still enjoying all your visits.

I, too, have a great time with my stand up comedy. In fact, I use one of my best childhood friends, Judy Lynn Shows Brown, as a subject of some of my routines. She and I were born exactly a month apart and we managed to get in to wayyy too much trouble together. I use some of my other classmates, but if they are living I dont reveal names....I know, I am terrible...ha

Sending Luv N Hugs

R. E. Herky Veatch

HI MIke,

THis is Herky Veatch, GHS "66".

I am amazed that Jack Chew is still alive. What memories of the Chew Den on South Main. Wow, at the time, the best Chicken Fried Steak in Roswell.

Mardi,

Judy Lynn Shows was funny as well.

Herky

Karen McCarty (Messina)

Gilbert "Butch" Colbert

I remember Chew Den on south Main.  They had the best fried chicken.  They closed at some point and, it appears, moved to 2nd Street.  Herky is correct, it had great food.

Deborah Pike

Gilbert,

You are correct about Chew Den was on the south Main. I remember the onion rings. I have never had onion rings as good as  those!!! Now I'm Hungry!!!

Debbie Pike

R. E. Herky Veatch

Yep, it was very close to Wyles, eat at the wye. I forgot about the fried chicken, wow, it was good. I am like Debora now, I am hungry.

Herky

James A "Jim" White

Dennis R. Hunter

Really you don’t remember “cruising main” from A&W to Greer’s and back?  It was just across from A&W east of there. I think it’s is now closed on W 2nd too

Bob Gadberry

Chew Den was at the corner of SE Main & E. Widly street - It backed up to a Bowling Alley (can't remember the name) which also closed up and is now something else.

Bob Gadberry

Karen Moore (Wilson)

A&W was across from Sears.  Wylies was at the Y where the airmen hung out, and Chew Den was across the street to the East.  

Deborah Pike

Now you guys are making me sad....No one here can cook good Mexican food much less make superb onion rings.  I am also missing the the wonderful temperature in Roswell. I can take the 98 degrees it is the 90  percent humidity I object to!!!!! (that's sweat and not tears)  Our normal humidity  is in the 60's. Someone adopt me and bring me Home!!!!!

Debbie

James A "Jim" White

Mardi Gonyea (Nicklin)

I remember working at St. Mary's Hospital, which has been torn down, as a candy striper then when we finished there we walked to Chew Den. I have found some good Chinese Food but my memory of how delicious Chew Den's food was always comes back to me.

Yes, Wylie's was the airforce guys hang out and most of us girls were forbidden to go there, but there were som

Some of us that would sneak a go-there because we thought the guys in uniform were so handsome....ha!!

Mexican food, oh my goodness, come to my house!! I make a killer hot sauce that my extended Mexican family has me bring to their events...ha. And, I make really, really good enchilida's. The most favorite thing in the world for my previous husband was to wake up, have his cup of coffee with my enchilida's. I used to cook for very large family gatherings, and I miss it! There is one place here in town that comes close.

Luv N Hugs

R. E. Herky Veatch

Bill,

THe old Chew Den was on the corner of E.
Forest and SE Main (Dexter HWY). The A&W was across the street from the old Sears Roebuck and the shoppong center for Furr's Cafateria. Going south from there was the old Pepsi bottling plant. Going further south when you go to McGaffey, you kept in you left lane like headed to the Starlite Drive IN, and there the Chew Den was on the left and a few feet further was the turn around at the Wye to get back onto South Main so you could go back to Greers. There was a Safeway at the intersection of McGaffey and Main (southwest corner).

Behind the Chew Den was a bowling alley that Jack Chew would always be bowling between lunch an d dinner.

Herky

Karen McCarty (Messina)